home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
Text File | 1991-04-13 | 105.7 KB | 3,499 lines |
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- MOUSE MEISTER
-
-
- A Graphical User Interface for
- MS-DOS compatible systems
-
-
- Version 1.0
- 4/13/91
-
- Documentation
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Copyright (c) 1990/1991
- All Rights Reserved
-
-
-
- Authors: Brad Coleman
- Mark Blythe
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
-
-
- DISCLAIMERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
-
- WHAT EXACTLY IS MOUSE MEISTER? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
-
- FEATURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
-
- NOTE FOR NON-MOUSE USERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
-
- SHAREWARE, AND FUTURE VERSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
-
- REGISTRATION FORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
-
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
-
- INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
-
- THE MOUSE ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- CLICK: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- DOUBLE CLICK: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- DRAG: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- MOUSE MEISTER: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
-
- GETTING FAMILIAR WITH MOUSE MEISTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
-
- GENERAL DESKTOP FUNCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- ACTIVATING AN ITEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- INSTALLING A DRIVE ICON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- DELETING DRIVE ICONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- DRAGGING ITEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
-
- OPERATIONS FROM THE FILE WINDOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
- OPENING A FILE WINDOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
- RUNNING A PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
- THE FULL SCREEN BUTTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
- THE RE-SIZE BUTTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
- THE CLOSE WINDOW BUTTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
- THE SCROLL BUTTONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
- MOVING A FILE WINDOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
- CHANGING DIRECTORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
- SELECTING ITEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
- To select multiple items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
- To Unselect multiple files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
-
- DRAGGING FILES OR DIRECTORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
- RENAMING A FILE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
- DELETING A FILE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
- COPYING A FILE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
- MOVING A FILE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
- EXECUTING A PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- FILE ICONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- CREATING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- MOVING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- DELETING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- EDITING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- GOOD USE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- LIMITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
-
- RELATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
- DELETING/EDITING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
-
- SAVING THE DESKTOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
-
- DROP-DOWN MENUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
- THE "FILE" DROP-DOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
- THE "VIEW" DROP-DOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
- THE "SORT" DROP-DOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
- THE "OPTIONS" DROP-DOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
-
- THE MOUSE MEISTER SETUP PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
- SETTING UP THE FILE WINDOW COLORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
- SETTING UP THE DROP-DOWN COLORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
- SETTING UP THE FILE ICON COLORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
- SETTING UP THE DRIVE AND TRASHCAN ICON COLORS . . . . . . . 38
- THE CLOCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
- SETTING MISCELLANEOUS OPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
- CLICK DELAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
- DRAG DELAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
- CONFIRMING MOVES, COPIES, AND DELETES . . . . . . . . . . . 40
- SCROLL DELAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
- SCREEN BLANK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
- DEFAULT SORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
- STOP CGA SNOW OPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
- USE BIOS OPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
- HOG MEMORY OPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
-
- LIMITS FOR MOUSE MEISTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
-
- DROP-DOWN MENU LAYOUTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
-
- TROUBLE-SHOOTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
-
- UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
-
- INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- DISCLAIMERS
-
- The authors claim no responsibility for any damages caused by
- the use or misuse of this product. This product is distributed "as
- is" with no warranty expressed or implied. The authors will not be
- responsible for any losses incurred, either directly or indirectly,
- by the use of this product. The authors reserve the right to make
- modifications at any time. Prices are subject to change without
- notice.
-
- All trademarks are registered to their respective companies.
-
- We don't claim to be in line with the standards for Graphical
- User Interfaces (GUI's) or any other standards for that matter. We
- designed Mouse Meister to be as easy as possible to use, and to be
- totally functional and didn't even worry about the "standards."
- This doesn't mean Mouse Meister is totally different from certain
- other interfaces, but it does mean you probably will find subtle
- differences here and there.
-
- As for a Graphical User Interface... "Graphical" is used
- loosely here. We haven't gotten into any fancy graphics in this
- version really. Just PC-ASCII-type graphics are used in Mouse
- Meister, but we felt that this was sufficient for the task. It
- came out looking pretty pleasing to the eye in our opinion and
- works VERY similar to true graphic environments.
