TITLE
  WinCycler


VERSION
  37.1


AUTHOR
  Thore Böckelmann <tboeckel@uni-paderborn.de>


REQUIREMENTS
  Any Amiga® (compatible) computer with at least OS2.04 and 68020+ cpu.


DESCRIPTION
  There are many people operating their Amiga mostly by keyboard sometimes,
  instead by mouse. I, as a programmer, belong to these people, because I have
  to switch between editor, several Shells and other windows very often. It is
  very annoying if you have to look for your mouse on your overflowing desk (as
  is mine :) just to activate another window.
  So I wrote WinCycler. It let's you specify some hotkeys to perform many window
  related actions, such as activating a window, bringing a window to front/back,
  cycle through all openend windows, etc.
  So WinCycler behaves like C='s ClickToFront commodity, but it utilizes the
  keyboard instead of the mouse.
  WinCycler doesn't patch any system functions. It only installs itself as a
  commodity which listens to several hotkeys.


USAGE
  You can start WinCycler from either Workbench or Shell with the following
  options:
 
  CX_PRIORITY/K/N,TOFRONTKEY/K,TOBACKKEY/K,FRONTTOBACKKEY/K,BACKTOFRONTKEY/K,
  CLOSEKEY/K,ZIPKEY/K,CENTERKEY/K,PARENTKEY/K,TOPLEFTKEY/K

  CX_PRIORITY/K/N: set the Commodities priority
  TOFRONTKEY/K: set hotkey for "active window to front"
  TOBACKKEY/K: set hotkey for "active window to back"
  FRONTTOBACKKEY/K: set hotkey for "next window to front"
  BACKTOFRONTKEY/K: set hotkey for "previous window to front"
  CLOSEKEY/K: set hotkey for "close active window"
  ZIPKEY/K: set hotkey for "zip active window"
  CENTERKEY/K: set hotkey for "center active window on screen"
  PARENTKEY/K: set hotkey for "activate parent window"
  TOPLEFTKEY/K: set hotkey for "move active window to upper left corner"

  All the window hotkeys include automatic window activation of the window
  brought to front. Only windows with a valid title string are affected. That
  means that for example ToolManager or AmiDock dock windows won't be affected,
  because they don't have a window title. Also backdrop windows (as the
  Workbench window) cannot be brough to front, and thus cannot be activated by
  hotkey.

  You can start and quit WinCycler at any time. To quit WinCycler simply start
  it again.


INSTALLATION
  Copy WinCycler where ever you want, but SYS:WBStartup is a very good place


KNOWN BUGS
  None


HISTORY
  37.1 (24.09.2001):
    - initial Aminet release


COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
  WinCycler is copyrighted 2001 by Thore Böckelmann.
  All rights reserved. This program is freeware, so no financial donations
  required. Redistribution allowed if the package is left unchanged. The author
  is not responsible for any damage caused by the use or misuse of this
  documentation and/or the program(s) it describes.

  WinCycler uses the SmartReadArgs package by Thomas Aglassinger.

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[unknown]                 1461    3060  47.7% -lh5- 08ff Sep 24  2001 WinCycler.readme
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