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- HyperLink 1.1 README.TXT
-
- Integrated Graphics
- 312 Nevada St.
- Northfield, MN 55057
-
- E-mail: hansonr@stolaf.edu
-
- hyprlnk2.zip Hyperlink ProgramManager groups to one another
-
- ABSTRACT
- --------
- HyperLink 1.1 enables the user to place 'hyperlinks' to one Program
- Manager group into another group, similar to what is possible for
- Macintosh computers. Double-clicking on the link then calls up that
- program group, just as though the actual group icon were double-
- clicked. Make as many hyperlinks as you wish; deleting them only
- deletes the link, not the actual program group. Switch between program
- groups at a double-click of the mouse.
-
- INSTALLATION
- ------------
- To set up HyperLinks, just unzip HYPRLNK2.ZIP and copy HYPRLINK.EXE into
- your Windows directory. Add the program to a program group using
- File New Item from the Program Manager:
-
- Description: HyperLink
- Command Line: hyperlink
-
- and start'r up. Also included in HYPRLNK2.ZIP is DDEML.DLL, which you only
- need put in your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory if HYPRLINK fails to start.
- HYPRLINK.EXE is a 15K Visual Basic 3.0 program. Thus, if you don't have
- VBRUN300.DLL, pick it up from an FTP site and put it, too, in your
- C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.
-
- HOW TO USE THE PROGRAM
- ----------------------
- HyperLink 1.1 should be installed in your windows directory (preferably).
- To install hyperlinks, click on the HyperLink icon. Operation is fairly
- self-explanatory. Nonetheless, here's the whole works:
- To add links, first select from the top list using a left-click
- for a single link, SHIFT-left-drag for a series, or CTRL-left-click
- for specific non-adjacent links. Then choose a group to add the links
- to from the combo-box below, and click on OK. An option is to create a
- new program group to hold the hyperlinks.
- Your links will look just like Program Manager icons, but they will
- have curly brackets around their names, this this: {my group}.
-
- HOW DOES IT WORK?
- -----------------
- HyperLink is a tiny Visual Basic program which uses the same DDE link to
- the Program Manager used by all SETUP programs that you may have used to
- install many other application, namely:
-
- LinkTopic = ProgMan|progman
- LinkMode = 2
- LinkExecute = [ShowGroup("Group Name Here",1)]
- LinkTimeOut = 100
-
- Hyperlinks are really just the shell command:
-
- c:\windows\hyprlink.exe Group Name Here
-
- connected with a pretty icon. You can make these links yourself, or
- (better) let HyperLink make them for you.
-
- HyperLink is not a program which runs in the background and eats up memory.
- Rather, it loads, runs, and ends in the instant between when you click on a
- hyperlink and when you see the group window (about 0.5 second).
-
- HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
- ---------------------
- Any computer capable of running Windows 3.1 should be adequate.
-
- COMMENTS FROM USERS
- -------------------
-
- Why didn't the people at Microsoft think of this????
-
- After a day, I can't imagine living without it.
-
-
- LICENSE AND DISTRIBUTION
- ------------------------
- HyperLink is FREEWARE (too tiny to charge for!) uploaded by the author.
- It may be freely distributed in any form whatsoever. Visual Basic source
- code available for $10. Comments to the author are welcome. If you know of
- a good resource for DDE calls to Program Manager, WordPerfect for
- Windows, etc., let me know.
-
- Robert M. Hanson
- Integrated Graphics
- 312 Nevada St.
- Northfield, MN 55057
- hansonr@stolaf.edu
-