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- ---===< ToolBox v 2.0 >===---
- For Windows
- by John A. Reder
- 1996
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- Overview:
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- The Toolbox program is a menu. That is all it is meant to be.
- The Toolbox serves as a simple way to setup pointers to disk resources
- contained on a local or networked shared drives.
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- The toolbox works like any Icon on your desktop it needs a command line
- and a working directory to run properly.
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- < Network Advantages >
- The advantage to having a simple menu that everyone can run from a
- network shared directory is that this allows a Systems Administrator to
- install and run software on a network and point everyone to that resource
- by adding it to the toolbox. The toolbox simply points to any number of
- network resources that the Systems Administrator wants everyone to know
- about and have one easy central point to launch and access those resources.
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- The toolbox uses 9 common menus and one personal menu (menufil0 in the INI),
- the only diference between the personal menu and the others is that the
- toolbox will not ask for a password if the toolbox home directory is diferent
- from the personel directory.
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- each menu can be given a title and a file name in the toolbox.ini file.
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- A Password is required for editing the toolbox. The default password is
- "toolbox". You can change this by clicking on the Red text in the lower
- area of the main toolbox window. This text states the registration key
- or the text Please register. You will need to provide the current password
- and the new password before clicking the update password button.
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- < The Toolbox main screen >
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- From this screen you can:
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- <Control Buttons:>
- Add / Modify If nothing is selected it will allow you to add
- a new item, otherwise you will modify the item
- that is selected.
- Delete This will delete a selected Item.
- Path This will tell you where toolbox expects to find
- a program or file. This is helpful when you get
- launch errors. You can use this to find out what
- toolbox expects your configuration to be.
- Info / Help This may tell you something about the highlighted
- menu item.
- Copy / Move Copies a menu item to another menu.
- Run Runs a selected program or file. (same as double
- clicking on the menu item)
- Run Min Runs a selected program minimized.
- Save Screen Pos This saves the position of the toolbox on the
- screen to a c:\windows\toolbox.pos file
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- < Add Modify screen >
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- If you select Add / Modify with no menu option selected you are in add
- mode otherwise you are in modify mode.
-
- <Add/Modify Buttons:>
- Browse This will let you search for the file that you
- want to add and place the correct information
- in the command line and path fields.
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- OK Updates or adds menu items that you have built
- to your toolbox file.
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- Cancel Returns you to the toolbox menu. (if you haven't
- added any item with the Add to menu button the
- current information will not be added or changed.)
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- Note: files that are selected that are not exe, com or bat files may use
- one of the associations in the toolbox.ini file, if not you will have to
- spell it out on the command line with the correct exe and the file name.
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- < The TOOLBOX.INI file: >
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- This is an example of a running toolbox on a networked drive.
-
- [title bar]
- titlebar=Toolbox v2.0
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- [directories]
- # This is the location of the Toolbox program and the common menus
- standard=n:\toolbox
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- # This is the location of the personal menu toolbox menu 0.
- userpath=d:\data
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- [menu names]
- # This allows you to set menu names.
- menunam1=Programs
- menunam2=Documents
- menunam3=Parts
- menunam4=Admin
- menunam5=Internet && Comm.
- menunam6=Reports
- menunam7=Docs && Help
- menunam8=Updates && Fixes
- menunam9=Systems
- menunam0=Personal
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- [menu files]
- # this sets the menu text file for each menu.
- menufil1=toolbox.001
- menufil2=toolbox.002
- menufil3=toolbox.003
- menufil4=toolbox.004
- menufil5=toolbox.005
- menufil6=toolbox.006
- menufil7=toolbox.007
- menufil8=toolbox.008
- menufil9=toolbox.009
- menufil0=toolbox.DAT
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- [viewers]
- # default locations of viewers and editors this information will be
- # placed in the command lines of files that need a viewer.
- # toolbox only recognizes these file types any others will need to be hand
- # entered on the command line field.
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- docfiles=
- docxpath=
- xlsfiles=
- xlsxpath=
- txtfiles=c:\toolbox\rededit.exe
- txtxpath=c:\toolbox
- pptfiles=
- pptxpath=
- bmpfiles=
- bmpxpath=
- pcxfiles=
- pcxxpath=
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