Impressive v2.13
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This is a utility from Quantum Software which has been designed 
to help you use Impression Style by Computer Concepts and to
also show you what our products can do for you.

You should find two programs within this directory:
!ButtonBar & !Executor.


HOW TO USE THEM
Run both programs and you should get a small button bar type window
appearing at the bottom of your desktop. 
This will consist of lots of colourful icons, if one of these icons is
single clicked upon with the SELECT mouse button then Style will perform
a sequence of its own functions quickly and simply! You will no longer need
to bother doing these functions yourself! See the text file called
'IconList' for details on what each icon does!


WHAT DO I NEED?
It is expected that you will have a copy of Style with a document
displayed with the title bar of the Style page showing a cream colour. 
A lot of the preset functions supplied in !ButtonBar are to help with either
text or graphic frames functions so you will need to have one (or more) of
these frames selected for this software to work correctly.

** PLEASE NOTE: The rulers of Style need to be turned OFF for this software 
to work correctly.


WHAT DOES EACH ICON DO?
Read the text file 'IconList' for details on what each icon does.


WHAT DOES !BUTTON BAR DO?
When you click upon one of the icons with the SELECT mouse button, it runs a
corresponding mini application contained within !ButtonBar (you may look at
this if you so wish) and this application then sends a command to !Executor
which 'executes' it so that Style will perform them.


WHAT DOES !EXECUTOR DO?
!Executor is the playback only version that is supplied with the software
package called !Keystroke. !Keystroke has been on the market for two years
now (1994) and it is the leading software application for Acorn computers
which allows you to build simple sequences of actions for any Risc OS
applications on the market!

Indeed, !ButtonBar & !Executor are fully working demonstration models of the
sort of things you can do if you purchase !Keystroke. You will find that
!Keystroke makes using your computer easier and more productive.  
!Keystroke can really turn a potential chore to a delight!


CAN I PLACE MY OWN ICONS ON THE BUTTON BAR?
Yes, you may rearrange the icons on the button bar by clicking with ADJUST and
the Shift key held down to remove an icon and/or dragging ANY application from 
the filer window (or Pinboard) to any icon on !ButtonBar.

!ButtonBar remembers where the application is located and what it looks
like, in effect it acts very like the your Pinboard program! When you quit
!ButtonBar it automatically saves the contents of the button bar.
(!ButtonBar will never delete or alter your applications, it only remembers
where they are on your hard drive and what they look like!)



HOW DO I SAVE THE BUTTONBAR WITH ITS REARRANGED ICONS?
Simply quit the application via its menu or click on its close icon.
The saving is done automatically!


CAN I TAILOR SOME OF THE FUNCTIONS YOU HAVE SUPPLIED TO MY NEEDS?
Yes, Although you can't add brand new sequences, you need to buy !Keystroke
to do that. You can alter the mini applications supplied within !ButtonBar
to add, for example, extra colour icons or change the effects of many of the
mini applications. Each mini application which can be altered has a !Help
text file which you can read to find out how to alter it.


CAN I MAKE THE BUTTON BAR VERTICAL?
Yes! By reading the !Run file of !ButtonBar you can find out how to make a
simply alteration to make it appear vertical instead.


I DON'T LIKE SEEING EMPTY ICON PLACES, 
CAN I REDUCE THE NUMBER OF ICONS THAT I WANT TO USE?
Yes, in the !Run file of !Buttonbar you will see a variable called 'BB%Icons'
by default it is 100. You may alter this to any number from 2 to 100.
But beware that you do not reduce this below the number of icons you 
actually have on the Buttonbar as these icons will be deleted.


I WANT TO RETURN THE ICONS BACK TO THE WAY YOU SUPPLIED IT, HOW DO I DO THIS?
The file containing the saved setting is called 'Setup' and is contained
within !ButtonBar. You should also find a file called 'DSetup', simply COPY
'DSetup' and RENAME it to 'Setup'. But only do this when !Buttonbar is NOT loaded!


I AM GETTING A "NOT OPEN FOR UPDATE" ERROR!
You have tried to run !Buttonbar from within a read only type Archive.
This Archive is a specially compressed directory (to allow the application to be
transported on a floppy disc). It can not be written to, which is what !Buttonbar
is trying to do when you close it! 
Open the Archived directory and copy ALL the files within to your hard drive.
then run !Buttonbar from that copy.

Uncompressed this application takes up 755Kbytes of disc space.
After using ArcFS to compress the files they only take up 200Kbytes.


NOTHING APPEARS TO BE HAPPENING WHEN I CLICK ON BUTTONBAR!
Please check that you've not got another copy of Keystroke or Executor loaded
already as this will stop Impressive working.
If this is the case then we recommend either quitting Keystroke while you
use Impressive or load the 'Default' Keydef file from Impressive's !Executor
into your own copy of !Keystroke.
If you don't have !Keystroke loaded and it's still not working, give us a call!


!Keystroke is currently available from all good Acorn software dealers for
(RRP) 35.95 fully inclusive. Or from Quantum Software direct - 

QUANTUM SOFTWARE
35 PINEWOOD PARK
LIVINGSTON
EH54 8NN
SCOTLAND
PHONE (+44) 01506 411162


We hope you have found this utility useful...
 Quantum Software 1994, 1995, 1996
