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- <h1>MegaScale MultiDesktop Manager Help</h1>
- <h3>Version 0.3.8</h3>
- <h4>Date 31.12.2002</h4>
- <p>This program is a desktop manager which allows you to create multiple desktops
- and switch between them. Program is useful to persons who perform different
- things with one computer at the same time. You can group applications. One
- desktop for one group of applications. You can create a desktop for seldom used
- programs. Or you can create a desktop for programs that you have to run, but
- you don't want to take space from your desktop. Or, if you want to hide running
- programs from others. Or, if you want to run multiple shells at the same time.
- MultiDesktop Manager has many user interface languages.</p>
- <p>MultiDesktop Manager is freeware.</p>
- <h2>Japanese version</h2>
- <p>If you are a Japanese user and want to read this help in your own language, use
- following links.</p>
- <h4>Links</h4>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <a href="MegaScale%20MultiDesktop%20Manager%20Help%20Japanese.html">Local file</a>
- - if you're reading local version of this file, the link might not work. To
- make it work, copy Japanese help from website of MultiDesktop Manager to the
- folder where you installed MultiDesktop Manager. If you're reading this page
- from website, it points to the file in the website.
- <li>
- <a href="http://www.muukka.net/multidesktop/MegaScale%20MultiDesktop%20Manager%20Help%20Japanese.html">
- Website</a> - the latest version is in here.</li>
- </ul>
- <p>If you see square boxes in the application when you choose Japanese language,
- you need to install Japanese fonts. See instructions from your operating
- system. MultiDesktop Manager uses Tahoma font if it is available. Otherwise it
- uses Arial. English version of Windows NT 4.0 is not capable of displaying
- menus in Japanese because its system font does not support Japanese glyphs.</p>
- <p>
- Translation is made by Takayuki Kawamoto. Big Thanks to Him!</p>
- <h2>Supported operating systems</h2>
- <p>MultiDesktop Manager will run only on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP
- or later because program uses features that are available on Windows NT based
- OS, but not on Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Me. It uses some features that
- does not exist in Windows NT 3.1 and 3.51, so it will not run on earlier NTs.</p>
- <p>Most of the Virtual Desktop programs run also on Windows 95/98/Me. Windows
- 95/98/Me has only one desktop so all windows are on single desktop. Virtual
- Desktop program just show and hide windows (I think).</p>
- <h2>Features</h2>
- <p>You can create as many desktops as Windows NT accepts.</p>
- <p>You can choose any application as shell application. Explorer (default), Program
- Manager, File Manager and Internet Explorer are predefined. If you wish, you
- can create a desktop without a shell application as an empty desktop.</p>
- <p>You can switch between desktops with mouse by clicking tray icon and selecting a
- desktop from menu or with keyboard by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Left arrow or
- Ctrl-Alt-Right arrow.</p>
- <p>Ctrl-Alt-D opens a menu for operations.</p>
- <p>You can run any program on any desktop by pressing Ctrl-Alt-R which shows a
- dialog where you can enter name of the program. This is also possible using
- mouse by clicking tray icon and choosing 'Run...' from menu.</p>
- <p>You can select the language of the user interface. Language changes on every
- open window online. Supported languages are listed later. By default
- MultiDesktop Manager uses your Regional Settings from Control Panel. If your
- locale is not supported by MultiDesktop Manager, MultiDesktop Manager uses
- English. You can save default language.</p>
- <h2>Setup/Install</h2>
- <p>Setup has two phases.</p>
- <h4>Setup</h4>
- <p>First you run the setup program MegaScale MultiDesktop Manager Setup.exe. This
- program is used to choose the location for the program files and copy program
- files to chosen location.</p>
- <p>In single computer environment the best location is MultiDesktop Manager-folder
- under your Program Files-folder. This is the default location.</p>
- <p>In the office you have two possible solutions. First is to copy the setup
- program to server. Then people will run this program and setup their private
- copy in their computers. Second is to place program files on server using setup
- program. Then people will run shared copy of this program. They just run the
- program from the server.</p>
- <p>Setup will detect the location of the previously installed version. This cannot
- be changed. Also, it detects if you are currently running other version. You
- have to close currently running version so the Setup can copy new version over
- existing one. If somebody else is using old version on shared resource the copy
- fails and error message is displayed. It does not detect if you are installing
- older version over newer version.</p>
- <h4>Install</h4>
- <p>This is built in feature in MegaScale MultiDesktop Manager.exe.</p>
- <p>If you have not installed this program yet, program asks you which language you
- want to use and few other things.</p>
- <p>When program starts it goes directly to tray. This program does not have a main
- window.</p>
- <h2>Uninstall</h2>
- <p>There are two ways to uninstall this product.</p>
- <p>Use Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel and select MegaScale MultiDesktop
- Manager from the list and press Add/Remove... or you can use Uninstall...-menu
- item from the popup menu of this program.</p>
- <p>Uninstalling does the following things:
- <ol>
- <li>
- It removes the shortcut from the Startup-folder (always).
