This chapter describes in more detail how to work with palettes, applications, documents, and folders in Square One.
Opening, Closing, & Resizing
Square One is an application, just like Microsoft Word, Quicken, or the Finder itself.
To use Square One Lite, you must first make it active by bringing it into view.
How Do I Bring Square One Lite into View?
All of the following will bring Square One Lite into view. Try them all, then use the way which works best for you. The Hot Corner is our favorite.
• Click on any Square One Lite Palette.
• Drag the mouse to the lower right corner of your main monitor. This is called Square One Lite's Hot Corner. You can set Square One Lite's Hot Corners by choosing Preferences: Background Options from the Edit menu.
How Do I Quit Square One Lite?
Why would you ever want to quit Square One Lite? If you absolutely have to:
• Choose Quit (Command-Q) from the File menu.
How Do I Open My Palette?
Usually, you won't have to open your palette; Square One Lite automatically does it for you. If you do need to open a palette:
• Double-click on your palette on your disk-drive or choose Open (Command-O) from the File menu and select your palette from the dialog.
• Select your palette's name directly from the File menu. Square One tracks up to ten recently opened palettes.
NOTE: To remove a palette name from File menu, hold down the Option key and select it.
How Do I Close My Palette?
• Click on the palette's close box.
• Select Close (Command-W) from the File menu.
How Do I Resize My Palette Window?
• Drag the size box in the lower right corner of the window. You will see an outline of the palette window. Release the mouse when your palette is the desired size.
Launching
When you click and hold the mouse on a palette item, a pop-up menu appears. If the selected palette item is an application, the pop-up menu shows its documents.
If the selected palette item is a folder or a disk-drive, the pop-up menu will show its contents. Sub-folders branch out as submenus.
Choosing a file, folder, or document from a pop-up menu opens it.
How Do I Launch an Application in My Palette?
• Double-click on the application.
How Do I Turn On Single-Click Launching?
To launch or open things in your palette, you double-click on them. If you would rather single-click to launch, follow the directions below to turn on single-click launching.
1. Select Preferences: Launching from the Edit menu.
2. Click the Single Click Launching checkbox.
3. Click OK.
NOTE: Shift-click to select a palette item or document without launching it if single click launching is on.
How Do I Open a Document in a Document List?
• Click and hold on an application and then choose a document from the pop-up menu.
• If the document list is showing (see “Showing the Document List” in Chapter 6), select the application and double-click on the document.
• Select the application and then choose the document from the Launch menu.
• Select the application and then, if it is one of the first nine documents, press its corresponding Command key (Command-1 for the first document, Command-2 for the second, and so on, up to the ninth document).
How Do I Open a Document Using Drag and Drop?
• 7.5 or later required
• Drag the documents over the application with which you want to open them. Release the mouse button. The documents will be opened by the application.
How Do I Use Square One Lite to Open Any File?
For the devoted fan of the “standard open file” dialog, Square One Lite provides a way to open any file at all from a “standard open file” dialog.
• Click and hold on any palette item until the pop-up menu appears and then select Open Other File (Command-M).
• Select Open Other File (Command-M) from the Launch menu.
Moving, Copying, & Deleting
How Do I Move Files to a Folder in My Palette?
• 7.5 or later required
• Drag the files over the folder to which you want to move them. Release the mouse button. The files will be moved to the folder.
How Do I Copy Files to a Folder in My Palette?
• 7.5 or later required
• Option-drag the files over the folder to which you want to copy them. Release the mouse button. The files will be copied to the folder.
How Do I Delete Files using Square One?
• 7.5 or later required
1. You must have the Trash in your palette. To add the Trash to your palette, just drag the it over your palette and release the mouse.
2. Drag the files over the Trash in your palette. Release the mouse button. The files will be moved to the Trash.
Keyboard Shortcuts
• Press Tab or the right arrow key to select the next palette item. Press Shift-Tab or the left arrow key to select the previous palette item.
• Press the Return or Shift-Return keys to select the palette item below and above the current palette item respectively. You can also use the up and down arrow keys if the document list is hidden.
• Type the first few letters of the name of a palette item. Square One will automatically select it.
• When the document list is showing, the up and down arrow keys select documents.
• Pressing the Enter key launches the selected palette item.
5: Active Applications
What Is the Active Applications Palette?
Any program that is running is called an active application. Active applications include applications, scripts and desk accessories.
At any time, you can see a list of all active applications by clicking on the Macintosh Application menu.
Square One Lite provides you with an easy to use tool for active applications. We call it, the Active Applications Palette.
The Active Applications Palette shows all running programs, that is, all active applications.
You can use the Active Applications Palette to:
• Switch between active applications.
• Hide applications.
• Quit applications.
• Show memory use.
How Do I Show the Active Applications Palette?
Square One shows the Active Applications Palette by default. If it isn't showing:
• Choose Show Active Applications (Command-T) from the View menu.
