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HOT SPOT Version 1.0
INTRODUCTION
Hot Spot lets you quickly launch your most often-used
programs from the Hot Spot icon's system menu. Launching
your program from Hot Spot takes less time than restoring
Program Manager and the appropriate group from their icons.
USING HOT SPOT
Start Hot Spot like any other Windows application by
any of the following methods: clicking on it, placing it
in the "load" line of your WIN.INI file, or adding it to
a Program Manager group. Hot Spot only runs as an icon.
To launch a program from Hot Spot, click on Hot Spot's icon
to display its system menu. Hot Spot displays a list of the
descriptions of programs, which you chose earlier, to launch.
Click on the description to launch the associated program.
If you've configured Hot Spot to prompt you for parameters
before launching the given program, Hot Spot will display
an additional "Parameters" dialog box into which you
may add parameters.
Hot Spot continues running as an icon until you close it.
SYSTEM MENU
Besides the standard Windows menu items, Hot Spot's
System Menu includes these special items:
A list of the descriptions of your chosen programs,
which you can launch from HotSpot. Each is marked with a
hot spot symbol for quick identification. You can add
items into the list by selecting Hot Spot's "Options"
menu item. Click on the description to launch the
associated program.
"Options..." displays Hot Spot's Options dialog box,
discussed below.
"Exit Windows Now!" shuts down Windows and returns you
to DOS. You may disable this option or configure it to
prompt first before exiting, using the Options dialog box.
"Help" displays this document.
"About HotSpot..." displays summary and version info.
OPTIONS DIALOG BOX
Hot Spot's Options dialog box allows you to add, delete, or
change the programs that you launch from Hot Spot's
system menu. The terms used below are similar to those
found in Windows Program Manager.
To add a new program:
1) Fill in the Description field with the entry you
would like to appear on Hot Spot's system menu.
You may enter up to 25 characters. You may insert an
ampersand character '&' before any character you would
like Hot Spot to use as a keyboard speed-up character.
In the menu, the ampersand will not be displayed;
however, the character following it will appear underlined.
To launch the program from Hot Spot's system menu, just type
the speed-up character.
2) Fill in the Command Line field with the command name
and any parameters. This is the command that Hot Spot
will launch when you select the Description entered above.
You may type up to 150 characters. If you enter your
command with a full path name, Windows will start it
slightly faster; otherwise, Windows will search the
current directory, your PATH, and the Windows directory.
The "Browse" button brings up the Browse dialog box,
which helps you to find the desired program name and
transfer it to the Command Line field.
3) Fill in the Start-up Directory field if you need
Hot Spot to start your application in a certain directory.
You may leave this field blank if the start-up directory
doesn't matter.
4) The "Initial Size" combo box lets you choose whether
Hot Spot starts your program as Normal, Minimized, or
Maximized size. The default is Normal.
5) Check the "Prompt for Parameters" box if you would
like Hot Spot to prompt you to add parameters before
launching the command.
6) Select the "Add" button to put your choices into place.
To change a command, select it from the list box; modify
its Description, Command Line, Prompt for Parameters, and
Initial Size values; then select the Change button.
To delete a command from Hot Spot's menu, select it from
the list box then select the Delete button.
The "Exit Windows Now! Options:" combo box determines how
the "Exit Windows Now!" menu selection behaves.
You can set up Hot Spot to:
1) Prompt you first before exiting Windows, or
2) Exit Windows immediately without a prompt, or
3) Disable the menu item completely.
To exit the Options dialog box, select the OK button.
THE MATCHES
Got a little carried away with myself here. The match icon
turns to a flame on launching the first program. An individual
match checkmark on the menu turns into a flaming match on
first launching the matching (Did I say "matching" ?) program.
WINDOWS RELEASES SUPPORTED
Hot Spot runs under Windows 3.0 in real, standard,
and 386 enhanced modes.
LIMITATIONS
Sorry, Hot Spot has no fancy panorama of selectable icons.
On the other hand, this lets Hot Spot run a little faster
for some of us '286 users. At any rate, Hot Spot is
probably worth the cost. (See below.)
LEGAL
Hot Spot's users take all responsibility for using it.
TRADEMARKS
386 -- Intel Corp.
Windows -- Microsoft Corp.
ICON ARTWORK BY
Becky Cobb
DISTRIBUTION
Please distribute Hot Spot to anyone who would like
to use it. I place Hot Spot in the public domain.
No license. No copyright. No donation. No registration.
It's free, free, free!
Robert A. Heath
157 Chartwell Rd.
Columbia, SC 29210
CIS: 71600,437
Internet: heath@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM