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Kees vd Straten · View+

Hello Keith,

I saw your site and your favorite Psion software.
I miss View+.

It's a VERY, VERY good program.
Give it a try, you will be overwhelmed by all the possibilities.
http://mypsion.ru/viewplus.php

ohsix

Hi Kees:

I do have View+, but not being overly computer minded, I've never really figured out just how to use it. What this world needs is a course on how to use 'advanced' types of apps. Wink

BTW, Martin setd me the color aif for Meter. Looks good on my netBook.

Keith

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Ivan

After a demonstration given by Kees all was clear. View+ can, as the name, view all kind of thing WITHOUT the standard app on the Psion. So looking for an e-mail, picture, word document is MUCH faster than with the standaard apps.

BUT I must confess, I only started to use View+ after the demonstration ...

ohsix

What and where is this demonstration of View+?

Keith

Kees vd Straten · 01.10.2005 in Zwolle in the Netherlands. You are welcome.

HughPKD · View +

............
I miss View+.
It's a VERY, VERY good program.
Give it a try, you will be overwhelmed by all the possibilities.
http://mypsion.ru/viewplus.php
Regards,
Kees
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Do you have a link in English. please, Kees?

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MartinG

I do indeed have it (thanks Kees) - although it's a babelfish translation of the Russian (unless I'm mistaken) and really needs a bit of a workover before publishing IMO. Any volunteers for cleaning up babel-speak?

Martin

Kees vd Straten

I posted a massage in the "Wish-list" item.

Maybe there is a program who can do this, but I haven't found it.
IconPatch by Martin Guthrie and Andrew Gregory can extract aif-files into eight mbm files, but is there also a program who can extract multiple mbm files into MBM, Sketch or someting else?

After that I got a mail from Edo:
" BTW, you mention on Pscience Iconpatcher ability to extract AIF file into 8 mbm files. Well I must remind you that you can do it much more correctly with V+. Just open any AIF file and use "Save file as" command. Then you can choose to save it as MBM file, but unlike Iconpatcher, you will get EXACTLY the number (and sizes) of single mbm files that were contained in AIF file. That can be 2 or 4 or 6, not always 8 as Iconpatcher actually creates (via Appinfo.opx). Then you can use CL function "mbmsplit" to get single mbm files out of it. Also, you can open any AIF file and use "Save bitmap as" to save selected AIF bitmap to either Mbm, Sketch, JPG or GIF file. And most important when colorizing icons (aifs) you can do it most easily DIRECTLY by changing AIF bitmaps while viewing them (using SketchPad). Then you just save your work ("Save as") into new AIF file. You can colorize them or even delete or add new AIF bitmaps on the fly."

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Version 1.28 is released.

http://mypsion.ru/download.php?ViewPlus_1.28_nB.zip

1.28 of 09.08.05

1) Decompiling OPL files - a major enhancement:
Added "Analyze" command button to "Decompile procedures" dialog, which gives
an extended (decompile) information dialog for each procedure:
- Original Proc line (line number in source file)
- ProcTable reference (offset where selected Proc is referenced at)
- All Globals declared in selected procedure (with offset positions)
- Number of strings declared in selected procedure
- Number of arrays declared in selected procedure
- Max. stack space required
- Size of procedure Qcode (in bytes)
- Offset where procedure Qcode starts at
- All External procedures called (with offset positions)
- All External Globals referenced (with offset positions)
!!! No Anti_Revtran methods can prevent getting these information, AFAIK Smile

2) Some Note+ changes:
- Added basic scrollbar (info).
- Added "File Report" command to "Disk Info" dialog.
- Left-hand users can use Right Shift+tap for marking files with pen.

3) Some changes in CL (Command line Processor):
- Added new parameter, "t", to CL "dirprint" command. If "t" is stated, output File
report columns will be separated by "Space+Tab". "Tab" is default value.
(See VCL_Readme.txt)
- Now, Note+ doesn't wait any application process to end if it is started from N+ CL.
- New CL scripts are now added to end of list, instead to top of it.

4) Few bugs fixed (closing "Aif Gui Standard" window and Bitmap and Sys Clipboard) and
major code optimization done (V+ running smoother, hopefully Smile

No Black Magic though Wink

Kees vd Straten

Download the file again if you did it before 09 Aug 2005 19.00 CET

A little bug is repaird

Kees vd Straten

Here a picture from the decompiler

Go in your Psion to \System\apps\mbmview\mbmview.app
Start View+, only the main screen
Spacebar
menu
tools
decompile
Procedures

Or

Also, there are several other ways to come to "Analyze" procedure
feature like:
1) from N+ press Enter on any OPL APP/OPO file.
2) From "Run Program" press "Decompile" on selected OPL App
3) from Hex viever (if App/opo is opened in hex view) press Ctrl+Shift+P.
etc...

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Edo starts his own View+ forum

http://viewplus.myfreeforum.org/index.php

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View+ 1.30 is ready!
Since there were a lot changes, or better to say, some changes were quite complex, some additional testing would be welcome.

So, please, book in here
http://viewplus.myfreeforum.org/ftopic30.php and I'll mail a copy to you
BTW, this is a call to users who haven't registered yet to Join in! It's free Very Happy
Additionally, you'll get the Kees's translation of his article on View+ (read below!).

Edo

1) Note+ news:
Dynamic Buttonbar introduced to Note+ File Manager.
It can be switched on/off using Fn+2 shortcut or via supplemental menu that is,
as usual, brought up with Fn+Menu.
There are 48 buttons in total divided into 6 sets:
Plain/ Ctrl / Shift / Ctrl+Shift / Fn / Ctrl+Fn
All buttons can be customized e.g. you can assign commands to each button.
There are more than 80 commands to choose from ("Assign Buttonbar commands"
item from supplemental menu (Fn+Menu).
All button captions/command names can be edited. If you want to split button text
into 2 lines you must use backslash(\) sign.
Necessary small adjustments are done in order to make use of Buttonbar easier.
When Buttonbar is on and it is not possible to view Notes area, in all rename/delete/
copy dialogs a preview of "note" assigned to file/folder is displayed. Also, a tip
for fervent "Notes" users - switch on "Show assigned files" from Fn+Menu. By
doing that you will have all files with assigned notes underlined!

Menu item "Menu 2 (Fn+Menu)" is added to "View" menu group to ease the use of
new Buttonbar functions.
Some functions settings are now preserved, like "Show opened files", "Show
assigned files" and "Disable Browser refresh" (all from Fn+Menu group).

2) Toolbar buttons can be additionally customized. You can dynamically change them,
like Note+ Buttonbar, by pressing Ctrl, Shift or Fn. So you have 4 sets of toolbar
buttons at hand.
All button captions are editable too.
Toolbar setup is now reachable from the new button on main "Settings" dialog -
"Set Toolbar". From here, dynamical toolbars can be checked on, button captions
edited and commands (out of 26) assigned to buttons.

3) Hex Editor/Viewer changes:
Enabled direct editing - on screen, both in Hex and ASCII view.
You switch this mode on/off with Fn+Enter or via menu. So, now 2 editing modes
are available - "Direct edit" and "Edit box", whichever suits you best Wink
In Hex mode you edit/enter hex values and in ASCII mode, characters/strings.

Now by pressing DEL on current byte, you can delete/remove it from file.
Of course, mode of operation is different if you edit some OPL file from editing
other files. As usual, if removing byte from OPL file, procedure table values will be
recalculated. Beware, if you don't know what you are doing, better avoid this
feature Wink

When jumping to offsets, found offset is displayed in the 5th line (when possible) in
order to get more context to view without unnecessary scrolling (Thanks, Leo Smile
The same works for switching Hex and ASCII view mode.

4) A lot of small improvements done in many procedures to keep View+ run smoothly
now when the execution file came dangerously close to 500K Wink
A problem (OK now, Kees Smile with previewing MBM's with 100 and more bitmaps has
finally been fixed. It's about jumping to bitmaps with Ctrl+G in all (MBM) preview
dialogs.

5) Two more Note+ colour schemes added to "Note+_colour schemes.zip".
"Silver" and my favourite "Blue" Wink

6) Kees van den Straten has kindly contributed an English translation of his article
on View+, published in PDATotaal.Info paperback magazine (no.5 of July 2005).
It is a Psion word file named "View+.wrd" and can be found in distribution zipfile.
It is very informative and an excellent starting point for using View+. Certainly,
it couldn't have touched the most of View+ issues, which still wait for you to
explore them
Also, a second INI file, "View+2.ini" is introduced on Kees's initiative

Kees vd Straten · View+ 2.0

The new View+ version 2.0

Push here for the download.

