Help on Load v1.1
Load for Windoze

Load v1.1 for Microsoft Windoze is a rough copy of X Load for X Windows.

Load Features :

- Graphic display of load
- Primitive sheduling facility
- Rare window management facilities
- Unusual system control functions

Load v1.1 is freeware, meaning that it is our intellectual property, however you are permitted to use is and we do not require you to pay for this version (nor is anyone else permitted to demand payment for it). But if you are prepared to use this program, you have to accept that WE will not accept any responsibility for what this program does to you, your computer or your goldfish.

Okay, we are certain we need not spell these conditions out to you, but there seem to be some vicious lawyer types out there who just can not do without, so, here goes :

THE CREATOR(S) OF LOAD DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL WE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED BY THIS PROGRAM, ITS USE OR ITS USERS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PECUNIARY DAMAGE!

Well, now that we have convinced you that you can not make any money out of this program (even through lawsuites), we can get down to the interesting bits.

We wrote this program because we felt that windows lacked some important features (the understatement of the decade), such as killing irresponsible (or even unresponsive) windows. This is the result a couple of days effort, writing the program with borland c++.

The program is controlled through modifying the Load.ini file, no snazzy dialog box here, it would just make the program fat. For the same reason load does not save its own client area(what would be the point?).

For a description of the features, select one of these topics :

Menu Items

Default Load.ini Entries

Optional Load.ini Entries

Note that the load displayed is scaled relative to the biggest and smallest load which has run, thus the measure is not absolute.
Oh yes, our final gripe - We like help files to be as linear as possible, a user should be able to read through it and say : "Now I have read everything", instead of getting stuck in an endless loop.
Regards


X windows, is in our opinion, the best GUI we have come across, it is functional, powerful, not controlled by a single company, supported on serveral platforms and nice to write apps for ....

If YOU want to give X Windows  a try then try setting up LINUX on your sysytem, LINUX is free, less prone to crash, truly multitasking, networks beautifully and POSIX compliant - what more do you want ?


as in COPYRIGHT, our  work and at least some of our own ideas


Mail Bomb the people who do - you have our (moral) support (only).
A reasonable fee may however be charged for the storage media or download time by BBS operators and the like.
It should also be noted that this archive should not be modified (as in deleting stuff)


Hamster, Lover, File Server, Employer, Dog, Wife, Husband, Cat, Pony, Rabbit, Phython, Bonsai, Modem, Printer, House, Chair, Tape, Internet Link, Mail Service, Favourite Application, Pizza or anything else and any combinations thereof ...


as in $@#! (insert your favourite curse) and any-other-insult-you-can-think-of


Well, what is the difference between a lawyer and a vulture ?

Or even, why don't sharks attack lawyers ?


You've guessed it - The feathers.


Professional Curtesy.


We DO mean this !


Yes C, a real (possibly the best)  programming language. To all those so-called VB "programmers" (library kludgers) - go and

Blow yourselves one BIG Raspberry !

And those who try passing off their VB shitware as shareware, GOTO line 2, you are hurting the image of the shareware profession more than you could possibly imagine. (Hey we could have made this shareware and asked our measly $15 - but if your programs are teeny weeny applications you might aswell give them away).


Load.exe creates it in your windows directory - feel free to edit it, but keep in mind that it will NOT accept True, Yes, False or No at the options with 1 or 0.
Heck - if many people post to the mswindows newsgroups with complaints (or even suggestions and encouragement), We might change that, IF we happen to read them, still have our Internet access and have some time to kill ...


Yes, the programs (like many once popular ones) get filled with all these "user-friendly" add-ons which make the thing desperately slow and turn it into some memory feeding, disk-space-chomping monster with a negative use index.

Have a look at UNIX, there people did not fall into that trap - and that is why their clued up users get their work done, while we ... zzzz.......zzzzzzz

fat programs = user massively challenged


A small program running under X Windows, it has inspired this program


Well - think about it - a user who runs LOAD is obviously interested in keeping the system running as well as possible - so LOAD itself should not allocate huge chunks of memory, load up big libraries (DLL's) or create "custom" dialog boxes.


