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- “ Q u i c k F i l e r ”
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- Allows the Filer to be controlled by means of the keyboard
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- by David Thomas, © 1997-8
- version 1.25 (02 Apr 1998)
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- Introduction ______________________________________________________________
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- QuickFiler is a utility which allows you to use many standard shortcut
- keys in conjunction with the Filer.
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- QuickFiler requires a Risc PC-style !Boot application.
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- Installation ______________________________________________________________
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- Before you can use QuickFiler, it must be installed into your computer’s
- boot sequence and your machine must be restarted.
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- Install QuickFiler by running the supplied !Installer application. This
- will copy across the program files to their correct place within the Boot
- application and generate new menu structures for the Filer.
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- Upon restarting your machine, you will find that the Filer gains the input
- focus when you click in its windows and that the Filer menu displays the
- appropriate shortcut next to certain items. Simply pressing the shortcut key
- combination will activate that item.
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- Shortcuts _________________________________________________________________
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- QuickFiler provides the following shortcut keys :
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- Select all ^A Large icons F2 Sort by name ⇧F1
- Clear selection ^Z Small icons F3 Sort by type ⇧F2
- Open parent ^B Full info F4 Sort by size ⇧F3
- Sort by date ⇧F4
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- Delete DELETE or ^X Protect ^F5 Confirm F5
- Count ^N Unprotect ^F6 Verbose F6
- Help ^H Public ^F7 Force F7
- Stamp ^S Private ^F8 Newer F8
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- Close window ^F2
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- Certain shortcuts are non-trivial to implement (e.g. Copy, Rename, Find)
- as they need sub-menus which cannot be easily faked. For this reason,
- this utility makes no attempt (yet) to provide these functions.
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- Removal ___________________________________________________________________
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- Should you wish to remove QuickFiler from your system, you should delete
- the following two directories :
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- - !Boot.Choices.Boot.PreDesk.QFiler
- - !Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks.!QFiler
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- History ___________________________________________________________________
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- 1.00 (22 May 1997)
- - First Release.
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- 1.10 (22 Oct 1997)
- - Thanks to Reuben Thomas, Chris Ward and Ian Scott for pointing out that
- QuickFiler didn’t work on RISC OS 3.7 due to missing Message tokens.
- This version now reads the Filer messages from ROM and converts them
- appropriately before installing.
- - Templates file is not supplied anymore.
- - An Installer program, to facilitate the above.
- - Keys are referred to as 'shortcuts' now, rather than 'hot-keys'.
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- 1.25 (02 Apr 1998)
- - Added Ctrl-F2 to close directory viewer window.
- - Responds correctly to Filer and FilterManager resets and reinits.
- - The module has been recoded in key areas, so despite the new features it’s
- only slightly bigger than the previous version.
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- Credits ___________________________________________________________________
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- Thanks to Ting Zwei Kuei for writing FilerKeys which didn’t work quite how
- I wanted it to, so I wrote this!
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- Many thanks to Andrew Clover for the WimpSWIVe module which makes an
- otherwise impossible job, possible. :-) The WSWI-Help document, supplied
- with this program, documents this module.
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- Copyright & Contact Addresses _____________________________________________
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- This software is copyrighted work of David Thomas, it is supplied “as is”;
- using it is entirely at your own risk. I make no warranty as to the fitness
- of this software for any purpose. You are free to distribute this program
- toanyone you please, as long as you are not supplying it for personal or
- commercial gain and it is delivered with all of the supplied files unaltered.
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- If you have any comments, bug reports, suggestions for future versions or
- anything else don’t hesitate to contact me at -
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- Mail: Mr D.P. Thomas
- 20 Rosebery Avenue
- Waterloo
- Liverpool
- L22 2BH
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- Email: dpt@tristone.co.uk
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- WWW: http://www.tristone.co.uk/davespace/
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