View+

NEWS: You are welcome to visit and join View+ Forum at:
www.viewplus.myfreeforum.org

2.00 of 20.12.05. aka "Leo version" Smile

1) Since Leo is the most responsible person that the version 2.00
is released, it's most appropriate that he explains the novelties
that could be found in this View+ release. Actually, he ordered
and directed most of them, namely TLR (Text Line Remover).
Please read this highly inspired Smile

review, "The Phoenix of View+".
The reasons of a sudden jump from ver. 1.30 to 2.00 could be found
there too.
Author of View+ is not responsible for the views and judgements
expressed in the review Wink

2) Last but not least, ver. 2.00 contains the following improvements, too:
- Improved Hex module and, in particular, Email Viewer (re-written).
- Main View+ Toolbar can be customized via Menu>"Set toolbar" menu item.
- Added "CL Alias list" menu item to Menu>Files menu group.
- Added "Disk Info" menu item to Menu>Tools.
- "Active tasks" got new dynamic window sizing.
- Added "Count lines" to text&OPL viewer.
- Note+ speeded up and new asc/desc sort sign added to info line.
- "Drag window" can be accelerated by using Ctrl/Shift/Fn keys.
- many other visible and unvisible improvements/polishing.

3) IMPORTANT NOTE:
View+ from this version takes use of the great OPX library, MD5.opx
by Kondo Reishi. Since there is no WINS version of this library and in
order to keep View+ compatible to PC EPOC Emulator, a new View+
application engine ("engine.md5") is automatically installed.
In order that all services of this engine could be used, the user should
install provided md5opx SIS file, "md5opx_v.0.03a.sis"!
It must not be installed on the Emulator!!
All details about usage of this library are contained in Leo's review.

Also, 2.00 installation SIS file will NOT remove your old INI and DAT files!
It will overwrite only essential application dependant files!

4) Merry Xmas and a lot of happy moments with View+ in the New Year!!!
Edo

Kees vd Straten · View+ 2.1 added "Open With"

Hello,

Edo repaired a little bug in his program, but he give us something extra's

" Fixed small bug in ver. 2.00 and took an opportunity to add a feature to
"Open with". Now it is possible to assign more than one program to the
same file extension. (OSG asked for it) Wink "

You can read more about it, look here.

Push here for the download.

Kees vd Straten · View+ 2.15 Beta

Hello,

There is a new release of V+.

Here some notes from Edo and the improments of the program.

A note: Place Vcl.vcl file into View+ instalation folder. You can safely delete
VCLAlias.dat, which is replaced with this new file. If you want to keep your
old VCLAlias.dat file, just rename it to Vcl.vcl.

For impatient users here is a (uncompleted) list of improvements:

1) Zip archives
A) Batch zipping/unzipping (Sh+Ct+Z and Sh+U on selected files)
B) Sorting archive (by name, date, size)
C) New button to select all files at once
D) opening JAR files (basically Zip archives)
E) faster archive opening

2) VCL (View+ Command Line)
A) added several new params
B) VCL file_lists (.vcl) can be sorted
C) VCL file-lists (.vcl) can be viewed with Fn+Enter
D) EMX EXE files - can be used names only in command line, like UNZIP.EXE
E) BAT+ files can contain more lines of commands etc...

3) OpenWith
BAT+ files and VCL files (.vcl) can be assigned to filetypes.
Also, BAT+ files can be created, edited, saved from OpenWith Setup dialog.
OpenWith Setup dialog is opened with Shift+A now.
If file has no extension, there is a new dialog to handle it...

4) A whole new View+ sub-system added: LOG
Major actions are automatically logged. All errors too.
Log window can be opened by pressing DOT (.) from Note+ or Ct+L from VCL.
Log entries can be added, edited, searched... and a lot more via menu.

5) Big images are now opened in full screen.

6) New RENAME dialog, with letter case changing.

7) Files can be renamed on fly while pasting them.

Cool Smarter "Mimic Shell" routine - completely like system shell.

9) Faster mass operations on files, like delete, copy etc...

10) Added basic sound (record) player...

11) Ctrl+Q in Note+ behaves like System Shell and memorizes used folders for each panel separately.
Sh+Q can be now used to get/open list of all drives.

12) Hex values can be searched&replaced in Find+

13) Improved Note+ interface
Added clock and voltage (tapping it brings system date/time dialog etc...)
Disk gauge (info) added for each panel (free disk space).

14) A lot of fine tunings done in Note+ and elsewhere...
Ctrl+R on selected files brings Multi-Rename Tool.
Ctrl+P on selected files brings Multi_Attrib Tool
Text Line Remover is opened with Shift+L
New md5 checksum file-list can be created with Sh+M
Pressing MINUS ("-") lists all selected files in multi-page folder panel.

15) Fixed all known bugs like Edit and Assign Buttonbar in Note+ when V+ is first time installed etc...

Kees vd Straten

ViewPlus 2.15 is released.

In the ZIP-file you can find the "OpenWith.wrd" document of OSG.
In that document you can read how the OpenWith module works in V+.

Success with this new release.

Kees vd Straten

There is an update for View+
Read about it on the View+ forum.