Menu Items

Load has only one menu (system menu). Many of its features can be disabled - the optional load entries describe that in more detail.

Help

Loads up this file

About...

Credits, but also displays the free memory, system resources, time for which the system has been running, date, time and number of tasks.

Restart Windows

Restarts Windows (good for freeing up lost memory).

Reboot System

Same effect as <ctrl alt del> but faster.

Kill Window

Zaps window if you click on it, apart from being quite useful, it is also great fun zapping the buttons off a sexy application. Please note that some applications, like some people, tend to get upset about this - so use with caution. To kill an entire application, drop the bomb onto its top frame. The hotspot for the bomb is at the base of the fuse.
Load refused to kill itself or the desktop window, so to deactivate the bomb left click on the load client area.

Hide Window

Makes window vanish. As yet load can not bring them back. The hotspot of the magic wand is at its top.

Lower Window

Pushes window to bottom of Z-order.

Arrange Icons

Parades your icons.

Startup Screen...

An option added especially for Yuval.
Allows user to specify a new startup screen - this option works only for VGA screens, and the RLE file needs to be smaller than 64 kBytes, have less than 16 colours and be of 640x480 resolution or lower.
A backup copy of the old win.com is created (called win.c01).

Screen Saver

Activates Screen Saver

Read these two sections to learn about the more advanced features of load :

Default Load.ini Entries

Optional Load.ini Entries


Default Load.ini Entries

These are automatically generated, but can also be edited manually.

X-Postion

Specifies X location

Y-Position

Specifies Y location

Width

Specifies Width

Height

Specifies Height

Red-Foreground, Green-Foreground, Blue-Foreground

Specify the RGB components of foreground colour (0-255)

MakeUnResizeable

The following values are supported
0 	all decorations enabled (load does not have a maximize button)
1	no minimize button
2	no frame
3	no menu
4	runs hidden (The magic wand has no effect on it)
6
7

UpdateConfiguration

can be ignored	(set to 0)

StickOnTop

nails Load on top of stack

EnableExtenedMenu

if set allows use of Kill, Reboot section of menu.

WarpMouse

A really nice feature, the mouse wraps around the monitor bounds, the delay is dependant on Sample Rate.
What, you have not discovered it!? Is load running? Well move the mouse to the edge of you screen and ...

SampleRate

Update rate of window in ms (1000ms=1s=good value)

Note that some screen savers have trouble running with the StickOnTop and/or the WarpMouse Feature enabled.


Optional Load.ini Entries

These are not automatically generated by the application, but have to be inserted manually.
Attention Pranksters, these options have spectacular possibilities :

[Configuration] Entries

WarpSensitivity

Defaults to 3. It specifies the margin in which the mouse warps. Values of 0 or 1 are not recommended. (Jokers - how about setting it to a value of 100?)

MenuItemX=Y
AliasX=Z

Adds an additional Menu item with name Z to the System Menu of Load, if Z is selected then program Y is run. X can be in the range from 0 to 4. Entries higher than a nonexistant entry are ignored - ie you have to start with :
MenuItem0=c:myprogram
Alias0=myapp

[Tasks] Entries

Run

Runs the specified program normally - full path and extension have to be supplied.

Load

Runs the specified program minimized.

RunDelayed=x
TimeDelay=y

These two options (specified on separate lines) run program x y ms after load is started.

RunPeriodically=x
TimePeriod=y

These options run program x every y ms.

RunExit

Runs a program when load is closed (can be used to make load immortal - by invoking itself).

RunWindowsFor=x
WindowsRestartFlag=y

Runs windows for x ms, if y is 1 then windows is restarted, if y is 0 then system is rebooted (Now this option has possibilities!).

RunAsShell

If set, then load installs itself as primary shell by modifying the shell entry in the system.ini file. It also runs the old shell. (Note that this is the ony modification to the system files, load v1.1 does not touch the win.ini file.