-
- Mouse Meister was written in Borland's Turbo C++ with IDC's
- TCXL library (V 5.5).
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- WHAT EXACTLY IS MOUSE MEISTER?
-
-
- Good question. Kind of a DOS shell, kind of a GUI, kind of a
- menu, kinder, gentler nation. Some of you may be saying, "Oh, just
- what I need, another DOS shell." Well, just read a little further
- and let us explain what Mouse Meister can do. We think you will
- change your mind.
-
- Mouse Meister was designed to fill a big gap that has
- developed in the DOS world -- There are no easy, powerful, yet
- easily affordable alternatives to using DOS (personal opinion
- only). Those of you that have used computers based on a
- Graphical User Interface (such as the Atari ST or Apple
- MacIntosh) know exactly what we mean.
-
- The mouse is a very powerful tool that very few DOS programs
- fully utilize. Mouse Meister lets you practically "replace" DOS
- with an easy to use, very powerful, very flexible Graphical User
- Interface (GUI). You will see that familiar DOS prompt less and
- less as you begin to realize what Mouse Meister can do.
-
- You get the advantages of a GUI, with very little overhead
- (in RAM or your pocketbook!)
-
- As we started programming, we intended to add every feature we
- could possibly want, including most popular DOS shell and menu
- system features, along with a number of innovative additions. We
- were more successful at including these features than we ever
- expected, and are very happy with the final results.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- FEATURES INCLUDE...
-
-
- * Totally mouse driven. You will wish all programs were.
-
- * True drop-down menus. You don't have to go CLICK on the
- menu bar to pull down the one you want. Just move the
- mouse to your selection, and the menu will drop down on
- its own. Move the mouse up and down within the pulled-
- down menu, and the options will highlight as the mouse
- cursor passes over them. The ONLY time you CLICK is when
- you SELECT an option. Ahhh, the way it was meant to be.
-
- * File Icons let you quickly build a powerful custom menu
- easier than you've ever seen.
-
- * The ability to link data files with their parent
- programs. This is a VERY POWERFUL feature we call
- "Relations" that you won't want to miss out on.
-
- * Moving and Copying files is a snap. Select anything
- you want from a file window, including multiple files
- AND/OR directories (yes, directories!), and they can
- be copied or moved easier than you ever thought
- was possible!
-
- * The ability to delete EVERYTHING in a given path,
- including everything contained in all sub-directories
- under the selected path. Sub-directories are even
- removed for you.
-
- * Unlimited file windows, file icons, relations, and
- drive icons! The only thing that limits you is your
- available RAM.
-
- * Hot-Key alternatives for all drop-down menu selections.
- If you feel that hitting a key is easier or faster than
- selecting from the menu, feel free!
-
- * All file windows on the screen at any one time each
- have independently selected items and scrollable
- regions within them.
-
- * Network compatible. (Only lightly tested on networks.
- Test it on yours and let us know how it performs!)
-
- * Mouse-sensitive screen blanker. You don't have to hit a
- key to get your screen un-blanked (but you can if you
- want), just move the mouse or CLICK a mouse button!
-
-
-
-
- 3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- * Choose to have Mouse Meister unload itself from memory
- before running your selected program, and Mouse Meister
- will shrink itself to a 17K shell, saving your current
- setup to disk and automatically reloading itself upon
- exiting your application. Or you may choose the fastest
- way possible - have Mouse Meister stay completely in
- memory when you run a program from it (which takes a
- minimum of 174K.)
-
- * Virtually everything in Mouse Meister is configurable,
- including screen colors, mouse sensitivity, memory
- handling, snow suppression, window locations, and MUCH
- more.
-
- * There are many more features, but you'll have to read the
- manual to discover them (well, at least skim it!)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
-
- Anything from a PC to 486 or compatible computer.
-
- DOS 3.00 or later
-
- 200+ K RAM - The '+' is determined by the number of windows
- and icons you open. MMeister will let you know
- if you try to go beyond your RAM limits.
- (You will need this much to run Mouse Meister,
- which will shrink itself to 17K when you run a
- program from within Mouse Meister if you have the
- "Hog Memory" option turned off.)
-
-
- Hard Disk (highly recommended, not required)
-
- HERC, CGA, EGA, MCGA, VGA, SUPER VGA, MEGA VGA (well, if there
- was a MEGA it would work with Mouse Meister!)
