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WinTabs	1.0	Next Generation Window Management

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 Introduction

KEYWORDS: WINDOWS MANAGEMENT WINTABS NT

ENVIRONMENT: Windows, Windows-NT

Welcome to WinTabs.

This application will introduce you to a new concept of running windows management never thought possible before.

•	Have you ever used the tile or cascade windows command in the Program Manager or other applications and said oops:  Where is the undo button?  The fact of the matter is that there is none.

•	Are you tired of having to constantly re-arrange and resize windows to get your work done?

If the answer to either of these is Yes, then Wintabs™  may be the answer.  Like our ADW™ software has brought the ability to neatly access your program groups, Wintabs™ brings you a smart window management for your running applications.

•	You can work in full view with all your applications yet any running application is at the touch of a button.

•	You no longer need to search in the Task-List which applications are present, since you visually see what is up.

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Features:

Speed buttons provide

•	maximize/minimize all the currently running applications.

•	Tile horitaly or vertically windows you are working with.

•	work in full extended view in all your applications.

Other features:

Many applications will implement sub-windows to manage their data, such windows are also known in technical terms as Child Windows and MDIs.  For example, a word-processor may allow you to open several documents in separate windows.  Such applications will typically provide a pull-down menu named Window which usually contains rudimentary window operations.  However, there is a discrepency of functionality from what one app decides to provide to another.  WinTabs attempts to provide a total solution and a uniform interface across applications.

Because WinTabs is a new concept some Windows applications may not expect it.

Many application developers will disable certain window management operations such as resize or maximize by means of not providing a resize-border or a maximize button recpectively.  This only stops a user from such operations but not WinTabs.  Therefore, If you encouter applications that dont expect WinTabs messages we have provided an exception list of applications you would like WinTabs to skip.

Send in your comments... Please include, what did you like and what did you dislike?

Thank you.


User Interface

Main Window

Info Window


 CUSTOMIZATION

General

User Preferences


GENERAL

WinTabs.INI

This file is read each time the application is started.

This can be accessible from the INFO menu.

Note: you can maintain your WinTabs.INI in a directory of your choice by declaring an environment variable named WinTabs.  For example:

SET WinTabs=C:\RESOURCE

or

SET WinTabs=C:\USERS\JOHN

This allows to define user/project specific configurations if desired.


User Preferences

WinTabs.INI

This file contains configuration information used by this application to hold your preferences.  The following parameters can be specified:

[WinTabs]

StayOnTop=1

Specify the popup clock is to stay on top of all windows.

;                               ; margins around maximized extent windows

LEFT_MARGIN=0

RIGHT_MARGIN=0

BOTTOM_MARGIN=1400

;                               ; REFRESH_INTERVAL

;                               ; 0 TO 60 seconds

REFRESH_INTERVAL=60

;                               ; What happens to running apps initially

;                               ; 0=nothing, 1=minimized, 2=maximized

DEFAULT_STATE=1


QUICK_TOUR

Quick Guided Tour

After this application loads it will display the main action buttons.  And and an icon for every running app.

If you cannot tell which application a given icon reference, move the mouse pointer over the icon and the info status area will display the application title.

Iconize all running applications

Tile Vertically or Horizontally


Message List Selector

Use this selection box to set the message to be displayed when the countdown timer is done.

You can set the tickler message anytime, even after the timer has been started.

Note: you can customize this list.


Exit

This allows you to exit the application.


Info Window

You can click on parts of this window to obtain more information.  Areas of interest are indicated when the mouse pointer turns into a finger pointer.


Info Log

Use this to access the log.


Info Preferences

Use this to access user preferences.


Info Application Help

Access this application help system.


Info Application About

Access the About window of this application.


Info Menu Exit

Exit to main window.


Main Window

You can click on parts of this window to obtain more information.  Areas of interest are indicated when the mouse pointer turns into a finger pointer.


Main Toolbar

This is the speed toolbar.


Notes

Window-NT Users

Are you experiencing poor performance?

We have observed a performance hit when running Windows-NT on a FAT file system.  Dynamic Data Exchange seems to be very slow.  Therefor we suggest strongly that if you use this application under Windows-NT to format your NT system partition as NTFS.


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The following are products we offer.

ICD

ICD

Keywords:

DIRECTORY, PATH, DISK, UTILITY

Environment

DOS 5.x, Window 3.1 or Windows-NT 3.1

Description

  ICD stands for Interactive Change Directory.  It's a nifty tool to have whether you a DOS or Windows user that accesses the DOS prompt frequently. It allows to select a directory on your current drive simply by specifying a substring of the desired directory.

 Try it, you will like it, guarantied.

MTimer

MTimer

Keywords:

TIME STOPWATCH COUNTDOWN TIMER MTIMER

Environment

Windows, Windows-NT

Description

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This application provides you with a sophisticated timer.

Features:

•	A Large display make this timer visible from across the room.

•	Every digit of the timer display is directly controllable.  This means fast a precise setting of starting values.

•	Intuitive controls.

