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This file contains information on the use of the mouse with
the DS program. All the information is repeated in the User's
Manual. It is broken out seperately here so that users
already familiar with the program do not need to read the
entire user's manual to find out how the mouse works with the
program.
MOUSE OPERATIONS
The DS program can make use of a 2-button mouse in the
following manner. One button is known as the ACTION BUTTON
and the other is known as the OPTION/ESC BUTTON. By default
the ACTION BUTTON is the Left Button and the OPTION/ESC Button
is the Right Button but these assignments can be changed by
the user (along with other mouse parameters) by making use of
the "Ctrl-S" (Set Mouse) option.
The ACTION BUTTON, true to its name, is the button that
accomplishes most of the actions within the program. It is
the button used to Tag, Untag, and Execute files, plus scroll,
change and enter directories. It is also the button used to
select options from menus.
The OPTION/ESC Button is used to activate the popup menus
which provide the user an alternate means of activating the
program options they would normally select via the keyboard.
Once an option has been selected the OPTION/ESC Button becomes
an ESC Button and provides the user a means of terminating the
option they have selected.
A fuller discription of Mouse Button specifics can be
found in Appendix A below.
+-----------------------------+ +----------+
-----| SET MOUSE DEFAULTS |---------| "Ctrl-S" |-----
+-----------------------------+ +----------+
The set mouse defaults allows the user to adjust various
parameters of the mouse. The mouse can be turned on and off,
have its appearance, color, and blink status changed, have the
Action and Option/Esc Buttons switched, and adjust the
directory speed parameter. Once the user has selected this
option, the suboption selections are activated by depressing
the appropriatly highlighted keys. Exiting this routine will
update the startup default parameters.
USING KEYBOARD:
Depress the "CONTROL" and "s" keys together, then depress
the desired suboption keys "m", "t", "f", "c", "b", "+" and/or
"-". Press ESC to terminate the option.
USING MOUSE:
Click the OPTION/ESC Button to bring up the popup menu
then select the "Mouse" suboption on the SETUP submenu by
clicking on it with the Action Button. All the mouse default
suboptions remain as discussed above, simply click the
Action Button while the mouse is on top of the desired option.
+-----------------------------+ +------------+
-----| MOUSE TOGGLE |-------| "Ctrl-Z" |-----
+-----------------------------+ +------------+
The mouse toggle option will toggle the activation of the
mouse. If the mouse is active, this option will hide and
deactivate the mouse. If the mouse is inactive, this option
will activate and show the mouse providing the mouse driver
routine has been installed.
USING KEYBOARD:
Depress the "CONTROL" and "z" keys together.
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APPENDIX A - MOUSE BUTTON SPECIFICS
MOUSE "ACTION BUTTON" AREAS
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ a b c d <-#1 #2-> c:\sub\home d│<- #3
│ ┌───────────────────────┐ #7 ┌──────────────┐ │
│ │ c:\ │ █ │ file1 .ext │ │
│ │ └─sub │ │ file2 .ext │ │
│ #4 │ ├─home │ #8 │>file3 .ext<│ #12 │
│ │ └─play │ │ │ │
│ _ │ │ _ │ │ _ │
│ │ DIRECTORIES │ │ FILES │ │
│ │ │ │ │ │
│ #5 │ #6 │ #9 │ #11 │ #13 │
│ │ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ █ │ │ │
│ └───────────────────────┘ #10 └──────────────┘ │
│ #14 #15 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
#16
NOTES FOR MOUSE "ACTION BUTTON" AREAS
#1 - (TOP BORDER - AVAILABLE DRIVES)
"Clicking" on a drive letter will switch the appropriate
screen display to the indicated drive. Hot spots for drive
activation are the drive letter or the blank character on
either side of the drive letter (ie: 3 characters per drive
letter).
"Dragging" from the file box (with 1 or more files tagged)
and "Releasing" on a drive letter will initiate a
"Copy/Move" popup window routine to either copy or move
(default is copy) tagged files to the default directory on
the indicated drive.
