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- [ System-Click v1.0 ]
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- [ History ]
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- Ver Description
- 0.5 Initial release. Full Drag and Animated Windows.
- 0.6 Fixed problem with stray mouse clicks causing problems.
- 0.7 Added 'Clear Recent Documents', Help, and About.
- 1.0 Initial public release.
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- [ Future ]
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- Implement Full Dragging on all systems, regardless of if Plus! is installed.
- In order to implement this effectively, the application would have to trap
- all mouse input. In the event that a mouse event would cause a resize, the
- application would have to take control. Any other mouse event would simply
- be passed off to the underlying application. The application would also
- need to keep in sync with the SPI_GETFULLDRAG and SPI_SETFULLDRAG system
- parameter options.
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- [ Overview ]
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- This little app runs resident in the Notification area. It gives you
- control of some system options that are otherwise buried within other
- applications, or deep within the system registry. Currently, this
- provides access to:
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- * Full Window Dragging
- * Animated Windows
- * Clear the recent documents list
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- More functionality can be added with out too much effort. Let me know
- if you know of a system parameter that would be useful to be able to
- control at a single click.
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- [ Functionality ]
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- With a single left mouse-click, it pops up a simple menu. In this menu
- are currently up to 4 options:
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- 1. Full Dragging
- 2. Animated Windows
- 3. Clear Recent Document List
- 4. About...
- 5. Help
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- 1. Full Dragging
- If you have the Plus! pack installed, this menu option will appear. With
- this item selected, dragging a window by its caption or resizing it will
- result in the entire window moving or resizing instead of only the rubber-
- band border appearing.
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- 2. Animated Windows
- This feature comes standard in Win95. Whenever you minimize, restore, or
- maximize a window, the window will 'grow' to its new position in an
- animated fashion. I found this to be annoying, so now you can disable it
- with a single click.
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- 3. Clear Recent Documents
- Under the Start menu there is an entry titled 'Documents' which, if clicked
- on, displays a list of the most recently used documents. Typically an
- application will add an entry to that list if it uses a file. Only native
- Win95 applications will do this (such as Word95, Notepad, etc.). Clicking
- on an entry in this list will launch the corresponding application. You can
- clear this list of all its entries via SysClk.
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- 4. About...
- Self explanatory.
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- 5. Help
- Self explanatory.
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- [ Closing the Application ]
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- To close the application, simply right double-click with the mouse. The
- application will then close. Any changes you made will be recorded in the
- system registry and will be in effect until you change them again.
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- [ Launching at Startup ]
- You can either create a shortcut to the application within the Startup
- menu (right-click on the Start button, then select Explore and then find
- your way to the startup program folder and create the shortcut) or append
- the name of the executable to the RUN= line in the [Windows] section of the
- WIN.INI. For example:
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- [Windows]
- RUN = OTHERPROGRAM.EXE N:\TOOLS\WIN95\SYSCLK\SYSCLK.EXE
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- [ Source Code ]
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- All of the source code is provided in this archive for reference. Please
- do not modify the source and redistribute. Notify me of any problems
- with the current implementation and I will try and fix them.
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- The comments in the source code may give a few insights as to how to
- effectively use the Notification Area of the Win95 Taskbar.
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- [ Contacting the Author ]
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- Author: James P. Ketrenos
- Snail : 19000 NW Evergreen Pkwy #139
- Hillsboro, OR 97124
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- E-Mail: JamesX_Ketrenos@ccm.jf.intel.com
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