Homepage Penguin 2.0pro

The release of version 2 of the popular web page creator Homepage Penguin written by Matthias Jaap is imminent.

Here are some of the features for you to look forward to:

  • flexible home page creation with the Penguin Navigator and the freestyle dialog
  • Colour selector with preview
  • Font selection
  • new dialog: horizontal rules
  • Bubble GEM help: A right mouse click on an object and a bubble with a help text pops up. Bubble GEM is a seperate program and only runs in a multitasking environment. The help text can also be displayed without BubbleGEM.
  • Drag & Drop support: o.s. which support D&D are able to send a file name to a Penguin dialog. Just drag an object (e.g. the CAB URL button) to a Penguin dialog and drop it there. Drag & Drop is currently only supported by two dialogs: "Links" and "Images".
  • CAB protocol: You can visit internet sites directly from the Penguin!
  • Penguin protocol: Support for Plug-ins
  • Background music including sound options
  • Font attributes (bold, italic...)
  • detailed (coloured) hyper text
  • a help page for every dialog
  • language detection for all Atari computers!
  • support for "watermark" background images
  • Pictures can be resized in their width and/or their height.
  • PNG images are recognized in their size.
  • Grow-/Shrinkboxes are drawn - the only reason are the excellent Spinboxes of Stewart (utility for MagiC)
  • The author name will be also used in the tag (important for WWW search engines)
  • Support for Meta information
  • MagiC and Geneva/MultiTOS/TOS 4.x 3D look partly supported
  • Rainbow colours for headings
  • The recognition of paragraphs works even if the line contains only spaces.
  • No limit for the text length
  • 1st Guide is used to view JPEG and PNG images. The main advantage of the program is that it is small and easy to use.
  • support for the smallest possible heading size
  • HomePage Penguin is now an OLGA client, too - although only partly.
  • Popups replaced some of the listboxes
  • HTML preview even with single TOS: Install HP-Penguin as an accessory and start CAB. Every time the page is saved, CAB displays it.
  • GEMjing support
  • long filenames
  • userdefined modes
  • save path can be changed after the first save operation (hold <Alternate> and the file selector appears again)
  • language can also be changed with an alert box
  • Available in: English, German, Swedish, Spanish and French.

There is a support page which is currently only in German. An English translation is due shortly. Point your browser at:

http://www.hh.schule.de/hhs/mjaap/hpp.htm