•	User customizable tickler messages.

Wintabs

WinTabs

ENVIRONMENT: Windows, Windows-NT

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This application will introduce you to a new concept of Window management never thought possible before.

Have you ever used the tile or cascade windows command in the Program Manager or other applications and said oops:  Where is the undo button?  (The fact of the matter is that there is none).

Are you tired of having to constantly re-arrange and resize windows to get your work done?

If the answer to either of these is Yes, then Wintabs™  may be the answer.  Like our ADW software has brought the ability to neatly access your program groups, Wintabs™ brings you a smart window management for your running applications.

You can work in full view with all your applications yet any running application is at the touch of a button.

You no longer need to search in the Task-List which applications are present, since you visually see what is up.

Many applications will implement sub-windows to manage their data these are also known in technical terms as Child Windows.  For example, a word-processor may allow you to open several documents in separate windows.  Such applications will typically provide a pull-down menu named Window which usually contains rudimentary window operations.  However, there is a discrepency of functionality from what one app decides to provide to another.  Wintabs provides a total solution and a uniform interface across applications.

ADW

ADW

KEYWORDS: DESKTOP PROGMAN MANAGER LAUNCH ADW

ENVIRONMENT: Windows, Windows-NT

Abdenacer's Desktop for Windows

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This application builds an alternative interface to the Window's (or NT) desktop Program Manager interface.  Every group of applications is presented as a vertical (or horizontal?) list of icons one set at a time. ADW has some control buttons to switch rapidely between the groups.  This kind of program launcher will reduce the need to constantly re-arrange the desktop since the lists are always kept tidy and neat.

All applications are kept accessible with an intuitive and simple interface.

Unlike other Program Manager replacements ADW will not build a separate database for your desktop applications so you can always revert to the Program Manager.  You investment in configuring your desktop applications will not be lost when you upgrade to another version of Windows.

TimeIt

TimeIt

KEYWORDS: METRICS, AUDIT TRAIL, TIME TRACKING DATE, BILLING

ENVIRONMENT: WINDOWS, Windows-NT

TIMEIT

Welcome to Wintabs.

This application provides you with up to 3 task timers.  While you are working under the Windows environment you may want to timeit how long a given task will take you to accomplish.

This can be usefull if you are interested in collecting such metrics for billing purposes or for doing future estimates of tasks.

Features:

•	Your timing information is kept neatly organized in a logfile.

•	The logfile is a text column format you can import easily in a spreadsheet.

•	Tasks can be categorized via keywords you configure in the user preferences.

•	Intuitive controls.

MCLOCK

Environment: WINDOWS, NT

Category: ACCESSORY CLOCK MINDER

MClock

MCLOCK is a Windows' clock application with some nifty features.

Unlike regular clocks it's a little smarter and incorporates a chime

feature such that it will re-surface on your desktop every time the

chime period is reached.  This value along with other parameters can be

set to your preferences.

MCLOCK also incorporates a countdown timer with a selectable one time

tickler message.  This will come in handy when you need to remember a

late notice meeting or an event that you have to attend to.  The

countdown feature helps you enter a relative time rather then a

pre-determined fixed time.  For example:

    - In 15 minutes call back John 216-4567

    - In 30 minutes, Check the baby's diapers

    - 1 hour and half from now, Verify that the backup has finished correctly

GONEW

Environment: WINDOWS, NT

Category: ACCESSORY BANNER

Gone With the Wind

Gone is a utility which allows you to leave a highly visible message

on your desk computer while your are not around.  It's a fast and

effective alternative to leaving post-it notes on your display.  You

can maintain your own list of frequently used messages and do it with

style.  This package includes both a DOS and a Windows 3.0 version.

PCK

Environment: DOS, OS2

Category: POWER UTILITY, MENUING, INTEGRATION, FRAMEWORK

PiCK

 Desciption:

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 	accept standard input and turn it into a pick list with operations.

 	This versatile utility is designed to accept various kinds of

data originating from standard input or designated files, and present

it as an INTERACTIVE pick list on the screen.  The user can specify

various operations to be performed using key information found in the

input.  Options can be specified from the command line to instruct

PCK on how to combine elements from the picked selections along with

a specified commands to be performed.

FORMGET

Environment: DOS

Category: FORM DATABASE DATA-ENTRY

FormGet

 Purpose:

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 	Formget is a general purpose electronic form entry tool intended

for use with batch files.

 Desciption:

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 	Takes a form specification in the form of fields information.

Expects the fields' initial data in the form of separate files placed

in a particular directory.  The modified fields are echoed back to

these files upon exit.

 Features:

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Support the use of user specified tools for viewing and editing

memo fields.

 	Cursor moves automatically to next field to minimize typing.

Support user specified selection lists (also known as popups)

Support read-only fields and basic validation.

Support carrying data between a form data entry and another.

SRM

Environment: DOS

Category: DATABASE SERVICE-REQUEST-MANAGER DEFECT-TRACKING

SRM

SRM is a Service Request management system for tracking defects

associated with any product development.  The system is also capable

of being customized for tracking other issues (perhaps at the

individual level) such as tracking tasks progress, todo items,

etc...

