═══ 1. Installation ═══ Place LXQUICK.DLL along with your other LXxxxxxx.DLLs. Place LXQUICK.LXH along with your other LPEXxxxx.LXH files. Place LXQUICK.INF along with your other LPEXxxxx.INF files. When in a document, issue the command QUICK to get the Quick pull-down, then use it. On-line help is provided as per this book. ═══ 2. Help for Quick ═══ These functions on the "Quick" pull-down provide alternatives to their equivalents on the "File" pull-down. They are faster because they re-use existing document windows instead of providing new document windows for each document. To re-use document windows safely, a replacement document must have the same extension as the one it replaces. Open Save File Close ═══ 2.1. Help for "Open..." ═══ Loads a document from disk into the existing document window, replacing any document which already occupies it. A dialog prompts you to identify the document on disk. The replacement document must have the same extension as the one it replaces. Overview of Quick ═══ 2.1.1. Help for "Open a File" ═══ This dialog can be used to select one or more files from any directory on any available FAT or HPFS drive. The identified file will replace any document which already occupies the current document window. The replacement document must have the same extension as the one it replaces. Disk Drive Search Pattern Directories Files Multiple Overview of Quick ═══ Help for Disk Drive ═══ Drives are selected by using the cursor up and down keys, or by engaging the pull-down list box to the right. When a different drive is selected, the left-hand and right-hand list boxes are refreshed. ═══ Help for Search Pattern ═══ The search pattern determines which files are listed in the right-hand list box. To effect a new search pattern, press Enter on the keyboard. Case is ignored. The "*" wild card character can be used anywhere to represent any combination of characters. The "." character, if used only at the end of the search pattern, will limit the files listed to those which do not contain that character. Do not specify a drive letter here; use the combo box to change drives. Do not specify a path here; use the left-hand list box to change directories. ═══ Help for Directories ═══ Directories below the current directory are listed in the left-hand list box. Above them there may be (from the top): o The root directory (highlighted if current). o Directories between the root and the current directory. o The current directory (highlighted). A new current directory can be chosen either by selecting an item from the list with the keyboard and pressing Enter, or by double-clicking on the required item. Both left-hand and right-hand list boxes will be refreshed. ═══ Help for Files ═══ Files matching the search pattern are listed in the right-hand list box. The search for a file can be concluded either by selecting one or more items and pressing Enter. ═══ Help for Multiple ═══ When this check box is checked, more than one item can be selected from the right-hand list box. Otherwise, only one item can be selected. If the check box is greyed, then it is intended that only one selection be made. ═══ 2.2. Help for "Save" ═══ Saves the document to disk. Overview of Quick ═══ 2.3. Help for "File" ═══ Saves the document to disk, and then removes the document from the document window, leaving the window ready for another document of the same type. Overview of Quick ═══ 2.4. Help for "Close" ═══ Removes the document from the document window, leaving the document window ready for another document of the same type. Overview of Quick ═══ ═══ FAT (File Access Table) is the disk format supported by both DOS and OS/2, wherein names have the 8.3 format (an 8 character name and a 3 character extension. Names are always folded to upper case. ═══ ═══ HPFS (High Performance File System) is the disk format supported by OS/2, wherein names may be longer, and include and arbitrary number of periods and blanks (even initial and trailing blanks). Mixed case is supported, although searches ignore case and names must be unique when folded to upper case.