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- Name/Version: AppBrowser v2.0.01
- 1st Release : 14.01.2001
- Last Update : 05.02.2001
-
- Short Description
- Auto-detects the system for exe-files and offers buttons and popmenu
- to open them.
-
- Reason for the Development
- It was developted as a program extension for RemoteKeys but can also
- be used as a stand-allone application.
- Start buttons are often needed but in this case, the user should
- have less of define work.
-
- Note
- Try AppBrowser together with TrayMan (of ToolsPackage). If the AppBrowser-
- Pop.exe is listed in TrayMan, you have a nice startmenu in the systray.
-
- Appearance
- Language ..........: English
- User Interface/Form: Yes
- Input by Interface: (See drag&drop)
- Input by Command$ : No
- Input by Clipboard: No
- Input by Drag&Drop: Supported
- Input, Other ......: Auto-detection from disk
- Output by Interface: Yes (start buttons/menu)
- Output to Clipboard: No
- Output by Drag&Drop: No
- Output, Other .....: No
-
- More Requirements
- No
-
- Instructions
-
- What does Auto-detect meen?
- AppBrowser checks the start menu and the registry (not NT)
- for registered applications. It will not search the whole
- harddisk because there would be to many exe files which
- are not useful to be listed.
-
- Generell the user should have success with doing nothing else,
- as to open i.e. the AppBrowserBut.exe or -Pop.exe and to be able
- to start a lot of application that are on his system.
- But - of course - the editor offers to adapt these buttons or
- popmenu entries to his own need.
-
- Open the editor and click the edit button to enlarge the
- interface:
- If one of the three exe files are opend first time, AppBrowser
- will auto-detect the system for available exe-files. The Refresh-
- button does the same. All what it founds is listed in the right
- list. All entries of this list which are checked are available
- in a button window or popmenu for the user and also listed in
- the right list.
- Check or uncheck entries in the right list to add or remove
- entries to/from the left list. You can control the result when
- you open the menu "Popup-Menu" or if you click on "buttons".
-
- The .dat-files are all ascii-formatted and can be edit with an
- editor if wanted.
-
- Alias: The auto-detected application names are sometimes not so
- pretty to be listed in the start buttons/popmenu. Alias allows
- to create own names which are shown.
-
- BPref: Preferences for Button window. Allows to fix the matrix
- and if the window should automatically closed after a button
- has been clicked.
-
- Filter: This allows to exclude applications for the auto-
- detection.
-
- FirstCall: All entries of this list will be auto-checked, if
- found when AppBrowser opens first time.
-
- User: Allows to add exe files to the list which are not found
- with the auto-detection. To add a file to the list, there is a
- drop area: Open Explorer, drag a file and drop it to the image
- "Drop exe". This will add the file into the user.dat.
-
- {End of instructions}
-
- Limitations
- Unknown
-
- Future Planning
- No
-
- Updates
- 1.0 14.01.01 > New: First Release (1st name was ExReg)
- 2.0 21.01.01 > New: renamed from ExReg to AppBrowser
- > New: scans startmenu (also NT)
- > New: many additions like filter.dat
- 2.0.01 05.02.01 > Imp: Window resize prevention changed (0.5k smaller)
-