color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"> combo to choose the
hotspot you want to modify. </font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Hotspots can be
clustered in </font><font color="#008000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Groups</font><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">. Hotspots in the same group are self
exclusive, that is, you can only have a menu within a hotspot
group on screen at a time. This can be useful if you are mapping
several hotspots to, say, a desktop bitmap holding several items
( like a menu ), but you only want to have one of those items
active at a time. Clicking on a hotspot would then close any
open menu associated to a different hotspot in the same group
before displaying the new menu. This pretty much mimics the
normal sub-menu system in NextSTART: Click on a sub-menu item and
any previously open sub-menus close before the new sub-menu is
displayed.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">If, on the other
hand, you want to have multiple menus associated to different
hotspots open at the same time, then you should give their
hotspots different group names. Like this, if you have, say, a
menu associated to hotspot 0 open and then click on hotspot 1,
the menu associated to hotspot 1 pops up *without* the menu
associated to hotspot 0 being automatically closed.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Use two hotspots
to activate the same menu, one of them being a bump on a screen
edge or corner. This way, if you have an application maximized
and no direct access to the desktop, you can always bump the
screen edge or corner.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">If you want one
of your menus to show up automatically every time you reboot your
computer, enable the </font><font color="#008000" size="2" face="Tahoma">AutoRun</font><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">
option for its associated hotspot.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">You can use drag
and drop to add items to your menus in the Menu Editor.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">When playing full
screen DirectX games, hotspots are still active and it's
perfectly possible to activate one by accident while playing the
game. To prevent this, right-click on the Systray icon of NextSTART and uncheck
'Enable Hotspots' on the menu before
running the game. Another possibility is to leave the preferences window open - NextSTART de-activates
hotspots when this window is on-screen.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Would you like to
have an auto-hide option for NS Task Management? Create two new
hotspots: The first is an internal command that hides the normal
windows taskbar ( 'Hide Taskbar'). The second should be activated
by bumping the screen edge where your NS Tasklist resides and be
associated to the 'Enable/Disable NS Task Management' internal
command. Now add the first hotspot to the list of hotspots run
automatically when NS starts. This will hide the normal windows
taskbar. Now, whenever you want to activate/deactivate NS task
management, simply bump the appropriate screen edge. It works
very well, just remember to add a suitable bump edge delay in the
Global Preferences tab, otherwise it will be very easy to bump
the edge by accident.</font></p>
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<p><a name="Running NextSTART with LiteStep"><font color="#FF0000" size="4" face="Tahoma"><b>Running
NextSTART with LiteStep</b></font></a></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Nextstart and the LiteStep shell work just fine
together. There are only two minor glitches which are both easy to fix:</font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">1) Make sure you do *not* load popup.dll in the
LoadModule section of your step.rc file. Either comment out the line or remove
it altogether. If you don't do this, and try to bind an NS menu to the right
mouse button, you'll get the LiteStep popup menu instead.<br>
<br>
2) Assuming you install and initially configure NextSTART running Explorer as
your shell (recommended), the first time you switch shells to LiteStep and load NextSTART, your menus will probably not work. Don't panic. Activate the
NextSTART configuration panel By pressing Ctrl-F12 or from the systray icon, go
to the Hotspots Definition tab. on the left side of the panel, see the
"Apply Hotspot to" area. Chances are the textbox beside the magnifying
glass icon will say either "Desktop" or "Program Manager".
Just drag the magnifying glass icon out onto your desktop and let it go. The
text box should now say "LiteStep". Click "OK" to save your
changes and your menus should work just fine. Note that you will have to do this
for each hotspot you have defined.</font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">If you switch between shells regularly, another
great idea is to define your hotspots twice (e.g. hotspot 0 and hotspot 1 are identical
in all respects save one points to "program manager" and
the other to "litestep" - same with 2 and 3, etc...) That way changing
shells won't affect your menus at all.</font></p>
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