-
- Mouse (including Microsoft-compatible driver; either two or
- three button is fine)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- NOTE FOR NON-MOUSE USERS
-
- If you don't have a working mouse installed on your system,
- this program probably isn't for you. We have provided hot-keys for
- shortcuts, but in order for Mouse Meister to be really useable, you
- would want to use a mouse.
-
- The reasoning for this is that Mouse Meister uses a graphical-
- type interface. Even if it was totally keyboard-useable, it would
- be a pain to use, which would defeat the whole purpose of the
- program - SIMPLICITY! Future versions will most likely include
- full keyboard support if we get any demand for it.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- SHAREWARE, AND FUTURE VERSIONS
-
- As mentioned earlier, this is our FIRST version of Mouse
- Meister, and we are happy with the way it has turned out. Since
- this program was written to satisfy a need (actually, it was a
- really bad WANT, but almost a NEED) that we had, we feel there are
- many people out there who would greatly enjoy using it also.
-
- We considered releasing Mouse Meister commercially, but chose
- the shareware route for our first version. This is because we
- believe in the shareware concept when it is used correctly. Here
- are some points about shareware, and why we chose it over a
- commercial release.
-
- 1. Shareware will let us distribute our program
- throughout a wide area at a very low cost.
-
- 2. People can try the program for free to see if it is
- something they would use. Normally, you would have to
- determine this from comments on the box (oh, like those
- aren't biased at all), through software reviews, or
- hearsay.
-
- 3. Shareware lets us receive bug reports, dislikes, and
- suggestions for future additions from many, many people.
-
- 6. Our registered users will be able to receive free
- technical support (well, you have to pay long-distance
- charges in some cases), and upgrades to future versions
- at a substantially discounted price.
-
-
- NOTE: We sincerely HATE "Cripple-ware". We didn't
- release a sub-standard version for shareware users.
- This is the latest and greatest version as of the
- given release date, with ALL features enabled.
- You've got what we've got!
-
- 2nd NOTE: Mouse Meister contains no irritating screens when
- you start the program that beg for shareware
- donations or display lengthy author credits. If
- you want info on how to register, it is in the
- documentation, or you can select the "Info"
- menu from within Mouse Meister. Yes, to be honest,
- we DO want money, but we don't want to bug you
- to death to get it! Enough said.
-
- Please, use the program....see if you like it. Give it to all
- of your friends, upload it to Bulletin Board Systems. If you
- decide you want to keep it and use it, please take the time to
- register it. If you don't want to use it, then delete it. No use
- in wasting disk space on something you don't want, right?
-
- 7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Our registration fee is only $16, which we feel is quite fair
- for the features Mouse Meister offers. We will, however, accept
- large cashier's checks for hundred's of dollars and we will barter
- for exotic sports cars. (Please no cash or cars in the mail - they
- could get lost.)
-
- While using Mouse Meister, if you find any bugs or have any
- problems, PLEASE let us know. We have tested this program
- extensively, and have fixed all KNOWN bugs, but it is very possible
- that you could find one that we missed.
-
- If you suddenly think, "Hmmm, I sure wish Mouse Meister
- could do such-and-such...", then let us know! We will do our best
- to see that your suggestions appear in our next version if they are
- useful and feasible. If you just have gripes or comments, we would
- love to hear those too.
-
- To register, send $16 along with the following registration form.
- You will then be sent your registered copy of the newest version
- available. You will also be eligible for future upgrades at reduced
- prices, plus free technical support.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M
-
- Mouse Meister Version 1.0
- (Registration Fee: $16.00)
-
-
-
- Date: _____________
-
- Name: _____________________________________
-
- Address: _______________________________________________________
-
- _______________________________________________________
-
- City: ___________________ State: ______ Zip: __________
-
- Phone: (_______) _____ - ________
-
-
- Amount enclosed: $ ________ (Please fill in)
-
-
- What version of Mouse Meister do you have?
-
- ________________________
-
-
-
- Where did you get Mouse Meister?
