QuickVoy

Version 0.39 - 9th May 2001

QuickVoy offers the following facilities:

Dialler, which behaves in a way similar to !Voyager's dialler.
Six user-definable icons which can perform two functions AND watch a file.
The default is laid out like the standard Voyager toolbar, with WebLoad added.
Adjust-Browse loads FrescoJS and Adjust-News loads NewsAgent without debatch. Email and News darken if unread email/news exists. These actions can be modified, or applied to other icons.
Quickly open incoming/outgoing mail/news.
Call timer and basic call coster, which beeps at £ boundaries.
Also tells you which charge band is being used.
Run other VIX(EN) from a pop-up menu.
Phone bill creator.
Interfaces with Christina West's CountDown (recommended!).
Web cache lister (this uses additional memory, claimed and released as needed).
The cache scanning code is now a third faster, the core scanner having been recoded in assembler.
Quit-and-resume.
Will also resume sessions dropped by other diallers (refer to !Help for more information).
Highly configurable - script-based configuration system with events.
Timed event and disconnection event.
QuickVoy_Message (&51C44) - see the documentation supplied.
Now tells you information on your user settings
(this functionality replaces my !VoyInfo software).
An interesting (?) animated 'splash' window.
Mailbox watcher.
Hotlist tidyer.
Now uses dynamic areas, if available.
JPEG viewer. Simply drag a JPEG to QuickVoy to see it. Rendered in colour in 256 colour modes, or in monochrome in other modes.
As it uses the JPEG facilities in SpriteExtend, it is fast and good. Refer to the !Help file for a comparison against !FYEO2 and !ChangeFSI.
Can now cope with progressive JPEGs if you have the jpegtrans utility available.
Can now save what you see on-screen...
Can now use !ChangeFSI to view all sorts of images!
QuickMail - a small and simple email client, for those times when you don't want to load Posty (or Pluto/Messenger).
Basic web fetcher, so you can fetch stuff from the web without going to the trouble of loading a browser.
Point'n'click setup utility.
And one more thing...
ONLY REQUIRES 128K OF MEMORY!

Unsure? Then read the !Help file (84K).
As far as documentation goes, it is verbosely detailed and very descriptive.
(hasn't changed much since this version)

For techies, here is the Versions file (42K).

AMAZING!

QuickVoy is now supplemented by a smaller version which has had many of the extended features removed, so that the coreapplication fits into only 32K of memory!!!
The script-based events, user-definable icons, Wimp messages, CountDown support, and some other bits are retained.
A smaller version just isn't possible!

New in this version...

Repaired error with QuickMail when using Emily's paths.
URL scheme handler fixed. QuickVoy no longer crashes and burns if you give it an unusual URL, like "telnet://".
The alternative (file-linked) mailto message handler has been improved.
It seems Fresco /can/ use this one without actually including a linked file. Odd...
New configuration keyword in the General section. The keyword is "nologerror", and if present the warning about your log file being over 128K will be suppressed. Note, this takes no parameters. Either it exists or it doesn't.

Software status:

  Software name        : QuickVoy
  Latest version       : 0.39 (and 0.16b)

  Archive size         : 246287 bytes
  Classification       : late Beta
  Registration cost    : -

  RISC OS 2 compatible : No
  RISC OS 3 compatible : Yes
  WIMP 3.98 compatible : Yes
  RISC OS 4 compatible : Expected to be

  Written in           : BASIC/assembler
                         Utilities in BASIC, assembler, or C
                         (in various combinations!)
  Libraries            : n/a

QuickVoy downloads

quickvoy.zip (241K) Version 0.39
09/05/2001 QuickVoy v0.39 release.
A partial upgrade is not available.

qvunsup.zip (7K) -
24/04/2000 A totally unsupported extension to QuickVoy that you might find useful. Please note, this is pretty much a techies-only upgrade. If you don't know what a primary DNS address is, or why you need such a thing, this isn't for you...

Link to JTrans site -
n/a If you wish to use the progressive JPEG handling, you will need a smallish utility called "jpegtran" installed into your library directory.
Follow this link and download !JPEGTrans.
Then, take the jpegtran conversion program (in the !JPEGTrans.Jpeg directory) and copy it into your library directory (probably !Boot.Library).

This software requires RISC OS running on the ARM chipset
If your computer is different, don't bother downloading this software!

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QuickVoy downloads
quickvoy.zip (241K)	Version 0.39 09/05/2001	QuickVoy v0.39 release. A partial upgrade is not available.
qvunsup.zip (7K)	- 24/04/2000	A totally unsupported extension to QuickVoy that you might find useful. Please note, this is pretty much a techies-only upgrade. If you don't know what a primary DNS address is, or why you need such a thing, this isn't for you...
Link to JTrans site	- n/a	If you wish to use the progressive JPEG handling, you will need a smallish utility called "jpegtran" installed into your library directory. Follow this link and download !JPEGTrans. Then, take the jpegtran conversion program (in the !JPEGTrans.Jpeg directory) and copy it into your library directory (probably !Boot.Library).
This software requires RISC OS running on the ARM chipset If your computer is different, don't bother downloading this software!