WHAT IS IT
FW_YAPS is yet another positioning system for FinalWriter,
a word processor from SoftWood, Inc. FW handles graphical
objects like boxes, ovals or lines, and text blocks, too.
You can drag them around with your mouse or enter their
co-ordinates directly. But it is impossible to just se-
lect some objects and then tell FW to adjust their left
edges to one vertical line or to centre their middles to
one point. For this tasks (and many more, of course) you
need an external positioning system, that communicates with
FW. This is done via ARexx, so after installation you don't
even see that it is external.
FEATURES
LEFT / RIGHT / TOP / BOTTOM - adjust selected objects to
this side
HMID / VMID - adjust the middles of the selected objects to
a horizontal / vertical line
CENTRE / CENTER - center the middles of the selected objects
to one point
STILL TO DO
HOFFSET / VOFFSET - adjust the spaces between the objects
HCHAIN / VCHAIN - HMID + HOFFSET(0) / VMID + VOFFSET(0)
MIRROR, SPIRAL, WAVE, FRAME, STAIRS, TILE, <your idea> ...
(send me your ideas!)
INSTALLATION
1. Unpack the archives to RAM:
lha x FW_YAPS.lha -w RAM:
2. Start FW_YAPS_Install and choose your FinalWriter
MAIN directory
eg. Work:FinalWriter_E
or Application:FinalWriter_D
or ...
4. After successfull installation start FinalWriter,
select the menu item
User -> Other -> ARexx-Script
5. Here you should find a lot of new YAPS_***** Scripts;
choose YAPS_Main, select USAGE and the script will
tell you how to use FW_YAPS!
TESTING
1. Draw a few boxes, ovals and lines on a new free page.
2. Select some of them with the lasso (Select-Tool in the
button bar) or by clicking on them while pressing the
SHIFT key.
3. Select User -> Other -> ARexx-Script in the menu and
choose YAPS_LEFT ; now your selected objects should
by adjusted with their left edges.
4. Your objects are still selected, so you can test another
script, e.g. YAPS_CENTRE .
Test other scripts, and bind them to buttons in the user
button bar (see ButtonBar.iff for my configuration) or
to new items in the User menu (consult your manual to
for menu/toolbar extension).
DISTRIBUTION
Private use:
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This is emailware. Please send me an email in case you use
this script frequently. Thanx!! ;-)
Aminet(CD), Fred Fish:
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Distribution welcome and allowed !!
Other commercial use:
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NO ONE is allowed to include these files on CD or disk or other
medium whithout my permission !! Please ask me first :-) !!
CONTACT
Please send greetinx, bug reports and other stuff to
shuebner@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
06-Oct-97, 19:12:01
Bye, Sebastian.
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