-
- __________________________________
-
-
-
- Comments _______________________________________________________
-
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- (Continue on back if needed)
-
-
-
- With your registration, you get your own personal Mouse Meister
- disk with your own personal serial number on it! This is included
- free with your registration (so is shipping.) Just circle ONE of
- the types listed below (all disks are low-density):
-
-
- Media: 5.25" 3.5"
-
-
-
- 9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Send this form, along with your $16 registration fee (check or
- money order preferably) to:
-
- Mouse Meister
- 3151 Briar Lane
- Southlake, TX 76092
-
-
- Make check or money order payable to: Mouse Meister
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 10
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
-
- The authors of this software (and this lengthy documentation)
- are both students at Texas Tech University (go Red Raiders!). As
- such, we are poor and starving and would greatly appreciate making
- loads of money from this effort (or at least a little). So, by
- registering this version you can kill two insects with one foot:
- You can encourage the free-enterprise system, and you can help put
- two needy students through school!
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 11
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- To install Mouse Meister, simply create a directory on your
- hard disk for it, copy all the files into that directory, and
- append that directory name to the PATH statement in your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file (see your DOS reference manual if your are
- unfamiliar with the AUTOEXEC file or the PATH statement). Here is
- a step-by-step installation procedure:
-
- (Insert the disk with the Mouse Meister files into drive A)
- (Type the following commands, changing drive ID's to suit your
- system. NOTE: The directory can be named anything you
- like, and drive B can of course be substituted for drive A)
-
- Command Explanation
- ====================== ===============================
- C: Switches to drive C
-
- MD \MMEISTER Makes a directory named MMEISTER
-
- COPY A:*.* C:\MMEISTER Copies all files from drive A
-
- PATH=C:\MMEISTER Simple path statement. Mouse
- Meister must be able to find
- it's child programs (i.e.,
- MMsetup) in your path. If you
- already have a path set, then
- just add ";C:\MMEISTER" to the
- end of it.
-
- MMEISTER Runs Mouse Meister
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- TAKE A LOOK AT IT
-
- Unless you are not PC/mouse comfortable, go play with Mouse
- Meister. A lot of the program is very obvious and will make a
- little more sense when we talk about it in here if you've already
- gotten a little feel for the program.
-
- You really should at least skim through this doc-file no
- matter how comfortable you feel with the program just to make sure
- you aren't missing some of the not-so-obvious features, like the
- all-powerful "relations" for instance.
-
- The best way would probably be to print these docs out and
- have them at your side while you just work through it a page at a
- time. This may sound ridiculous, but we feel that most people will
- understand and remember the majority of the features the first time
- through due to the simplicity of the program. Hopefully, if you use
- this method, you will only need to refer back to the docs occasionally
- for help on some feature that you don't use very often.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 13
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- THE MOUSE ENVIRONMENT
-
- If you're new to the mouse world, first of all WELCOME! Don't
- be intimidated. A mouse may be a little tricky to maneuver at
- first, but once you get the hang of it, a new world is opened. If
- written correctly, a program can be made MUCH easier and more
- POWERFUL through the use of a mouse. This is the way Mouse Meister
- was written. If you are having problems with your mouse's
- "accuracy", find a public domain game that uses a mouse. This is
- the fastest (and most entertaining) way to build mouse skills.
-
- There are a few terms you need to be familiar with to make
- your way through this manual. These are:
-
- CLICK: This simply means to quickly press and release
- the mouse button. Your mouse may have two or
- three buttons, but in Mouse Meister we only
- use the LEFT button (with one exception) for
- CLICKing, so always assume we are referring to
- the left one.
-
- DOUBLE CLICK: This means to CLICK quickly, twice in a row.
- This is probably the most difficult operation
- to master, but with a little practice, you
- should have no problem. If you just can't
- seem to get it to work, you can adjust the
- sensitivity to your liking with the setup
- program. Read the THE MOUSE MEISTER SETUP
- PROGRAM section to see how to do this.
-
- DRAG: This means to press down the mouse button and
- KEEP IT PRESSED. Normally, something will be
- selected and will follow your mouse cursor as
- you move it around the screen.
-
- MOUSE MEISTER: Your soon-to-be favorite program.
-
-
- These are the most important terms you will be seeing
- throughout this manual. The mouse may take a little getting used
- to, but it really is easy once you master it.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 14
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- GETTING FAMILIAR WITH MOUSE MEISTER
-
- To run Mouse Meister, simply type MMEISTER at the DOS prompt.
