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- This file contains information on the use of the mouse with
- the DS program. All the information is repeated in the User's
- Manual. It is broken out seperately here so that users
- already familiar with the program do not need to read the
- entire user's manual to find out how the mouse works with the
- program.
-
-
- MOUSE OPERATIONS
-
- The DS program can make use of a 2-button mouse in the
- following manner. One button is known as the ACTION BUTTON
- and the other is known as the OPTION/ESC BUTTON. By default
- the ACTION BUTTON is the Left Button and the OPTION/ESC Button
- is the Right Button but these assignments can be changed by
- the user (along with other mouse parameters) by making use of
- the "Ctrl-S" (Set Mouse) option.
-
- The ACTION BUTTON, true to its name, is the button that
- accomplishes most of the actions within the program. It is
- the button used to Tag, Untag, and Execute files, plus scroll,
- change and enter directories. It is also the button used to
- select options from menus.
-
- The OPTION/ESC Button is used to activate the popup menus
- which provide the user an alternate means of activating the
- program options they would normally select via the keyboard.
- Once an option has been selected the OPTION/ESC Button becomes
- an ESC Button and provides the user a means of terminating the
- option they have selected.
-
- A fuller discription of Mouse Button specifics can be
- found in Appendix A below.
-
- +-----------------------------+ +----------+
- -----| SET MOUSE DEFAULTS |---------| "Ctrl-S" |-----
- +-----------------------------+ +----------+
-
- The set mouse defaults allows the user to adjust various
- parameters of the mouse. The mouse can be turned on and off,
- have its appearance, color, and blink status changed, have the
- Action and Option/Esc Buttons switched, and adjust the
- directory speed parameter. Once the user has selected this
- option, the suboption selections are activated by depressing
- the appropriatly highlighted keys. Exiting this routine will
- update the startup default parameters.
-
- USING KEYBOARD:
-
- Depress the "CONTROL" and "s" keys together, then depress
- the desired suboption keys "m", "t", "f", "c", "b", "+" and/or
- "-". Press ESC to terminate the option.
-
- USING MOUSE:
-
- Click the OPTION/ESC Button to bring up the popup menu
- then select the "Mouse" suboption on the SETUP submenu by
- clicking on it with the Action Button. All the mouse default
- suboptions remain as discussed above, simply click the
- Action Button while the mouse is on top of the desired option.
-
-
- +-----------------------------+ +------------+
- -----| MOUSE TOGGLE |-------| "Ctrl-Z" |-----
- +-----------------------------+ +------------+
-
- The mouse toggle option will toggle the activation of the
- mouse. If the mouse is active, this option will hide and
- deactivate the mouse. If the mouse is inactive, this option
- will activate and show the mouse providing the mouse driver
- routine has been installed.
-
- USING KEYBOARD:
-
- Depress the "CONTROL" and "z" keys together.
-
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------
-
- APPENDIX A - MOUSE BUTTON SPECIFICS
-
- MOUSE "ACTION BUTTON" AREAS
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ a b c d <-#1 #2-> c:\sub\home d│<- #3
- │ ┌───────────────────────┐ #7 ┌──────────────┐ │
- │ │ c:\ │ █ │ file1 .ext │ │
- │ │ └─sub │ │ file2 .ext │ │
- │ #4 │ ├─home │ #8 │>file3 .ext<│ #12 │
- │ │ └─play │ │ │ │
- │ _ │ │ _ │ │ _ │
- │ │ DIRECTORIES │ │ FILES │ │
- │ │ │ │ │ │
- │ #5 │ #6 │ #9 │ #11 │ #13 │
- │ │ │ │ │ │
- │ │ │ █ │ │ │
- │ └───────────────────────┘ #10 └──────────────┘ │
- │ #14 #15 │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
- #16
- NOTES FOR MOUSE "ACTION BUTTON" AREAS
-
- #1 - (TOP BORDER - AVAILABLE DRIVES)
-
- "Clicking" on a drive letter will switch the appropriate
- screen display to the indicated drive. Hot spots for drive
- activation are the drive letter or the blank character on
- either side of the drive letter (ie: 3 characters per drive
- letter).
-
- "Dragging" from the file box (with 1 or more files tagged)
- and "Releasing" on a drive letter will initiate a
- "Copy/Move" popup window routine to either copy or move
- (default is copy) tagged files to the default directory on
- the indicated drive.
