Directory 2 HTML 2.1 Help

With Directory 2 HTML 2.1 you can create HTML-Documents which provide you with faster access to some (Internet-related) files. I wrote the program, because I needed summaries of those little symbol pictures used in websites.

Contents

How to create HTML-Documents

Table Options

Program Options

Version History

This program is FREEWARE.

(C) 1998 Andrei Scheibner

Directory 2 HTML 2.1 runs under Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0.

It was not tested under Windows 98.

Please send comments to: ascheibn@htwm.de.


Directory 2 HTML 2.1 Help

How to create HTML-Documents using Directory 2 HTML 2.1

Select the files, you want to insert in the HTML-Document. You can also click the button Select All.

Determine the layout of the HTML-Document with the button Table Options...

Enter the title of the HTML-Document, or use the default title.

Decide, whether the HTML-Document will contain a heading, and enter it, copy the title by clicking the Arrow-Button or use the default heading.

Decide, whether the entries or the table will appear horizontally centered.

Decide, whether you want to embed the file itself (this is only useful for pictures), the information about the file as plain text or a link to the file.

If you want to embed pictures, you can activate Shrink to fit. This decreases the size of the pictures, if necessary, to ensure, that the width of the HTML-Document will not be higher than the screen width. You can also embed the picture as a link.

The option Embed Plain Text can be useful if you just need a list of the files in a directory which you want to print out. To show information about the subdirectories you can activate Show Subdirectories, but this will be ignored if you have decided to use a table.

Decide, whether information about the size of the file, the date of the file or the size of the picture will be added to the designations or links.

Decide, whether the paths of the files will be relative or absolute. In the first case the designations/links will just contain the filename, and the HTML-Document will be created in the directory, where the selected files are located. In the second case the designations/links will contain the whole path and the HTML-Document will be created in the Directory 2 HTML 2.1 program directory. So you can for instance create a HTML-Document, that contains links to files on a CD-ROM. The whole path is only shown if Show Path is activated

Enter the filename of the HTML-Document, or use the default filename, and choose a file extension.

Choose the colors for Background, Links, Visited Links and Text by clicking the corresponding button. The color is changed to the default value, when you click on the colored area by the button.

Click the button Create HTML-Document. When Directory 2 HTML 2.1 has problems while inserting a selected file into the HTML-Document, for instance, if this file is currently used by an other program, Directory 2 HTML 2.1 will display an error message. In this case the file information will not be inserted in the HTML-Document.


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The Table Options Window

After clicking the button Table Options.. you see a dialog window in which you can decide whether the HTML-Document will contain a table and choose it’s look.

When you choose None in the Columns section, no table will be created. In this case all other settings in this window will be ignored.

After choosing 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 columns you can set the width of the border around each cell in the table. A borderwidth of 0 will create invisible border.

In the other two sections you can set the horizontal and vertical alignment of the table entries inside the cells.

With the button Save as Default you can define the current settings as default.


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The Program Options Window

Here you can define your own default values for the document title, the document heading and the filename of the HTML-Document, that has to be created.

The button Reset to Default will set title, heading and filename to the original default values.

In the field Internet Browser you can enter the command to start the Browser, you want to use with Directory 2 HTML 2.1. With the button Search... you can do this easier.

If Use Standard Browser is activated, the Internet Browser that is associated with HTML-Documents will be used.

You can define your own default colors for Background, Links, Visited Links and Text by clicking the corresponding button in the Default Document Colors box. The color is changed to the original default value, when you click on the colored area by the button.

With the checkbox Play Sound after Creation of Document you can decide whether you want to hear a sound after a HTML-Document was successfully created. This sound has to be a Wave-Audiofile, named ‘ready.wav’, located in the Directory 2 HTML 2.1 program directory.

You can place the Directory 2 HTML 2.1 window everywhere on the screen, and when you start it the next time, it will appear at the same place where you left it. For this reason you can use the button Save and Center Program Window to center it on the screen.


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Version History

New features in Version 2.1

- Embed entries as plain text

- Embed picture as link

- user-defined default document colors

- Insertion of the current directory as title and heading of HTML-Document

New features in Version 2.0

- Creation of tables in HTML-Document

- Information about picturesize (in case of GIF and JPG files) in designation or link

- Display of the creation progress

- more flexible file selection

New features in Version 1.1

- Heading in HTML-Document

- Information about filesize and date in designation or link

- Choice between relative and abolute path

- Program Options

- Start Internet Browser of your choice with the just created HTML-Document

- Acoustic information about succeeded creation of a HTML-Document