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"BenchBoards" is a 'bloated' program that I made with Hollywood 2.5. I hope you enjoy it! BenchBoards is similar to Dashboard widgets on OSX---based on what I've seen in screen grabs (I've never actually used OSX). It is designed to modular and expandable. Up to four hot-zones can be used (any or all corners of the screen). Additionally these zones are "hot" for all public screens, so you can use BenchBoards on any screen. If, however, you do not want a particular screen to use these hot-zones, just add the screen name to the "ScreenBlackList". Contained in this archive are the following eight "Boards": *AmigaAmpBoard---controls AmigaAmp through its ARexx port. *ClipBoard---manages up to 10 different clipboard text or image items. *ClockBoard---time and date display. (It is just like the "CornerClock" tool I made---if you're familiar with that. So if you are currently using CornerClock, delete it and use BenchBoards instead with ClockBoard.) *ClockSkinsBoard---time display with a skinnable clock face. *MixerBoard---controls the Mixer through its ARexx port. *NoteBoard---a little sticky-note reminder tool. *ScreenBoard---for previewing and switching between screens (requires SGrab). *WeatherBoard---displays weather information through Wet's ARexx port. Because of its modular design, you can use as many or as few of these different "Boards" as you want. You can also distribute them between the different hotzones as you see fit. Just list your Board choices in the Preferences file for whatever hotzone you want to use, and make sure that you have the executables and data drawers for your chosen Boards in the same drawer as the Preferences file in which you have listed them. There is really nothing special about the four different hot-zone drawers (the hot-zone is actually set in the first line of the main Preferences file)---having specially designated drawers is just a way to keep the different zones and their settings separate. Configure the global settings of BenchBoards for the hot-zone(s) that you want to use with the main "Preferences" file. The "Display Layout" option and wrapping parameters can be changed while BenchBoards is running; but if any of the other main BenchBoards Preferences are changed, BenchBoards will need to be quit (with the ESC key) and restarted (using "StartBenchBoards"). However, the prefereces for the individual boards (found in their corresponding data drawers) can be modified, and their changes will take effect without restarting BenchBoards. Start BenchBoards' hot-zones by double-clicking the "StartBenchBoards" icon for the hot-zone that you want. You can also have the hot-zones for BenchBoards activated at the time of start-up by placing the included WBStartUp_BB_HZ icon in your WBStartUp drawer---JUST BE SURE TO SET THE PATH CORRECTLY TO THE LOCATION OF BENCHBOARDS ON YOUR OWN SYSTEM (using a text editor like NotePad to edit the startup files), and remove any lines to hot-zones that you do not want to use. The backgrounds for the various Boards can be changed by placing a different picture or pattern in the Board's data drawer and naming the new file "Background" (taking the place of the default background image). IMPORTANT NOTES: *The pngalpha.library 2.0 (available on Aminet) is required in order to use BenchBoards. *The various icons used throughout BenchBoards are adaptations of Mason's great work (mainly AISS). *Valuable beta-testing and input from fellow amigans "acefnq" and "Chris" (www.amigans.net). Thanks guys! History: Version 1.1 (11/18/07): *Much improved ClipBoard manager using WaitNotify (very stable now and faster). *Added the ClockSkinsBoard to the archive. Version 1.0 (4/27/07): *First Attempt *********** If you like this program and would like to drop me some e-mail or PayPal encouragement (or if you have any suggestions to make this program better) my e-mail address is: revbloedel()gmail.com OR revbloedel()yahoo.com.*********** |
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