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Keyboard Macros Screen Saver
Window Placement
Application Access
Hot-Keys
Task Scheduling
There are many utilities available for OS/2 today. Each
utility serves a specific purpose and has its own particular
interface and features. It is often difficult to define a
cost effective set of utilities which provide the
functionality you need now and will need in the future.
Software utilities are like the tools in your garage -
nothing is more frustrating than needing one and not having
it.
Wouldn't it be great if there were a single, affordable
program which contains the most useful set of utilities?
And what if the utilities were integrated so they worked the
same way and worked together when needed? What if a single
program in your startup group provided all the power and
convenience that four or five separate utilities do today?
Now there is such a program. PM Assistant includes six
utilities bundled together into a single cohesive program.
Not only does this bundling provide convenience, but because
we integrated these utilities so they work together you can
accomplish feats never before attempted on OS/2! Some
common uses for PM Assistant are:
>> Use hot-keys to bring applications to the foreground.
The application executes automatically if it is not
already running.
>> Use a hot-key to minimize all your programs.
>> Use a hot-key to move the programs on your screen to
positions most convenient for your current task. For
example, if you are working with a text editor and a
command prompt, you would place them one on top of the
other filling your screen.
>> Use a button to start your text editor and execute the
File Open menu command. Then you simply select the file
to edit and begin work.
>> Use a hot-key to copy the current selection into the OS/2
"Search and Seek files" utility and start searching for
all occurrences of that text.
>> Use a button to print your two most important files.
Your text editor is executed automatically if not already
running. Now printing your work takes one step rather
than three or four steps.
>> Schedule a command to copy your important files to a
backup directory every night at 7:00 pm.
>> Use a hot-key to type your standard closing phrase, your
name, and your title. Now finishing a letter takes one
keystroke rather than forty three keystrokes.
>> Use a hot-key to save the current document, forward it
onto the next person in your workgroup, and open your next
document.
>> Schedule a reminder to prepare for your staff meeting
every week.
As your can see from these examples, you can accomplish
lengthy tasks with just one key-press or click of a button
using PM Assistant. And you can schedule tasks to be
performed when you're not even there.
This ability to control other applications is also useful to
systems integrators and value added resellers.
"PM Assistant unifies our suite of applications into a
single package. It is the sole tool providing incredible
usability and convenience for our users."
-Eugene Kiel, Vice President CText Inc., a newspaper
publishing systems provider.
How can one program do all this? We now describe exactly
how PM Assistant works.
=== HOW PM ASSISTANT WORKS ===
PM Assistant displays a list of macros. You execute a macro
by typing its hot-key or by clicking its button. You edit
the list of macros, rearrange them, and create new macros.
To create and modify macros you enter information into
dialog boxes. There is no programming involved.
There are six types of macros. Each type performs a
specific kind of task. The six types of macros are:
1. Start Program - starts any OS/2, DOS, or Windows
program.
2. Position Window - moves, minimizes, or restores any
window.
3. Keyboard Input - plays keystrokes to any OS/2 window.
4. Message - displays a message or prompt.
5. Compound - combines several macros into one, and
executes the macros sequentially.
6. Group - groups several macros together to organize them.
The Compound and Group macros contain a list of other
macros. You can expand and collapse the display of
contained macros by clicking on the plus and minus signs in
the display. To perform a lengthy task, you put several
macros in a compound macro. All six types of macros are
created in the same fundamental way.
To create a macro you first enter its name, comment and hot-
key into the Macro Information dialog box. You type the hot-
key into the edit field exactly as you would when executing
the macro. PM Assistant detects which keys are pressed and
displays those keys. Hot-keys can be several keystrokes
long.
After entering this standard macro information, you click
the settings button to enter information specific to the
type of macro you are creating. For example, the Position
Window macro has the following dialog box which allows you
to specify how you want the window moved.
<Dialog box screen dump>
To schedule any macro to execute at a later time you click
on the clock icon. You can specify whether the macro is to
execute on a specific date, every day, on certain days of
the week, on a specific day of the month, every HH:MM hours,
or every time the macro file is loaded. PM Assistant is
fast and easy to use due to the many user interface
elements such as the clock icon.
With PM Assistant you can:
* Easily build a Compound macro to save and restore the
position of all windows on your desktop in one step with the
Build Arrangement command.
* Drag and drop macros within the macro list display.
* Easily resize column widths by dragging the separator on
the columns header display.
* Temporarily disable any specific hot-key or all hot-keys.
* Execute macros indefinitely or in random order. This is
useful for testing other applications.
* Execute macros from the command line or via Dynamic Data
Exchange (DDE).
* Automate every tedious task.
PM Assistant also comes with a powerful screen saver with
text bouncing effects, and a password protection security
feature. To gain a higher level of control, call today!
Call 1-800-745-7757
$129.00
Including shipping.
Visa or Mastercard accepted.
90 day satisfaction guarantee.
A demonstration version of PM Assistant is available on CompuServe
in the OS2 VENDORs forum (Go OS2AVE), in the "Other Vendors"
library, file pma20.zip. This demonstration version has the File Save
menu command disabled so you may not permanently save your macros.
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Redmond, WA 98073
(206) 467-4025