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<title>The ActiveMirrorControl Handbook</title>

<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>George</firstname>
<othername>N.</othername>
<surname>Ugnacious</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>gnu@kde.org</email></address>
</affiliation>
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<copyright>
<year>1999</year>
<year>2000</year>
<holder>George N. Ugnacious</holder>
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<releaseinfo>1.01.00</releaseinfo>

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<para>
&activemirrorcontrol; is an application specially designed to do nothing you would
ever want.
</para>
</abstract>

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<keyword>ActiveMirrorControl</keyword>
<keyword>nothing</keyword>
<keyword>nothing else</keyword>
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<title>Introduction</title>

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<para>
&activemirrorcontrol; is a program that lets you do absolutely nothing. Please report
any problems or feature requests to the KDE mailing lists.
</para>
</chapter>

<chapter id="using-activemirrorcontrol">
<title>Using ActiveMirrorControl</title>

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<screeninfo>Here's a screenshot of &activemirrorcontrol;</screeninfo>
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</para>


<sect1 id="activemirrorcontrol-features">
<title>More ActiveMirrorControl features</title>

<para>It slices! It dices! and it comes with a free toaster!</para>
<para>
The Squiggle Tool <guiicon><inlinemediaobject>
          <imageobject>
            <imagedata fileref="squiggle.png" format="PNG">
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            <imagedata fileref="squiggle.eps" format="EPS">
          </imageobject>
          <textobject>
            <phrase>Squiggle</phrase>
          </textobject>
</inlinemediaobject></guiicon> is used to draw squiggly lines all over
the &activemirrorcontrol; main window. It's not a bug, it's a feature!
</para>

</sect1>
</chapter>

<chapter id="commands">
<title>Command Reference</title>

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<sect1 id="activemirrorcontrol-mainwindow">
<title>The main ActiveMirrorControl window</title>
<para></para>

<sect2>
<title>The File Menu</title>
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>n</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>New</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Creates a new document</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>s</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Save</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Saves the document</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>q</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Quit</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Quits</action> &activemirrorcontrol;</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>

</sect2>

</sect1>
</chapter>

<chapter id="developers">
<title>Developer's Guide to ActiveMirrorControl</title>

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Programming &activemirrorcontrol; plugins is a joy to behold. Just read through the next
66 pages of API's to learn how!
</para>

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<refpurpose>remove a list of children from a parent widget's managed list.
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<date>4 March 1996</date>
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void XtUnmanageChildren(<replaceable parameter>children</replaceable>, <replaceable parameter>num_children</replaceable>)
    WidgetList <replaceable parameter>children</replaceable>;
    Cardinal <replaceable parameter>num_children</replaceable>;
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<title>Inputs</title>
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<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable parameter>children</replaceable>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies an array of child widgets. Each child must be of
class RectObj or any subclass thereof.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable parameter>num_children</replaceable>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies the number of elements in <replaceable parameter>children</replaceable>.
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<title>Description
</title>
<para><function>XtUnmanageChildren()</function> unmaps the specified widgets
and removes them from their parent's geometry management.
The widgets will disappear from the screen, and (depending
on its parent) may no longer have screen space allocated for
them.
</para>
<para>Each of the widgets in the <replaceable parameter>children</replaceable> array must have
the same parent.
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<para>See the &ldquo;Algorithm&rdquo; section below for full details of the
widget unmanagement procedure.
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<refsect1 id="r1-1007-unmanagechildren-2">
<title>Usage</title>
<para>Unmanaging widgets is the usual method for temporarily
making them invisible.  They can be re-managed with
<function>XtManageChildren()</function>.
</para>
<para>You can unmap a widget, but leave it under geometry
management by calling <function>XtUnmapWidget()</function>.  You can
destroy a widget's window without destroying the widget by
calling <function>XtUnrealizeWidget()</function>.  You can destroy a
widget completely with <function>XtDestroyWidget()</function>.
</para>
<para>If you are only going to unmanage a single widget, it is
more convenient to call <function>XtUnmanageChild()</function>.  It is
often more convenient to call <function>XtUnmanageChild()</function>
several times than it is to declare and initialize an array
of widgets to pass to <function>XtUnmanageChildren()</function>.  Calling
<function>XtUnmanageChildren()</function> is more efficient, however,
because it only calls the parent's <function>change_managed()</function>
method once.
</para>
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<title>Algorithm
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<para><function>XtUnmanageChildren()</function> performs the following:
</para>
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<term>-
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<para>Ignores the child if it already is unmanaged or is being
destroyed.
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<term>-
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Otherwise, if the child is realized, it makes it nonvisible
by unmapping it.
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</listitem>
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</variablelist>
<para>
</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="r1-1007-unmanagechildren-4">
<title>Structures</title>
<para>The <type>WidgetList</type> type is simply an array of widgets:
</para>
<screen id="sc-1007-unmanagechildren-1">typedef Widget *WidgetList;
</screen>
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</chapter>

<chapter id="faq">
<title>Questions and Answers</title>

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<qandaset id="faqlist">
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>My Mouse doesn't work. How do I quit &activemirrorcontrol;?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>You silly goose! Check out the <link linkend="commands">Commands
Section</link> for the answer.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>Why can't I twiddle my documents?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>You can only twiddle your documents if you have the foobar.lib
installed.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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<title>Credits and License</title>

<para>
&activemirrorcontrol;
</para>
<para>
Program copyright 1997 John Q. Hacker <email>jqh@kde.org</email>
</para>
<para>
Contributors:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Konqui the KDE Dragon <email>konqui@kde.org</email></para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Tux the Linux Penguin <email>tux@linux.org</email></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>

<para>
Documentation copyright 1999 George N. Ugnacious <email>gnu@kde.org</email>
</para>
<para>
Translations done by:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Babel D. Fish <email>babelfish@kde.org</email> (Sanskrit)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>

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</chapter>

<appendix id="installation">
<title>Installation</title>

<sect1 id="getting-activemirrorcontrol">
<title>How to obtain ActiveMirrorControl</title>

<para>
&activemirrorcontrol; is part of the KDE project
<ulink url="http://www.kde.org">http://www.kde.org</ulink>.
&activemirrorcontrol; can be found in the kdeutils package on
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/">ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/</ulink>, the
main ftp site of the KDE project. </para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="requirements">
<title>Requirements</title>

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In order to successfully use &activemirrorcontrol;, you need KDE 1.1. Foobar.lib is required
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memory to run, but this may vary depending on your platform and
configuration.
</para>

<para>
All required libraries as well as &activemirrorcontrol; itself can be found
on <ulink url="ftp://ftp.activemirrorcontrol.org">The &activemirrorcontrol; home page</ulink>.
</para>

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<para>
You can find a list of changes at <ulink
url="http://apps.kde.org/activemirrorcontrol">http://apps.kde.org/activemirrorcontrol</ulink>.
</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="compilation">
<title>Compilation and installation</title>

<para>
In order to compile and install KApp on your system, type the following in the base
directory of the Icon Editor distribution:
<screen width="40">
<prompt>%</prompt> <userinput>./configure</userinput>
<prompt>%</prompt> <userinput>make</userinput>
<prompt>%</prompt> <userinput>make install</userinput>
</screen>
</para>

<para>Since KApp uses autoconf and automake you should have not trouble compiling it.
Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists.</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="configuration">
<title>Configuration</title>

<para>Don't forget to tell your system to start the <filename>dtd</filename>
dicer-toaster daemon first, or KApp won't work !</para>

</sect1>

</appendix>

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