- This command can easily be placed in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file so
- Mouse Meister will automatically be loaded every time you boot your
- computer. You should now find yourself looking at the Mouse
- Meister "desktop".
-
- NOTE: If the MMEISTER directory is not in your PATH
- statement, you will need to change to the MMEISTER directory before
- running it.
-
- You have now loaded the MMeister shell, which in turn loaded
- the MMovrlay program for you. The shell will stay in memory
- until you exit MMeister. Now, if you have "Hog Memory" turned
- off and run a program from within MMeister, the following will
- happen:
- MMeister will save the current desktop info to a
- temporary file.
-
- MMovrlay will remove itself from memory and run your
- program from the 17K shell.
-
- When you exit your program, you will automatically be
- returned to the shell (since that is what ran your
- program to begin with), and the shell will instantly
- re-load MMovrlay with the temporary desktop file.
-
- The shell should be totally invisible to you. Therefore,
- when we casually mention MMeister throughout the docs, we are
- really talking about MMovrlay, since that is the true meat of the
- program. Technically speaking though, MMEISTER.EXE is the shell.
-
- The background of the screen is referred to as the "desktop"
- for a good reason. It is very similar to an actual desk, in that
- all of your tools are placed upon it and can be left in any
- arrangement you like. Your "tools" in Mouse Meister are
- represented as either "windows" or "icons".
-
- Windows are areas of the screen (usually small boxes) that
- contain some sort of information.
-
- Icons are representations of an object or operation that are
- used for convenience. For instance, when you run Mouse Meister
- for the first time, you should see a number of small boxes at the
- lower left corner of the desktop. These are "drive icons",
- or representations of your system's disk drives. In the lower
- right corner of the screen is a small trashcan labeled "DEL" for
- the operation it represents - DELETE.
-
-
-
-
- 15
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Icons make many operations simpler and more logical in the
- way they are invoked, creating a very friendly atmosphere for computer
- users. You will see many examples of windows and icons as you
- continue to explore Mouse Meister.
-
- Many functions can be invoked using the windows and icons on
- the desktop, but others reside in Mouse Meister's "drop-down"
- menus. These menus are located along the top row of the screen,
- just above the desktop. They are labeled from left to right,
- beginning with "Info" and ending with "Options".
-
- To "drop-down" one of these menus, you simply move your mouse
- cursor until it is over the menu title you want. The desired menu
- will then drop itself down, revealing a number of different
- options. Move your mouse cursor over these options, and they will
- be highlighted as your cursor touches them (notice that you
- haven't had to touch a mouse button or the keyboard yet!)
-
- You may notice that some of the options are printed in a
- lighter color than most and do not highlight when you pass over
- them. These options are "unselectable" at the moment, because that
- function is not available under the current circumstances. For
- example, you cannot select "Close Window" if there is no window
- open or selected.
-
- When you have found the menu entry that you want, simply CLICK
- on it to invoke that function. To close a menu without selecting
- a function, you can either pull down another menu by touching it
- with your mouse cursor, or you can move your cursor outside of the
- menu area and CLICK your button. This will close the menu, and
- return you to the desktop as it was before a menu was pulled down.
-
- Now that you are familiar with the basic objects that sit on
- your desktop, wouldn't it be nice to know how to use them? That's
- what the next section starts explaining, so continue reading!
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- GENERAL DESKTOP FUNCTIONS
-
-
- ACTIVATING AN ITEM
- ------------------
-
- No matter if it's a file window, drive-icon, file icon, or the
- trashcan, you activate it by moving the mouse over it and CLICKing
- on it (that's a single CLICK remember).
-
- You can always tell what is active because it will have one of
- the following attributes:
-
- OBJECT ACTIVATED ATTRIBUTE NORMAL ATTRIBUTE
- ============ =================== ================
- File Window Double border Single border
- Drive Icon Double border Single border
- File Icon Inversed colors Regular colors
- Trash Icon Inversed colors Regular colors
-
-
-
- INSTALLING A DRIVE ICON
- -----------------------
-
- Upon loading Mouse Meister the first time, all your drive
- icons will be automatically made for you. This includes 1 to 2
- floppies and as many consecutive hard drives as your system has.
