All Thumbs v.2 & v.5

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)1994 William Kearney

<wkearney@access.digex.net>



Tired of hitting that darned overview button (*) when you turn the pages on your digital books?  All Thumbs to the rescue!  



This little hack adds three buttons to the display when a book is opened.  A left, right and drag button.  Their functions are pretty obvious, tapping on the arrow icons will page the book upward or downward.  Since the default location of All Thumbs is over the page number in books and you might want to SEE the page number, the little gray area is a dragging button.  Tap, hold and then drag this and you can move All Thumbs anywhere on the screen.  All Thumbs will close automatically when you close the book.  



Version .2



If you select All Thumbs from the Extras drawer, it will open and all apps can use it. To close All Thumbs, just click it's icon again from in the Extras drawer or scrub across it.  It does not have a close box on itself, you'd hit it with your thumbs!  Scrubbing it is a bit tricky, but it can be done.  You can also double-tap on the white area outside of the drag button to close it.



Version .5



With this version it's not visible in the Extras drawer.  All Thumbs is accessible from the Assist button. Use my Assistance! application and the verb "Thumb"  will appear.  You can use this to toggle All Thumbs on and off at any time.  However, version .5 does use a constant 2k of heap.  If you really need larger buttons and you use them a lot, use version .5.  Otherwise, you might want to stick with version .2.  They're both in this archive.



Online reposting note:



If you want to publish this file on your system, you must send me an e-mail message requesting permission to do so BEFORE you post it.  I will certainly consider all requests.  It may NOT be included on any form of distributed-for-a-fee libraries without my express permission.  Likewise, send me an e-mail asking for such permission.



What it does:

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All Thumbs patches the built-in bookreader app; copperfield, openbook command. This just tells the copperfield to have All Thumbs open and close books are opened. All Thumbs itself, just  sends messages to the actual buttons at the bottom of the screen.  Nothing fancy here or imcompatible.  



Version .2 doesn't support Assist and takes up an icon in the Extras drawer.  Version .5 only appears in Assist and takes up a few more bytes of heap.  It's up to you which to install.   If you're on a 110 or 120, go for version .5.





Version History

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.5  09/30/94

Implemented as an auto part - no Icon in Extras, yeah!

Now accessible via the Intelligent Assist



.4 & .3 - You don't want to know.



.2  06/09/94

Updated icons on buttons

Support for scrubbing to close itself

Added support for demo try-out period



.1 March 94

Initial release to the public





Disclaimer

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This product is currently in beta test.  It's not known to have any bugs or

defects that would impair the use of your Newton.  However, it is possible

something unforseen could go wrong.  We cannot be held responsible for any loss

of info or the usage of your Newton.  Please back up your Newton before

installing this package!



There is a licensing agreement present with this package in the disk file

"License.txt".  You must read this document before using and installing this

package.





Shareware 

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This package is $5 ShareWare.  If you use this a couple of times, like it and

encourage a friend to use it, that's a fair statement to it's value.  Send the

fee.



Please note that this is a demo version of this package and it will expire 30 days after you install it.  This version will totally expire on 12/31/95 and will not let you

install or use it after that date.



Registered users receive an unlimited version.



Please print out the disk file "Register.txt" included with this package.



It contains the necessary information for you to complete.  It will also help us

keep accurate records of all registered users.  You do want your updates, don't

you?



Be SURE to include your e-mail information!  You won't get updates without it!





How to contact the author 

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Bill Kearney can be reached as follows:



Internet:   wkearney@access.digex.net (preferred mail box) 

Telephone:  (410)-235-4574



or good old US Mail at:



Bill Kearney 

The Novanto Group 

P.O.Box 201 

Lutherville, MD 21093-0201





A note from the author 

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If you've got criticisms or suggestions about my products, I welcome feedback. 

Bugs reports are also needed.  If you like it, but don't want to cough up a few

bucks, at least send me a e-mail message saying you've seen it and like it.  I

promise not to harass you too much!





I'd also like to thank Ashley Barnard <ashley@amug.org> for helping me recover this read me text.  it seems I trashed my only on-line copies of it and I really hate reloading from tape, so she sent me a copy via e-mail.  If you've not sampled from the Arizona Mac Group's CD-ROM collections, you don't know what you're missing!  (All of my stuff's on the next one!)



Thanks for your time and enjoy All Thumbs!