- <li>
- It removes the shortcut from the Programs-folder (always).
- <li>
- It removes program settings from system registry (always).
- <li>
- It removes program from installed applications.
- <li>
- It deletes all the program files.
- <li>
- It removes the program folder.</li>
- </ol>
- <p>You cannot remove program from installed applications, if other users use this
- program in this computer. This is checked from registry. Other users use this
- program if they have registry settings.</p>
- <p>You may choose to delete all the program files. If you run this program from
- server, you cannot delete files.</p>
- <p>Also you can choose to delete the program folder.</p>
- <h2>Menu</h2>
- <h4>Press Ctrl-Alt-D, left-click or right-click the tray icon</h4>
- <table border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td width="25%" valign="top"><desktop name></td>
- <td width="50%">On the top of the popup menu there are names of all available
- desktops. Currently active desktop is checked. You can select a desktop which
- you want to use. Inaccessible desktops are greyed.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="25%" valign="top">New Desktop...</td>
- <td width="50%">Opens a dialog where you can enter name of the new desktop and
- select a shell application for the new desktop.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="25%" valign="top">Run...</td>
- <td width="50%">Opens a dialog where you can enter a program to run.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="25%" valign="top">Language...</td>
- <td width="50%">Opens a dialog where you can select a language of the program.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="25%" valign="top">Properties...</td>
- <td width="50%">Opens a dialog where you can choose if you want run MultiDesktop
- Manager automatically at startup.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="25%" valign="top">Uninstall...</td>
- <td width="50%">Opens a dialog where you can uninstall the program.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="25%" valign="top">Help</td>
- <td width="50%">Opens this help.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="25%" valign="top">About MultiDesktop Manager</td>
- <td width="50%">Opens a dialog where is information about this program.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="25%" valign="top">Close MultiDesktop Manager</td>
- <td width="50%">Closes this program. Not possible on created desktops.</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <h2>Dialog boxes</h2>
- <h3>Language of MultiDesktop Manager</h3>
- <p>First page in install. See details below.</p>
- <h3>MultiDesktop Manager</h3>
- <p>Second page of install. Shows some information about this program and install.</p>
- <h3>Install MultiDesktop Manager</h3>
- <p>Third and last page of install.</p>
- <table border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Add program to installed applications</td>
- <td width="50%">Check this if you want to add program to installed applications.
