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Quick Open For Windows 95 -- By Moshe Martsiano -- JULY 1996
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1. Installation
make sure you unziped the qo1bw95.zip file and placed all the files
in the same directory , if you unziped the file in the "c:\util\qo"
folder , you will be able to use Quick Open's Advanced features
right away. plus be sure you don't use long file name as your
Quick Open folder , use something short as "QO".
make sure you have at least additional 100K in drive C for database
file.
IMPORTANT : DON'T FORGET TO UNZIP THE FILE USING THE -d FLAG IN
ORDER TO UNZIP THE SUBDIRETORYS AS WELL.
run the qo.exe file , for the first time only , the about window
will open , this is where you register , for evaluation purpuses
click the OK button , then again , for the first time only , the
options window will open automaticly , use the add button to add
the directorys you want to monitor and maintaine , remember that
every directory you choose is scaned and all its sub directorys too
for example "c:\" , will monitor entire drive C: , and "c:\windows"
will monitor the windows directory and all the sub directorys
(System ...) . you can customize four user defined button , see the
section on "Button Customization" for detail instructions , the
values you see as default will only work if the path "c:\util\qo"
is the path you installed QO in , and if you have the applications
that were specifyed in the command line executable field.
the default action for open Button will determine what to do when
you press the OPEN button or doubleclick on a folder , you can
choose a folder window , or explorer windows , or activate any
of your customized buttons.
Hit the OK button in the options window. now check out the icon in
the notification area (yellow folder icon in the right edge of the
taskbar) , click on it with the left mouse button. the quick open
dialog will pop up , now for the first time only, press the refresh
button, and wait until the program will build the database (you can
do other things meanwhile in other applications) , after the refresh is
done you are ready to use the application . infact you don't have to
use the refresh button , QO will auto-refresh but it will take much
more time to finish.
at any given time , you can pop up the dialog , and type the first
letters of the folder you search , then press enter or hit the find
button. if more then one match is found a list will be formed , double
click on the item you want or press the open button after selecting a
item from the list. you can select multiple items (hold the ctrl key
and keep pressing items) and them pressing the open button. you can
also pop up the dialog using the keyboard , at any given time hit the
[ctrl + /] key or [ctrl + \].
2. Usage
if you install new software , or create , rename a directory in one
of the directorys you wanted to maintaine , QO will detect it and
begin refreshing of that directory in the background , taking very
little CPU time (on a 486 computer you won't notice it)
if you choose to remove a directory from the one you selected to
maintaine , you may want to press the refresh button , this will
rebuild the entire database without the one you removed (faster
search , smaller file)
other than that , the program takes care of it self , for complete
control QO placed it self in your StartUp folder , so it may
run on system startup and start monitoring your folders,but
understand QO takes very very little CPU time or not at all , so
it will not slow down your computer! you can check it using microsoft
kernel tools available via the internet.
enjoy the program ! and don't forget to register (section 5 ...).
3. Button Customization
QO enables you to use its database and search capabilities with
other applications , in fact you can use the selected folder/s
as a parameter to other application , for example you can launch
a graphics viewer such as ACDSee and give it the folder you want
to view , so if you search for "Images" and get a list of "Images",
"Images of flowers" ... , select one of them and click the Viewer
button and ACDSee will open allready in the folder you selected.
if you select both of them , two instances of ACDSee will open ,
each with a folder . you can do the same with compression , infact
if you select more then one folder and click the compress button
you will see multitasking in action as your PC will compress several
folders at the same time.
the buttons you see at startup are default , they might not work if
your paths are diffrent , or you don't own the same application , but
you can customize them.
To customize your button , open the options dialog and look at the
table in the middle of the dialog , there are four buttons , each
has three fields , "Button Text" is the text to appear on the button,
"Command Line Executable" is the full path of the application and the
executable name , "Parameters" is the parameters to be passed to the
application , you can pass anything you want plus when ever you want
to pass the selected folder , use the "???" sign insted , for example
to compress files using ARJ , type "ARJ" as the button text ,
"c:\comp\arj" as the command line executable , "-i1 -va -r -jm ??? -t"
as the parameters , so if arj is executed when you selected the
"C:\windows" folder this command will be executed :
"c:\comp\arj -i1 -va -r -jm c:\windows -t".
the problem is the older DOS applications don't understand long file
names , so some programs may not work when executed directly , insted
you can write a batch file , to change to the right folder first , and
then to execute the application , examples of this kind of batch files
are in the "BATCH" folder in your Quick Open folder. if you use a batch
file , use "c:\command" as command line executable and "/K c:\util\batch\
mybatch ???" as a parameters (paths may vary on your computer),
if you don't know how to write batch files , just copy the example , and
use it as a template , understand that the %1 or %2 ... signs in those
batch files are parameters transfers from the command line to the
batch file as %1 is the first and %2 is the second.
4. Troubleshooting & Tips
** Quick Open crashed !!!!
when you do manual refresh QO points all of its resources to the refreshing
opereation , so if you put another window on top of QO dialog box , and
then return to QO , it might not repaint it self , you will get a "white"
dialog box , but bare in mind QO isn't stuck , wait until the cursor
becomes your regular cursor , as long as your cursor is the wait cursor
QO is refreshing , note that if you specified many directorys or very
large drives , the building operation might take some time , so be patient
and do other things with other applications in the meantime and return
to QO after a few minutes . note that this happens only with manual
refresh , with SmartRefresh you won't even know that anything is happening.
if this isn't what happened to you please mail me and tell me exactly what
you did before QO crushed.
** I typed a folder name that exist on my drive , but QO returned nothing!
if this is the first time you are running QO , the reason you get nothing
is that QO is still learning your drives , wait a few minutes and try
again. if this is not your first time, and you have used QO successfully
before , then something is wrong , maybe some other applciation , or
a power failure caused the lost of QO database , in that case , you can
try to tu