This is ABRACADABRA. 
Welcome!

With this program, you can view, edit, and save any files you want to. 
Abracadabra’s interface makes it a unique Windows utility. If you’re tired of the same-old, same-old utilities, the Abracadabra is for you. There are many diverse functions in this program. It is an image viewer, a text editor, an explorer and a browser... all incorporated into one interface called "Abracadabra".

Abracadabra 1.2.3 has the following features

•	A New interface 
•	Quick navigation of both files and catalogues (one left/right mouse click performs all the necessary functions) 
•	The files box is always present "under hand"
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With Abracadabra, you can...

•	View and edit text-files (including files larger than 64kb) 
•	View and edit RTF files 
•	Convert text from Windows to DOS- format and vice versa 
•	Conveniently view graphic files of the following formats: BMP, JPG, WMF, PCX, TGA, DIB, RLE, ICO 
•	Save any image in BMP or JPG format 
•	Zoom in and out, and move the images on the screen (all this is done with the mouse, without using rulers and buttons) 
•	Set any image as tiled or centered desktop wallpaper 
•	Set any image as Abracadabra’s logo screen 
•	Copy the image to the clipboard 
•	View your pictures in "slideshow" mode 
•	Perform all standard file operations: copy, move, rename, delete, or open the document using the associated program 
•	Use local file navigation (forward/back/history functions) 
•	new desktop functions and hyperimage files.
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System requirements

•	Windows 95 
•	1 MB free disk space 
•	high-color display adapter recommended

How Abracadabra works

The Abracadabra window is divided into two parts: a display area and a browser bar. The browser bar lets you move through directories and click on the file you want to see. Files selected are shown in the display area. 
With a few simple mouse clicks, you can move through your system or across your network, and to move up and down in your folder structure. A left click will open a drive or catalogue or open a file for viewing. A right click will move up in the folder structure. A right click on a folder or file icon brings up the popup menu. 

Browser popup menu 

The popup menu lets you perform the following operations:
•	Open Open selected file in associated program. Same thing as double clicking. 
•	View View file in Abracadabra. 
•	Copy Copy selected file. 
•	Move Move selected file. 
•	Delete Delete selected file. CAUTION! This command does an actual DELETE. It does not move an item to the Recycle Bin. 
•	Rename Rename selected file. 
•	Show Display files by categories. All - all files.Green - images. Red - html files. Executable - EXE, COM, LNK, PIF files. Blue - all other files. History - show history list.
Operations specifically for image files:
•	Center wallpaper Set image as Windows centered wallpaper. 
•	Tile wallpaper Set image as Windows tiled wallpaper. 
•	Copy to clipboard Copy selected image file to the clipboard. 
•	Slideshow Auto-view of all files in catalogue. Default delay is 3 seconds. You can set a delay from 1 to 60 seconds in the image toolbar.
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Tool panel

The main tool panel is in the top part of the browser. It has the following buttons (left to right):
•	Toolbar ON/OFF. Show/hide image and text toolbars. 
•	Autohide ON/OFF. You can hide the browser panel to increase screen workspace. When the mouse pointer goes over the side-border, the browser panel appears, and disappears again when you move the mouse away. 
•	Logo file - return to abracadabra's startup picture. 
•	Create a new text file. The program creates a blank text document "untitled.txt" for editing. 
•	Top level. Shows a list of drives in the browser panel. 
•	Save. Save current edited text. You can change the file type in the filename field to .RTF to save your text in Rich Text Format. If you want to save a file in another directory, change the directory in the browser panel and then click on the "Save" button. Saving BMP and JPG files is done in the standard Save dialogue. 
•	About... Shows the "About" screen. 
•	Forward and back. These buttons let you navigate through your local files the same way as your WWW browser. 
•	Left/right bar. Places the browser on the left or right hand side of Abracadabra's window. 
•	Minimize. Minimizes the main window of the program. 
•	Exit. Leave the program. 
•	Maximize/Restore Abracadabra's window.
When you leave Abracadabra, all settings are saved.

Toolbars
You can use the standard toolbar when working with files. For text files, this toolbar contains analogues of "Save" and "New text" buttons from the browser panel. Other buttons are:
•	Print button. Print current text. 
•	Font button. Change default font for the text window (not for RTF and WRI format. For these formats, use the document's internal fonts). 
•	Color button. Change the default color for the text window (not for RTF format. For this format, use white only). 
•	WIN/DOS button. With this toggle, you can convert text from Windows to DOS format and vice-versa. This function works very slowly, and can only be used for small files. This function is actually for international versions of Windows with different keyboard layout for DOS and for Windows.

For image files, the toolbar contains the following buttons:

•	Copy to clipboard. Copy current image file to the clipboard. 
•	Center wallpaper. Set current image as centered wallpaper the Windows. 
•	Tile wallpaper. Set current image as tiled wallpaper in Windows. 
•	Set as logo image Set current image (and its dimension and placing) as Abracadabra's startup logo image. The default logo screen is abra.jpg in Abracadabra’s start directory. 
•	Slideshow Start/Stop slideshow mode. You can change catalogues and select a new start file in the browser bar. Slideshow will start from the first selected file in any catalogue. To stop the slideshow, click on the slideshow button again. 
•	Zoom Four predefined zoom buttons, Zoom In/Zoom Out commands. Invert, Flip and RGB effects.
•	Color button. Change background color of window. 
•	Work/edit Switch off/on EDIT mode for hyperimages. 
•	New zone Create new invisible zone on picture. 
•	New text Create new text string on picture. 
•	New icon Create new icon on picture for any executable file or document. 
•	Delete HIM file Delete HIM-file associated with current picture. 
•	Save HIM file Save HIM-file associated with current picture.

Mouse functions for images

You can zoom in on and out from images by clicking left and right on the image. You move the image within the window by dragging it with the left button pressed. 

NEW ! Hyper Image files (HIM)

The main feature in version 1.2 is the Hyper Image File (HIM). A HIM file is a hidden text file linked to the picture (same name and him-extension). The HIM file contains the links to other files and programs. It lets you create chains of the connected images, and easily go through them.

You can also create analogues of the Windows Desktop with buttons, text and icons to start external programs. 
You do not need to use a text editor for editing a HIM file, all you do is load the picture and press the button 'work' in the tool panel, then choose one of the tools (new zone, new icon or new text) and select the necessary area on the picture. You can change all properties of the object just created in the popup menu.
If you enter a URL in the command string with first letters "http:", Abracadabra will open the selected web page.
There have been some internal commands added in version 1.2.2: about, minimize, quit, shutdown, restart. You can use these commands in the command-string for HIM objects. 
Also, after creating the new icon, you can change the picture to any other icon or image file. Use the "Change picture..." command from object's popup menu.

How to register Abracadabra

Registering Abracadabra is easy. Open the Register program that comes with Abracadabra by starting up the file REGISTER.EXE. Enter your name, your email address, and the number of single user licenses you require for each program you wish to purchase. Save, copy or print
the data form from the Register program and send it, with the payment, to Kagi Shareware. 
INTERNET REGISTRATION: You can register using any major credit card on a secure server.
Point your browser to the following URL and follow the instructions on the screen: 

http://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/register1.cgi?Q5

or

https://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=1333-2

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Arkadiy Istomin
e-mail: ara@etel.ru
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/1002