- This is checked by default.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Add shortcut to the Programs-folder</td>
- <td width="50%">Check this if you want to add shortcut to the Programs-folder. This
- is checked by default.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Run program automatically at startup</td>
- <td width="50%">Check this if you want to run this program automatically when you
- logon. This is checked by default.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">< Back</td>
- <td width="50%">Goes to previous page.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Finish</td>
- <td width="50%">Saves all settings. Closes install wizard.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Cancel</td>
- <td width="50%">Cancels install.</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <h3>New Desktop</h3>
- <p>This is used when you want to create a new desktop.</p>
- <table border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Desktop name</td>
- <td width="50%">Enter name of the new desktop. You can use any characters except \.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Shell application</td>
- <td width="50%">Select shell application from list. There are explorer.exe
- (default), iexplore.exe, progman.exe and winfile.exe predefined. Or you can
- enter any other program to run as shell application. Or you can clear the
- selection and create desktop without an application. You can enter name of the
- program without the location of the program file, if program is registered
- properly. For example Microsoft Word and WinZip are registered properly. This
- means that you can enter winword or winzip.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">User name</td>
- <td width="50%">Optionally you can enter user name, if you want to run this desktop
- as an specified user account. Not implemented yet!</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Password</td>
- <td width="50%">Password of the user. Not implemented yet!</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Domain</td>
- <td width="50%">Domain where the user belongs. It may be empty, if user name is
- user of this computer. Not implemented yet!</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">OK</td>
- <td width="50%">Creates the new desktop, switches to the new desktop and executes
- shell application if specified.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Cancel</td>
- <td width="50%">Closes the dialog.</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <h3>Run</h3>
- <p>This is used when you want to run a program.</p>
- <p>Windows Explorer has Run-dialog too, but it does not show up on desktops you
- have created, if you use Win-R. It always opens on default desktop. If you
- don't have Win-key in your keyboard, you don't have this problem. If you are on
- a desktop which does not run Windows Explorer, you probably cannot open
- Windows' Run-dialog. These are the reasons why this program has Run-dialog.</p>
- <p>You can enter name of the program without the location of the program file, if
- program is registered properly. For example Microsoft Word and WinZip are
- registered properly. This means that you can enter winword or winzip.</p>
- <p>This can only run programs. It cannot open documents.</p>
- <p>This dialog can be opened by pressing Ctrl-Alt-R or it can be selected from
- popup menu of this program.</p>
- <table border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Application</td>
- <td width="50%">Enter name of the program to run.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">...</td>
- <td width="50%">Opens standard Open-dialog where you can browse the file you want
- to run.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">User name</td>
- <td width="50%">Optionally you can enter user name, if you want to run the
- application as an specified user account. Not implemented yet!</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Password</td>
- <td width="50%">Password of the user. Not implemented yet!</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Domain</td>
- <td width="50%">Domain where the user belongs. It may be empty, if user name is
- user of this computer. Not implemented yet!</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">OK</td>
- <td width="50%">Executes the entered application.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Cancel</td>
- <td width="50%">Closes the dialog.</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <h3>Language of MultiDesktop Manager</h3>
- <p>This dialog is used to select the language of the program.</p>
- <table border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Language</td>
- <td width="50%">Currently active language is selected from the list. Select the
- language you want to use. Languages are in native language and in English. If
- your locale is not supported, MultiDesktop Manager uses English. Selection is
- saved to the registry if 'Set as startup language' is checked. Language is
- changed in all active windows online.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Set as startup language</td>
- <td width="50%">If this is checked, selected language is saved to the registry. If
- this is unchecked setting is removed from the registry.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Translation credits</td>
- <td width="50%">Shows translation copyright of currently selected language.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Startup language</td>
- <td width="50%">Name of the current startup language, if any.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">OK</td>
- <td width="50%">Accepts the selected language. This button is not showed during
- install.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Cancel</td>
- <td width="50%">Closes the dialog and cancels the possibly changed language. This
- button is not showed during install.</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <h3>MultiDesktop Manager Properties</h3>
- <p>Changes the settings of the program.</p>
- <table border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Run program automatically at startup</td>
- <td width="50%">Check this if you want to run this program automatically when you
- logon.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Switch to startup-desktop when program closes</td>
- <td width="50%">Check this if you want switch to startup-desktop when program
- closes. Not implemented yet!</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">OK</td>
- <td width="50%">Saves the settings. If 'Run program automatically at startup' is
- checked, shortcut to this program is added to the Startup-folder of Current
- User. If 'Run program automatically at startup' is unchecked, shortcut to this
- program is deleted from the Startup-folder of Current User.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">Cancel</td>
- <td width="50%">Closes the dialog.</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <h3>About MultiDesktop Manager</h3>
- <p>This dialog shows name and version of the program and copyright information.