-
-
- #2 - (TOP BORDER - RIGHT OF AVAILABLE DRIVES)
-
- "Clicking" in this area "recenters" (really just
- highlights) the tree display on the current directory.
- This enables the user to re-highlight the current directory
- after the tree has been scrolled off to other directories
- for other purposes.
-
- #3 - (TOP BORDER - LAST COLUMN)
-
- This area will display a drive letter if the user is in
- single-screen mode but had previously been in split screen
- mode. The drive letter of the other screen (hidden screen)
- will be displayed. "Clicking" on the drive letter will
- "flip" the full screen display to the other screen.
-
- #4 - (UPPER LEFT BORDER)
-
- This area enables the user to scroll up the directory tree.
- While the Action Button is Depressed in this area
- successive directories further up the tree are highlighted.
-
- The scrolling speed can be controlled by the user.
- Depressing the "CONTROL" key while in this area will
- display a "Delay" value. The larger the delay value the
- slower the scrolling speed. Press "ALT" key to accelerate
- the scrolling speed (decreases the delay value). Press
- "LEFT SHIFT" to slow the scrolling speed (increases the
- delay value). Once the desired scrolling speed is obtained
- press "CONTROL" and "RIGHT SHIFT" together to save the
- scrolling speed as a startup default parameter.
-
- #5 - (LOWER LEFT BORDER)
-
- This area enables the user to scroll down the directory
- tree. While the Action Button is Depressed in this area
- successive directories further down the tree are
- highlighted.
-
- The scrolling speed is controlled as in area #4.
-
- #6 - (DIRECTORY BOX)
-
- "Releasing" the Action Button "ON" a directory NAME will
- "ENTER" the specified directory and list files in that
- directory.
-
- "Releasing" the Action Button on a directory LINE (not the
- name) will just highlight the directory but not enter it.
-
- "Dragging" from the file box (with 1 or more files tagged)
- and "Releasing" ON a directory NAME will initiate a
- "Copy/Move" popup window routine to either copy or move
- (default is copy) tagged files to the indicated directory
- AND "ENTER" the destination directory upon completion of
- the option.
-
- "Dragging" from the file box (with 1 or more files tagged)
- and "Releasing" ON a directory LINE (not the name) will
- initiate a "Copy/Move" popup window routine to either copy
- or move (default is copy) tagged files to the indicated
- directory BUT remain in the source directory upon
- completion of the option.
-
- #7 - (TOP CENTER DIVIDER)
-
- "Clicking" on the top row of the center divider will change
- the tree display to highlight (but not enter) the root
- directory.
-
- #8 - (UPPER CENTER DIVIDER)
-
- "Clicking" in this area of the center divider will scroll
- up the tree display one-half of the display screen.
-
- #9 - (LOWER CENTER DIVIDER)
-
- "Clicking" in this area of the center divider will scroll
- down the tree display one-half of the display screen.
-
- #10 - (BOTTOM CENTER DIVIDER)
-
- "Clicking" on the bottom row of the center divider will
- change the tree display to highlight (but not enter) the
- last directory.
-
- #11 - (FILE BOX)
-
- "Clicking" on a filename will toggle the "TAGGING" of that
- file.
-
- "Pressing" on one filename (start file) and "Releasing" on
- a different filename (end file) will toggle ALL of the
- files between the start and end files inclusive.
-
- "Double Clicking" on a filename (not the .ext) will execute
- the specified file (Keyboard "X" command). You cannot
- specify command line parameters with this option.
-
- "Double Clicking" on a filename extension (including the
- ".") will execute the specified file (Keyboard "Alt-X"
- command) overlaying the DS program to conserve memory. You
- cannot specify command line parameters with this option.
-
- "Clicking" in the columns where the Left and Right File
- Indicator triangles reside will toggle the "File Follow"
- feature. The file follow feature is defaulted to OFF
- whereby moving the mouse in the file box does not
- automatically move the file indicator at the same time. Be
- aware that when the file follow feature is active if the
- user hits any of the arrow keys or the home or end keys the
- file follow feature will be deactivated (ie: turned off)
- otherwise the user would be unable to move the "indicated"
- file.
-
- "Pressing" the Action Button ANYWHERE in the File Box WITH
- 1 OR MORE FILES TAGGED and "Dragging and Releasing" the
- mouse in the Available Drives area (#1), or the Directory
- Box (#6), or the other File Box (#11) of a split-screen
- display will initiate a "Copy/Move" popup window routine to
- either copy or move (default is copy) tagged files to the
- indicated drive or directory.
