Title: QUICKCARET Author: Richard Millican, Thomas Hawtin, Ernie Ong, Reuben Thomas Version: 1.04 Title From: Documentation Author From: Documentation Version From: Documentation Supplier: Reuben Thomas Date: 15/10/96 Keywords: Display managers ; Window managers Shareware: No Machine: Archimedes Operating system: RISCOS Memory requirements: Peripherals needed: Other s/ware needed: Directory: micros/arch/riscos/a/a256 Date mounted/updated: 17/10/96 File names: quickcaret.arc a256.arc Unarchived files: 12 Unarchived size: 19 kbytes Omissions: See also: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acquiring the package: Download the archive file(s) and extract using SparkPlug 2 (see the "tools_help" file in arch/riscos/tools for further info). Description: QuickCaret will move the caret from window to window automatically when you move the pointer removing the need to click in each window first. a256.arc contains the original version 1.01. quickcaret.arc contains the latest version with changes and bug fixes. Version 1.04 Changes: * Rewritten in BASIC assembler (all changed from v1.01 noted in source) * More discriminating about which windows it will put the caret in (only changes to windows which have a window button type 2-9 and 15 (RO3 PRM p. 3-94)) * Not an application any more (run the module "QuickCaret" e.g. by double- clicking to install it, or put it in your Boot sequence (but DON'T start it before the desktop!)) * Incorporated Ernie Ong's v1.01a (actually, I almost had, but had forgotten to insert a TEQ!) and fixes a problem: in his version, if a new window appears with the caret, it'll keep it (good), but then if you move to it and back to the old window, the focus doesn't move (bad). * Sleeps for 50cs between polls. Even less processor power taken, and it has the good side-effect that if you whip from one side of the screen to another, it generally doesn't distribute the focus to lots of windows all the way across, but changes straight to the one in which you stop.