- In other words, if you have an A:, C:, D:, and F: drives on your
- system, the first three will be detected, but the F: drive will
- not be because there was no E: drive (so F: is not consecutive.)
-
- This may be the case for RAM drives or networked drives. If
- this happens on your system, or if you just want more than one
- reference to a particular drive, follow this procedure:
-
- Activate anything but an existing drive or file icon (i.e.,
- activating the trashcan will work), and select "Install Desktop
- Icon" from the "Options" drop-down menu.
-
- This will give you an empty drive-option window to either
- cancel or edit. Pick the edit option and type in the drive
- letter to install. MMeister will then look up the specified
- drive to see if it is valid. If it is a valid drive, it will be
- placed on the desktop for you. Otherwise you will be given an
- error, which in short means that you cannot install an icon for a
- drive that is not currently recognized.
-
- If you are installing a floppy drive, you must have a
- formatted disk (blank OR non-blank - it WON'T write anything to
- the disk!) in the drive before attempting to install it.
-
-
- 17
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- DELETING DRIVE ICONS
- --------------------
-
- If at some point in time you no longer have a need for a
- specific drive icon, you can easily delete it from the desktop.
-
- Simply activate the desired drive icon, then select "Install
- Desktop Icon" from the "Options" drop-down menu. You will be
- given a drive-options window that shows the information for the
- selected drive icon.
-
- Pick the "Delete" button with your mouse to remove this drive
- icon from the desktop.
-
- You will then be returned to the desktop, which will have one
- less drive icon than it did a second ago!
-
-
- DRAGGING ITEMS
- --------------
-
- NOTE: When DRAGging an object, the only way to be sure of
- where you are releasing it is to note where the
- cursor is when you release it.
-
- Drive icons and file icons: Just CLICK and hold anywhere on
- the icon. When you start DRAGging the icon, it will move with you.
- You are essentially picking it up off the desktop temporarily.
- When you release the button, you lay it back down at the new
- location on the desktop.
-
- See the section on file icons to find out more about them.
-
- Refer to "DRAGGING FILES OR DIRECTORIES" section for more
- information on dragging items.
-
- Most functions either involve or affect a file window in some
- way, so let's discuss those next.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 18
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- OPERATIONS FROM THE FILE WINDOW
-
-
- OPENING A FILE WINDOW
- ---------------------
-
- A file window displays the files that reside on a particular
- drive. It also allows you access to those files, so that you can
- perform operations on them, such as copying or running them. File
- windows will probably be your most important tools, so lets open
- one to experiment with.
-
- Remember those little drive icons we talked about earlier?
- One of them should be active (double border around it) when you
- first start MMeister (the other drive icons will have only a
- single border.) To activate other icons, you simply CLICK on them
- with your mouse cursor. Activate the drive icon that you wish to
- get a file window of, and then DOUBLE CLICK on it (or press the
- INSert key.) A file window should now open, labeled with the
- selected drive letter on the top border of the window.
-
- If a file window does NOT open, try a couple more times.
- Chances are, you are just not used to DOUBLE CLICKing with the
- mouse button. If you still can't get the hang of it, refer to the
- section entitled THE MOUSE MEISTER SETUP PROGRAM to find ways to
- adjust mouse sensitivity and practice your CLICKing.
-
- Examine the file window. The top border of the window is used
- to display the drive, current directory, and file template. (Note
- that file windows always initially open to the root directory.)
- Inside the window are the directories and files that are contained
- on that disk. Directories and files are displayed in different
- colors, with directories always appearing first (EXCEPT when you
- choose to have no sort performed on files - then they are in their
- regular DOS order.) The bottom border displays the number of
- items in the current directory and how many bytes of disk-space
- they use.
-
- RUNNING A PROGRAM
- -----------------
-
- See a program you want to run? Just DOUBLE CLICK on it! Mouse
- Meister will run your program, and load itself back the way it was
- when you're finished. Easy, isn't it? You can run anything you would
- normally run from DOS: .EXE, .COM, or .BAT files. A powerful
- function called "Relations" will let you "run" other types of files,
- like pictures, but we will talk about that later.
-
- A file window also has three buttons that perform important
- functions. Look at the corners of the window, and you will see
- that all but the lower left corner have markers, or buttons, on
- them. We will discuss these buttons next.
