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From: don@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Initial setup query
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Date: 26 Mar 88 09:27:32 GMT
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I use the journalling facility in NeWS 1.1 to set up my screen.  The
last thing my user.ps file does is to invoke a journal file called
"hello".

systemdict /Journal known not { (NeWS/journal.ps) run } if

/playdemo { % playbackfilename => -
  Journal begin
    State /Stopped eq {
      { PlaybackFile
	/PlaybackFile 3 -1 roll def
        newprocessgroup
        framebuffer setcanvas
        journalplay
	/PlaybackFile exch def
      } fork pop
    } if
    pop
  end 
} def

(hello) playdemo

You can journal keystrokes as well as mouse events! But I had to set
my autorepeat threshold higher to avoid prrrrrrroblems when the
journal file gets played back more slowly than it was recorded. (It
journals key down and up events. An option to journal just the
translated ASCII events would be useful.)

% Set key repeat 
UserProfile begin
    /KeyRepeatThresh	1 60 div .8 mul userdefault
    /KeyRepeatTime	1 60 div 10 div userdefault
end

My "hello" journal file starts a console window, runs a psh in it,
starts the debugger, iconifies it, and runs several remote terminal
window and other programs from various menus, set up in my user.ps. 

I go visit the Coke machine while it's warming up.

	-Don