- There is hyperlink to home page of the program and link to send e-mail to me.</p>
- <table border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">e-mail</td>
- <td width="50%">My e-mail address. If you click this link, it will open your
- default e-mail program. Also it should put e-mail address to 'To'-field and
- predefined subject to 'Subject'-field of the e-mail program.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">web-link</td>
- <td width="50%">Home page of MultiDesktop Manager. If you click this link, it
- should open your default web browser program and open home page of MultiDesktop
- Manager. This requires that you are connected to internet.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="20%" valign="top">OK</td>
- <td width="50%">Closes the dialog.</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <h2>Language</h2>
- <p>MultiDesktop Manager has several built-in languages. By default MultiDesktop
- Manager uses current locale of the user. If locale is not supported by
- MultiDesktop Manager, MultiDesktop Manager uses English (United States). User
- can change language online and choose one of them as default.</p>
- <h2>Translation credits</h2>
- <table border="1" width="424">
- <tr>
- <th width="162" nowrap align="left">
- Language</th>
- <th width="246" nowrap align="left">
- Translated by</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">Czech</td>
- <td width="246">Michal Řehßček</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">Dutch (Netherlands)</td>
- <td width="246">Charik van Hagen</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">English (United States)</td>
- <td width="246">Jarmo Muukka</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">Estonian</td>
- <td width="246">Arvo Tomingas</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">Finnish</td>
- <td width="246">Jarmo Muukka</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">French (France)</td>
- <td width="246">Heavymetal</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">Galician</td>
- <td width="246">XosΘ Ant≤n Vicente Rodrφguez</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">German (Germany)</td>
- <td width="246">Michael Feld</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">Hungarian</td>
- <td width="246">Mocsnik Norbert</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">Italian (Italy)</td>
- <td width="246">Paolo Bormida</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">Japanese</td>
- <td width="246">Takayuki Kawamoto</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">Polish</td>
- <td width="246">Janek Kozicki</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">Portuguese (Brazil)</td>
- <td width="246">Paulino Michelazzo</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">Romanian</td>
- <td width="246">Aurelian Constantin</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">Spanish (Spain)</td>
- <td width="246">AndrΘs Javier Purri±os</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="162">Turkish</td>
- <td width="246">Fereτ ╟etin</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <h2>Tips</h2>
- <p>You can switch desktops with Alt Gr-Arrows too.</p>
- <h2>Known "features" aka Bug list</h2>
- <p>None.</p>
- <h2>Known problems</h2>
- <p>When creating extra desktop with Active Desktop Explorer as Shell, Explorer
- thinks it has crashed and enters into Recovery mode. I think this is a bug of
- Explorer. To avoid this don't use Active Desktop or use another shell instead
- of Explorer on other desktops.</p>
- <p>If you use Hot Keys of Explorer, they will only work on Default desktop. For
- example pressing Win-R opens Run dialog, but always on a Default desktop. It
- will not open the dialog on other desktops. If you press Win-M to minimize all
- windows in current desktop, all windows on Default desktop will be minimized.
- These are limitations of Explorer.</p>
- <p>Tray icons are not copied to the tray of other desktops. Mail notifications
- (icon in tray) etc. will only show in Default desktop or in the desktop where
- the program is running on. Icons may show on other desktops if program is
- designed multiple desktops in mind.</p>
- <p>In general, all messages are displayed on the desktop where the program is
- running on.</p>
- <p>You can not move windows from one desktop to another desktop. Window belongs to
- that desktop where it was created on.</p>
- <p>When you logoff, all the desktops you have created are destroyed.</p>
- <p>When you logoff, all explorer folders are saved from every desktop (if this
- setting is on in Explorer). When you logon, folders are restored, but all onto
- the Default desktop.</p>
- <p>If you don't use Explorer as a shell in desktop you have created and then
- maximize running program, it will not fill the screen. Windows will reserve
- space for taskbar even when current desktop does not have it. Also when
- minimizing an application, it will not go bottom of the screen. Again, space
- for the taskbar is reserved by Explorer. If you have e.g. two desktops and move
- tray in one desktop to another edge of the screen and then you go to other
- desktop and then maximize one window, it will use settings from previous change