-
- 19
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- THE FULL SCREEN BUTTON
- ----------------------
-
- You may notice that not all of your files fit in the file
- window because the window is too small. One way to solve this
- problem is to CLICK on the "full screen" button, located at the
- upper right corner of the file window. It looks like a circle with
- an arrow pointing to the upper right. CLICK on it with your LEFT
- mouse button, and the window should re-size itself to take up the
- full screen, allowing you to see many more files. Notice that
- Mouse Meister automatically displays the maximum number of columns
- that will fit in the window, unless you have this feature
- disabled. To get the file window back to its previous size,
- simply CLICK on the full screen button again.
-
-
- THE RE-SIZE BUTTON
- ------------------
-
- If you don't want the file window to take up the full screen,
- but you DO need it just a little bigger (or smaller), you can
- adjust its size by using the "re-size" button. Position your
- cursor over the lower right corner of the file window, and press
- the left mouse button, but DON'T RELEASE THE BUTTON yet. While
- still holding the button down, move your mouse around (this is
- known as DRAGging.) See how the lower right corner of the window
- follows your movement? This allows you to size the window as you
- like (within the screen's limits, of course), up to full screen and
- as small as one column of information. When you have the window at
- the size you want, release the mouse button. Mouse Meister will
- redraw the window at its new size, adjusting the number of columns
- that can be displayed.
-
-
- THE CLOSE WINDOW BUTTON
- -----------------------
-
- If you are finished with a file window, and don't want it
- taking up space on your desktop anymore, you can simply close it by
- CLICKing on the upper left corner of the window. The file window
- will disappear, revealing whatever was beneath it (probably just
- the desktop at this point.)
-
- NOTE: The DELete key performs the same function as the Close
- Window button. (All window actions take place in whichever window
- is currently active.)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 20
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- THE SCROLL BUTTONS
- ------------------
-
- I know we said there were only three buttons on a file window,
- but two of them have dual functions. The upper-right and lower-
- right buttons also allow you to scroll through a file window,
- viewing files that lay above or below its boundaries.
-
- To see files that are below the bottom of the window, CLICK on
- the lower right corner with your RIGHT mouse button. A new row of
- files should scroll onto the screen, pushing the top row out of
- view. To bring that top line of files back into the window, CLICK
- with your RIGHT button on the top right corner of the window. The
- files should scroll back down to their original positions. You can
- hold your right button down to scroll more than one line, and
- release it when you want to stop scrolling. If the files scroll
- too slowly or too quickly for your liking, this speed can be set
- with Mouse Meister's "Set Preferences" option.
-
-
- MOVING A FILE WINDOW
- --------------------
-
- You can also relocate the entire file window to a new position
- on the desktop. CLICK anywhere on the top border of the file
- window (between the two buttons), and keep the button held down.
- Notice that the top border now contains the message "MOVING...".
- Continue holding your button down, and DRAG the file window to its
- new position. Release the button, when you have it at the desired
- location.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 21
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- CHANGING DIRECTORIES
- --------------------
-
- When a file window is active, you can change directories by
- DOUBLE-CLICKing on the directory name you wish to switch to. To
- go back one directory, just DOUBLE-CLICK on the ".." directory name
- on the first or second line of the file window.
-
- NOTE: Pushing the '-' key is the same as DOUBLE-CLICKing on
- the ".." symbol.
-
-
- SELECTING ITEMS
- ---------------
-
- File windows, drive icons, file icons: Just CLICK anywhere on
- the icon or window. That object will immediately show it's
- selected attribute (double-border for drive icons and file windows,
- inverse colors for file icons and the trashcan.)
-
- Items within a file window: For files and directories within
- a file window, follow these steps:
-
- To select multiple items:
-
- 1. Use the SHIFT key. If you wanted to select 3 files
- for instance, you would press and hold the SHIFT
- key, single CLICK on each of the 3 files, then
- release the SHIFT key. If you don't hold down the
- SHIFT key, the previously, non-SHIFT-selected file
- will be automatically unselected. It sounds
- confusing, but you'll quickly understand it once
- you play with it a little.
