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- The enclosed files are a simple utility that allows you to save
- and restore the size and location of windows in WINDOWS 3.0.
- To install it, simply copy the arrange.exe file to your
- windows root directory (usually C:\WINDOWS). You can install
- it as an icon using the usual procedure (i.e. choose FILE,
- then NEW, etc.).
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- When activated ARRANGE will display a window with a lot of
- useful system info, like free disk space, available memory,
- system time, etc. These parameters are all updated every half
- second, so it gives you a running account of system
- resources. But all of this is ancillary stuff. The main
- purpose of ARRANGE is to maintain a file (also in C:\WINDOWS)
- called arrange.ini which stores the locations and sizes of
- windows. The two ARRANGE menus offer the following options:
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- EXIT - close the ARRANGE window
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- ABOUT - the obligatory info box
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- SAVE ALL - saves the location of all current top level windows. This
- data stays in the arrange.ini file until you remove or
- change it.
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- SAVE PREVIOUS - save the size and location of the last file activated
- before you activated the ARRANGE window.
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- RESTORE ALL - restores the locations of all current windows that have
- an entry in the arrange.ini file.
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- RESTORE PREVIOUS - restores the location of the last file activated
- before you activated the ARRANGE window (if it has
- an entry in arrange.ini).
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- INITIALIZE - clears the arrange.ini file of all windows locations
- and sizes.
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- The OPTIONS menus allows you to change the following settings:
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- SAVE ON EXIT - if set to "yes" all current windows sizes/locations
- will be saved in arrange.ini when you exit ARRANGE.
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- ARRANGE ON ACTIVATION - if set to "yes" all current windows will
- be resized/located when you activate arrange (if the
- appropriate entries exist in the arrange.ini file.
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- CLOSE ON ARRANGE - closes the ARRANGE window after windows are
- arranged/resize. Note that once you set this flag
- and exit ARRANGE, you will no longer have menu access
- to arrange. You will nave to use an editor (such as
- NOTEPAD) to change the CloseOnArrange entry in
- arrange.ini back to ""no".
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- The way I use ARRANGE is as follows. I get the windows display the
- way I want it. The I use ARRANGE saveall command to save it.
- Then I change the arrange flags to "CloseOnArrange=yes"
- and "ArrangeOnActivation=yes".
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- Then I add something like this to my win.ini file:
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- run=prog1.exe prog2.exe prog3.exe prog4.exe arrange.exe
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- The when you run windows all the specified will be loaded and run and
- placed where you want them.
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- All you need to run ARRANGE is the .exe file. The other stuff is
- included for those who have the Windows Program Development
- Toolkit and wnat to modify the source. Please be advised that
- this is my first stab at writing a windows application. Use at
- your own risk. I'll fix any problems that I encounter as I
- use the program and resubmit the stff again under another version
- (I'm calling this one 1.0). If you make any modification or
- improvements I would appreciate hearing from you on THE HUB
- Bulletin Board at 703-685-0019.
-
- Mike Bushell
- 9/13/90
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