#2 - (TOP BORDER - RIGHT OF AVAILABLE DRIVES)
"Clicking" in this area "recenters" (really just
highlights) the tree display on the current directory.
This enables the user to re-highlight the current directory
after the tree has been scrolled off to other directories
for other purposes.
#3 - (TOP BORDER - LAST COLUMN)
This area will display a drive letter if the user is in
single-screen mode but had previously been in split screen
mode. The drive letter of the other screen (hidden screen)
will be displayed. "Clicking" on the drive letter will
"flip" the full screen display to the other screen.
#4 - (UPPER LEFT BORDER)
This area enables the user to scroll up the directory tree.
While the Action Button is Depressed in this area
successive directories further up the tree are highlighted.
The scrolling speed can be controlled by the user.
Depressing the "CONTROL" key while in this area will
display a "Delay" value. The larger the delay value the
slower the scrolling speed. Press "ALT" key to accelerate
the scrolling speed (decreases the delay value). Press
"LEFT SHIFT" to slow the scrolling speed (increases the
delay value). Once the desired scrolling speed is obtained
press "CONTROL" and "RIGHT SHIFT" together to save the
scrolling speed as a startup default parameter.
#5 - (LOWER LEFT BORDER)
This area enables the user to scroll down the directory
tree. While the Action Button is Depressed in this area
successive directories further down the tree are
highlighted.
The scrolling speed is controlled as in area #4.
#6 - (DIRECTORY BOX)
"Releasing" the Action Button "ON" a directory NAME will
"ENTER" the specified directory and list files in that
directory.
"Releasing" the Action Button on a directory LINE (not the
name) will just highlight the directory but not enter it.
"Dragging" from the file box (with 1 or more files tagged)
and "Releasing" ON a directory NAME will initiate a
"Copy/Move" popup window routine to either copy or move
(default is copy) tagged files to the indicated directory
AND "ENTER" the destination directory upon completion of
the option.
"Dragging" from the file box (with 1 or more files tagged)
and "Releasing" ON a directory LINE (not the name) will
initiate a "Copy/Move" popup window routine to either copy
or move (default is copy) tagged files to the indicated
directory BUT remain in the source directory upon
completion of the option.
#7 - (TOP CENTER DIVIDER)
"Clicking" on the top row of the center divider will change
the tree display to highlight (but not enter) the root
directory.
#8 - (UPPER CENTER DIVIDER)
"Clicking" in this area of the center divider will scroll
up the tree display one-half of the display screen.
#9 - (LOWER CENTER DIVIDER)
"Clicking" in this area of the center divider will scroll
down the tree display one-half of the display screen.
#10 - (BOTTOM CENTER DIVIDER)
"Clicking" on the bottom row of the center divider will
change the tree display to highlight (but not enter) the
last directory.
#11 - (FILE BOX)
"Clicking" on a filename will toggle the "TAGGING" of that
file.
"Pressing" on one filename (start file) and "Releasing" on
a different filename (end file) will toggle ALL of the
files between the start and end files inclusive.
"Double Clicking" on a filename (not the .ext) will execute
the specified file (Keyboard "X" command). You cannot
specify command line parameters with this option.
"Double Clicking" on a filename extension (including the
".") will execute the specified file (Keyboard "Alt-X"
command) overlaying the DS program to conserve memory. You
cannot specify command line parameters with this option.
"Clicking" in the columns where the Left and Right File
Indicator triangles reside will toggle the "File Follow"
feature. The file follow feature is defaulted to OFF
whereby moving the mouse in the file box does not
automatically move the file indicator at the same time. Be
aware that when the file follow feature is active if the
user hits any of the arrow keys or the home or end keys the
file follow feature will be deactivated (ie: turned off)
otherwise the user would be unable to move the "indicated"
file.
"Pressing" the Action Button ANYWHERE in the File Box WITH
1 OR MORE FILES TAGGED and "Dragging and Releasing" the
mouse in the Available Drives area (#1), or the Directory
Box (#6), or the other File Box (#11) of a split-screen
display will initiate a "Copy/Move" popup window routine to
either copy or move (default is copy) tagged files to the
indicated drive or directory.
