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S T U F F - I T
Copyright © 1988 by Soft-Link, Inc.
Advanced Features
Below are explanations of two of Stuff-It's advanced features. The first
one is "Making multiple menu selections with Stuff-It" and the second is
"Using Stuff-It with programs that open their own screens". Please be
sure to read the FULL Stuff-It users manual before reading the following
two sections.
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Making multiple menu selections with Stuff-It
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With Stuff-It you can select several menu items and subitems at once and
have each of their actions performed together. This can be useful when
using a menu like CLI-Menus. For example: let's say we want to print out
a full directory and subdirectory listing of the disk in drive "DF0". To
do this we would want to execute the command "DIR DF0: OPT A". Using the
multiple menu select feature you can select all the necessary menu items
and/or subitems needed to execute that command at once. This is done by
pressing and releasing the mouse select (left) button over each of the
desired menu items and/or subitems while holding down on the mouse menu
(right) button and not releasing it until the last selection has been
made. In the example above we would select the following items/subitems
in this order: "DIR", "DF0:", "OPT A" and finaly "Carriage Return". You
should notice that as you select each menu item and subitem a check mark
will appear to the left of its title text. This is to let you know which
items you have already selected as you can NOT select any item more than
once. Items and subitems that do not have action associated with them do
not leave space for the check mark to the left of the title text so they
will be further left than those that do have action. There is a limit of
100 items and/or subitems that can be selected at once.
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Using Stuff-It with programs that open their own screens
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Stuff-It always opens its window and displays its menus on the WorkBench
screen as to avoid interfering with your other programs' display. Thus
when using Stuff-It with a program that opens its own screen, you will
notice that Stuff-It will cause the WorkBench screen to come forward to
allow you to make a menu selection. Once you make a menu selection (or
just release the menu button on the mouse) and you are still holding
down the command key, Stuff-It will return your other program to the
front of the display and output the selected action (if any) to it. If
you are not holding down the command key when you make a menu selection,
the WorkBench screen will remain in front allowing you to preview your
selection before using it. To get your other programs' window back to
the front, just press and release the menu button once while holding
down the command key (you do not have to make a menu selection). Once
your other program is in front again you can inform Stuff-It to output
the selected action to your program by clicking once on the left mouse
button while holding down on the command key (see paragraph 2, page 5).
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* Special THANKS to Chuck Buckavich for designing the animated icons *
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