Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.tech:6573 comp.sys.amiga:38171 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!eecae!cps3xx!usenet From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Things that need to be on the Amiga (Was: ENV: handler (was Re: A ...)) Message-ID: <4104@cps3xx.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 15:23:13 GMT References: <3855@cps3xx.UUCP> <7416@cbmvax.UUCP> <2025.AA2025@geo-works> <438@xdos.UUCP> Reply-To: porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka) Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 37 In article <438@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes: >In article <2025.AA2025@geo-works> bryan@geo-works.UUCP (Bryan Ford) writes: >>So, is anybody up for writing something like this? I've been wanting to >>for a while, but never found the time. > >Welcome to the club. In all seriousness, this is (IMHO) the major reason >why things don't get done. Even all those obvious things that should have >been done long ago. And also why people keep suggesting the same good Ok, hows about adding a list to the montly Intro post of things that need doing? Something that I think the Amiga desperately needs is online help. Just so happens that I have been working on such a thing. The program works best with specially formatted files. The file gets formatted to fit into the width of the window it is being displayed in. Text can be normal,bold,italic,underline,color. Fonts are supported, and can be specifed in the file (one font per file please). It almost works with proportional fonts ( it will soon ). You can define references associated with parts of the text. When the user clicks on the reference, then another window with another file pops up. Windows can be iconified. There is alos an index feature for words that don't have an explicit reference defined. It does all this reliably (hard to crash even the flakey parts), and is quite small. Im using lattice 3.1, and it compiles to less than 20k, and uses about 30k when running with one window open. It even handles out-of-memory well. It has to, Iv'e been developing it with 512k memory. So far so good. Now all I have to do is type in help files on AmigaDOS and the Amiga in general. Yuck. Anybody wanna help me out? **Is anybody interested in this, or have I been wasting my time?** REAL NAME: Joe Porkka jap@frith.cl.msu.edu