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窶 Finder windows are opened and displayed. If tiles are hidden behind other windows, moving the mouse to a 窶徂ot spot窶 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 窶彡lick窶 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窶冱 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窶冱 not an INIT or system extension, not a DA, not a control panel. It doesn窶冲 do anything that a well-behaved application shouldn窶冲 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 窶廡ind Original窶 will be disabled. You will still be able to create and use tiles for applications, desk accessories, and normal documents.
Let窶冱 Get Started!
You can read the chapter 窶弉uick Start窶 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窶冱 窶廩elp窶 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 窶彝ead窶 buttons that you窶冤l see in the text.
Here are the chapters of this manual:
ﾂ Quick Start
The Tilery in a nutshell: Installation, starting up,
and an overview of the features.
ﾂ How Do I窶ｦ
Answers to common questions.
ﾂ Problems
Solutions for common problems.
ﾂ Feature Requests
Stuff we know people would like added to The Tilery.
Please read this chapter before sending us your requests!
ﾂ What窶冱 New?
A brief overview of the new features in this
version of The Tilery.
ﾂ Memory
Not too much, not too little: some good advice on
giving The Tilery the right amount of memory.
ﾂ Conflicts
A few programs (not many!) that may not work well
with The Tilery.
ﾂ History
Features introduced and bugs fixed in past versions.
ﾂ Special Thanks
Some very good friends of The Tilery.
ﾂ How To Purchase
A registration key will permanently enable all of
The Tilery窶冱 features. Here窶冱 how to get one.
ﾂ Author and Copyright
The fine print, and how to contact us.
Full on-line help is available under The Tilery窶冱 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:
窶｢ you don窶冲 alter either The Tilery or this document, and
窶｢ this document always accompanies The Tilery, and
窶｢ you do not charge for distributing The Tilery. (Reasonable disk duplication and/or downloading fees excepted.)
ﾂ How To Purchase 窶 Click the 窶彝ead窶 button for more information.
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Finder and System 7 and Mac OS are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