-
-
- #12 - (UPPER RIGHT BORDER)
-
- "Clicking" in this area when an "up arrow" appears in the
- top row will "page up" the file listing to a previous page
- of files in the current directory.
-
- #13 - (LOWER RIGHT BORDER)
-
- "Clicking" in this area when an "down arrow" appears in the
- bottom row will "page down" the file listing to the next
- page of files in the current directory.
-
- #14 - (LEFT BOTTOM BORDER)
-
- "Clicking" is this area will TOGGLE the "Directory Follow"
- feature. The directory follow feature is defaulted to ON
- (except for DESQ) whereby moving the mouse in the directory
- box with the Action Button depressed will automatically
- move the directory highlighter at the same time.
-
- #15 - (RIGHT BOTTOM BORDER)
-
- "Clicking" in this area will toggle the split screen mode.
-
- #16 - (TAGGED TOTAL AREA)
-
- "Clicking" in this area will toggle the "Tags" on ALL files
- in the current directory.
-
-
-
- MOUSE "OPTION BUTTON" - POPUP MENUS
-
- Popup Menu - Main Options
- (Selected by "Clicking" the "OPTION/ESC Button")
-
- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │File │ Tags │ DOS │ Setup │ Macros │ Tree │ Help │ Quit │
- └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- SubOption Selections
- (Selected by "Clicking" the "ACTION Button")
-
- File Setup Tree
- ┌───┴──────┴───┐ ┌───┴───────┴───┐ ┌────┴──────┴─────┐
- │ Edit │ │Screen Repaint │ │ Menu │
- │ Edit (Ovly) │ │ │ │ │
- │ │ │ 25 43/50 Line │ │ Add Directory │
- │ List │ │ │ │ Change Name │
- │ List (Ovly) │ │Program Limits │ │ │
- │ │ │ │ │ Delete Directory│
- │ Execute │ │ Mouse │ │ │
- │Execute (Ovly)│ │ │ │ Mount Directory │
- │ │ │ Colors │ │UnMount Directory│
- │ Print │ │ │ │ │
- │ Print (Ovly) │ │Volume Show Tog│ │ Show/Switch Log │
- │ │ │ │ │ Write New Log │
- │ Delete │ │ Defaults │ │ │
- │ │ │ │ │ Rescan Tree │
- │ Copy │ │ EMM Summary │ └─────────────────┘
- │ Move │ │ Drive Summary │
- │ Rename │ │ │
- │ │ │ About DS │
- │ Find │ │ Show Owner │
- │ Select & Sort│ │Check Integrity│
- │ Attributes │ └───────────────┘
- └──────────────┘
-
- SubOption Selections (cont)
- (Selected by "Clicking" the "ACTION Button")
-
- Tags DOS Macros Help
- ┌──┴──────┴──┐ ┌─┴─────┴──┐ ┌─┴────────┴┐ ┌┴──────┴┐
- │ Tag All │ │ DOS │ │ Alt Fn │ │Keyboard│
- │ UnTag All │ │DOS (Ovly)│ │ Shft Fn │ │ Mouse │
- │Control Tags│ └──────────┘ │ Ctrl Fn │ │Expanded│
- └────────────┘ │ # Links │ └────────┘
- │Alt # Links│
- └───────────┘
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Mouse with Macro Lists:
-
- When one of the macro lists (@F10, sF10, or ^F10) is
- displayed, clicking the action button in the following areas
- will invoke the following appropriate responses:
-
- On or Left of "=" sign - Launch (Execute) the Macro.
-
- Right of "=" sign - Move highlighter to appropriate Macro
- to enable changes to be made to the Macro.
-
- On Top 2 lines of display - Tab to other Macro Lists.
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Mouse with Directory Link Lists:
-
- When one of the Directory Link Lists (0 or Alt-0) is
- displayed, clicking the action button in the following areas
- will invoke the following appropriate responses:
-
- Left of "=" sign - Move highlighter to this number link.
-
- On the "=" sign - Move highlighter to this number link
- and "delete" (unlink) any assigned directory
- from this number key.
-
- Right of "=" sign - Move highlighter to this number link
- and "insert" (link) the highlighted directory
- to this number key.
-
- Right Border of "File Box" - Page back and forth from the
- "0" Directory Link List to the "Alt-0"
- Directory Link List.
-
-
-