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This is a port of Belle Nuit Texfilter. Its functionality is essentially the same, except the following items.
Belle Nuit Textfilter is supported on the Windows 2000 platform. Other platforms (NT,95,98,XP) may work but they are not officially supported.
Simply expand the application and drag it to your harddisk.It does not depend on any special libraries.
The application is named "textfilter.exe". Do not rename it.
Textfilter preferences are saved in the "texfilter.ini" and "textfilteropen.ini" files. Do not rename these files.
You can use the same Username and Serial number combination you use with the Macintosh-version of Belle Nuit Textfilter.
Project files are saved as ".tfp" files, but you can save them also as simple text files.You can tell Windows 2000 that it should open ".tfp" files with Textfilter when you double-click on it, using Folder Options.
Project files on the Macintosh and the Windows 2000 version use the same file format, so you can open a project in either platform. Take care to name the file with a ".tfp" extension, so that it gets recognized on the Windows 2000 platform.
Textfilter is a single document interface application. It will open a new instance of Textfilter with a menubar for every document. It is possible that you open the same project twice, but it is not recommended. For the same reason, you will not find a menu with open windows.
When you select the open project dialog, projects are not visible, when they are saved as ".text" files. Change the filetype in the dialog from "project" to "text/plain" to see them.
For the same subject, in the file dialog of the Input File filter, you can choose either to see only the text files "text/plain" or all files "any".
You cannot create new folders in the Select Folder dialog of the Input Folder, the Input Folder to File and the Output Folder filter. The workaround is to create them directly in Windows.
Because of the lack of system-wide Drag-and-Drop support there is no Floating Filter feature.
The Mac Creator and Mac Type parameter in the Output Folder filter are added only for compatibility. They are not active.
Do not hardcode the line separator in scripts. Instead of chr(13)+chr(10), use whenever possible the getnewline function.
Do not hardcode the folder separator in the Filenamescript parameter field of the Output Folder filter, use the getfolderseparator function. For example
print "myfolder:myfile.txt"
will not be platform compatible. Use
print "myfolder" + getfolderseparator + "myfile.txt"
RB Scripts does not work correctly with double and single values. For this reason, all timecode functions will work with integer instead with double. This is only a problem when you use 29.97 for NTSC fps. Use 2997 instead.
RB Scripts follow the new language extensions with class definitions defined in RealBasic 4. The documentation will be updated, when the Macintosh version will be compiled with RealBasic 4.
Textfilter was written with REALbasic http://www.realsoftware.com
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