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<div align="center"><font size="+3"><strong>CaretChase</strong></font></div>
<font size="+1"><img src="Carrot" alt="Carrot" width="44" height="43" border="0" align="middle" hspace="3" vspace="3"><em><strong>Introduction</strong></em></font>
<p align="justify">This little program was created following a request by Michael Bell on the Icon Technology mailing list. It simply makes the pointer follow the caret when you're typing.</p>
<p align="justify">At first I was doubtful regarding it's usefulness, but having used it a little I actually now find it quite intuitive to have the pointer follow my typing - in fact it seems quite nice in a kind of sub-conscious way!</p>
<p align="justify">Anyway, just run the program and start typing to see how it works. (Hold down the left &quot;Ctrl&quot; and press the left &quot;Shift&quot; key to fetch the pointer to the caret. Holding down the left &quot;Ctrl&quot; key and pressing the left &quot;Alt&quot; key will turn caret-chasing off.) If you <strong>really</strong> like it, putting it in your &quot;tasks&quot; directory in your boot structure will make it run whenever you turn your computer on.</p>
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<font size="+1"><img src="Carrot" alt="Carrot" width="44" height="43" border="0" align="middle" hspace="3" vspace="3"><em><strong>Iconbar Clicks</strong></em></font>
<p align="justify">Clicking on the iconbar icon with the right mouse button turns chasing off. Clicking with the left button can either toggle the chasing or just turn it on, depending on how you have the program configured.</p>
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<font size="+1"><img src="Carrot" alt="Carrot" width="44" height="43" border="0" align="middle" hspace="3" vspace="3"><em><strong>Configuration</strong></em></font>
<p align="justify">There are a few options which are available through the &quot;Choices...&quot; item on the iconbar menu - details are given in interactive help. There are, however, a few of things worth mentioning here...</p>
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<br><dt><strong>No Iconbar Icon</dt></strong><dd>If you've chosen to not have an iconbar icon then there are a couple of points to note:
<ul><li>To access the configuration window, run the program from disc again, and the window will pop up.
<li>To quit the program, you'll need to use the quit option from the menu in the Task Manager. (E.g: left click once on the &quot;<em>Switcher</em>&quot; icon on the far right of the icon bar, then at the top of the resulting window, click middle button over &quot;CaretChase&quot; and go across through &quot;<em>Task 'CaretChase' </em>&quot; and select &quot;<em>Quit</em>&quot;. See this <a href="TaskMan" target="_blank">example pic</a>.</ul>
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<dt><strong>&quot;Don't jump more than:&quot;</strong></dt><dd>This button deserves some explanation. When a window grabs the caret without the need for a mouse click, having the pointer follow the caret can seem odd - especially in something like a save box where you know that you're going to drag the icon anyway and don't want the pointer wandering down to have a chat with the caret.
<br>This configuration option addresses this by simply stopping the pointer from jumping further than a certain distance when you start typing. This has the side-effect that sometimes you might <strong>want</strong> the pointer to follow the caret when it isn't. In that case, use the hotkey, to retrieve the pointer to the caret - then it'll merrily follow along again of it's own accord.</dd>
<dt><strong>Hotkeys</strong></dt><dd>In the configure window, there are two columns of three fields. The left column allows you to choose a hotkey-combination for turning caret-chasing on (and forcing the pointer to the caret). The right column allows you to choose a hotkey-combination for turning caret-chasing off. <strong><em>Note: </strong></em> if both combinations are <strong>identical</strong> then the keys you've chosen will act to toggle the caret-chasing state.</dd>
<dt><strong>Sprites</strong></dt><dd>If you'd like, you can also use an alternative icon for the program - open the !Sprites22 file from within the !CaretChs directory and rename the alternative sprites to the same as the default sprites. Thanks to Stewy for providing this icon.</dd></dl></p>
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<font size="+1"><img src="Carrot" alt="Carrot" width="44" height="43" border="0" align="middle" hspace="3" vspace="3"><em><strong>License</strong></em></font>
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<p align="justify">This application and associated resources are copyright Adam Richardson, 2004-5. If you wish to modify it or incorporate any of it into other applications or for other uses, you must contact me for permission. You may not charge a fee to distribute or sell it, without prior agreement from myself.</p>
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<font size="+1"><img src="Carrot" alt="Carrot" width="44" height="43" border="0" align="middle" hspace="3" vspace="3"><em><strong>That's it!</strong></em></font>
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<p align="justify">You can check to see if you're using the latest version by clicking on the button in the info box, or by visiting <a href="http://www.snowstone.org.uk/riscos/caretchase/info101.html">this web page</a>. Thanks a lot to Steve Fryatt for supplying the key-press detecting code. Any comments / requests / bug reports etc. (all are welcome!) should be sent to: <a href="mailto:caretchase@snowstone.org.uk">caretchase@snowstone.org.uk</a></p>
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<em>Adam</em></p>
<p align="justify">P.S. It doesn't work with Zap, Ovation or StrongEd, because they're all weird! ;-)</p>
<p align="justify">P.P.S. CaretChase is in thrall to the programs whose caret it follows. Some programs behave very oddly in this respect which can break CaretChase. Therefore, I'd be very grateful if you could inform me if you find programs which CaretChase doesn't work with so that I can either find a workaround or explicitly exclude them. Cheers :-)
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