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================================= “READ ME” for Blindfold, version 1.0 ================================= Copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved. January 12, 1992 Font: Geneva 12 This document must go wherever Blindfold goes. Please do not distribute Blindfold without this documentation. Please do not modify this document. REGISTERING BLINDFOLD AND THE 7.0 PLUS UTILITIES =============================================== Blindfold is not free. Sites using this software in business MUST register it. Contact the author for site licensing information. If it is for personal use only, please send a few dollars. Or you can consider the following. 7.0 PLUS Utilities is a package of all (more than 25) System 7.0 utilities I have written. You can get the disk with all of them NOW (not wait until I decide to upload the next program) by sending $29.95 to me. This will register you for all the software, will get you a disk of the software, and an update to the PLUS Utilities when it rolls around. It’s a pretty good deal. You should register your software, anyway, so why not do it like this? And it’s a lot cheaper this way. See the documentation which should accompany this file for more information on the 7.0 PLUS Utilities. A registration form should also accompany this file. Please use it to register the software. USING BLINDFOLD ================ • If you use Blindfold, please please please send me a note. My addresses (post and e-mail) are given below in “About the Author”. Also, read the information in the above section on registration. What Does Blindfold Do? ---------------------- • Blindfold allows you to hide or show icons in the Finder. So you can hide files you don’t want to see or don’t want seen. And they can be easily shown again when you want them. It can also help you organize your desktop by removing clutter from view. Using Blindfold -------------- • Blindfold can be used in two ways: • You can double-click on the application icon to open the program, and use the Open... menu item in the File menu to select files for modification. You can also modify your preferences from this menu. You could also drag sets of files, folders, or disks into the application, “Drop Box-style”. Depending on the preferences you have set up (see the next section), Blindfold will scan folders and disks provided, and will modify ALL files and ALL of the directories provided, no matter what their depth. The latter method requires Apple Events, and thus System 7.0 or higher. So if you don’t have at least System 7.0, you’ll have to use the Open... menu item. • When in Manual mode (using the Open... menu item), the file open dialog will appear with several extra buttons. The Visible check box is checked if the currently selected file or folder is visible in the Finder. You can check or uncheck this button as desired. The other two check box determine what files to display. Remember that folders are always display (regardless of their visibility). The last two extra buttons, All visible and All invisible, allow you to make all files in the current directory either visible or invisible. Blindfold does not go any deeper than the current directory when in Manual mode, so the contents of a folder made invisible in Manual mode are not made invisible also. • Double-clicking on files in Manual mode is the same as toggling the Visible check box. Otherwise (double-clicking on folders or disks), it performs the standard function. • You can’t change the visibility of disks. • If you make an alias invisible, the owner file will be hidden. • If you hold down the shift key when launching the program (or, if you hold down the option key to show the Preferences dialog, right after you hit OK), you can toggle the Blindfold of the selected files. All preferences other than the Blindfold setting will be considered. No matter what that setting, visible files and folders will be made invisible, and invisible files or folders will be made visible. • To cancel processing, just type a command-period. Cancelling in the middle of a file causes that file to be left unchanged. However, files already processed will remain modified. Preferences ----------- • The first time you try to modify a file using the program, the preferences dialog will come up, just to make sure the correct parameters have been set up. You can modify these if you wish. If you don't want to see that window again, just say OK. You will have to explicitly ask for for the Preferences window the next time you wish to change anything. The preferences apply ONLY to Drop Box mode. They are not consulted when in Manual mode. • To show the Preferences dialog in Drop Box mode, hold down the option key while the program is launching. • The preferences are fairly self-explanatory. You can choose to show or hide files and folders. By choosing to modify directories, you have decided that folders themselves can be made visible or invisible. You can modify files and folders inside those folders which you have dropped in by checking the Modify contents box. For example, if you drop in a folder containing three files and another folder, and have Modify contents on but Modify directories off, and are turning the files invisible, you will still be able to see the folders in the Finder (as long as you could see them before), but the all contained files (including those inside the second folder) will have disappeared. USING DROP BOXES ================= Drop Boxes are applications which can take advantage of System 7’s Apple Events. To use them, just drag a file over the application icon just as you would drag a file over a folder to move it into that directory. The Drop Box is then opened and processing is done. The program then quits. You can also throw in whole directories and disks. You don’t have to throw in just one, either. Select a whole bunch of files, directories, or disks, or any combination of the three, and dump them in. The Drop Box will scan for files of the required type and modify them accordingly. All files in all directories within those dropped in will be modified. You can also open the program by double-clicking and modify files from inside the program, or you can open the program manually and then throw files in. The program will not quit this time. At least, that is how Rob•Drop Boxes work. ABOUT THE AUTHOR ================== If you use this program, have any comments or suggestions, or ideas for other programs, please write me a note, e-mail or post. Robert Gibson E-Mail: RR#1 Carrying Place CIS: 71261,2236 Ontario, CANADA Internet: 71261.2236@compuserve.com KØK 1LØ This program is not to be included in any software collections other than BBSs and on-line services (eg. CD ROMs, PD Disks, etc.) without prior written consent from the author. Any distribution MUST MUST MUST include this document, unmodified. Blindfold copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.