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MANUAL FOR Click! Filer 1.1 for Windows 3.0
FILE DRIVING
The first windows to really learn to use are the Source and Destination
ListBoxes. There is a pair of listboxed for each Source and Destination.
The Left ListBox is the File Listbox and the right is the Directory Listbox.
The Directory Listbox operates on double click mode. Two clicks and you head
to that directory or Drive. Moving to a new drive always starts at the top
of that drive. Future enhancements are projected to allow an option for
the user to allow remembering the paths for each drive. The File Listbox
is a multiselection listbox. All highlighted files are available for action
by many of the Click Pushbuttons. In the Source directory, as each file is
selected, it's size is added to the currently selected size Text DIsplay at
the bottom righthand of the Click! Filer Window.
****1.1 Directory ListBox now 2 clicks to move. Single click highlights
for use in DELDIR BUTTON
SEARCH EDIT BOXES
Both Dest and Source have an Edit Box at the top of the display. Entering
a wildcard extension and pressing TAB causes a search in the related File
Listbox and update of it's display. Entering a path in this Edit causes the
Directory Listbox to change directories. A path and wildcard causes a
directory and a new search in the FileList. The currently active search
string is always displayed next to the Edit Boxes for both Source and Dest.
SOURCE AND DESTINATION CONTROL BUTTONS
Below the Listboxes are a set of 10 push buttons. Most of these have been
programed at this time. The extras will be used in later versions of Click!
ALL This button selects all files in the associated FileListBox
NONE This button de-selects all files in the associated FileListBox
RENAME This button calls a dialog program to rename each selected file
in the associated FileListBox. You are presented with the file
name selected and offered an edit box to enter a new name.
Provided all goes well, they will rename. After all files have
been renamed, the FIleListBox is updated to reflect all changes
successfully completed.
DEL This button will delete all highlighted files in the associated
FileListBox. Upon completion, the FIleListBox is updated to
reflect the changes.
RUN This button will launch the first highlighted program in the
Source FileListBox. You will be offerd an edit box to append
arguments to the program call. Programs can be either Windows 3.0
programs, MS-DOS execs or MS-DOS batch files. To run Batch files
it is suggested you write the first line as a drive move to the
required drive. The second line should be a cd to the desired
directory. This should ensure satisfactory batch file execution.
I've even compiled through batch mode. It is suggested that
you have a nice fat environment size. Other ways to run files
are discussed later under the Custom Button section of this
manual.
EDIT This button will run the Editor which you have defined and pass
it the highlighted source files from the Source FileListBox. To
select the Editor you want, use the Default Edit button described
later in this manual. The desired editor name will be entered in
the Click.INI file and be restored each time you run Click! Filer.
Beneath the Directory ListBoxes are two labeled buttons:
MKDIR This will provide an edit box for you to enter the name of the
desired directory. After completion, the Directory ListBox will
update to reflect the addition ( if successful ).
DELDIR This button provides a new dialog if no directory is selected.
The dialog has a listbox to pilot your way to the desired
directory. One click in the listbox selects the file for
deletion, 2 clicks moves you to that directory. Only files which
DOS will delete can be deleted. Remove all files and
subdirectories from a directory before you can delete it.
Future expansion may provide a clear directory sub directories
feature. You let me know if this would be desireable, or if
this SAFER mode is prefered.
**** 1.1 If a directory is selected and you press DELDIR then the
directory is deleted, no dialog will appear.
SIZE TEXT BOXES
The bottom left Text Box shows the combined size of all selected source
files. The bottom right Text Box shows the free space on the Destination
Drive. Each has 3 buttons to select display mode. Bytes, KBytes ( % 1024 ),
and MBytes ( %1024000 ). This setting can be remembered by setting them
into the Click.INI in the define defaults button discussed later.
CENTER CONTROL PUSH BUTTONS
> This button selects the current Source directory into the Current
Destination directory.