- (i.e. the last setting in the computer). I think this is a "feature" of
- Explorer and Windows. Windows does not check current desktop when it resizes
- the working area; instead it uses one setting for all desktops.</p>
- <p>If you try to use Windows NT Task Manager's Applications-tab to "Switch To" the
- selected application and the application is on another desktop, it does not do
- nothing. Windows NT Task Manager cannot Switch To the selected application, if
- application is on another desktop.</p>
- <p>If you run 16-bit program on non-Default desktop, it may start on Default
- desktop. True story. I am not sure does this happens always. Or only when NTVDM
- was already running on Default desktop.</p>
- <p>When you start program on non-Default desktop, that program may start program on
- Default desktop. True story. Second program wasn't 16-bit program. It looks
- like that the name of the desktop (Default) was hard coded into the
- application.</p>
- <p>When you create a new desktop and use explorer as shell, it may run programs on
- Startup folders again. This depends on version of Windows NT. I believe that
- standard Windows NT 4.0 behaves like this.</p>
- <p>Windows 2000: Explorer seems to open search on Default desktop. I have a setting
- that runs Explorer windows in separate processes. When I start a search, it
- will use process of existing Explorer. But, somehow it decides to use Explorer
- on Default desktop, not the current process on current desktop. I wrote and
- noticed this on January 17th 2001. At that time I had no service packs
- installed. Today, on February 6th 2002, I tried this again and it worked as it
- should work. I have service pack 2 installed.</p>
- <p>One person started second desktop with Internet Explorer. So, it was only
- Internet Explorer running. Then he clicked to link in Outlook Express, which
- was on Default desktop. He wondered why the web page does not load. Outlook
- Express opened the web page in Internet Explorer on second desktop. I verified
- this on January 17th 2001. Is ShellExecute-API-function the reason for this bad
- behaviour?</p>
- <p>At work I had one peculiar problem with Outlook on May 15th 2001. I had Outlook
- running on second desktop. On that desktop in Explorer I right clicked a file
- and chose Send To Mail Recipient. It opened the mail window, but I could not
- choose a recipient, because "To..." didn't work. It just beeped and gave a
- error message. I went to the Default desktop and did the same (Outlook still on
- second desktop) and it worked. Weird!</p>
- <p>Most of these problems yield to Microsoft. They do not test programs on Windows
- NT with multiple desktops.</p>
- <h2>Wish list (some are my wishes)</h2>
- <p>Want to run shell as another user account.</p>
- <p>Want run program as another user account.</p>
- <p>Create a desktop automatically at startup.</p>
- <p>Run selected programs automatically on desktops created at startup.</p>
- <p>Want to translate the application to my own language. Please, send me e-mail, if
- you wish to do the job.</p>
- <p>Want to choose desktop directly with some hotkey (like in Linux, I've heard).</p>
- <p>Want to see the name of the current desktop.</p>
- <p>Want to see programs running on specified desktop in a list. And choose one.</p>
- <p>Want to close/delete desktop.</p>
- <p>Want to rename desktop.</p>
- <p>Want to hide icon from tray so people don't see it. I use keyboard for menus and
- changing desktop.</p>
- <p>Want to configure hot keys.</p>
- <p>Destroy all desktops when program closes (option).</p>
- <p>Option "Do not show message when another copy is already running".</p>
- <p>Tiny windows with screenshots.</p>
- <P>I have received other feature requests, but I have not added them into this
- list. I should.</P>
- <h2>Version history</h2>
- <table border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <th width="70" align="left">
- Version</th>
- <th width="120" align="left">
- Date of exe<br>
- (dd.mm.yyyy)</th>
- <th width="120" align="left">
- Date of Help<br>
- (dd.mm.yyyy)</th>
- <th width="120" align="left">
- Release date<br>
- (dd.mm.yyyy)</th>
- <th align="left">
- Note</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.2.6.0</td>
- <td width="120">19.05.1999</td>
- <td width="120">19.05.1999</td>
- <td width="120">20.05.1999</td>
- <td>First official release. Small group of people knows about this program.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.2.7.0</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>Enabled user accounts with knowing that it has problems.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.2.8.0</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>Added uninstall. Changed shortcut from Common Startup-folder to Startup-folder
- of logged on user.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.2.9.0</td>
- <td width="120">08.06.1999</td>
- <td width="120">30.08.1999</td>
- <td width="120">31.08.1999</td>
- <td>Added install.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.0.0</td>
- <td width="120">02.11.1999</td>
- <td width="120">02.11.1999</td>
- <td width="120">02.11.1999</td>
- <td>MDM is now fully Unicode enabled. Added hot key Ctrl-Alt-D. Disabled user
- account support. Changed install to wizard style. Added setup application.
