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- There are a number of new features that have been added to
- Director since the documentation was written.
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- The first is now you can change Director's colors. After
- configuring Directors other options, the screen will display the
- available colors on your monitor and the number that represents
- that color. Below are portions of the Director display shown in
- their current color. You merely have to enter the new color and
- press Enter and that part of the display will change to that
- color. When you are finished changing colors, press F10. You
- will then be asked if you want to save the changes. Pressing "Y'
- or Enter will save them. Pressing "N" won't save the colors and
- will bring you back to the menu.
-
- If you just want to change the colors and not do any modification
- to DL or DB, the menu option "Change colors" has been added to
- the DCONFIG menu. Choosing this option will just bring up the
- color changing portion of the configuration program.
-
- The same change colors options have also been added to the end of
- the DM configuration program so that you can also modify DM to
- have the colors you choose.
-
- In previous versions of Director, hitting the first letter of a
- file or directory would bring you to the first file or directory
- with that letter. This feature has been expanded so that you can
- now type in a file or directory name and Director will find it.
- The first time that you hit any character that could be part of a
- legal DOS filename, a dialog box will pop up in the upper right
- showing that letter and the first file or directory with that
- letter will be highlighted. Each additional letter that you type
- in will highlight the file or directory that matches what you
- type. If you type a name that Director can't find, the dialog
- box will close and the last highlighted file will remain
- highlighted. Similarly pressing any key that isn't part of a
- valid DOS filename such as the Space Bar or the Enter key or even
- clicking the mouse, will close the dialog box. If you make a
- mistake in your typing, you can also press the Backspace key and
- make corrections.
-
- You can make DL behave the old way by pressing the TAB key after
- typeing a letter. Each time you press the TAB key DL will look for
- an exact match for the letters that you typed. For example, if you
- have more than one UTIL directory, you can type "UTIL" and then
- press the TAB key and DL will go down the tree highlighting each
- UTIL directory in turn.
-
- Director now gives you the opportunity to perform operations on all
- the marked files or only the highlighted file. The default is
- the marked files. If you want the copy, move delete or change
- attributes command to operate on just the highlighted file, press
- the shift key when choosing copy, move or change attributes. For
- example to just copy the highlighted file, I would press the shift
- key and either click on F1 COPY, press F1 of ^C.
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