News from djrikki via amigaworld.net
Jack for AmigaOS - 0.99 Beta released ( Give Jack a home on your Workbench )
Now available for download at OS4Depot.net (check the upload queue).
Screenshots
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rikki.lake@ntlworld.com ) (2011).
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1. What is Jack? - "All about Jack"
2. Installation - "Wherever"
3. Requirements - "System friendly"
4. Features - "Jam-packed"
5. Keyboard Shortcuts - "Everyone loves 'em"
6. Command line - "Add the power of Jack to your Applications"
7. Known Bugs and Limitations - "Sad, but true..."
8. Future releases - "Much more in-store..."
9. Legals - "Boring"
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1. What is Jack?
Jack is many things, Jack could be described as an advanced feature-laden ASL file-
requester replacement, it could also be described as a fantastic standalone program
that makes common tasks so much easier.
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2. Installation
Thanks to the APPDIR system Jack can be installed wherever you want. Although I do
suggest you copy the Jack folder and all its contents to the system utilities drawer.
Please remember to call APPDIR:Jack in your future scripts and AmigaOS application calls.
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3. Requirements
Jack is very system friendly, if you don't have something installed, fine, Jack will disable
associated features. Nonetheless as a minimum Jack requires AISS installed. I
highly recommend you install at least version 4.11 as this was used at the time of
development.
If you want to fully enjoy Jack as intended you should install Martin 'Mason' Merz's Push4Dock.
Wget is an optinal install, but highly-recommended, both Wget and Push4Dock can be found os4depot.net.
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4. Features
* Comprehensive AmigaOS App-Store*
* Quick access to AmigaOS Preferences
* Screen snapshoter
* Fully-featured Image Editor, includes Batch-image processing
* Speedy access to all your connected devices
* Support for Push4Dock - quick access to your Documents, Images, Music and more...
* Unique Slideshow mode for viewing your image directories
* Basic file-management, Make New Drawer, Delete, Rename and Add Comment
* Open your files in Helper Applications
* HTTP support for downloading files to a directory before Opening
* Jack can be called entirely from the command line, in this mode it will act as a
modern file requester that retains all the above features.
* App-Store, with the current version of Jack you can see and download any of the Recent
uploads that are available on OS4Depot. In a subsequent version this whole interface
will be upgraded and you will be able to download anything that appears on OS4Depot
directly from within Jack.
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5. Keyboard Shortcuts
General
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ESC - Close / Cancel operation
Main Window
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p - Parent
n - Make New Drawer
r - Rename
d - Delete
c - Add Comment
a - Select All (multi-file select mode only)
z - Select None (multi-file select mode only)
f - Jack standalone option, change type of files listed
x - Send selected files/drawers to archive
s - If directory contains any images, switch to Slideshow mode
e - Open certain files in helper application
i - Brings up information on selected files/drawers
o - Operates the Open/Save button (available in Jack commad line mode only)
F1 - App-Store
F2 - Open AmigaOS Preferences
F3 - Screen Capture
Lister
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UP / DOWN - Move up and down the Lister
PAGEUP/PAGEDOWN - Move in bigger steps up and down the Lister
HOME - Jump to top of Lister
End - Jump to bottom of Lister
The scroll wheel on your mouse is also supported.
Image Editor
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g - Image to Grey
i - Invert Colours of Image
l - Rotate Image left / 90deg anti-clockwise
r - Rotate Image right / 90deg clockwise
s - Open image save options
u - Revert Image
h - Flip image horizontally
v - Flip image vertically
t - Tint Colour
y - Change tint value
a - Resize image to actual size (if smaller than the window)
f - Resize image to fit
Paging Arrows
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When you seeing Paging Arrows on screen you can make use of the keyboard.
Image Saving
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b - Select to Save as BMP
g - Select to Save as GIF
i - Select to Save as IFF
j - Select to Save as JPEG
p - Select to Save as PNG
s - Save image(s)
a - Save image or a batch of images under a new name/prefix. In batch-image mode
you also enter the start incremental value of the batch.
a - Add comment to the image(s)
r - Opens the Image Resize window
Image Resize before Save
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UP / DOWN arrows on keyboard to scroll through default resize options
w - Set width
h - Set height
URL Opener
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n -If installed, open the URL in NetSurf
w - If installed, open the URL in OWB
t - If installed, open the URL in Timberwolf (option currently disabled til TW gets a command line)
d - Download the given URL to the current directory
u - Use the currently selected option
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