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Welcome to Launch!
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This README.DOC file contains important, last minute information
about Launch. In addition to this file, there are several other text
files in the Launch directory that you should browse. They are
available to read and/or print from the "Launch Documentation" menu.
See FILES.DOC for a complete list of all files distributed with this
package.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
-----------------
1. How to get help
2. Installation (** existing users please read **)
3. New features
4. Release notes
1. HOW TO GET HELP
------------------
If you have any problems with Launch, please first read this file,
the online help files and the Launch Users Guide. If you still have a
question and need assistance, help is available from the following
sources:
1. Email to sac@tusc.com.au
2. Fax to +61-3 9729 8836 (any time).
3. Leaving a message on my answering machine on
+61-3 9729 8836.
4. Physical mail to:
Simon Carter
Crystal Software
14 Canterbury Road
Heathmont
Victoria 3135
AUSTRALIA
To simplify trouble-shooting, please provide the following
information:
* Launch version number (from Commands|About).
* A contact name.
* A daytime and after hours phone or fax number where you can
be reached.
* The specific steps necessary to reproduce the problem.
2. INSTALLATION
---------------
If you already have a Launch installation and you wish to retain your
existing menu structures, please follow these instructions BEFORE
installation:
1. Go to your old Launch directory e.g.
c: [Enter]
cd \launch [Enter]
2. To convert your existing menu structure to an editable text
form, type
export /1f [Enter]
Note that this only works for structure 00 in that directory.
For other structures, type
export /1f [directory]\[number] [Enter]
Hint: To find all of your old structures, type
dir \m_struct.d* /s [Enter]
3. Rename the Launch directory e.g.
cd\ [Enter]
ren launch launch.old [Enter]
and install the new version of Launch to the original
directory, or install the new version to a completely new
directory.
4. After the installation has finished, use the new version of
IMPORT.EXE to convert all of your existing structure files to
the new format. If IMPORT detects any errors, some editing
may be required. If so, check the file M_EXPORT.D00 created
by the new installation for export format changes.
Use the INSTALL program to install Launch.
To start the installation, place the Launch disk in Drive A:, and
type A:INSTALL.
A full installation of Launch requires approximately 450 Kb of
available disk space. The actual disk space occupied by Launch will
vary depending on your disk's cluster size.
3. NEW FEATURES
---------------
This version of Launch offers many new features, including:
Version 4.4, 3-June-1996
* You can now set the maximum height of menus (and links).
* User-defined help is now fully integrated into Launch. It is
no longer maintained as a separate file, bringing many
advantages, not the least of which is easy maintenance.
* The About dialog has an altered layout and extra fields.
Supervisors get to see if logging is enabled, and to what
file. Also shown is whether network mode is on, and the
current video mode.
* More DOS programs are included in the standard DOS menu built
by INSTALL.
* The format of detailed EXPORT reports has changed
dramatically.
* XMartin is now less sensitive to mouse movement. This
prevents it from returning to Launch if you accidentally bump
the desk.
* DirSize now gives more disk statistics, including wasted
space.
* Both DirSize and C now make use of Windows 95 long filenames.
* AutoBuild now shows drives at the same logical level as
directories.
* Launch and Import now warn you if there are more than 250
items in a menu.
* On computers with only an A: drive, logical drive B: is not
shown as a drive choice.
4. RELEASE NOTES
----------------
Version 4.3, 21-Feb-1996
* INSTALL now installs all unrecognised programs, and groups
them by directory name
* Windows 95 long filename support
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Version 4.1, 7-Feb-1996
* A link's path field is now scanned for environment variables.
This makes it easy to add private structures in each user's
directory on a network, where a main network menu can
incorporate a link f:\usr\%USER%\.
* A new LAUNCH.INI option called TextEditorFlags. This tells
Launch how to tell editors other than BEdit how to interpret
a line number and column to move to. This is used primarily
to move the cursor to the source of an error in a batch file,
but it may be used in a later version to move to parts of the
User Help file for direct editing.
e.g.
TextEditorFlags=/rc @ROW @COL
This tells Launch to substitute the current row (line number)
for @ROW and the current column for @COL.
* Launch now checks to see if the structure files have been
modified by another user. This check occurs when Launch
reappears after running an application (Launch will reset the
menu position), before the structure is altered and before an
application is run (Launch will load the new version first).
* Pressing [Right] now no longer runs options, it is purely a
navigation key.
* Bug fix. The Save Scheme dialog did not restore the user's
previous scheme when closing.
* The edit field with a history is now used in many more places
(it previously was only used for a history of command
parameters). It is now used for the menu item's name, link
item's path, AutoBuild option name, AutoBuild link name,
header line, user ID and user name. The history file is an
editable text file, structured similarly to a .INI file. 50
entries are allowed per history list.
* You can also have user-specified history lists when an option
requires parameters. For example, when supplying a path, a
path- specific history list can be displayed, showing only
the previous history of responses for paths. Launch's
internal histories can also be accessed.
* If the user help file does not exist when the user presses
[Ctrl+F1], Launch offers to create one, with sample templates
for each menu item.
* Buttons now display triangular arrows so that they are more
easily distinguished when they have the focus.
* The structure file format has changed. The first change is
that rather than writing out 48 bytes for the entire item
title (whether or not it is all used), Launch now only
outputs the useful data. This means a saving of ~25 bytes per
menu item. This amounts to about 3Kbytes for most people. The
other major change is that the command file (M_COMAND.D00)
has been absorbed into the structure file (M_STRUCT.D00).This
has a number of benefits. Firstly, there are two less files
on the disk (M_COMAND.D00 and M_COMAND.B00). Depending on
your hard disk cluster size, this saves up to 2*32K of disk
space. It also makes better use of the space allocated to the
structure file. Secondly, it greatly simplifies MY code,
leaving less chance of errors. Thirdly, on a network, because
each user acquires a