INTRODUCTION

    What is it: a file launcher

    Developed on: A4000, Cyberstorm 060/50, 82Mb Ram, Picasso IV + Picasso96,

    Software Used: Blitz Basic 2.1

    Why you need it:

    Written with Blitz Basic II    It dosen't take up much screen room.

    Tooltype prefs.                Upto 100 gadgets (if your screen's big enough)

    It's written by *ME*           If an icon is found for a program it's run with
                                    wblaunch  or else its run from cli.

    It's easy to configure         Drag'n'drop onto prefs window.


COPYRIGHT NOTICE


    Launch is copyrighted © 1999 - 2001 by Nick Clover
    all rights reserved.

    Launch is FREEWARE.This program may be freely Distributed as long as:

    * The executable and the documentation remain unchanged and are included
      in the distribution archive.


DISCLAIMER


    No Warranties of any kind are made as to the functionality of this program.
    You are using it ENTIRELY at your own risk.


FEATURES


    Here is a list of the main features of Launch.

    * Upto 32 menus, maximim of 100 entires in each one.

    * Fully user definable colours.

    * All prefs now available from system menus.

    * Animated gadgets.

    * Now uses screen font as default.

    * Optional bold, underline and italic hilighting.

    * Left, center or right justified menus.

    * Over/under titlebar or bottom of screen options.

    * Drag and drop configuration.

    * Can run/open ANY FILE with a correctly configured icon including partitions and
      directories  OS3.5+ ONLY.

    * Config file in plain ascii for easy editing by hand, if you REALLY want to...

    * Scrolling, fast scrolling, shadows etc...

    * Free keyfile.

    * Source available for a keyfile to your own progam :)


TOOLTYPES


    Here are the TOOLTYPE Settings.

    SCROLLING        Turns scrolling on
    FASTSCROLL       Turns on fast scrolling
    FONT             Sets the font, defaults to screen font
    HEIGHT           Sets the font height
    MENUWIDTH        Sets the width for each main window gadget
    XPOS             Sets the left edge of the main window
    SHADOW           Draws a solid shadow on the 'menus'
    DITHEREDSHADOW   Draws a 'see-through' shadow
    BACK             Colour setting in html format eg. "5577DF"
    TEXT             -" as above "-
    HIBACK           -" as above "-
    HITEXT           -" as above "-
    LIGHT            -" as above "-
    DARK             -" as above "-
    SHADE            -" as above "-
    FSPEED           Sets the speed of the flashes when an item is selected
    FLASHES          Sets the number of flashes (0=off)
    BOLD             Sets the highlight style for the 'menus'
    UNDERLINE        Sets the highlight style for the 'menus'
    ITALIC           Sets the highlight style for the 'menus'
    ZIPGADGETWIDTH   Sets the width of the left hand gadget
    JUSTIFY          Sets the text justification of the 'menus'
    VPOS             Sets the vertical position of the main window
    ANIMATED         Turns on Animated Gadgets


    VPOS has three options:

    OVERTB  - Over Title Bar
    UNDERTB - Under Title Bar
    BOTTOM  - Bottom of the screen

    DEFAULTS to UNDERTB

    JUSTIFY has three options:

    LEFT-CENTER-RIGHT

    DEFAULTS to LEFT

    The colour settings are only a rough guide, THEY WILL CHANGE when you save
    your prefs, Launch uses the value given to find the closest match in the
    workbench palette. When you save your prefs it writes the data for the
    actual colour it's using.

    The HTML format for colours is RRGGBB, a hexadecimal value from 00 to FF
    for each of the red, green and blue values.


HISTORY


    V4.01  Added Animated/coloured gadgets, Colour prefs and help menu.

    V4.00  Major rewrite, too many fixes / optimisations and features added too list.

    V3.54  Not released to the public.

    V3.99  Not released to the public.

    V3.53  Added menu shadows.

    V3.52  Many minor bug fixes and tweaks - Not released to the public.

    V3.51  Many minor bug fixes and tweaks - Not released to the public.

    V3.04  Major rewrite to add multiple menus.

    V3.03  Not released to the public.

    V2.42  Not released to the public.

    V2.41  Minor update, Fixed Cybergraphics bug.
           Fixed font display bug in prefs.
           Fixed terminal bug when returning to workbench and pressing a key
           caused a " Software Failure ".

    V2.40  First release on aminet.

    V2.39  Not released to the public.


THANKS


    Many thanks to the following people who have helped in the
    development of Launch.

    * Steve Hargreaves - for lots of help with beta testing and the tricky bits.

    * David McMinn - for lots of help with the tricky bits and beta testing.

    * Steven Croy - for lots of help with OS3.5 workbench.library stuff
      and beta testing.

    * Malcolm Farley - for help with beta testing and writing ALL the documentation.

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