Kees vd Straten

Today Edo released a 5MX version of View+.
Push here for the download. You need the 5MX OPX-files push here for the download.

View+ for 5mx / MC218 Psion machines
Version 2.16 of 17.09.2006.
-----------------------------------------------------

1) This is the first official release for 5mx / MC218 Psions.
Since View+ has been primarily designed for big color Psions, a lot of
hard decisions (read: compromises!) had to be made in order to bring
View+ to BW machines with less screen space and processing power.
Users that already tried View+ on color machines will notice that many
dialogs are changed (stripped) and some (useful?) features omitted.
Anyway, I hope to have succeeded in keeping the spirit and strength
of the original program.
New users are strongly recommended to carefully read provided
documentation (sorry - no usual help file!). Also, it is useful to visit
View+ forum to get help from experienced users:
www.viewplus.myfreeforum.org

Shortly, it's been a painfull job and I can only hope that users will
enjoy using View+ on their smaller Psions.

2) Some hotkeys in Note+ Browser (File Manager) had to be changed
due to different keyboard layout:

Switch on/off buttonbar - from Fn+2 to Shift+B
Toggle date/size - from Fn+1 to Shift+S
Show filename if too long - from Fn+3 to Shift+W

IMPORTANT:
STDLIB Library (Estlib.dll) must be instaled in your /System/Libs/ folder.
Stdlib.SIS can be found in OPXs.zip.
If you want to use IMGTRANS.EXE for image converting, just extract it to
your View+ instalation folder. It is provided in View+ instalation package!
---

Kees vd Straten

Thank you Edo for this big gift,
It works fine on my 5MX, and much faster then RMRFile

Regards,
Kees.

Kees vd Straten

There is an update for the 5MX version .

This is APP file only. Replace the existing View+.app in your View+ instalation folder with provided one.

Fixed:

1) Info window on some titlebars is now shown (Hex, Text viewer, Image viewer, etc...)

2) Changed hotkey for "Run Program" in Note+ (File Manager) from Fn+I to Shift+I
(thanks, Kees)

Kees vd Straten

IMPORTANT NOTE:

The link to bug-fix version 2.16a was wrong!
It is corrected now:

http://free-st.t-com.hr/meco/files/View+_2.16a_5mx.zip

Sorry,
Edo

Kees vd Straten

Here some screenshots from my 5MX with V+

Kees vd Straten

View+ 2.16 released.

2.16 of 25.01.2007.

1) Fixed assigning VCL file in "Open with" dialog (used to open it
in edit mode when selected, although it cannot be edited there,
like BAT+ files).

2) Added option to Note+ File Manager ("Settings">"Misc")
"Calculate free space". When Copy/Move, if this option is set,
free space on destination drive will be calculated. If file size to
copy/move is bigger than free space, a warning dialog will be
raised and operation canceled (Thanks Leo).

3) Fixed setting file's timestamp to 00:00:00 (h:m:s). Thanks Fritz Wink

4) Removed "Exit?" dialog when closing Hex view.

5) Some small bugfixes and improvements.

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View+ for nBook v. 2.17 RC1 (netBook version)

http://free-st.t-com.hr/meco/files/View+_2.17_RC1_nB.zip

Package contains only .APP file and readme file.

Code:
1) Reorganized menu items in order to make menus more intuitive and logical.
A lot of other small improvements and optimizations.
Note+ File Manager changes:
- "Enter" is now used to run files and "Fn+Enter" to view files (apply V+ viewers on files).
("Enter" opens specific View+ files: .fnd, .ren, .md5, .bat+ and .vcl)
- "Space" now toggles panels (1 or 2) and "Ctrl+W" is used for assigning/viewing notes assigned to files/folders.
- "Log viewer" can be opened both from Note+ and in transparent mode via menu item.
- "Sort" dialog in Note+ and some modules is improved - show currently used modes.
- "Compacting" files/folders process can be paused/stopped now.
- Multirename reversing (using .REN log files") is improved.
- Drives info (Shift+Q and Ctrl+Shift+I) show additionally <free space>/total space>
- Added an option to close View+ program from Note+ file manager with Ctrl+Shift+E.

Kees vd Straten

Note+ navigation keys/pen strokes

I am posting this file (EPOC Word format) so you can check it and use/correct until View+ v. 2.17 is released with built-in hotkey support - Shift+H.

http://free-st.t-com.hr/meco/files/Note+_navigator.wrd

(Use "Save link as..." from your browser to dnload it).

Kees vd Straten

A new macro for ER5. QuikText macro

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View+ 2.0

View+ 2.1 added "Open With"

View+ 2.15 Beta