<> This button swaps the Destination and Source Directories
< This button selects the current destination directory into the
source directory
COPY This button copies all selected source files into the directory
current in destination. As each is copies it is reflected in
text above the associated ListBoxes.
MOVE Copies the selected source files to the destination directory and
then deletes the source files. SHould anyone have problems here
let me know so I can beef up error conditions during the process.
Verification move could be added if desired by enough people.
EDIT DEFS
This button provides for editing the CLick System settings in the
Click.INI. You can set the initial paths for Source and Destination.
and the SOurce and Dest search masks. Also the Editor can be named.
Pressing SET places the displayed values into the INI ( the size
defaults current are also set into the INI ). Load retrieves the
INI settings into the current defaults for Click!.
DEFAULTS
The current Click! defaults are placed into action. The directories
files and searches all update. This is the current defaults. If
were in edit and changed defaults, but didn't set them into the INI
these will be used. Thus DEFAULTS are the current settings. IF
they are not desired. Go to EDIT, LOAD the INI and if these are OK
USE THEM. Thus you can have session defaults and use this button.
Switching later to your standard defaults as convenient.
ABOUT As expected tells you your using this program and plugging ME!
CUSTOM DEFS
This calls the dialog to set the 12 buttons on the bottom of the
Click! Window. Select a button from the radio group. The current
settings for that button are displayed below. You can determine the
Label for the Button, the program to execute and whether to pass
no args, fixed args ( as you define ), highlighted source files or
provide a dialog requester for entering args at runtime. Once
you have these are desired. Press the SET button to record them.
If you do not SET the new settings, they will be forgotten. SET
writes only the currently selected button.
Since so many people use HOTKEYS I didn't allow this feature. If
there is enough interest, I might provide associated HOTKEY for
these buttons.
*** 1.1
There is now an UP/DOWN arrow beside the programmable buttons.
This will select from 10 different sets of 12 buttons. The Set
DEFS acts on the current set of 12 buttons. Now you can group
logical projects or environments of custom buttons to work from
Click! Filer.
ARCHIVAL BUTTONS:
Currently I support PKPAK, PKUNPAK, PKZIP and PKUNZIP, four very nice
programs by PKWare. You must have these programs to use the buttons
I provided. There are 4 .PIF files provided with this program. You must
edit these to reflect the correct directory on you hard drive where
Windows can find these programs. The source directory is the directory
where files will be effected. The archive name must be entered inthe
provided edit box in the center of the Click WIndow. Pressing one of
the ARCHIVE buttons, provides a dialog to set features of the compression.
To understand these use the documentation from PKWare. While in the
Dialog you can set the initial settings with the SET button. The settings
displayed inthe Dialog will be written to the INI file. Press OK to
compress. The compressed file will be written to the current DESTINATION
directory. If you press CANCEL no compression will occur. Note, if you
changed setting in the INI and press CANCEL, those settings are already
in the INI file, so mean it when you press SET.
*** 1.1
Well we've added support for some other very nice shareware compression
programs. The ARC, PAK and LHARC programs now function from Click! Filer.
Please support these programs authors as suggested about the above PKWare
software.
ARC COPYRIGHT 1985,86,87,88,89 by System Enhancement Associates, Inc.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
LHarc Version 1.13c 05/31/89 Copyright (c) Haruyasu Yoshizaki (Yoshi),
1988-89
PAK Version 2.10 Copyright 1988, 1989 by NoGate Consulting
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Some features for each of these programs may have been glossed over in
this version, but in time the full possible set will be provided. I
basically wanted this tool to aid me in archiving my programs and so
I did them to my needs. Obviously full support is desireable, but I
didn't want to leave users of the new programs in the lurch with no
easy interface.
FUTURE EXPANSION...
Where to next? Several possibilities exist, as well as small changes and
tune ups. While reasonably small, I need to compact Click! and optimize it's
memory use for 640K folks. Help access would be nice as would system
information features. A format for Floppies ONLY would be simple enough.
A delete for a directory/subdirs/*.* would be nice. Expanded setups for
the PD compression programs would be nice.