- Improved uninstall support. Several other minor changes. This is the first
- version published world wide.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.0.1</td>
- <td width="120">02.11.2000</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>Added Dutch (thanks to Charik van Hagen) and French (thanks to Heavymetal).
- Fixed dialog activation problems on Windows 2000.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.0.2</td>
- <td width="120">04.11.2000</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>Dutch is now finished. French version has one "too long" text (tip 1). Help
- command in menu does not say that it is in English and wish to send e-mail to
- me does not say that mail should be sent in English.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70"> </td>
- <td width="120">11.11.2000</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>MDM displayed an error message when user tried to switch to inaccessible
- desktop. This was correct because user did not have access rights to switch to
- desktop. Now menu lists all desktops and inaccessible desktops are greyed.
- Inaccessible desktops are also ignored when rotating desktops with
- Ctrl-Alt-arrows.<br>
- MDM crashed when Chinese text was entered (actually pasted) in Desktop name
- field in New Desktop dialog. The bug was in call to a single byte version of
- one RTL-function. I did not remember to change this to Unicode when I made an
- Unicode version.<br>
- Thanks to Michal Řehßček who found these anomalies.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.0.3</td>
- <td width="120">27.11.2000</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>Added Spanish (thanks to AndrΘs Javier Purri±os).</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.0.4</td>
- <td width="120">13.12.2000</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>Added Czech (thanks to Michal Řehßček). Problems displaying all
- characters. MS Sans Serif font does not contain all needed characters. I need
- to change the font. Tried Tahoma which works, if user has it.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.0.5</td>
- <td width="120">15.12.2000</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>Decided to use Arial on all dialogs. Arial is available on standard Windows NT
- 4 and Windows 2000. Now the only problem is in popup menu on Windows NT 4.0
- which does not display all characters properly on normal English version OS.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.0.6</td>
- <td width="120">17.12.2000</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>Arial did not work correctly with Chinese text. Decided to use Tahoma on all
- dialogs. Added modified version of Czech translation.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70"> </td>
- <td width="120">18.12.2000</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- If system does not have Tahoma font, Arial font is used in dialogs by changing
- font dynamically.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70"> </td>
- <td width="120">19.12.2000</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- Tahoma font was not a good choice for dialogs. If user did not have Tahoma
- font, OS decided to use System font and it resized the dialog for the bigger
- System font. Now all dialogs use Arial font by default. If Tahoma font is
- available in the system, font in dialog is changed to Tahoma. This works
- nicely.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.1</td>
- <td width="120">21.12.2000</td>
- <td width="120">21.12.2000</td>
- <td width="120">21.12.2000</td>
- <td>
- Modified Setup application to detect installed version of MDM.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.1.1</td>
- <td width="120">24.05.2001</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- Added Italian (thanks to Paolo Bormida) and Portuguese (thanks to Paulino
- Michelazzo).</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.1.2</td>
- <td width="120">28.05.2001</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- Modified Italian translation and resized two dialogs.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.1.3</td>
- <td width="120">03.07.2001</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- Few corrections to Portuguese translation.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.2</td>
- <td width="120">03.08.2001</td>
- <td width="120">03.08.2001</td>
- <td width="120">03.08.2001</td>
- <td>
- Changed e-mail address and web page to my own domain.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.2.1</td>
- <td width="120">25.10.2001</td>
- <td width="120">25.10.2001</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- Added German (thanks to Michael Feld).</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.2.2</td>
- <td width="120">26.10.2001</td>
- <td width="120">27.10.2001</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- A little help for users who use shell replacements. Usually Windows Explorer
- starts as shell. It is controlled by value of "Shell" in registry key
- "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon".
