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- RCLICK.EXE (VERSION 1.0) Copyright (c) 1992 by Douglas Boling
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- First Published in PC Magazine February 9, 1993 (Utilities)
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- RCLICK:
- RCLICK is a pop-up menu program for Windows that replicates a
- menu bar for a window and displays it right where your cursor is. You
- can configure RCLICK to work only with certain programs.
-
- Are you tired of walking your mouse? That's what GUI (graphical
- user interface) veterans call it when you have to pick up and carry your
- mouse back to its starting point because you didn't have enough desktop
- space to move the cursor far enough in one motion.
-
- I've put on most of my mouse mileage moving the cursor to and from a
- menu in order to select an item there. All those trips to the menu bar
- made me wish that the menu choices could be brought to the cursor rather
- than vice versa. That's what RCLICK does. With RCLICK active, any time
- you press the right mouse button, a duplicate menu will pop up right at
- the spot where your Windows cursor is currently located.
-
- RCLICK can be configured not to pop up over the few Windows programs
- that use the right mouse button. The utility will remember the names of
- these programs, so that you have to teach RCLICK only once.
-
- To work from the source files, you'll need either the Microsoft
- C 6.0 compiler and the Windows SDK, or Borland's C++ 3.0 compiler.
-
- USING RCLICK
-
- To install RCLICK, just copy the RCLICK.EXE and RCHOOK.DLL files
- into a directory on your path. Then select the File|Run menu item in the
- Program Manager and enter RCLICK. If you want RCLICK to start each time
- you bring up Windows, simply add the RCLICK icon to the Program Manager's
- Startup group, using the File|New menu selection. (If you're still using
- Windows 3.0, you'll have to add the RCLICK program name to the
- RUN= statement in your WIN.INI file.)
-
- The only change you'll see on your desktop when RCLICK starts is the
- addition of the small RCLICK icon at the bottom of the desktop. The real
- action begins when you press the right mouse button over a window that
- has a menu. A pop-up menu will appear that contains all the items on the
- menu bar plus one additional item that calls up additional RCLICK
- options. When you click on a menu item, a submenu containing all the menu
- items for the main menu item will appear. Selecting any one of these
- items will perform the same action as if you had moved the cursor up to
- the menu bar and selected the item there.
-
- For example, if you press the right button over the Program Manager,
- you'll see a menu containing the items File, Options, Window, Help, and
- an item labeled RClick. Clicking with the normal left button on the File
- item will reveal a submenu containing the items New, Open, Move, Copy,
- Delete, Properties, Run, and Exit. Clicking on the New item will cause
- the Program Manager to display the New Program dialog box. That's just
- what would have happened had you selected the File|New menu item from the
- menu bar. The difference is that you didn't have to move the cursor up
- to the menu bar and back! Note that if you pop up the RCLICK menu by
- accident, clicking with the mouse anywhere on the desktop outside the
- menu will make it go away.
-
- RCLICK builds the appropriate pop-up menu each time you right-click.
- Clicking on the RClick menu item produces a submenu with two items,
- Configure and About. Selecting Configure displays a dialog box with
- three buttons that allow you to configure RCLICK. The first button,
- labeled ``Do not pop up on Window,'' allows you to tell RCLICK never to
- pop up over any window from that program again.
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- The second button, Disable RCLICK, allows you to disable the utility
- for all windows. The Cancel button closes the Configure dialog box
- without any action taking place. If you accidentally disable RCLICK you
- can reenable it using the RCLICK main dialog box, which will be
- discussed below.
-
- Selecting the RClick About menu item displays the About dialog box,
- which contains the name and version of the program, along with the
- copyright notice.
-
- Clicking on the RCLICK icon and then on Restore reveals RCLICK's
- main dialog box. The list box contains the names of all the programs
- RCLICK has been told to avoid. Again, the Disable button disables
- RCLICK for all windows, but in this case when you disable RCLICK,
- the text of this button changes to Enable. Pressing it will reenable
- the utility. The Remove button allows you to remove program names from
- the No Pop list simply by selecting the program name and clicking on the
- Remove button. The About button displays the same About dialog box that
- is available from the RClick pop-up menu. The final button, Exit, closes
- the RCLICK window and ends the program. When the RCLICK program
- terminates, it saves both the No Pop list and the disable/enable state
- in its configuration file, RCLICK.INI.
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- DOUGLAS BOLING IS A CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO PC MAGAZINE.