And then say “Ta, Fred!” for Tamarc! Astute observers of how our beloved RISC OS user interface works will have noticed that clicking with Select on the Switcher icon – aka the Task Manager, at the far right of the icon bar – does one thing, while an Adjust click on it does… the very same thing. In both cases, by default, they open the Tasks window, which shows you how memory is allocated, which applications are running and so on.
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MiniTime gains a flux capacitor button
Can now bring you back to the future. Or the past. It depends where you start. Fred Graute has released a new version of MiniTime, bringing it up to version 1.08. The application displays the current date and/or time in a small window or icon, so that it is readily visible, yet unobtrusive at the same time – it doesn’t get in the way with the computer’s general, day to day use.
Read MoreMiniTime version 1.07 released
Gains Gemini Man functionality1. Fred Graute has released a new version of MiniTime, an application that displays the date and time in a small icon or window, without being obtrusive and getting in the way of the day to day usage of the computer. There have been a couple of changes to the user interface in version 1.07:
Read MoreStrongHelp 2.90 released with three claws
Oops, sorry, I meant released under a three clause licence. Silly me. Fred Graute has released a new version of StrongHelp with some changes not only to the software, but also to the licence under which it is available – now the three-clause BSD licence. The software is designed to be a simple hypertext system, and considering its original release was at least twenty four years ago it has certainly proven the test of time, and remains a popular method of distributing manuals with RISC OS software.
Read MoreMiniTime waits for no man – version 1.06 released
Fred Graute has released another new version of MiniTime, an application that displays the date and time in an icon or a small, unobtrusive window, allowing the user to see the information at a glance, but without the application or its window getting in the way. The headline features of version 1.06 are:
Read MoreNews nybble: StrongMen 1.27 released
Originally developed by Guttorm Vik in the late 1990s as part of his editor project – which today we all know and love (Zap users excepted) as StrongED – StrongMen can display a hierarchical menu structure based on the contents of a text file. The menu entries can be used to run applications, launch URLs in the default web browser, provide a list of open files, and more. Fred Graute, the application’s current maintainer, has just released version 1.27, which offers full Choices support, three new commands for use in…
Read MoreStrongHelp given a leg-up to version 2.89
Eigen see why a new version was needed. Fred Graute has released a new version of StrongHelp, the simple hypertext system for designing and reading on-screen manuals, help texts, etc. The software dates back to a time when the world wide web, and HTML, was largely unknown1, and provided a neat way for software developers – particularly small companies and hobby programmers, who might not have had the resources to produce full-blown manuals – to include manuals with their software that were something more than just text files.
Read MoreMiniTime ticks up to version 1.05
Fred Graute has brought out another new version of MiniTime, his application for displaying the date and time in a small icon or window, without taking up too much space or generally getting in the way of your day to day use of the computer. With version 1.05, Fred has increased the configurability of MiniTime in a couple of ways:
Read MoreMiniTime gains access to bigger units of time
Micro moment monitor manages massive months! Once upon a time there was an application called SmallTime, which sprouted from the programming hands of James Freeman. That application, however, has never been updated to run on 32-bit hardware such as the Iyonix, let alone modern ARMv7-based platforms. Aemulor can save the day, but that’s hardly ideal, and the licence under which SmallTime was released meant newer versions updated by third parties couldn’t be distributed. Fred Graute therefore took SmallTime as his inspiration, and developed a completely new application that achieved the…
Read MoreNews nybble: StrongHelp 2.88 released
Fred Graute has released a new version of StrongHelp, a small hypertext program which can be used for displaying manuals, help documents, and anything else that will benefit from the individual pages being interlinked, with everything held in a single file. Changes in version 2.88 include fixes for a few more ARMv7 issues, a more logical order for items on the icon bar menu, a bug when deleting groups of twenty or more files has been fixed, and more.
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