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Welcome to Click! Finder vers. 1.0 for Windows 3.0. --------------------------------------------------- Click! Finder is the first companion program to Click! Filer, by TrogloByte. Finder is a powerful disk and file management tool designed to aid you controlling multiple versions of files on your PC's Hard Drive. This is also the first program from TrogloByte to feature our new 3-D interface. Much like Click! Filer, this program is principly controlled through buttons and dialogs, minimizing use of the menu bars. Finder's windows are arranged to provide all the most needed tools when you need them. The main window to Finder presents Controls on top and results on the bottom of the window. GROUP( Topmost Left corner ) ---------------------------- Masks Edit Box: Enter a wild card or s specific file name in this edit box to indicate the range of files in the search. Mask '+' push button: Pressing this button adds the current contents of the Mask Edit Box to a Mask History. The history is a list of masks which can be loaded and saved as unique files. Mask '?' push button: Pressing this button calls a dialog window from which you can select a mask from a mask history. Path Edit Box: Enter a valid drive:\path in this edit box to provide a search path to use in a search. Path '+' push button: Pressing this button adds the current contents of the Path Edit Box to a Path History. The history is a list of paths which can be loaded and saved as unique files. Path '?' push button: Pressing this button calls a dialog window from which you can select a path from a path history. Path Browse Button: Pressing this button calls a dialog from which you can browse through drives and paths to obtain a full path name. GROUP( Topmost right ) ---------------------- Radio Buttons Allow you indicate whether the search should be conducted in the current path ( and it's subdirectories ) or to search the drives indicated in the drive listbox. Drive List Box: Multi-Select Listbox containing the names of all drives in your system. You can select as many as you wish for inclusion in a search. GROUP( SearchFilters ) ---------------------- Time Constraint Button: Pressing this button calls a dialog which provides the means to indicate the Date-Time scope of a search. You can elect to ignore date-time, or select from within a range of date-times. Attributes: Pressing this button provides a dialog from which you can indicate the file attributes to consider in a search. Whether all attributes must be part of a matching file or at least on attribute. Default also exist to elect to always match normal files ( in our case this means a file with NO ATRRIBUTES ( A, R, S, H ). Config Button: Pressing this button calls the config control for Click! Finder. This dialog allows you to set the various configuration files to load on startup. To set the starting path and mask. Also you can indicate the editor program you wish to use when calling the programs user defined editor. GROUP( Control ) ---------------- Find Files: IF a mask & path/or drive is selected, this button is enabled. Pressing it begins the search for files matching you requirements. All files which are found are added to the 'Found File List' at the bottom of the window. Remove From List: Once files have been placed in the 'Found File List', if you select a file Explore List: Press this button and call the Explore Utilty Screen. Using this screenyou can explore the List of found files. You can perform smaller more selective comparisons between files in the list. You can Edit, rename, delete and execute files in the list. GROUP( Found File List ) ------------------------ This is principally a list of all files which matched the filters set for the Find. The list contains the fullpathnames for each file found. Explore Found File List Window ------------------------------ This is the second utilty Window within Click! Finder. This window provides many functions which are missing in other File Finding Programs. The TrogloByte Design Team realized that Finding Files is only half the project the user usually is undertaking. While finding the files which match your parameter is useful, the nature of each file is now in question. The Explore Utility allows you to select a file and then locate others in the list which match the Duplicate test Parameters you select. You can take a file from the Found File Lsit or the Duplicate List and call a user determined editor to look at the file. Likewise you can execute the file, perhaps to inspect the version number. You can remove files from the list which you no longer wish to include in further testing. You can rename files which you have identified but wish to keep by a different name to avoid confusion in the future. You can delete files which you have determined to no longer needed. Files which are renamed or deleted change in the lists to reflect the new conditions. The Duplication tests are several. You can choose to compare files based on matching names ( or ignore names altogether ). You can match attributes in exact patterns, partial patterns or even include Normals ( NO ATTRIBUTES ). Date-Timestamp matching includes exact, within x days of today, or between to selected days. You can request that a binary compare be performed. Or match based on size alone. When matching between 2 dates, NOTE the first date will test as the 1st min of that day and the last date will test true through the last min of the day. CONFIGURATIONS WITHIN CLICK! FINDER ----------------------------------- There are 4 configuration files in Click! Finder. .FPH Path history files .FMH Mask history files .FDU Duplicate Test parameter files .CFF The application configuration file. Click! Finder always loads 'default.cff' at startup. You can modify this file are you need. you can save other .CFF files under different names and load them] after startup. Application Configuration Window --------------------------------- You can set the name of the current FPH, FMH and FDU files. You can select the default editor. You can set the starting mask and path. You can elect to save with or without the current Find Attributes, Find DateTime Params and the Duplicate parameters. Find Attribute Filter Window ---------------------------- You can set the parameters of the Find to match specific combinations of attribute ( including or excluding Normal files ) or likewise request a match on any selected attribute ( including or excluding NORMAL ). Find Date Time Filter Window ---------------------------- You can match files irregardless of date time, or match files occuring within x days from today, or files within 2 dates. Mask History Window ------------------- Called with the '?' button, you can add and delete entries from this list of masks. You can select a mask to use. You can likewise load and save mask histories. Path History Window ------------------- Called with the '?' button, you can add and delete entries from this list of paths. You can select a path to use. You can likewise load and save path histories. About Box Window ---------------- Explains the operating mode of windows, and available memory. Also provides the Version of the Click! Finder program you care running. Pressing Next displays the Registration Info and Address for registering this program. Registration is $15, a rather modest sum for a utility which we feel looks and performs as good as any Commercial program. Your registration helps insure that we at TrogloByte can continue to provide enhancements to the program and also develop other programs which we hope you will find at least as useful as this one. DEFINITION OF SHAREWARE ----------------------- Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and continue using it, you are expected to register. Individual programs differ on details -- some request registration while others require it, some specify a maximum trial period. With registration, you get anything from the simple right to continue using the software to an updated program with printed manual. Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software, and the copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific exceptions as stated below. Shareware authors are accomplished programmers, just like commercial authors, and the programs are of comparable quality. (In both cases, there are good programs and bad ones!) The main difference is in the method of distribution. The author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their Shareware. Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether it's commercial or Shareware. The Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because you can try before you buy. And because the overhead is low, prices are low also. Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee -- if you don't use the product, you don't pay for it. DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT ---------------------- Users of Click! Finder must accept this disclaimer of warranty: "Click! Finder is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of Click! Finder." Click! Finder is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you find this program useful and find that you are using Click! Finder and continue to use Click! Finder after a reasonable trial period, you must make a registration payment of $15 US to TrogloByte. The $15 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time. Note: Ohio residents must include 5.5% Sales tax in addition to $15 registration fee as per Ohio Sales Tax Laws. Commercial users of Click! Finder must register and pay for their copies of Click! Finder within 30 days of first use or their license is withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting TrogloByte. Anyone distributing Click! Finder for any kind of remuneration must first contact TrogloByte at the address below for authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering Click! Finder immediately (However TrogloByte must still be advised so that the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest version of Click! Finder.). You are encouraged to pass a copy of Click! Finder along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. All registered users will receive a copy of the latest version of the Click! Finder system, as well as a Printed Manual. The manual provides detailed explanations of the program and many screen captures to illustrate the various Windows and Dialog boxes which the user will encounter while using the program. The Registered version does not startup with the About Box screen, allowing you to go straight to work without the reminder about registration.