Short
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Many programs on other operating systems often offer so called
"Tip of the day" stickers. It's mostly small window opened on
program startup, showing valuable (more or less) information about
the program, some useful information, keyboard shortcuts or just
neat tips or quick how-to solutions...
I think, that from the user's point of view it's good idea to have
such feature, especially Tips can be turned off if you felt bored.
As you probably guessed, this class is supposed to handle such
tips for your MUI based application almost in fully automatic manner
(you just need to add 3 lines of code to have fully functional Tip
Of The Day implemented! See the enclosed demonstration for more
details.
You like the class? Feel free to use it in your programs.
Tip Of The Day class is freeware software, but it's copyrighted
© 1999-2000 by Marcin Orlowski <carlos@amiga.com.pl>
Source code:
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The complete source tree of TipOfTheDay is now available. See
the source.readme file for details about using them.
Software using this class:
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Let me know about your!
History
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15.0 (Tue Nov 09 19:20:22 1999)
- initial version
15.1 (Thu Nov 11 23:02:00 1999)
- now using installer script by Robert Reiswig
<vgr@best.com>
- made Tipboard.mcc more bullet-proof, to better
handle various errors (e.g. "no tips file")
15.2 (Fri Nov 12 21:32:28 1999)
- added localized tips support
- attempt to replace previous, ugly bulb image
- localized Tipwindow.mcc
15.3 (Sat Nov 13 23:42:49 1999)
- fixed underscore being improperly handled in
checkmark label (Oleg Sergeev)
- added MUIV_Tip_Show_Random support
- added bubble help to the Tipwindow.mcc objects
- cleared typos in autodocs (a little bit ;-)
15.4 (Wed Nov 24 22:47:28 1999)
- added forgotten bubble help to the checkmark
- expanded tip file pathes with two new entries:
"PROGDIR:Tips/english/%s" and "PROGDIR:Tips/%s",
- added QUIET switch to the tip_converter
- source code released
- português-brasil translation by Daniel Mealha
Cabrita <dancab@iname.com>
- russian translation by Andrew Boyarintsev
<ntrs@redline.ru> and Oleg Sergeev
<bigblack@mail.lanck.net>
- slovenian translation by Damir Arh
<damir.arh@guest.arnes.si>
15.5 (Sat Nov 27 15:08:39 1999)
- fixed catalog handling bug, causing some strings
to remain in english. Might also cause hits or so
(Damir Arh)
- tip_converter version is now equal classes'
version
- slovenian translation is here for sure now
15.6 (Mon Dec 20 21:32:40 1999)
- this is minior update. no code change, just
new translations.
- updated slovenian translation by Damir Arh
<damir.arh@guest.arnes.si>
- deutsch translation by Andreas Kuerzinger
<akuerzin@HTWM.De>
- italian translation by Andrea Monni
<andrea.monni@tiscalinet.it> and Francesco Leoni
<zitzu@tiscalinet.it>
- swedish translation and tips by Thomas Nordh
<thomas.nordh@swipnet.se>
- forgotten source tip file is now included
15.7 (Fri Apr 21 21:12:24 2000)
- MUIA_Version and MUIA_Revision are gettable now
- finnish translation by Ilkka Lehtoranta
<iti@solutions.fi>
- portuguese translation (catalog and Autodocs) by
Alfredo Martins <alfredomartins@mail.telepac.pt>
and Raul Silva <luarsilva@mail.telepac.pt>
15.8 (Fri Jun 30 16:43:43 2000)
- added MUIA_Tip_WindowObject gettable atribute
upon request of many ppl. Now you can play with
the window object as you wish (Carlos)
- you can now customize the bulb image with use
of MUIA_Tip_BulbObject (Carlos)
- added more comments to tip_demo.c source for
all you people having problems with how to properly
use this class (Carlos)
- fixed bug causing "Show Tips on Startup" checkmark
to be always "ON", no matter what the real setting
was (Carlos)
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