How Do I Hide the Active Applications Palette?
• Choose Hide Active Applications (Command-T) in the View menu.
• Click the close box.
How Do I Change the Orientation of the Active Applications Palette?
1. Select Preferences: Active Applications Palette from the Edit menu.
2. Select Horizontal or Vertical from the Orientation pop-up menu.
3. Click OK.
How Do I Show Memory Use?
The Active Applications Palette can show how much memory your active applications are using and the largest unused block of memory. The dark part of each bar indicates how much of the allocated memory each application is using.
1. Select Preferences: Active Applications Palette from the Edit menu.
2. Select Memory Grid from the Grid Type menu and click OK.
How Do I Bring an Active Application to the Front?
• Click on any cell in the Active Applications Palette. This works even if Square One is in the background.
How Do I Open Documents with an Active Application?
• 7.5 or later required
• Drag the documents over the active application with which you want to open them. Release the mouse button. The document will be opened by the application.
How Do I Quit an Active Application?
• Control-click on any cell in the Active Applications Palette. The selected application will quit. If necessary, you will be prompted by the selected application to save changes before quitting.
How Do I Hide an Active Application?
When you hide an active application, all of its windows will be hidden until it is brought to the front. Hide applications which you aren't using to reduce window clutter.
• Command-click on any cell in the Active Applications Palette. The selected application will hide. Hidden applications appear with their icons dimmed.
How Do I Hide Background Applications?
This is one of the coolest features of Square One. It really reduces clutter and confusion by hiding windows belonging to active applications when they are in the background.
• Option-click on any cell in the Active Applications Palette. This doesn't work automatically; the selected application will come to the front and the other applications will hide. As you switch between active applications they will unhide.
6: Customizing Palettes
Once you are up and running with Square One Lite, you may want to change your palette's appearance to make it easier to use, or just more beautiful.
Here are all the ways you can change your palette's appearance:
• Change an icon's size or display its name.
• Change an icon's appearance or color.
• Rearrange your palette items.
• Add blank cells (called “Spacer” cells) to your palette.
• Show or hide the document list.
Changing Its Appearance
How Do I Change the Style of a Palette's Icons?
You can make your icons large or small and show them with or without names. Here's how:
1. Select Preferences: Current Palette from the Edit menu to change the icons of your current palette. Select Preferences: Active Applications Palette to change the icons in the Active Applications Palette.
2. Select an icon style from the Grid Type menu.
- Large w/o Name displays large icons without file names.
- Large With Name displays large icons with file names below them.
- Small w/o Name displays small icons without files names.
- Small With Name displays small icons with file names next to them.
3. Click OK.
How Do I Use a Custom Icon for a Palette Item?
Square One lets you use a custom icon from your disk-drive for any palette item.
1. Click on any file on your disk-drive.
2. Select Get Info from the File menu.
3. Click on the icon.
4. Select Copy (Command-C) from the Edit menu.
5. Select the palette item you want to customize.
6. Choose Paste Icon (Command-V) from the Edit menu.
7. Your palette item will have the new icon.
NOTE: This changes the appearance of icons in your palette only. It does not affect the icons on your disk-drive at all.
How Do I Change the Color of a Palette Item's Icon?
Any palette icon can be assigned a color, just like the Finder's color labels.
1. Select the palette item to which you want to assign a color.
2. Choose Set Icon Color from the Edit menu and select the color you want.
How Do I Rearrange My Palette Items?
1. Option-click the item you want to move. The cursor will turn into a grabber hand.
2. Drag the item over the cell beside which you want to move it. When the cell is highlighted, release the mouse button. The item will be inserted next to the highlighted cell.
NOTE: You cannot drag a palette item to an empty cell. When you move a palette item, all the items in your palette will shift over to fill the empty space created by the move.
How Do I Add a Blank Cell to My Palette?
In Square One Lite, blank cells are called Spacer cells. You may want to add a Spacer to your palette to separate groups of items. A quick way to add a Spacer is to Option-drag an empty cell to a new location. Square One Lite will automatically change the empty cell to a Spacer.
Showing the Document List
By default, Square One Lite shows your documents in the pop-up menu which appears when you click and hold on a palette item.
Square One Lite can also show your documents in a separate window called the document list. When the document list is showing, you can double-click on any document to open it.
How Do I Show the Document List?
• Choose Show Document List (Command-L) from the View menu.
How Do I Hide the Document List?
• Choose Hide Document List (Command-L) from the View menu.
How Do I Resize the Document List?
1. Move the cursor to the line dividing the document list and the palette. The arrow will change to the resize cursor.
2. Drag the divider line to the desired position.
NOTE: The document list takes up a minimum amount of space. You cannot resize the document list smaller than this minimum size.
How Do I Change the Location of the Document List?
1. Choose Preferences: Current Palette from the Edit menu.
2. Select Right of Palette or Below Palette from the Location pop-up menu.