#12 - (UPPER RIGHT BORDER)
"Clicking" in this area when an "up arrow" appears in the
top row will "page up" the file listing to a previous page
of files in the current directory.
#13 - (LOWER RIGHT BORDER)
"Clicking" in this area when an "down arrow" appears in the
bottom row will "page down" the file listing to the next
page of files in the current directory.
#14 - (LEFT BOTTOM BORDER)
"Clicking" is this area will TOGGLE the "Directory Follow"
feature. The directory follow feature is defaulted to ON
(except for DESQ) whereby moving the mouse in the directory
box with the Action Button depressed will automatically
move the directory highlighter at the same time.
#15 - (RIGHT BOTTOM BORDER)
"Clicking" in this area will toggle the split screen mode.
#16 - (TAGGED TOTAL AREA)
"Clicking" in this area will toggle the "Tags" on ALL files
in the current directory.
MOUSE "OPTION BUTTON" - POPUP MENUS
Popup Menu - Main Options
(Selected by "Clicking" the "OPTION/ESC Button")
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│File │ Tags │ DOS │ Setup │ Macros │ Tree │ Help │ Quit │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
SubOption Selections
(Selected by "Clicking" the "ACTION Button")
File Setup Tree
┌───┴──────┴───┐ ┌───┴───────┴───┐ ┌────┴──────┴─────┐
│ Edit │ │Screen Repaint │ │ Menu │
│ Edit (Ovly) │ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ 25 43/50 Line │ │ Add Directory │
│ List │ │ │ │ Change Name │
│ List (Ovly) │ │Program Limits │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │ Delete Directory│
│ Execute │ │ Mouse │ │ │
│Execute (Ovly)│ │ │ │ Mount Directory │
│ │ │ Colors │ │UnMount Directory│
│ Print │ │ │ │ │
│ Print (Ovly) │ │Volume Show Tog│ │ Show/Switch Log │
│ │ │ │ │ Write New Log │
│ Delete │ │ Defaults │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │ Rescan Tree │
│ Copy │ │ EMM Summary │ └─────────────────┘
│ Move │ │ Drive Summary │
│ Rename │ │ │
│ │ │ About DS │
│ Find │ │ Show Owner │
│ Select & Sort│ │Check Integrity│
│ Attributes │ └───────────────┘
└──────────────┘
SubOption Selections (cont)
(Selected by "Clicking" the "ACTION Button")
Tags DOS Macros Help
┌──┴──────┴──┐ ┌─┴─────┴──┐ ┌─┴────────┴┐ ┌┴──────┴┐
│ Tag All │ │ DOS │ │ Alt Fn │ │Keyboard│
│ UnTag All │ │DOS (Ovly)│ │ Shft Fn │ │ Mouse │
│Control Tags│ └──────────┘ │ Ctrl Fn │ │Expanded│
└────────────┘ │ # Links │ └────────┘
│Alt # Links│
└───────────┘
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Mouse with Macro Lists:
When one of the macro lists (@F10, sF10, or ^F10) is
displayed, clicking the action button in the following areas
will invoke the following appropriate responses:
On or Left of "=" sign - Launch (Execute) the Macro.
Right of "=" sign - Move highlighter to appropriate Macro
to enable changes to be made to the Macro.
On Top 2 lines of display - Tab to other Macro Lists.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Mouse with Directory Link Lists:
When one of the Directory Link Lists (0 or Alt-0) is
displayed, clicking the action button in the following areas
will invoke the following appropriate responses:
Left of "=" sign - Move highlighter to this number link.
On the "=" sign - Move highlighter to this number link
and "delete" (unlink) any assigned directory
from this number key.
Right of "=" sign - Move highlighter to this number link
and "insert" (link) the highlighted directory
to this number key.
Right Border of "File Box" - Page back and forth from the
"0" Directory Link List to the "Alt-0"
Directory Link List.