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- Extrabar fully supports Interactive help.
-
- Purpose --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Extrabar is designed to allow easy loading of frequently used
- applications and opening of directories that have a lot of useful files in
- them but are a fair way down the directory structure are on other discs. It
- also can emulate key presses.
-
- Using ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- To use Extra bar double click on it directory and a new window will open
- at the top of the screen. In this window there will be an icon with the time
- and date in it on the right hand side. Dragging files, directories and
- applications to bar will create an icon to the left with the items name and
- an icon in it.
- Clicking on this icon runs the item that defined it. Shift and Ctrl have
- the same effect as they would have in a directory display. Shift will open
- applications and load any file in to a text editor (if available) and Ctrl
- will prevent applications in a directory being booted. You can also create
- an empty icon from the Edit/New Icon menu item. Selecting this item creates
- an icon with the name Undefined and an acorn for it's sprite. You can then
- alter this.
- If you click on the background on the tool bar with the middle button at
- the top of the window then it's position will be toggled. If it was at the
- front of the window stack it will move to the back or if it was in a
- different place than it be brought to the front.
- To save the set of icons you have created use the save window. If you
- click on the save menu item that leads to the save window the file will be
- saved in to the Extrabar directory and will always be loaded on start up.
-
- Auto loading a file --------------------------------------------------------
-
- To make Extrabar load a set of buttons every time it's loaded save a file
- in to the !Extrabar directory called Buttons. This will be loaded as long as
- Extrabar was not loaded by double-clicking on one of it's files.
-
- Altering a button ----------------------------------------------------------
-
- If you wish to change a button's options then opening the menu over it and
- going the to Edit/Alter window allows you change it options. The top icon is
- the text that appears in the icon, and the bottom icon is the command that
- will be used when the icon is clicked on.
- At present you can make the button run a star command or emulate a key
- press. To emulate a key press type in 'EmulKey <key code>' any other string
- will be taken as a star command. You can enter a key code by positioning the
- caret at the end of the line and pressing the key press that you wish to
- emulate ie, Shift-Ctrl-Print, a number will appear. If you change your mind
- about the key to emulate delete the number and re-enter it.
-
- Changing the time format --------------------------------------------------
-
- The time icon can be altered but this must be done from the command line
- or by altering Extrabar's !Run file. The time format for Extrabar is the
- same as for Alarm. To alter it from the command line press F12 and type in
-
- 'Set Extrabar$TimeFormat "<time format>"
-
- The time format is;
-
- %se seconds 12
- %mi minutes 45
- %12 hour in 12 hour clock 2
- %24 hour in 24 hour clock 14
- %am or %pm AM or PM pm
- %we weekday Friday
- %w3 three letter week name Fri
- %wn weekday as a number 5
- %dy day of the month 05
- %st st, nd, rd or th of day st
- %mo month name in full January
- %m3 month name, three letters Jan
- %mn month name, as number 1
- %ce century 19
- %yr year with in century 95
-
- use a 'z' straight after the % to remove any extra 0's
-
- ie.
-
- '%z12:%mi:%se %pm %zdy%st %m3 %ce%yr' --> '3:12:45 pm 1st Apr 1996'
- '%z24:%mi%si' --> '15:12:45'
- '%we %zdy/%mn/%yr' --> 'Monday 1/04/96'
- '%w3 %zdy %mo %yr' --> 'Mon 1 April 96'
-
- Problems -------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- When you create a new icon and set it's command to '*Error Whatever'
- Extrabar kills itself and does not unset the Extrabar$Running system
- variable. To load Extrabar again press F12 and type 'Unset Extrabar$Running'
- and press Return twice to go back to the desktop and reload Extrabar. If you
- need to use *Error than use *Error 1 What and this will stop Extrabar
- crashing.
-
- Versions -------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 0.07 5 January 96
-
- First version to hit the streets. Bug free I think.
-
-
- Still to add ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Opening of user definable menus!
- Multiple commands
- Extra info for buttons. Date created, File type of item, etc....
- Take in to account the desktop font when creating buttons. So size is
- correct for desktop.
- Dragging files to the bar will save them in to a temporary directory.
- Seperate sprite pool for tool bar buttons instead of using Wimp Sprite
- pool. (saved with buttons in file?)
-
- Copyright ------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The copyright to Extrabar belongs to David McCormack. Extrabar is Public
- Domain Freeware which means that you can distribute it for a nominal fee
- to cover costs,etc... as long as all the files are left intact and are not
- altered in any way and any Buttons files are removed from the Resources
- directory.
-
- My address (Snail mail) ----------------------------------------------------
-
- 2 Cornwall Avenue
- Beeston Rylands
- Nottingham
- NG9 1NL
-