- Normally it's "Exlporer.exe". This is a system wide setting. When you logon,
- specified shell will be executed. Some users use e.g. geOShell as shell, so
- they have a value "geOShell.exe" (usually with a full path) in "Shell". When
- they login, geOShell will be launched on Default desktop. When they create a
- new desktop and choose Explorer as shell application, Explorer executes as a
- normal file manager window. Why not as shell? Explorer reads "Shell" value and
- it sees that it is not shell, so it executes as file manager window. MDM
- changes this. When you create a new desktop and choose any application as
- shell, MDM temporarily saves it as shell in the registry. This is only done if
- user has enough access rights to save the registry setting. After the shell is
- running, "Shell" setting is restored. I heard of these problems from Takayuki
- Kawamoto, who also tested that my code worked in his system. He uses at least
- two shell replacements: LiteStep and geOShell.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120">27.10.2001</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- I figured out that my code does not work in every situation. To demonstrate
- this I created a new desktop with Notepad as a shell. Then I executed Explorer.
- Guess what? Explorer thought that it is a shell, as I expected. Two possible
- solutions. First is to change the "Shell" setting every time I run an
- application. This solves the problem if application is executed in MDM. What if
- application is executed in another application? To solve this I could modify
- "Shell" setting every time user switches to the desktop. The problem with this
- is "What if the computer crashes or MDM is terminated when there's a wrong
- setting?" Imagine that Notepad was chosen as shell and then you terminate MDM
- and logoff. When you logon, Notepad is launched. Nothing else. What would you
- do then?</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.2.3</td>
- <td width="120">28.10.2001</td>
- <td width="120">28.10.2001</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- Added Japanese (thanks to Takayuki Kawamoto). Modified the size of some items
- in dialogs. Few texts are too long.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.2.4</td>
- <td width="120">28.10.2001</td>
- <td width="120">28.10.2001</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- Few modifications to Japanese texts. One text is still too long in my Windows
- 2000. Takayuki said that it was OK in his system. I tried this version at work
- in one computer (Windows 2000) which didn't have Japanese fonts. There were
- square boxes all over. Also, in this computer the fonts were resized to 109%,
- so MDM didn't display everything correctly.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.2.5</td>
- <td width="120">30.10.2001</td>
- <td width="120">30.10.2001</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- It seems that I have fixed size font and Takayuki has variable size font. The
- too long phrase is now shorter than before, so it's fully visible in my system.
- MDM remembers which application is a shell, and when new process is launched
- from Run dialog, MDM temporarily changes "Shell" in the registry. Now if you
- use e.g. Notepad as shell and launch Explorer from Run dialog, Explorer is
- executed as file manager window. This does not work, if you launch Explorer
- from other application (it launches as shell). When you close MDM and then run
- it again, MDM does not know which application is a shell, so described
- technique might not work. Anyway, it worked in my case. MDM temporarily saved
- an empty setting in "Shell" in the registry and Explorer didn't launch as
- shell.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.3</td>
- <td width="120">02.11.2001</td>
- <td width="120">03.11.2001</td>
- <td width="120">03.11.2001</td>
- <td>
- One change to Japanese translation. Added Japanese help file to the distributed
- .zip.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.3.1</td>
- <td width="120">14.12.2001</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- Added Polish (thanks to Janek Kozicki).</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.4</td>
- <td width="120">14.12.2001</td>
- <td width="120">14.12.2001</td>
- <td width="120">15.12.2001</td>
- <td>
- One modification to Polish translation. Distributed file includes version 0.3.3
- of Japanese help.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.4.1</td>
