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1) How do I "Rebuild my Executable"
2) How do I disable Smooth Scrolling at startup?
3) How do I change the default font size?
4) Why doesn't ‘TermHire’ work?
5) Why aren't there more FAQ's?
6) How do I get Smoother Scrolling?
7) Why is the sky blue?
8) So why is the sunset Yellow?
9) And the Green flash? What's with that?
10) Why is the HTML viewer so slow/lame/etc?
11) What happened to Folding?
12) Does Yate Support Printing?
13) When will Yate have 'XYZZZY' feature?
14) What are you working on now?
15) Is YATE+YAK Y2K compliant?

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1) How do I "Rebuild my Executable"
		Launch Terminal
		cd to the Source folder of Yate:
	$ cd Yate97/Source
		type "make"
	There should now be a new copy of the YATE
	executable, called "yate" in the Source directory.
	You may want to remove the previous copy
	in the Yate97 directory to avoid problems with
	MimeTypes.


2) How do I disable Smooth Scrolling at startup?
	Go to BMapView.cpp, and in the BMapView::BMapView() constructor, change:
		sscroll=TRUE;
	to
		sscroll=FALSE;


3) How do I change the default font size?
	Go to BMapView.cpp, and in the:
	BMapView::BMapView()    (constructor)
	there is a line which reads:

		myfont.SetSize(mysh);

	By changing the mysh variable, you can change
	the font size for new windows.


4) Why doesn't ‘TermHire’ work?
	In order for TermHire to work correctly, you must first
	install TermHire.

	TermHire is available at:
	ftp://ftp.be.com/pub/contrib/add-ons/Tracker


5) Why aren't there more FAQ's?
	Because I'm lazy :-)


6) How do I get Smoother Scrolling?
	The smoothness of scrolling varies greatly from
	one machine to another. You can try some
	of the following to improve performance:

		• Turn it off from the “Window” Menu.
		• Get an accelerated video card driver that
				supports bitblt.
		• Get a faster video card.
		• Make your Window smaller.
		• Change to a smaller Screen Resolution.
		• Change to a lower Bit Depth.
		• Only have one view of each Document.
		• Close some background apps.

	Thanks to Maple (a symbolic algebra package)
	The actual speed of scrolling does not depend
	on the frame rate.  However, you may
	experience jerks and stutters, especially when
	scrolling sideways.

	Yate97 has *NOT* been optimised for the
	non-smooth scrolling case.
	Your Mileage May Vary - especially under
	heavy system loads.

7) Why is the sky blue?
	Well, light is refracted differently through
	the atmosphere depending on wavelength.
	It turns out that the lower the wavelength
	of the light, the more likely it is to deflect
	from an air particle as it heads towards the
	ground.  Blue light (that with lower wave
	length) is much more likely to be deflected
	from a straight path, and so it is more likely
	to be bounced onto our retina.

8) So why is the sunset Yellow?
	In the late afternoon, rays from the sun
	pass considerably further through the
	atmosphere as they hit the earth at an
	extreme angle.  Thus most of the blue light
	has already been deflected by the time the
	rays reach near enough to you for their
	bouncing to be visible.  Because light is an
	Additive colour system, by removing blue
	we are left with red and green which make
	the familiar yellow sunset colour.

9) And the Green flash? What's with that?
	Ahh - That has to do with layers of air that
	have different temperature, such layers are
	common as the water (in the ocean) cools
	down after the sun has set.  The interface
	between such layers acts as a lens which
	can `bend' the light before it reaches you.
	For the briefest of moments, it sometimes
	occurs that a ridge of air can refract the
	light coming from beyond the horizon in
	just such a way that only a small band of
	light reaches your eyes.  As everyone
	knows, the retina has the highest acuity
	for colours in the green spectrum which
	explains why they are observed so much
	more frequently than red or blue flashes.
		(Which BTW have also been reported.)

10) Why is the HTML viewer so slow/lame/etc?
	This is only a proof-of-concept HTML viewer.
	The intended method of displaying HTML
	will be much faster and largely insensitve to
	file size.
	(∆ and probably in the far distant future.)

11) What happened to Folding?
	Folding as it was implemented in Yate94 was
	basically a proof of concept hack.  Luckily,
	the technology behind an HTML viewer is
	similar to that for Folding.  Expect Folding to
	make a come back soonish and be much
	improved.


12) Does Yate Support Printing?
	No.
	I don't have a supported Printer.
	I hear rumours of an Epson printer driver in
	development, and I have access to such a 
	printer, so there should be some sort of support
	after the driver's release.

13) When will Yate have 'XYZZZY' feature?
	Just as soon as you EMail me.
	If there's a feature you want, I can probably
	add it in less than a week and send you
	back a custom version.
	(Thanks to those sending me feedback and 
	tracking down bugs!)

14) What are you working on now?
	Ahh… well that's confidential, but I can say
	It's 3D, has more style than this text-editor,
	and is coming to a BeOS machine near you…

15) Is YATE+YAK Y2K compliant?
	Yes.
	
	
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Be Brave,
Chris Blackbourn
blakatz@ihug.co.nz
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/1783
