Name of Impression

Does anyone on here have a working installation of Impression? I would like to know what name it declares when registering with the Wimp, i.e. what name does it go by in the Task Manager display. I am hoping it is just “Impression” and that it doesn’t vary according to version, e.g. Impression Style, Impression Junior, Impression Publisher, etc.

I would also like to know what the window title is for an Impression document that has been loaded from disc. Does it just show the filename, without the path to it? Is there any other text in the title bar of the window? (I am guessing it will add an asterisk once the file has been edited.)

This is so that I can improve mail-merging from Impact. At the moment Impact has no way of telling whether the Impression document, which the user may have opened via Impact’s mail merge dialogue, has subsequently been closed. It would be good to make this a bit more intelligent.

Style says “Impression Style” in the Task Manager in my rather old version 3.04 running inside RPCEmu/RISC OS 4.02 (basically a copy of my Risc PC installation).

Title bar shows just the leaf of the document filename with the current display Zoom added, e.g. “MyImpDoc at 80%”. Asterisk added at the end if unsaved changes exist.

Your hope is dashed.

Style says ‘Impression Style’; Impression-X says ‘Impression-X’; Publisher says ‘Impression Publisher’ and Impression Publisher Plus says ‘Publisher Plus’ in the task window display.

All of them show an empty document window with a title ‘Untitled[n] at 100%’ or a populated one with ‘leafname at 100%’ – the maximum leafname is ten characters in earlier versions and 14 or 15 characters in Impression-X (I think). An asterisk is added if it is amended.

I have a printed and updated User Manual for Impression available at the very cheap price of £29, which comes with a download link for a free copy of Impression Publisher Plus which represents extremely good value for money. It will be on sale at Wakefield-in-Bradford at the post free price of £25.

I’m assuming that CC correctly registered the app names? If so, why not look them up from a list of known names?

“Impression”, “Impression Pro”, “Impression Style”, “Impression Junior II”, “Impression-X”, “Impression Publisher”, “Publisher Plus”.

Poking around in the binary, it looks like the available version of Impression Junior (released by CC once upon a time) identifies itself as “Impression” (what’s being passed to Wimp_Initialise).

There was also Impression II way back when. Not sure how that would identify itself, it never made the transition from the 26 bit equipment.

Certainly, it might suffice to look for either “Impression” or “Publisher” in the string; as you’ll then be tying that to a window with some sort of known text in the title, so false positives shouldn’t be an issue.

All of them show an empty document window with a title ‘Untitled[n] at 100%’

The default zoom factor might not be 100% because it is configurable in the icon bar Choices, as is the default zoom for the display of Master Pages.

I’m assuming that CC correctly registered the app names? If so, why not look them up from a list of known names?

Has the list of registered application names been published?

Thanks to everyone for the help.

It is my understanding that the registered name are not published because they might contain commercially sensitive information.

Oh, and before anybody comes up with “how can we know, then, what the possible application, module, names/paths that have been already used”, the answer is simple. You have registered yours, right? That’s how you know. Registration successful, or not.

https://www.riscosopen.org/content/allocate

OK, that’s as I thought. The list of registered application names is not public. And yest, I have registered mine.

I misunderstood this bit of what you said to mean that you had looked up the various names in a registered list somewhere.

I’m assuming that CC correctly registered the app names? If so, why not look them up from a list of known names?

“Impression”, “Impression Pro”, “Impression Style”, “Impression Junior II”, “Impression-X”, “Impression Publisher”, “Publisher Plus”.

So where did you get the above names from?

Or were you suggesting that I could try registering them to see if they were already taken? (Because if they were, those would be the versions CC had used.)

I think it was more “these are the names used by CC, so assuming that they’re registered it’s safe to use them in a lookup because nobody else will be able to use them”.

Ah, that makes sense!