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FlashFind (v 1.12)
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A desktop utility by Richard G. Hallas
for Archimedes World magazine
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Here's a little caret utility, combining several functions into one small application which can be left permanently (and usefully!) installed on the icon bar. It only requires 16K to operate, so it doesn't waste much memory even on a 1Mb machine.
FlashFind has three main functions:
� Provides a means of locating the caret exactly with the pointer.
� Makes the caret flash at a user-defined rate, so it's much easier to find in large bodies of text.
� Colours the caret to any desktop colour of your choice.
Double click to install the utility on the icon bar in the usual way. The icon is somewhat narrower than normal in order to be unobtrusive. Note that only one copy of the application can be installed at a time. The application provides on-line help via Acorn's !Help (or !Spy) application.
Features
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� The Locator
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Click on the icon bar icon. If there is no caret the computer will beep, otherwise the window containing the caret will appear in front of the other windows and the pointer will zoom to the caret to show you where it is. Sometimes a window can have the 'input focus' without containing the caret. In such a case, the window is brought to the front but the pointer will not move.
In the case of the caret being outside the window's displayed area, the pointer will go to the position of the caret, even if this is beyond the current bounds of the window. (This can be easily seen in Edit, for example; if you toggle from full-screen to a small window, the caret may then lie in an area beyond that currently displayed by the small window. In such a case, the pointer may move to another application's window, or to the background. This is not an error; it is the true position of the caret, even though you can't actually see it.) If the caret lies beyond the bounds of the screen itself, the pointer will move to the edge of the screen and slide to lie opposite the caret's horizontal (or vertical) position. Therefore, the pointer cannot be lost off the screen.
� The Flasher
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Open the Options window from the icon's menu. Selecting the 'Flash caret' icon will toggle the blinking. The rate of blinking can be set by entering new values into the writable icons. For these to take effect you must either click on the 'Set period' icon, or you can simply press <RETURN> or <ENTER> after typing in each new value.
� Colouring the caret
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There are two options here, either (but not both) of which may be selected. To turn them both off, ADJUST must be clicked on whichever is currently on. The way the WIMP plots the caret is such that it appears red on a white background. The first option keeps this idea, but lets you choose the colour which is used instead of red. This means that your chosen colour appears on white, but not on any other colour of background. The second option lets you force the colour of the caret, so that your selected colour is always used, regardless of the background colour.
The colour is easily selected by clicking on one of the coloured rectangles in the Options window. The selected colour has a small box drawn round it.
There are a couple of points to note about this feature. Firstly, it only works in 16-colour modes. Secondly, it is a constant battle against the WIMP to make it use a different caret colour, so when entering text (or moving the caret, depending on its context), a certain amount of flicker is apparent. However, it is not particularly obtrusive. Unfortunately there is no way around this problem.
Further notes
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The Options window contains a large 'dummy caret' which displays the current state of the real one, i.e. flash rate and base colour. The base colour may not reflect the true colour of the caret if the 'force caret colour' option is not in use.
There is also a 'Save configuration' icon in the Options window. Clicking on this will save all the settings for future use; they will be set up automatically each time the program is subsequently loaded. If for some reason the Save fails, you will be informed. Similarly, if the settings file is absent or corrupted when you load the application in the first place, you will be informed, and a set of default parameters will be used.
For your interest, the reason I wrote this application was that I had seen a couple of caret flashers and a caret locator utility, but never a combination of the two, which I thought was a fairly obvious thing to do. Also, the flashers were not very configurable; FlashFind, on the other hand, will let you set the on and off periods of the blink independently, down to a minimum value of a tenth of a second. The caret colour option was an attempt to combat the 'invisible caret' which you get on some backgrounds. It's not perfect, but I think it's the best that can be done.
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The way the W| 00000ae0 49 4d 50 20 70 6c 6f 74 73 20 74 68 65 20 63 61 |IMP plots the ca| 00000af0 72 65 74 20 69 73 20 73 75 63 68 20 74 68 61 74 |ret is such that| 00000b00 20 69 74 20 61 70 70 65 61 72 73 20 72 65 64 20 | it appears red | 00000b10 6f 6e 20 61 20 77 68 69 74 65 20 62 61 63 6b 67 |on a white backg| 00000b20 72 6f 75 6e 64 2e 20 54 68 65 20 66 69 72 73 74 |round. The first| 00000b30 20 6f 70 74 69 6f 6e 20 6b 65 65 70 73 20 74 68 | option keeps th| 00000b40 69 73 20 69 64 65 61 2c 20 62 75 74 20 6c 65 74 |is idea, but let| 00000b50 73 20 79 6f 75 20 63 68 6f 6f 73 65 20 74 68 65 |s you choose the| 00000b60 20 63 6f 6c 6f 75 72 20 77 68 69 63 68 20 69 73 | colour which is| 00000b70 20 75 73 65 64 20 69 6e 73 74 65 61 64 20 6f 66 | used instead of| 00000b80 20 72 65 64 2e 20 54 68 69 73 20 6d 65 61 6e 73 | red. This means| 00000b90 20 74 68 61 74 20 79 6f 75 72 20 63 68 6f 73 65 | that your chose| 00000ba0 6e 20 63 6f 6c 6f 75 72 20 61 70 70 65 61 72 73 |n colour appears| 00000bb0 20 6f 6e 20 77 68 69 74 65 2c 20 62 75 74 20 6e | on white, but n| 00000bc0 6f 74 20 6f 6e 20 61 6e 79 20 6f 74 68 65 72 20 |ot on any other | 00000bd0 63 6f 6c 6f 75 72 20 6f 66 20 62 61 63 6b 67 72 |colour of backgr| 00000be0 6f 75 6e 64 2e 20 54 68 65 20 73 65 63 6f 6e 64 |ound. The second| 00000bf0 20 6f 70 74 69 6f 6e 20 6c 65 74 73 20 79 6f 75 | option lets you| 00000c00 20 66 6f 72 63 65 20 74 68 65 20 63 6f 6c 6f 75 | force the colou| 00000c10 72 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 63 61 72 65 74 2c 20 |r of the caret, | 00000c20 73 6f 20 74 68 61 74 20 79 6f 75 72 20 73 65 6c |so that your sel| 00000c30 65 63 74 65 64 20 63 6f 6c 6f 75 72 20 69 73 20 |ected colour is | 00000c40 61 6c 77 61 79 73 20 75 73 65 64 2c 20 72 65 67 |always used, reg| 00000c50 61 72 64 6c 65 73 73 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 62 |ardless of the b| 00000c60 61 63 6b 67 72 6f 75 6e 64 20 63 6f 6c 6f 75 72 |ackground colour| 00000c70 2e 0a 0a 54 68 65 20 63 6f 6c 6f 75 72 20 69 73 |...The colour is| 00000c80 20 65 61 73 69 6c 79 20 73 65 6c 65 63 74 65 64 | easily selected| 00000c90 20 62 79 20 63 6c 69 63 6b 69 6e 67 20 6f 6e 20 | by clicking on | 00000ca0 6f 6e 65 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 63 6f 6c 6f 75 |one of the colou| 00000cb0 72 65 64 20 72 65 63 74 61 6e 67 6c 65 73 20 69 |red rectangles i| 00000cc0 6e 20 74 68 65 20 4f 70 74 69 6f 6e 73 20 77 69 |n the Options wi| 00000cd0 6e 64 6f 77 2e 20 54 68 65 20 73 65 6c 65 63 74 |ndow. 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