- <td width="120">02.02.2002</td>
- <td width="120">02.02.2002</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- Added Romanian (thanks to Aurelian Constantin).</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.4.2</td>
- <td width="120">04.02.2002</td>
- <td width="120">04.02.2002</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- Modifications to Romanian translation.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.4.3</td>
- <td width="120">05.02.2002</td>
- <td width="120">05.02.2002</td>
- <td width="120"> </td>
- <td>
- Modifications to Romanian translation.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td width="70">0.3.5</td>
- <td width="120">06.02.2002</td>
- <td width="120">06.02.2002</td>
- <td width="120">06.02.2002</td>
- <td>
- Distributed .zip file does not include Japanese help.</td>
- </tr>
- <TR>
- <TD width="70">0.3.5.1</TD>
- <TD width="120">30.10.2002</TD>
- <TD width="120"> </TD>
- <TD width="120"> </TD>
- <TD>Added Galician (thanks to XosΘ Ant≤n Vicente Rodrφguez). Windows 2000 does not
- display language names for Galician in dropdown list. Windows XP displays
- language names for Galician because
- it supports Galician.</TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD width="70">0.3.6</TD>
- <TD width="120">31.10.2002</TD>
- <TD width="120">1.11.2002</TD>
- <TD width="120">1.11.2002</TD>
- <TD>If application cannot get texts for Galician and galego from operating system, application uses hard coded Galician and galego texts.</TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD width="70">0.3.6.1</TD>
- <TD width="120">10.11.2002</TD>
- <TD width="120"> </TD>
- <TD width="120"> </TD>
- <TD>Added Hungarian (thanks to Mocsnik Norbert). This version
- had problems with ű and ő (displayed as u and o). It was my
- mistake (Copy-Paste and Save). One phrase was too long.</TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD width="70">0.3.6.2</TD>
- <TD width="120">10.11.2002</TD>
- <TD width="120"> </TD>
- <TD width="120"> </TD>
- <TD>Problems corrected.</TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD width="70">0.3.7</TD>
- <TD width="120">11.11.2002</TD>
- <TD width="120">11.11.2002</TD>
- <TD width="120">11.11.2002</TD>
- <TD>Released. No changes.</TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD width="70">0.3.7.1</TD>
- <TD width="120">2.12.2002</TD>
- <TD width="120"> </TD>
- <TD width="120"> </TD>
- <TD>Added Turkish (thanks to Fereτ ╟etin).</TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD width="70">0.3.7.2</TD>
- <TD width="120">4.12.2002</TD>
- <TD width="120"> </TD>
- <TD width="120"> </TD>
- <TD>Changes to Turkish translation.</TD>
- </TR>
- <TR>
- <TD width="70">0.3.8</TD>
- <TD width="120">31.12.2002</TD>
- <TD width="120">31.12.2002</TD>
- <TD width="120">31.12.2002</TD>
- <TD>Released. No changes.</TD>
- </TR>
- </table>
- <h2>Name of the packet</h2>
- <p>Files are released in zip-file. Name of the file is mdmxxxx.zip where xxxx is
- the version number.</p>
- <h2>File listing</h2>
- <p>Zip-file contains following files:
- <dir>
- <li>
- MegaScale MultiDesktop Manager Setup.exe
- <li>
- Readme.txt</li>
- </dir>
- <p>When you run MegaScale MultiDesktop Manager Setup.exe, it will copy following
- files to your system:
- <dir>
- <li>
- MegaScale MultiDesktop Manager.exe
- <li>
- MegaScale MultiDesktop Manager Help.html</li>
- </dir>
- <p>No other files are copied to your system.</p>
- <h2>Copyright</h2>
- <p>MultiDesktop Manager is owned by Jarmo Muukka.</p>
- <p>I release programs under the name MegaScale Software. It is not registered. It
- is just a name.</p>
- <h2>Author</h2>
- <p>This software is freeware, but if you like, you can send me a
- postcard.</p>
- <p>Jarmo Muukka<br>
- Maissikatu 5<br>
- 53500 Lappeenranta<br>
- Finland</p>
- <p>Finnish is my native language so if I have said something with foreign accent,
- please let me know.</p>
- <p>My e-mail address is <a href="mailto:jarmo@muukka.net">jarmo@muukka.net</a></p>
- <p>My home page is <a href="http://www.muukka.net/">http://www.muukka.net/</a></p>
- <p>Home page of MultiDesktop Manager is <a href="http://www.muukka.net/multidesktop/">http://www.muukka.net/multidesktop/</a></p>
- <hr style="WIDTH: 90%; COLOR: #999999; HEIGHT: 1px">
- <p style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; TEXT-ALIGN: center">Copyright ⌐
- 1998-2002 by Jarmo Muukka. All rights reserved.<br>
- Last modified on December 30th 2002<br>
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