Monster Media 1994 #1/monster.zip/monster/WIN_UTL2/NMFW11E.ZIP/SYSOPENG.ASC

Text File | 1994-01-19 | 10KB | 230 lines

Name of the program:
New Menus for Windows 1.1 (g,e,i)

Name of the Archive:
NMFW11G.EXE (or ZIP etc.) (German Release)
or
NMFW11E.EXE (or ZIP etc.) (English Release)
or
NMFW11I.EXE (or ZIP etc.) (International Release)

One line description:
RRKMenu XWin-like graph. Popup-Menu Win 3.1-Shell

Replaces:
MENU09.ZIP
MENU09EC.ZIP
MENU10G.ZIP


Suggested category:
/ MS Windows / Desktop
or
/ MS Windows / Shell

Autors name & email:
Roger Rene Kommer
[e-mail]

Suface address:
Roger Rene Kommer
Doernbergstr. 11
D - 34119 Kassel
Germany


System requirements:
Windows 3.1

Shareware payment required from private users:
NO, but possible (Support, actual Version)

Shareware payment required from corporates:
NO, but possible (Support, actual Version)

Demo / NagWare:
NO

Self-documenting:
NO

External documentation included:
Windows Helpfile, ~120 pages English
Windows Helpfile, ~120 pages German

Sources included:
NO

Size of archive:
NMFW11E:
~450 kb / ~1100 kb
NMFW11I:
~800 kb/ ~1900 kb

1 line description, 30 chars:
NMFW11 XWin-like Win3.1-Menus

1 line description, 50 chars:
NMFW11 XWin-like graph. Popup-Menu Win 3.1-Shell

2 line description, a 50 chars:
NMFW11 XWin-like graph. Popup-Menu Win 3.1-Shell
w. icons & a needle to stick it on the desktop


10 lines description a 72 chars:
New Menus for Windows is a Windows-Shell and -Enhancement based on
popup menus similar to OpenLook 3. Every time you push the right or
middle mousebutton (or a Hotkey) a Popup-Menu appears for a quick
access to your applications, documents, directories(!), tasks and
Program-Manager groups, Windows API (or other DLL-functions) and
keyboard macros. All menuitems are showed with (costumizable and
animated) icons several graph. styles and can be grouped in submenus -
as many and deep as you like,independent of resource needings. Every
Menu you can stick with a needle on the desktop - also normal
Application menus! It also enhances some Windows-Controls with menus.




Long description:

Long description:
New Menus for Windows has two aspects.
First it is a Windows-Tool to launch programmes, files, keyboard-
macros and Windows-API-statements with a PopupMenu, which is also
usable as Windows-Shell.
Second it is a enhangement to Windows. Selecting a Drop-Down-Menu of a
Windows application with the right mousebutton, you can stick it with
a pin on the desktop - like all Submenus of New Menus for Windows. For
some Windows controls context-sensitive Popup-Menus with the right
mousebutton are available, which enhance the functionality of the
controls.


New Menus for Windows as Desktop-Utility and Windows 3.1 Shell:

You are bored about fishing the Program-Manager out of the overcrowded
desktop and using the dialogue File / Open x-times the day gets on
your nerves? Then New Menus for Windows 1.1 may be a solution for you.
The Menus 1.1 is a Popup-Menu, which is always accessible via the
right or middle mousebutton or with a key-combination, to launch
programmes, Windows API-statements and keyboard macros. But a
similarity to normal popup-menus of Windows can only be found in the
basic principle of Menus.
Automatically all applications and documents are represented with
theire Icons and a describing line. You can choose the font of the
Menuitems, you can choose between 3 sizes of the (animated) Icons
(which are individual customisable, like in the Program-Manager) and
between 4 graphical styles: the windows standard style, a simple 3-d
style, a style, quite similar to the OpenLook-Menus, and an enhanced
3-d-style. But the Menus is not only friendly to your eyes. It has
several functions, which are very useful to have a quick access to all
your applications, files and tasks. Of course you can group your
applications in submenus - as many and as deep as you like. But you do
not have to configure each Menuitem by hand, because New Menus for
Windows has some generic Menus, witch make a dynamic configuration of
a Submenu-structure possible. You declare Menuitems with ambiguous
filenames and the Menu lists all matching files as menuitems. You can
include whole directories in your Menu-structure: The
(sub...)subdirectories are accessible in (sub...)submenus and all
programmes and documents are listed as menuitems. If a (sub)menu tends
to become too long not fitting on the desktop, the Menu breaks
automatically the list and continues in a new submenu. You can also
include the Program-Manager or single Program-Manager groups in your
menu-structure. There is also a Task-list for quick access to your
windows.
A quick access to our submenus is guaranteed with Shortkeys to each
submenu. You can also declare two individual (Sub-)Menus for the right
and for the left mousebutton. You can also define global Hotkeys to
each menuitem (programm, Win-API-statement, keyboard macro).

