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!Desktop+/!Help
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
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| Filename: | !Desktop+/!Help |
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| File size: | 149A bytes |
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| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
Welcome to the wonderful world of Desktop+ !!!
To find out exactly what +'s it gives to your desktop, run !Desktop+, & !Help from your Apps folder.
Move the pointer over each of Desktop+'s menu entries, & you will be given a few details.
You can find out a bit more by pressing F12 to go to the command line, & typing:
Help Desktop+_Options <Return>
To use the sprite directories/files option, if you need further explanation, take a look at the examples
inside DirSprites.
Note, !Desktop+ includes all C/assembler program/module source code.
If you don't require this, you can reduce the disc space occupied by this program, from 131Kb to 36Kb,
by deleting Makefile & directories c, o, & s.
If you load the module Desktop+ directly from say a boot file, & don't need the !Desktop+ shell, then you
can further reduce disc space from 34Kb to only 6Kb!
Remember also, if you are short of memory, Desktop+ occupies only 6Kb RAM, whereas !Desktop+ uses a further
64k, & can be done without, as the command line can be used to change option settings if you require this
(use eg *Set Desktop+_Options 2_11110 to turn all options on except application solid sprite drags).
The following is taken from Desktop+'s source code:
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See elsewhere for development notes.
See module help text for details of function (nb, best to load module & use *help, as text in source below
is compacted via use of PrettyPrint dictionary & so isn't easy to read directly), or figure it out
yourself from this code & the credits below.
Note: Me (the name I call myself & the author of this gibberish), is Michael Rozdoba
I can be reached at 10 Octavia Close, Bedlington, Northumberland, NE22 6LG.
IMPORTANT: since this code incorporates some code written by another person (see below), I cannot claim
copyright on all of this material.
It may not be freely distributed, & cannot be sold without the other relevant party's consent.
The copyright holder of the included code is either Paul Dellar (its author), or
Acorn Computing's publisher (the distributor of that code).
Credits:
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Some of the source code from SolidDrag, (Acorn Computing cover disc, June 1993, v11 n4, by Paul Dellar)
has been used below (after bug fixes), to provide part of the application solid drag code.
Note, original SolidDrag {before bug fixes}: Source - 10835 bytes, Module - 896 bytes.
Desktop+ Source - 64977 bytes, Module - 5308 bytes.
The original inspiration for the approach used throughout this module (SWI traps via the hardware vector,
& post filters), is also due to Paul Dellar & his original SolidDrag module, for which I am very grateful,
though I think I may have used these two together in a way which he didn't anticipate.
Forcing applications to use solid drags rather than dashed outlines, is based both on the idea & the code
of Paul's SolidDrag, though the code has been extended to cope with a wider range of situations, &
several bugs have been fixed (I hope!).
Solid drags on Filer file icons was entirely my idea, as is the code.
During development I came across a PD application called Filer+ (by Ting Zwei Kuei, April 1993) which
achieves similar results, though via a direct patch into the original Acorn Filer module.
This served to test Desktop+'s function against, & led me to discover a few shortcoming's which I was then
able to fix; these include a couple of situations which Filer+ doesn't correctly handle.
Support for semi-transparent solid drags was incorporated after seeing the benefits this can provide, via
Dave Lawrence's direct DragASprite patch (*Info, BBC Acorn User, July 1993), though I specifically didn't
read his code (I wouldn't want to be accused of plagiarism), & this implementation is naturally more
cumbersome to code as it acts via pre & post processing to the DragASprite_Start call, rather than via a
direct patch.
Use of fancy text (ie antialiased fonts) in filer windows was inspired by Dave Lawrence's minimalist patch,
thought implementation is entirely different. Also, here, I have been able to correctly set the background
colour to light grey (rather than having to adopt white), & further, maintain correct font sizes when
changing modes (eg 12 to 27), which the BAU patch didn't manage.
Lastly, the idea for replacement of the familiar blue folder directory icons, by arbitrary sprites
(specified via the directory name), is due to Filer+. Though once again, the difference in implementation
means that the code used to achieve this result share very little in common.
AND FINALLY: Why this module is worth using -
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It does all the things that the above patches do, & does some of them better (for instance, the fancy
filer text, & the solid drags of filer icons).
It integrates them all into one small module, & as it doesn't patch directly into ROM modules, these
don't need to be copied to RAM (eg this module uses under 6� Kb in total, whereas Filer+ uses over 27Kb
as it has to copy Filer to RAM).
Due to the means of implementation, each option can be turned on or off independently, whenever you want.
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