THE PROWESS CONFIGURATOR

This program can be used to edit the Prowess and Proforma Configuration files.

First select whether you want to edit a Prowess or Proforma configuration file, by hitting 'P' - that switches between Proforma and Prowess as is shown in the menu.

Now give the program the filename of the configuration file, either by hitting the filename item, and then editing it, or by doing the filename item and selecting the filename from the standard file selector. The file must have the line "% configuration file for ProWesS" as its very first line if it is a Prowess file, or "; PROforma, PROGS Font & Raster Manager, fontmap config file" if it is a Proforma file, else it will not be recognized as a valid Configuration file, and the program refuses to load it.

Every line in the file -including comments- is displayed. You can edit each line in turn, except for empty lines. As soon as you have edited a line, this is passed on the the Prowess or Proforma internal configurator, for the change to take effect immediately. You can also save the file back, overwriting the older file without any sort of confirmation request.

If you want to get rid of an option altogether, the best way to achieve this is to add a semicolon in front: This will keep the option in the file for future use, but, it will not be executed by the Prowess or Proforma configurators.

You cannot edit empty lines.

The "Add" item lets you add a new line to the file. There cannot be more than 200 lines.

This program was written with the Prowess SBasic Interface, and then compiled with QLiberator. There are two versions of this program: one with the QLiberator runtimes included, one without.


W. Lenerz Last edited on 1996 Jun 06 22:30:41