This system can be used by a single user or setup for multi-users.

  Features:

- Integrity: Although this tracking system make use of the DBX

database system (a DBMS maintained in ASCII form) which offers the

ability to directly edit complete records using any ASCII editor, the

default SRM setup does not give direct access to the records raw data

but rather it uses a well controlled field level access.

- User level customization: For example each user can configure

his own ASCII editor to edit free form fields, his/her file viewer.

Other customizations are also available.

- Data validation via interactive configurable

pick lists and required fields specifications.

- Concurrency control via record level locking, for multi-user

support.

- Audit trail (Maintain Creation and Modification date, other

tracking are possible )

- Multi-Environment Support: Runs in DOS, Windows, (NT) (soon in OS/2)

- Very Low memory requirements, fast execution.

- Can make use of your mail system for notifications.  (Is

also capable of integrating other tools such as version control).

- Extensible and Highly customizale (eg. for tracking additional

metrics, hooking up mail or/and a revision control system).

- Data export capabilities.

DBX

Environment: DOS

Category: DATABASE ASCII

DBX

DBX is an ASCII-based Data Base Management System (DBMS) for storing

and retrieving a wide range of data.

The design is very flexible, and uniform.  Because of this, and

other design decisions, simple but powerful tools can be developed

around this architecture.

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 	- Variable length records.

- Extensible schema at the record level.

- User Level configuration: Each user can configure his own ASCII

editor to edit free form fields

- Data validation via interactive configurable pick lists.

- Record level locking, for multi-user support

- Multi-platform support.  All DBX tools run in DOS or OS/2

- Low memory requirements for fast execution.

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 Command      Short Description

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 Administration:

dbxsetup     setup configuration info

 Add/Delete/Modify:

dbxnew       Creates a new DBX record. Use this to create new records and

dbxlock      Lock/Unlock a DBX record

fldget       extract a field from a DBX record (delimited field from a file)

fldgetm	     extract a series of fields specified via a list of field names

fldput       updates a field of DBX record

fldinfo      return info about a field's full name using FLDNAME.LST lookup

fldedit      field edit/modify

fldblank     test if a field is blank

fldvalid     perform field validations

 Reporting:

dbxlist      display each field name and the first line of data if it exists

dbxlista     display each field name and ALL its data if it exists

dbxfind1     given key1 output record and up to 4 fields of 1st line of data

dbxfind      given key1 and key2 output record an additional field

dbxtally     given field name and record names tally all the different values

dbxdist2     given 2 field names display a 2D array showing the distribution

 Exporting:

dbxexp       Export DBX fields in a delimited file format

dbxexpf      Export specified list of fields in a delimited file format

dbx2del      Export all DBX records into a delimited format file.

POLYROOT

Environment: DOS

Category: MATH EDUCATION POLYNOMIAL

PolyRoot

          POLYROOT is a program on finding the real roots of

polynomials with real coefficients.  This subject is studied from

high school through higher education, polynomials with their special

properties and applications are often studied.  One of the principal

task is to find roots of polynomial equations.  This task can be

tedious and time consuming.  Finding rational roots involves a

considerable number of repetitive, simple, but dull operations,

especially if the coefficients of the leading and constant terms are

large.  In Numerical Analysis, another important area of computer

applications, POLYROOT not only gives the real roots quickly and

accurately to the precision sought, but also provides the user with

INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS that make the learning effective, convincing,

and pleasant.

TXTPAINT

Environment: DOS

Category: PAINT DRAW

TxtPaint

TXTPAINT provide character based painting tool that allows to draw character

picture in color on a 66 lines by 80 columns sheet.

PC-ADAPT

Environment: DOS, OS2, WINDOWS-NT

Keywords: MULTI-USERS PC, METRICS, AUDIT TRAIL, TIME TRACKING, BILING

PC-ADAPT

 ADAPT is a collection of scripts and utilities that implement a login

process on a personal computer to allow you to manage multiple users and/or

projects.

 When ADAPT was developed one of the goals was to be able not only to

track which users have entered the system and how long they used it,

but also, to track which applications were used and for how long.

 Features Highlights

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 	A multi-users multi-projects PC management system

 	State of the Art task tracking and audit-trail system

collect metrics on your PC and/or applications usage

Centralized Applications Launching and Management

run any configured application in a consistent manner via a

keyword. No need to know where it is located.

Over 100 powerful scripts ready to use, features:

An integrated PC/ADAPT configuration files administration. (ADMIN)

Manage multi-users for your Windows' environment. (WIN/WINUSER)

Edit any script on the path and provide only the basename. (EB)

Batch EDitor, automates global string-replace from a script. (BED)

Automated batch file documentation. (IB)

and more...

Several powerfull utilities from our DOS Power Tools collection

(ADOPT) like:

PCK, KBD, GONE, SCROLLIT, DRIVEGET, PATHGET, TD.

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