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File contents
Flash Find (v 1.20)
-=-=-=-=-=-
A desktop utility by Richard G. Hallas
for Archimedes World magazine
____________________________________________________
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
=========
� The Locator
--------------
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
--------------
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
----------------------
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
--------------
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.
I am:
------
Richard G. Hallas {BMus Hons},
(aka KeyNote: Music Typesetting & General DTP)
31 Skelton Crescent,
Crosland Moor,
Huddersfield,
West Yorkshire,
HD4 5PN
Telephone (0484) 654186
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