Abstracts from ForcePal.doc:-
Features (Why ForcePal)
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- CLI based
- Non detatchable
- Small
- Accepts command parameters
- Preferance file in ASCII
- No resident portion
- Terminates almost instantly
- Performs NO colour locking
- Version String *** NEW for V1.0ß*** :-)
This means it works very well with NewIcons and very badly with MUI, sorry.
See to do.
Introduction
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ForcePal is a utility to ensure that you know what palette your system is
using, at least at start up time. I havn't included any code to lock these
colours or force them to stay this colour, all I can say is that I've been
using it for several months now and nothing has attempted to change the
colours ForcePal sets up. The only trouble I have is if the Workbench screen
is closed and re-opened again. Why? ForcePal is not a resident program and
sould therefore be run each time the Workbench screen is opened.
This current version of ForcePal (1.0ß) and it's documentation are still
very much in the form of a beta. Notice the source comments that it will
probably crash the system if some idiot tries to give it an icon and run it
from Workbench. This is because it is a CLI program and expects to recieve
some form of command line parameters. (even if they are empty it should just
recieve a null) This means it should work from IconX, IconJ, DoIcon or the
Execute Command Menu option from Wrokbench. Just don't give it a Tool Icon!
It can of course be launched from a Dock or menu enhancer as long as the
environment emulation for that option is set to CLI NOT WORKBENCH. Infact I
havn't been stupid enough to try running it from Workbench yet but I've seen
the results of other previous experiments and they wern't pretty!
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