NOTE:All menu entries are handled in this helpfile, each entry will state if
the entry is done by dialogs or in a standard manner.
New file
This enables you to create a new document, tcd will place all the needed items for you into the editor, you can select body colors etc., after this you can go on and create your page(s)Open file / Save file
This enables you to open a existing file, in case of an open file tcd will prompt you with a question if you really want to do this. In case of save file TCD will save the current file on disk. (you can also use CTRL-S to save files).Close current file
Does nothing more or less than closing the active file.Load templates
This will load a template file, wich you created earlier, if there is a tpl file called STARTUP.TPL TCD will load this automaticly if this feature is turned on in the setup.Setup printer
With this option you can setup your printerView document
With this option you can take a sneak preview of your written document, this option is however limited to HTML 2 and does not support images, forms and tables. its mend to take a quick look to see if your text is correct, if you want a reallife preview use the view document via netscape feature (Hotkey F11).View document via netscape
TCD offers a way to view documents via netscape (Hotkey F11), make shure that netscape is active and running, if you want to view offline then use the MOZOCK.DLL file, this DLL enables you to use netscape without going online.Exit to windows
Closes any active file (saving it first), and returns you to windows
You can optionally choose for a compressed save or load of a file, the files are compressed files, thus saving precious diskspace, if you save compressed you can reload the document via the load compressed file option.
This feature enables you to directly upload your htmlfiles to your webserver, this feature however is only available in the registered versions.
Make sure that winsock is loaded and ready to dial in.
Before you start using the ftp client make sure you have setup the basic features in the setup screen (ALT+F9).
If no entry is found in the ini file, it will ask for a server to login, after login in, your accountname and password wil be asked.
After this go to your userdirectory, and transfer the files you want to put on your server.
Since the transferred files contain a 3 letter extension, you may need to rename the files on the server, select a file in the remotebox, click on rename, a dialogbox will appear type in the new filename, click on OK, the file is now renamed.
For exampe a file called INDEX.HTM could wel be renamed to INDEX.HTML.
Search [F3]
Searches for specified string in current document, or all open documents
Search and replace [F4]
Searches for specified string in and replaces them in current document, or all open documents
Undo
This option lets you stepback the last 5 jobs performed
Repeat last command
This repeats the last used HTML command.
Clipboard functions
Copy selected text
Copies selected text to clipboard
Cut selected text
Cuts selected text to clipboard.
Paste selected text
Pastes selected text to current document
Delete Selected text
Deletes selected text in current document.
NOTE:These functions are also available via the right mouse button.
HEADER
TITLE
ISINDEX
STYLE NOTATION
META
HTML 2.0
HTML 3.0
Netscape
With these type you can write browser specific pages, for example the populair netscape
browser will recognize wich document is presented via these types.
It will appear as follows in your document.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3O//DTD HTML 3.0//EN"> (HTML 2.0 Type)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> (HTML 3.0 Type)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//Netscape Comm. Corp.//DTD HTML//EN"> (Netscape Type)
Person tag
Acronym
Insert
Delete
Short quote
Define term
Marquee
Font face
Font color
Background sound
Play video clip
The marquee tag enables you set scrolling messages to your page.
The Font face tag enables you to have several fonts active on your page.
The Font color tags enables you to have several colors in one sentence in your page.
The Background sound tag enables you to force the browser to play a sound on the background of your page.
The Play video clip enables you to play avi files on your page.
These functions are relative powerfull to the ones available in other browsers, specially
the playvideo function.
All the MSN extensions are handled via dialogscreens to setup those tags as easy as possible.
Show user defined tags ALT+F1
Insert user defined tags CTRL+F1
Insert textfile ALT+F2
Insert date and time ALT+F3
Insert document name ALT+F4
Create document template ALT+F5
Insert page last modified line ALT+F6
Macro's ALT+F8
Process macro's in document SHFT+CTRL+F12
Insert stamp information CTRL+INS
NOTE: Imported textfiles can be converted to html, you can select several options in the dialogscreen
before pressing the OK button.
NOTE: Options checked in the microsoft explorer box cannot be handled by other browsers, you may endup
with a slightly different look.
TIP:in case of more browser specific tags in one document make a special announcement in your page
that your page supports the ... browser(s). This will explain to visitors why some items can be distorted on not-
visible on your page(s).
{TIME} : Will be replaced with the current time.
{DATE} : Will be replaced with the current date.
{ AUTHOR}: Will be replaced with your name found in the tcd ini file.
{(C)} : Will be replaced with your name found in the tcd ini file.
{EMAIL} : Will be replaced with your email adress found in the tcd ini file.
