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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Ral-Clan on April 25, 2020, 05:23:58 PM
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Hi, I run a pretty hi-res workbench desktop (something like 1920x1080), but when I open documents in AmigaGuide format with Multiview, the text is too small to read comfortably.
I would like MultiView to open AmigaGuide documents on a lower resolution screen (i.e. interlace 640x480) so the text appears bigger.
Does anyone know how I can make it do that? I checked the setting "open on separate screen" but that just creates a screen that is the same resolution as my Workbench.
Also, there are icon tooltypes (Icon/info) in the Multiview icon for FONTNAME, FONTSIZE, and SCREEN, but I don't know what to enter there. I tried adding various parameters like:
FONTNAME=topaz
FONTSIZE=14
SCREEN=Hi Res Laced
..but none of them made a difference.
Can anyone help with this? Thanks.
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PUBSCREEN is supposed to get the name of an open screen as argument. So you must open one first. You can do that with PSI (MUI) or the screen manager from the StormC package, for example, or with AREXX i assume.
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So have you had a look to see what these settings are as standard?
You could perhaps just adjust the fontsize up from what you see there. SCREEN should presumably say WORKBENCH
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So have you had a look to see what these settings are as standard?
You could perhaps just adjust the fontsize up from what you see there. SCREEN should presumably say WORKBENCH
They don't say anything by default. They are just bracketed out exactly like this in the icon tooltypes:
(SCREEN=)
(FONTNAME=)
(FONTSIZE=)
I unbracketed them and put a known font (that I had in my directory) and known font size after the equal signs, save and restarted a document in Multiview. There was no change.
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When tooltypes are in brackets they are essentially commented out. Try putting .font at the end of the font name you want. For example, topaz.font
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Unfortunately this had no effect:
FONTNAME=courier.font
FONTSIZE=24
This also doesn't work:
FONTNAME=courier
I'm using the instructions listed here:
http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/multiview.html
I would like to try to get Multiview to open on it's own lower resolution screen, but do not know how to find out the screen ID for a generic 640x480 or 640x240 native resolution screen.
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Have you tried making a public screen using PSI from the MUI directory?
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I just tried my method and it works, both from CLI and also via tooltype. I used PSI to create and open a 640x512 size screen and Multiview happily jumps onto it. You just have to set the PUBSCREEN=mynewscreen argument. Note here i previously stated SCREEN, but this was not correct.
Also, you must give the screens name, not its title, which might differ.
PUBSCREEN is supposed to get the name of an open screen as argument. So you must open one first. You can do that with PSI (MUI) or the screen manager from the StormC package, for example, or with AREXX i assume.
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A pub screen handler program akin to PSI is something that should be provided with the OS, IMO.
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@Ral-Clan
Just tried this and it works fine on AmgiaOS4.
Use the Screens applications found in Prefs and add a screen of your chosen resolution and name it MultiView.
Set the MultiView tooltype PUBSCREEN=MultiView.
Now MultiView will open up on the specified screen when started.
I also just tried setting MultiView ToolType FONTSIZE=32 and it opened the document with the default font in the bigger size on workbench. No need to set FONTNAME.
Mind you this is on AmigaOS4. You may get different results on OS3 if that's what your using.