The Tilery      Version 4.0.1       July 14, 1998


What is it?

The Tilery displays tiles, each of which represents an application, document, folder, control panel, or other such item. Clicking a tile opens its item: applications are launched and/or brought to the front, documents are opened, folders’ Finder windows are opened and displayed. If tiles are hidden behind other windows, moving the mouse to a “hot spot” in a corner of the screen will make them visible.

The Tilery supports Macintosh Drag and Drop, so that you can drag icons from Finder windows and drop them onto tiles. Dropping a document icon onto an application tile opens the document in the application; dropping anything onto a folder icon moves or copies it into the folder, and so on.

You can also use your keyboard with The Tilery. Tiles can be selected and opened from the keyboard, and you can set hotkeys that will “click” any tile with a single keystroke.

The Tilery can be a tremendous time-saver. You can make tiles for all of your most commonly used applications, documents, and folders, and access them with a single click. Folder contents are easily, quickly available. The Finder’s tile gives you quick access to everything on your desktop, no matter how many application windows are in the way.

The Tilery is just an application. It’s not an INIT or system extension, not a DA, not a control panel. It doesn’t do anything that a well-behaved application shouldn’t do, so it is very reliable and highly compatible with the rest of your software.

Requirements

The Tilery requires System 7 or later and a 68020 or higher processor. The Tilery is fully compatible with Mac OS 8 and all Power Macintosh systems.

System 7 Pro or System 7.5 or later (including Mac OS 8) are recommended, but not necessary. These systems include the Scriptable Finder and Macintosh Drag and Drop. A color monitor is also recommended.

If your system does not include Macintosh Drag and Drop, you will not be able to drop Finder icons onto the tiles.

If your system does not include the Scriptable Finder, you will not be able to use (or in most cases, create) tiles for folders, the Trash, control panels, and such; and certain other features such as “Find Original” will be disabled. You will still be able to create and use tiles for applications, desk accessories, and normal documents.

Let’s Get Started!

You can read the chapter “Quick Start” in this document for a brief introduction to The Tilery, or you can just start up The Tilery and jump right in. 

Be sure to use The Tilery’s “Help” menu. It has full instructions for using The Tilery.

Full instructions for using The Tilery are in its Help menu. But if you have other questions about The Tilery, this manual may be helpful. To see other chapters in this manual, select them by name from the Chapters menu, or use the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of this window, or click one of the “Read” buttons that you’ll see in the text.

Here are the chapters of this manual:

         Quick Start
                The Tilery in a nutshell: Installation, starting up,
                and an overview of the features.

         How Do I… 
                Answers to common questions.

         Problems 
                Solutions for common problems.

         Feature Requests 
                Stuff we know people would like added to The Tilery.
                Please read this chapter before sending us your requests!

         What’s New? 
                A brief overview of the new features in this
                version of The Tilery.

         Memory 
                Not too much, not too little: some good advice on
                giving The Tilery the right amount of memory.

         Conflicts 
                A few programs (not many!) that may not work well 
                with The Tilery.

         History 
                Features introduced and bugs fixed in past versions.

         Special Thanks 
                Some very good friends of The Tilery.

         How To Purchase 
                A registration key will permanently enable all of
                The Tilery’s features. Here’s how to get one.

         Author and Copyright 
                The fine print, and how to contact us.

Full on-line help is available under The Tilery’s Help menu.


Purchasing The Tilery

The Tilery 4.0 is shareware and costs US $15. You may freely distribute The Tilery 4.0 provided that:

    • you don’t alter either The Tilery or this document, and
    • this document always accompanies The Tilery, and
    • you do not charge for distributing The Tilery. (Reasonable disk duplication and/or downloading fees excepted.)

         How To Purchase — Click the “Read” button for more information.
       
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