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- HipClipBoard 1.0
- for Windows 95/NT
- Copyright 1997 Harro Mueller
-
- iNTRODUCTiON
-
- HipClipBoard enhances the Windows desktop with up to eight independant
- clipboard-buffers, each having its own hotkeys for copy, cut and paste.
- You can run it totally in the background or you can watch and modify
- the buffers in an easy-to-use environment.
- HipClipBoard is very useful if you have more than one piece of text
- that you want to insert at different locations of a document. Get rid
- of the annoying switching around between documents.
- It can also be useful when surfing on the internet: If you want to
- visit some new sites, you can first copy or enter their addresses into
- HipClipBoard. When going online you have them all at your fingertips
- and you will not waste any time typing them in while you are online.
-
- FEATURES
-
- - HipClipBoard helps you to save your precious time.
- - HipClipBoard offers an easy-to-use environment also comprehensible
- for less experienced users.
- - If minimized HipClipBoard runs silently sitting in the system tray
- (the area on the right of your taskbar). If you are using Windows NT
- 3.5x it will simply run iconized.
- - You can define your own hotkeys for each buffer using almost every
- possible combination of Control, Alt, Shift and any of the
- remaining keys.
- - You can disable single buffers to release their hotkeys so that
- special key combinations of Windows or other programs can be used
- without having to switch off HipClipBoard.
- - When closing down HipClipBoard all contents of the buffers and all
- settings are saved to disk and reloaded at the next start of
- HipClipBoard.
-
- iNSTALLATiON
-
- Installation is easy. As you have obviously been able to unzip this
- archive it is now your task to run 'setup.exe' by doubleclicking it
- in the Explorer or elsewhere. After that you will be guided through
- the rest of the installation.
-
- UNiNSTALLATiON
-
- Uninstallation is easy too. Just launch 'Add/Remove Programs' out of
- the control panel, highlight 'HipClipBoard' and click the
- 'Add/Remove...' button. The uninstallation will then proceed
- automatically.
-
- FiRST STEPS
-
- Start HipClipBoard by doubleclicking its icon in the HipClipBoard
- group. What you see now is the main window of HipClipBoard with its
- eight textbuffers. Do now change to another text window, select some
- text and press Alt+1. If you change back to HipClipBoard you can see
- that the selected text has been copied into the first buffer. You can
- modify the copied text by simply clicking into the buffer and editing
- it. Go back to the other text window, put the cursor on any position
- and press Ctrl+1. If everything went right the text has been pasted
- to the selected position. The same way you can cut text out by
- pressing Alt+Ctrl+1. The key combinations you have just used are
- only the default settings. You can change them by doubleclicking the
- accompanying buffer. In addition you can disable certain buffers by
- unchecking the 'Enabled'-checkbox next to a buffer.
-
- TROUBLESHOOTiNG
-
- - Doubleclick the icon in the system tray to open HipClipBoard.
- - Perform a rightclick on the icon in the system tray to see a
- popup menu with 'Open' and 'Exit'.
- - Put HipClipBoard into the Windows Autostart-folder and check the
- box 'Startup minimized' to run it automatically in the background
- on each startup of Windows.
- - The default configuration at the first start of HipClipBoard is
- the one I recommend. For buffer 1 it is Alt+1 to copy, Ctrl+Alt+1
- to cut and Ctrl+1 to paste. For buffer 2 it is Alt+2 to copy and
- so on. This configuration is easy to learn and will most probably
- not interfere with any predefined hotkeys of other programs.
- - HipClipBoard will only work with text, not with graphics or some-
- thing else. Maybe this will be changed in future versions.
- - If you use HipClipBoard, the use of the standard Windows clipboard
- with text is not recommendable, because HipClipBoard makes use
- of the standard clipboard to buffer copied text. This will be
- fixed in future versions (promise!).
- - If you discover a strange behaviour like a hotkey does not work
- although you have defined it, please check if every hotkey is
- only defined once.
-
- SHAREWARE NOTES
-
- As this software is shareware it comes 'as is', there is no warranty
- implied or otherwise, nor is support provided. This shareware version
- is freely distributable as long as it remains unchanged.
-
- The unregistered version of HipClipBoard will allow only up to 20
- copy/cut/paste actions per session.
-
- If you find HipClipBoard useful and want to get rid of this
- limitation, please consider registering this program. For further
- details on how to register please read the enclosed textfile
- 'Register.txt'.
-
- COPYRiGHT NOTES
-
- HipClipBoard uses the Freeware component
- TrayIcon v1.0 Copyright (c) 1996 James Roberts-Thomson
-
- CONTACT
-
- For any suggestions, ideas, problems, comments or bug-reports (?!)
- contact me by EMail: mueller@iname.com
-
- Visit my homepage: http://members.tripod.com/~tier