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- Launchpad 95 Version 0.9
- Copyright (C) 1995 Prasad Thammineni
- All Rights Reserved
-
- This file describes how to use Launchpad 95.
-
- The following features are discussed here:
-
- PROPERTIES
- Object Association
- Alignment
- No. of Rows and Cols
- Autohide Attribute
- TOOLTIPS
- FEATURES TO BE ADDED IN THE NEXT VERSION
-
-
- Launchpad 95 lets you launch applications at the click of a button.
-
- The object menu of the objects in the Launchpad can be accessed
- by right clicking on the button representing the object.
-
- PROPERTIES:
- ===========
-
-
- Select Properties option from the Launchpad object menu to display
- the properties dialog box.
-
- Object Association:
-
- The properties dialog box displays all the folders on the desktop
- including the subfolders within these folders as a treeview. Select
- a folder or subfolder to associate with the launchpad. When
- you close the dialog box the launchpad would display all the
- objects within the associated folder in the launchpad.
-
- Alignment:
-
- Launchpad can be aligned on any one of the four sides of the desktop.
- The launchpad can be aligned either by selecting the side
- from the object menu or selecting the side in the properties
- dialog box.
-
- No. of Rows and Cols:
-
- The No. of rows attribute in the Properties dialog box applies
- only if the launchpad is either top or bottom aligned.
-
- The No. of columns attribute in the Properties dialog box applies
- only if the launchpad is either left or right aligned.
-
- The No. of rows and No. of columns attribute is used only
- as an approximation. Other factors which effect the placement of
- buttons other than these attributes are
- The number of buttons,
- The size of the buttons and
- The size of the launchpad itself.
-
- Autohide Attribute:
-
- The autohide attribute has not been implemented yet. This feature
- will be enabled in the future.
-
-
- TOOLTIPS:
- =========
- The Long Name of an object in the Launchpad is displayed as a tooltip.
- To view the tooltip of an object click on the launchpad to make it
- active and move the mouse pointer on to the button representing the
- object.
-
- Tooltips provide an easy mechanism to find otu what button represents
- what object until you are familiar with the icons in the buttons.
-
- Another way to get to know the buttons is to have the Name displayed
- in the buttons. But this may result in occupying a significant portion
- of the desktop depending on the number of buttons in the Launchpad.
-
- FEATURES TO BE ADDED IN THE NEXT VERSION:
- =========================================
- The next version is in the works now. Some of the features you may
- see in the next version are:
- * Your suggestions
- * Drag and drop support
- * Start Menu Button of the Windows 95 Task Bar
- * Active Windows List
- * Active process list with Process control - terminate etc.
- * Ability to explore folders in the launchpad either as menus
- or as list views/icon views easily.
- * Autohide attribute.
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