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I'm uploading a new public beta of Smart Windows to hobbes:

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/smw081.zip

the definitive path will probably be:

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/wps/smw081.zip

  Smart Windows is an OS/2 user interface enhancer with both aesthetical
and functional features.

  The program modifies the default procedure of the frame windows and
of various PM controls allowing to use bitmaps or shades as titlebar
background with a 3D-look text.

  You can also use any bitmap of your design as window control (system
menu, close, minimize, maximize, etc. buttons). Everything is changed
at runtime! There is non need to patch any DLL or re-patch it as you
apply a new fixpak and no need to reboot to completely change the look
of your windows! You can as well move the window close button on the
windows 95 position or next to the system menu or completely remove
it and just click with the middle mouse button on the system menu
to close the window.

  Now you can get rid of the ugly System Proportional font and force
any window or dialog to use your favourite font with no text clipping
as when you try to do that by setting a "DefaultFont" key in OS2.INI
and again with no need of patching DLLs or rebooting.

  A unique feature allows you to hide both the titlebar and the menubar
making them popup again as soon as you move the mouse on the upper
border of the window.

  Other common features include:

  - window rolling (with autoroll/autounroll options)
  - Frame drag (put the mouse pointer on the window border and move
    the window where you like)
  - Entry fields automatic text selection (you can choose which mouse
    event selects the whole entry field content)
  - Automatic (sliding) focus (works with WinOS2 windows as well and
    skips disabled windows)
  - Mouse pointer hiding (when you stop moving the mouse, such as when
    reading a text, the mouse pointer is hidden and then displayed
    again as you move it or click a mouse button)
  - Mouse button double click emulation through the middle button
  - Easy-to-use PM installer/uninstaller and Preferences application

   [What's new]

 * The one hour limit has been removed! The program will be completely
   functional for 45 days or 200 reboots, whichever comes first.
   A new version will probably be available before 45 days and its
   installation will extend the trial time.
 * The registration reminder dialog now pops-up a while after boot and
   then about every ten hours.
 * Both global exceptions and group-of-features exceptions have been
   implemented.
 * During installation you can choose if the first time the program
   will start with all options disabled or with the default options.
 * A "Windows" page has been added with various options to modify
   the default font.
 * Settings have been added to the "Titlebar" pages for the titlebar
   context menu and for disabling the titlebar enhancements when
   the titlebar has a not-default background color.
 * Disabled windows i.e. windows not disabled by a child dialog are
   no longer activated by the autofocus feature.
 * The "Push window behind all other windows" feature has been enabled.
 * Various bug fixes have been made to the installation program 
   (random hangs during uninstallation), the preferences application
   (sys3175 with Program Commander/2, etc), SMARTWIN.DLL (PMMail hangs,
   unrolled windows beeing rolled when clicking on the scrollbar or
   titlebar buttons, windows started in minimized state disappearing
   from the screen when getting focus after having been rolled, PMSEEK.EXE
   hangs, etc).
 
more features coming soon!

please report any bugs, problems, wanted features to my email address:

alexcant@tin.it



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