RISC User Program Information
Volume 4 Issue 2 (December 1990)

PLEASE NOTE: ALL FILES AND PROGRAMS ON THIS DISC ARE COPYRIGHT RISC USER UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED.

This application provides information on all the applications in the RISC User Programs Directory. The application has two windows; the menu window, which lists all of the programs on this month's disc, and the text window which displays information on a selected program.

To obtain information on an application, click on the program's title in the menu window. To obtain this page, click on 'RISC User Information' in the menu window. To run a program either click on the filename in red next to its title in the Menu window, or double-click on its icon in a directory viewer.

Clicking the Menu button on the 'RU' icon on the icon bar pops up a menu allowing the windows to be opened and closed. Also, the text window is reopened whenever information is requested on a file. The text window can be resized to any sensible width, and text is automatically reformatted to fit the window.

If the menu window is closed, then information can be obtained by holding down the Alt key and double-clicking on the file's icon in the directory viewer. This has exactly the same effect as clicking on the title in the menu window.

When this application is not running, help can be obtained by clicking Menu over an application's icon and choosing the 'Help' option from the App. 'xxxx' submenu. This will result in the help text being loaded into Edit (assuming that Edit's icon has been seen first).

Double-clicking on the !RU_vXXiXX icon in a directory viewer starts this application and opens a directory viewer containing all the programs on the disc, unless Ctrl is held down, in which case the directory viewer is opened but the application is not run. This can be altered by changing line 60 of $.!RISCUser.!RunImage.

The entire application can be copied to another disc, a hard disc or a network by simply dragging the !RU_vXXiXX icon to the relevant directory viewer. As each month's application has a different name, several can be copied to the same directory. Alternatively you can have one application containing the programs for several months. Just copy the contents of each month's disc into the directory !RU_vXXiXX.Programs, and modify the file !RU_vXXiXX.ProgData.

This disc contains a copy of !System with the latest versions of CLib, FPEmulator and Colours from the RISC OS Extras disc. As required by Acorn, !System includes a copy of the ReadMe file from the RISC OS Extras disc, but no other modules or applications from that disc are included here.
