[Virtualacorn-list] VA Windows Controller

[Bernard Boase]

On 15 Mar, David Pitt <pittdj at pittdj.co.uk> wrote:

> Bernard Boase <b.boase at bcs.org> wrote:

>> In the VA forum, Aaron wrote about *HostOpen and VirtualAcorn Windows
>> Controller, a RISC OS program. See his post of 20-Mar-2008 at:
>> 
>>
> http://www.virtualacorn.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=372&st=0&sk=t&
> sd=a&start=0
>> 
>> in which he said:
>> 
>>> *using the HostOpen command - with a keyboard controlled front end
>>> called the "VirtualAcorn Windows Controller". If you check the RISC OS
>>> Task Manger you may find the VirtualAcorn Windows Controller running. If
>>> so then ALT double clicking on a filetype known to Windows (JPEG, HTML,
>>> Text etc) will load this file into the appropriate Windows application.
>> 
>> I use VRPC-AdjustSA but cannot find this program anywhere. It looks handy.
>> Where can it be obtained?
>> 
> VirtualAcorn Windows Controller is WinCtrl should be in
> Choices.Default.Boot.Tasks in the Windows version of VRPC-AdjustSA.

> The command *hostopen is provided by the HostFS module.

Interesting. My Choices.Default.Boot.Tasks is empty, and a search in 
!Boot for an object called WinCtrl finds nowt.

But wait ... here's a backup directory $.BootNnnnn which must have 
been created on upgrading to Select. It contains several things which 
I obviously should have copied over at the time, including, I'm 
pleased to report, the Absolute WinCtrl which, after execution, causes 
Alt-Gr-dclick-Select to act as described by Aaron. And "VA Windows 
Controller" now appears in Task Manager's list of Tasks.

Many thanks,

-- 
Bernard