MiniBarAW is an add-on buttonbar, designed to enhance your experience of using ArtWorks. The idea is to offer time-saving shortcuts for frequently-used features, avoiding the need to traverse menus or memorise keystroke combinations.
Double-click on !ButtonBar and then double-click on MiniBarAW. It is very important that you follow that sequence (if you don't, then things will go horribly wrong...). Once you've done that, try opening an ArtWorks document. There should be a new buttonbar on show in the bottom left of the document window (on the horizontal scroll bar):
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Save |
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Copy to Clipboard |
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Paste from Clipboard |
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Select: Cut to Clipboard
Adjust: Delete (leaving contents of Clipboard intact) |
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Align |
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Line Width |
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Select: Edit Colour
Adjust: New Colour |
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Select: Print
Adjust: Show print border on/off |
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Info... |
Once you've experimented with MiniBarAW, you may find that you would like to have it available every time that you use ArtWorks. To arrange this, you should: double-click on !Boot on your hard disc; click on Boot in the 'Configuration' window; click on Run in the 'Boot Sequence' window; and then drag !ButtonBar and MiniBarAW into the 'Run at Startup' window. It is very important that you make sure that !ButtonBar appears before MiniBarAW in the list. Next, click Set (and Set). When you next restart your computer, MiniBarAW will be ready and waiting for ArtWorks.
NB: If you are using a 'classic', pre-RISC OS 4 version of RISC OS, then you can manually place !Buttonbar and MiniBarAW in the Tasks folder in !Boot (!Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks).
Alternatively, you might only want to load MiniBarAW when you are using ArtWorks. To do this you could add the following lines to the beginning of the ArtWorks !Run file:
Filer_Run <path>.!ButtonBar
Filer_Run <path>.MiniBarAW
where <path> is the full pathname of the folder containing the !ButtonBar application and the folder containing MiniBarAW.
NB: The disadvantage with this method is that you will need to re-enter this information into the ArtWorks !Run file each time an updated version of the application is released.
With grateful thanks to David Llewellyn-Jones for the very wonderful BBarEdit which was used to create MiniBarAW. If you want to design your own buttonbar extravaganzas, then visit his website (www.flypig.co.uk) for the latest version of BBarEdit.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed ideas and offered feedback: you know who you are -- feel special when you click that button and it does what you wanted, especially for you...
With a special vote of thanks to Martin Würthner for his astonishing ability to pull electronic rabbits out of hats.
There are a number of features that I'd like to add at some point, and I would welcome feedback. Do get in touch if you would like to see shortcuts for something specific.
You can find me at:
Stewart Brookes (stewy@britishlibrary.net)
MiniBarAW and the WIBLI toolbars for Easi/TechWriter live at:
http://stewy.drobe.co.uk
Have fun!
(13/04/2005)