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- Short: User friendly Button launch menu. Commodity.
- Uploader: anthony@backyard.demon.co.uk
- Author: anthony@backyard.demon.co.uk
- Type: util/wb
- Requires: WB2.04+
- Version: 1.0
- Distribution: Giftware
-
- Buttonz is a system friendly commodity so you can control it from Exchange.
-
- It features a new feature I call subdock in its menu system so one button can
- be set to call up a new bank of buttons. See the examples for how this works.
-
- Intelligent configuration system. Buttonz is instinctive to both use and
- configure. Just click on a button to launch the program, hold shift and click
- on it to configure it or hold control and click on it to delete the configured
- entry. Couldn't be easier.
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- Buttonz also has a swap button feature. Hold down the right shift key (don't
- confuse this with the left shift key for configuring a button) and click on
- both buttons and they will swap places.
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- Buttonz config window is an AppWindow, meaning you can drop a program icon onto
- it and Buttonz will take care of most of the configuring for you.
-
- Buttonz can set each button with one of four different launch types.
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- CLI - Normal setting for launching programs.
-
- SCRIPT - Executes AmigaDos scripts.
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- REXX - Executes the file as an AREXX script. Arexx must be running!
-
- SUBDOCK - is used to load another configuration file with a new set of
- button definitions. Add a button on the new set to go back to
- the first set of buttons and you can have unlimited
- definitions all linking to each other. Similar to a menu
- system in fact.
-
- Buttonz uses very little CPU time due to some very tough work in making it
- non-resource hungry. It needs no external libraries (everything is in the
- main program) and is as stable as a rock. It will run on any 2.0+ machine fine.
-
- Buttonz has been extensively tested by a heap of testers on the internet. If
- there's any serious problems or bugs in it now I'll be very surprised.
-
- Buttonz has intelligent file handling routines for loading and saving configs
- to save setting up time. Confirmation prompts for unsaved data are there to
- stop mistakes being made and information lost.
-
- Buttonz can be launched from the keyboard as well as clicking on them with
- the mouse.
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- Buttonz author is nearly sane and also a huge Pink Floyd fan. And he does not
- have long hair (strange for a programmer).
-
- Yes, the author is the same guy "Wot works for CU-Amiga" whenever there's
- any work worth doing.
-
- As well as setting up a programs name and filepath, stack size and arguments
- can also be configured for each button. Buttonz also has a file requester for
- selecting programs for those of you who hate dragging and dropping icons :-)
-
- Buttonz features HTML docs as well as this Amigaguide document. I wanted to
- be different and Phillip Snell kindly obliged by creating these. Please note
- that these HTML docs still need a bit of work. The docs are also used on
- Buttonz' homepage http:\\www.backyard.demon.co.uk\buttonz.html
-
- Buttonz has its own install script which, while simple, does the job just fine.
-
- It's bloody neat, okay? 8-)
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