But not enough: The highlight of New Menus for Windows may be a little
pin at the top of each submenu. Just click on it, the submenu is
sticked on your desktop - and it still seems to be a popup-menu with
submenus. But you can move this sticked menus around your desktop,
hold it always on the top of the desktop, minimise it with a 'Roll-Up-
Button', group it on the area of the title bar of a maximised windows
and close it with another click on the pin. The sticked menus supports
drag'n drop with the File-Manager to open one or more files with a
program you configured as menuitem.
New Menus for Windows has also some special features running as
Windows-Shell. Quite similar to the Program-Manager you can declare a
submenu 'Autostart'. If you want to quit Windows in the evening and
continue your work the next day, you can save your desktop. Restarting
Windows, all applications are restored exactly at the same positions
you left your computer last day.
There are also some special features, like running non-Windows-
compatible DOS-Programmes, shooting down Windows immediately or
rebooting your computer. Because the Menu has an interface to the
Windows-API, you can also define 'special features' (f.e. 'Save all
Documents in all application', 'Arrange Icons' etc.).

New Menus for Windows 1.1 as Windows-Enhancement
New Menus for Windows is not only usable as a Windows-Shell. It also
enhances the functionality of other Windows programmes. Selecting a
Drop-Down-Menu of a normal Windows Program with the right mousebutton,
you get the Menu also with a pin to stick it on your desktop.
Some standard controls, like text-controls, scrollbars, list boxes or
a DOS-box are enhanced with a context-sensitive popup menus. If you
press the right mousebutton f.e. over a DOS-box, you get a Menu with
items Mark, Copy and Insert.
This option to customise other programmes with a context-sensitive
popup menu is also supported with an interface to the Windows-API (or
to other DLL's) and keyboard macros.

To configure your own menu, you don't have to edit an INI-file by
hand. Just highlight a menuitem, press an edit-key, to change, add or
delete a Menuitem by filling out comfortable dialogues. You can also
use Drag'n Drop with sticked Menus to configure new menuitems. For
each dialogue and each action you can get an extensive and context-
sensitive help. But remember, using generic menuitems reduces the time
involved for configuration.

New Menus for Windows also considers several Windows configurations.
The right and - if you have one - the middle mousebutton are
supported. If you use Windows without a mouse, you can also use New
Menus for Windows with the keyboard. It is also possible to install it
on a file-server.

Now, some words about the costs:
First; our precious system resources:
Unlike other PopupMenu-WinShells New Menus for Windows is designed
with a dynamically build menu-structure: A submenu will first be
initiated, when you open it. This makes it possible, that the system
resources are also allocated dynamically. Independent of the number of
configured Submenus and Menuitems, New Menus for Windows the system
resource requirements of New Menus for Windows are really low: ~ 2% of
System resources and ~30 KB of non-discardable RAM.

Second; your patience:
Please be patient with my English in the help-files.

Registration:
Last not least the financial aspect:
New Menus for Windows is FreeWare or ShareWare - ad libitum ;-) - but
in no case for public domain.
I think it is neither worth to annoy the user with restrictions (like
reminder screens or other limitations) nor to make the user a bad
conscience using software illegally. You can 'test' New Menus for
Windows as long as you wish. A difference in functionality of New
Menus for Windows between unregistered and registered versions doesn't
exist.
But if you want to appreciate the work of a 'poor student' with a fee,
if you want to keep my nose to the grindstone for next releases, if
you want a support regarding New Menus for Windows and/or if you want
the actual version (if there is one), you can register New Menus for
Windows for 30 $ US or 50 DM.



Availability:
The actual international version is available at:
cica.indiana.edu:/pub/win3/desktop/nmfw11i.zip
A version only with english or german resources is available at:
ftp.hrz.uni-kassel.de:/pub/machines/intel/win3 (or /../incoming)
German version: nmfw11g.zip
English version: nmfw11e.zip

Thanks for your attention.