SynWin Version 2.1b

                An update from Alex van Kaam

Installing:

Just copy it over the previous version.

Updates:

Well thanks to our great friend James Judge we now have a
previously used drive & directory box.  He was not sure about
using the DOS reader or SynWin although he needed SynWin to view
my (and of course Sue's) picture.  But since Sue can't keep
placing our pictures every issue I agreed to work out James'
idea.

Drives and Directories from where you load SynTax are stored in
the 'SYNWIN.INI' file and displayed in the 'Previously used
directory box'.  Just double click on an entry and SynWin will
look for the SynTax files in that drive and/or Directory.  Click
once on an entry and select 'Remove Entry' to remove an entry from
the list.  Note that entries in the list are stored in
alphabetical order so if you make sure your directories are
numbered like this : 01 02 - 09 10 11 they will appear in the
right order.  Please note that because of this new feature you
must not try to run SynWin from the SynTax floppy since it is
write protected and SynWin will try to create the SYNWIN.INI file
on it.

Next Vicky Campbell came with the idea if it was possible to use
several fonts since some people still have trouble using the
Terminal font, this was done as follows:

When you are reading an article you will notice 3 option buttons
near the bottom, they say: Terminal, MS LineDraw, Fixedsys.  If
you have all 3 fonts installed all 3 the options will be
available, just select the font you want to use and the text will
be re-printed on screen using that font.  If you don't have all 3
fonts installed the font that you don't have will be greyed out
and you will not be able to select it.  As you can see a new font
is also added, it is called Fixedsys and it is a standard Windows
font, it can be found in your system directory if you want to
install it.  This font does however not have any of the special
symbols used in a map, but I added this font just to make sure
that you will be able to view the text if the other 2 fonts don't
work on your setup.

And finally some more keyboard commands are added, you can now
leave a menu using 'esc' and select a file using the 'arrow
buttons' and 'enter'.

I hope it all works since the program is slowly getting more and
more complex.

Alex



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