Copyright: Copyright ® 1997 Mick Meaden


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Introduction

This tool allows you to add, remove or edit entries on the Shell's AddOn's menu.  It is started from the Shell by selecting AddOns | Organize...

On invocation, a dialog appears that displays the current configuration of the AddOns menu.  The controls on the left-hand side of the dialog include a listbox that displays menu items (as they appear in the Shell); the controls down the right-hand side consist of a series of buttons.  The major controls are described individually in the help pages referenced below.

Procedures

To edit an existing entry, select the required item in the list box and modify the various fields in the edit boxes that appear below the listbox.  Selecting another item in the listbox, or selecting Add, will save these changes internally.  Note, however, that the underlying configuration file is not changed until you press Enter or click the OK button.

To add a new entry, click the Add button and enter the settings you want in the (initally blank) edit boxes.  Selecting Add again, or selecting another item in the listbox, will save these changes.

To remove an existing entry, select the required item in the listbox and click Remove.

Important.  You must exit and restart the Shell before changes made by this tool can take effect.  In particular, your AddOns menu in the current Shell will not be updated until the Shell is restarted.

See Also

Menu Item

Command

Arguments

Ignore file selections


Menu Item

Entries in this field contain the text of the menu items to be inserted on the AddOns menu.  There can be up to twenty of these.  The ampersand (&) character indicates the hot key setting for an entry.  Hot keys are optional but, if present, should be unique within the menu.


Command

This field specifies the name of the executable file associated with "Menu Item", which can be a full pathname (e.g., c:\mybin\myprog.exe) or, if the file is in a folder on the current search PATH, a file name (e.g., command.com).  The file extension should be included in this field, and can be any of .com, .exe or .bat.

Optionally, you can precede a path name with a plus (+) symbol.  This indicates that the full path name of the executable file should be constructed by concatenating the folder name of the WinXs installation folder, a backslash character, and the value appearing in this field.

You can either type a path name in this field directly, or use the associated Browse button to locate the executable file.


Arguments

Command arguments (if any).  Any text can be included in this field, but be aware that no wild-card expansion is performed on file names.  You should quote any arguments that need to be passed as a single argument, or that contain file names with embedded space characters.


Ignore file selections

If checked, any current file selections in the Shell's output window will be ignored when invoking "Command".  Otherwise, the Shell passes file selections, separated by spaces, on the command line.  Filenames are passed in their short name form to 16-bit programs, and in their long name form to 32-bit programs.  Any long file names containing space characters are quoted.