[OS X TeX] Flashmode 1.1.1

[Claus Gerhardt]

I added buttons for the five Flashmode applications to the panel. If 
you don't see the buttons for 'Flashmode-one' to 'Flashmode-alt' just 
update. Sorry for the inconvience, I hope you don't mind.

Claus

On Dec 12, 2004, at 19:56, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> A new application 'Flashmode-Scripts' has been added to the 
> distribution, that will display all Flashmode scripts as well as most 
> scripts in TeX-Scripts-BBEdit, so that the scripts can be run by the 
> push of a button.
>
> Claus
>
> On Dec 12, 2004, at 13:53, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
>
>> Flashmode 1.1.1 is out. It can be downloaded from
>> http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/studinfo/gerhardt/tex/
>>
>> Claus
>>
>> Version 1.1.1:
>> - All Flashmode applications and the support files are contained in a 
>> folder 'Flashmode' that has to  be installed in '~/Library'.
>> - There are five Flashmode applications, Flashmode-one to -four, and 
>> Flashmode-alt. They now configured as plain applications not as 
>> applications bundles. They are contained in Flashmode/Applications 
>> and I would recommend to leave them there, installing their icons in 
>> the Dock; but of course they could be installed anywhere.
>> - The binaries, 'flashmode-one', etc.,  are stored in Flashmode/bin; 
>> the settings files, where the resp. interval length is defined, are 
>> in Flashmode/Preferences.
>> - The folder Applescripts contains some useful scripts 'pdflatexc', 
>> 'sync', and an addition a script for making the files and 
>> applications in 'bin' resp. 'Applications' executable, should this 
>> ever be necessary.
>> - Each Flashmode applications should be started manually and they 
>> could also be quitted manually, though issuing the 'quit' command via 
>> the Applescript 'flashmode-quit' is the preferred way, since one 
>> might not know which application is controlling a particular 
>> document, 'flashmode-quit' does.
>> - When a Flashmode application starts, it first checks, if the 
>> document is already controlled by another copy, if so, it will beep 
>> and quit, otherwise, it will save a protocol file, a 
>> 'basename.flashmode' file in the directory of the tex document, which 
>> contains the copy's name. In the unlikely event that Flashmode will 
>> hang, one may not know which copy is involved, but one will certainly 
>> know which document is affected. After reading its protocol file one 
>> can kill the specific Flashmode copy with the help of the Activity 
>> Monitor.
>> When Flashmode quits, it will remove the protocol file; 
>> 'flashmode-quit' will do it as well.
>> - The 'quit' commands via Applescript are piped to five small 
>> applications 'flashmode-one-quit-trigger', etc.. In case you move the 
>> Flashmode applications to a different folder it might happen that the 
>> OS doesn't know where the targets of the triggers are located and it 
>> will offer a dialogue browser. If anything fails you could use the 
>> corresponding scripts, located in 'Scripts', and save them again as 
>> run applications in /Flashmode/Applications.
>> - Flashmode now first typesets each controlled document at start up 
>> to ensure that a pdf file exists.
>> - There are no debugging copies anymore.
>> - The Applescripts have been slightly rewritten and some have been 
>> improved.
>> - It is recommended to remove the old Flashmode copies completely 
>> from your hard disk before working with the new ones.
>>
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