To process these macro's in your open document press ALT+1 a statusbar will
indicated how far the converting progress is at that time.
You can choose to create your own macro's, press ALT+F8 for the macro editor, the same handling applies as for the build in macro's press ALT+1 to convert to them to the desired text.
Email adress : rpe@euronet.nl
Cis (compuserve): 101337,1736
Compuserve via internet : 101337.1736@compuserve.com
Compuserve via internet : tashcom@compuserve.com
WWW : http://www.euronet.nl/users/rpe/index.html
WWW : Compuserve site can be reached via our main internet site
The following tabs are available,
General information tab
General information contains checkmarks wich you can enable or disable to fully configure the working of tc-director, features as auto-save and auto-process you can find here!User information
Contains information about you, your name and email adress.Stamp information
TC-DIRECTOR retains your name from windows if no name is given. Please adjust this as you feel fit.
Do not edit the ini file directly, all information that is needed will be supplied via the setup dialog.
This tab hold the stampfile information doubleclick the edit field to load a pre-defined stampfile, if there is no stampfile present create one with the create stampfile button.External browser
If you want to define your own browser this is the place to be, TC-DIRECTOR supports a standard dde link to netscape, but some people preffer the own popular browser.Colors and Fonts
Each section of the mainscreen has its own colors and fonts you can select those using the colors and font tabs, tc-director will give you a selection of all availble fonts within windows. Default colors are black text and windowsgray background, default font is system.
Setup tc-director ALT+F9
With this dialogbox you can setup tc-director (autosave features etc.).Use did you know feature
Enabeling this feature leaves your with did you know notes every now and then.Hide button bar
This will hide / unhide the buttonbar panels.Turn on/off balloon hints
This will turn of the ballooned hints to square hintboxesTurn on/off statusbar
This turns on/off the statusbar below on your screen.Register
This option changes to registerinformation as soon as you registered tc-director, else you wil find a register dialog, when registering you will receive instructions via email.Bug report
With this option you can create a bugform wich can be attached to a email message.
Standard toolset
Extended toolset
FTP / Browsers / Publishers
Wizards
[Standard toolset, Extended toolset]
(GLOBAL)
The toolbar holds most used and wanted features of tc-director, when placing the mouse above a speedbutton a helpballoon will popup showing relevant information about the speedbutton and what is does when clicked.
[FTP / Browsers / Publishers]
The Linkstar buton
This button launches the Linkstar Launcher, (C) Linkstar comunications inc. This software enables you to publish your created pages with tc-director in a easy manner. For more information visit their website http://www.linkstar.com, Linkstar Details and pricing can be obtained via Linkstar Communications inc. This feature will be enabled when tc-director finds the Linkstar software anywhere on your system. Thanks to a joint-venture between Linkstar Communications inc. and Tashcom Software we can now supply you with a total solution for the creation and publishing of your internet pages at relative low prices.The FTP Client button
This button launches the ftp client, this feature will only work when tc-director is registered!.
[Wizards / Dialogs toolset]
The wizards
Here you find all wizards currently available in tc-director,
Mail wizard, Guestbook wizard, Index page wizard, Thumbnail wizard, Image wizard, Table wizard and the Url manager.
The personal license
This license will cost you $25.00, you will receive a registration code via email.
The code will release the ftp client and you have rights to support via email.
You will be placed on a mailing-list to keep you up-to-date on the development of tc-director.
The code you will receive is personal!, along with the code you will receive a invoice
Registrations can be done online via internet or compuserve.
The Company license
This license will cost you $200.00, This registration slightly differs from the personal license.
The company license means that anyone within company walls can/may use tc-director.
A company license is delivered via snailmail, it contains the companyname hardcoded in the splashscreen, and in several other locations. It holds the same features as the personal license.
One contact-person within the company will be put on the mailinglist to keep you up-to-date on the development of tc-director.
Along with your company copy of tc-director you will receive a invoice.
Registrations can be done via internet or compuserve.
Special versions
You can obtain a special version of tc-director with features in it that you want implemented.
This could be a version wich works with standard directory names, OEM versions etc.
Contact us for details and Pricing, let US know what YOU want!.
TCD will not fill entire screen, colors are looking as rubish, horizontal & vertical scrollerbars appear.
You most likely have the PLUS! package installed, Since this pack can alter the global look of windows tc-director will also be affected by this.
TCD goes about leading a live of its own, when using the scrollerbar(s).
This seems to be a win'95 feature to, for reasons unknown doubleclicking a glyph on the scrollerbar results in auto-scrolling of a document, since tcd does not expect this it can generate a GPF at tcdirec.exe, currently we are searching for a solution to this problem.