-
- 2. Use the SHIFT-DRAG combination. If you wanted to
- select all the files in the left column of the file
- window, you would press and hold the SHIFT key,
- position the mouse cursor over the first file to be
- selected, press and hold the mouse button, DRAG the
- mouse cursor down the window to the last file to be
- selected, release the mouse button, release the
- SHIFT key. If you do this, then every file your
- mouse cursor passes over in the active file window
- will get selected.
-
- 3. Use the SPACE bar. The SPACE bar will toggle all
- currently selected files to unselected mode, and at
- the same time, it will toggle all unselected files
- to selected mode. Say you wanted to select all but
- 2 files. You would SHIFT select those 2 files, let
- off the mouse button and SHIFT key, press SPACE
-
-
- 22
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- bar. At that point it would unselect those 2 files
- and select everything else.
-
- To Unselect multiple files:
-
- 1. Follow the same methods as above (except number 2),
- but do it to already selected files. (i.e., CLICKing
- on a selected file will unselect it.)
-
- 2. Use the BACKSPACE key. Hitting the BACKSPACE key
- will unselect ALL currently selected files within
- the active file window.
-
-
- DRAGGING FILES OR DIRECTORIES
- -----------------------------
-
- For files and directories within a file window, follow these
- steps:
-
- 1. Select the items as you normally would (see
- SELECTING ITEMS.)
-
- 2. CLICK and hold on an already-selected item. A box
- will appear reminding you how many items you are
- DRAGging, and the cursor will be positioned in the
- upper-left corner of this box. This cursor
- position is the focal point of everything you are
- DRAGging. (i.e., when you release the DRAG, the
- program will see if that cursor was on top of the
- trashcan, another file window, etc. It doesn't
- care about any other part of the box!!)
-
- To CANCEL a DRAG, just release the files onto the desktop,
- making sure that the cursor is not on top of the trashcan or
- another file window. This will cancel the DRAG unless you are
- DRAGging one file. In that case it is assumed that you want to
- create a file icon, but if you just want to cancel the DRAG with a
- one-file DRAG, release it right back to where you picked it up from
- (in the same file window and on the same file).
-
-
- NOTE: You must make a window active (by single CLICKing
- on it), if it is not already, before SELECTS and
- DRAGS will work!
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 23
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- RENAMING A FILE
- ---------------
-
- Renaming a file is a breeze. Just select the filename that you
- want to change, then select "Show Info" from the "File" drop-down
- menu. A small window should pop up containing the filename, size,
- date, and time information for that file. Simply click on the
- filename, and a text cursor should appear. You can now edit the
- filename. Hit return when you are finished typing, then select "Save"
- if you are satisfied with the name you typed. If not, you may select
- "Cancel" to exit without renaming the file.
-
-
- DELETING A FILE
- ---------------
-
- No problem. First, select all the files and/or directories
- within a file window that you wish to delete. Second, put the
- mouse cursor on top of one of the selected items and DRAG it out.
-
- Just DRAG the items to the trashcan icon, then release the
- button (the cursor, not just any portion of the DRAG box, must be
- positioned somewhere over the trashcan icon.) You will then be
- asked to confirm the delete (unless you have disabled this
- feature.)
-
- REMEMBER, if you DRAG a directory to the trashcan, it will
- delete everything in that directory - including any directories
- that are under that one, and it will remove the directory name.
- This makes our delete option very powerful (and oh so nice!), but
- it is also a little dangerous in that Mouse Meister assumes you
- know what you are doing. You will only be questioned if you
- haven't disabled confirms!
-
- ALSO REMEMBER that if you are holding the CTRL-key down when
- you release the button on the trashcan, YOU WILL NOT be prompted to
- confirm, even if you haven't disabled confirms! Another handy
- shortcut, but use the force wisely Luke.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 24
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- COPYING A FILE
- --------------
-
- First, open a window that will be the source, and a second
- file window that you want to copy the files to (i.e., To copy some
- files/directories from C: to B:, open a window for C:, then open
- another one for B:.) If you want to copy the items into a
- directory that is on the same disk, you don't necessarily have to
- open a second file window - see two paragraphs down.
-
- Just select all the files and/or directories within a window
- that you want to copy, put the cursor on one of the selected items,
- and DRAG the items over to the other file window.
-
- Where you DRAG the items is the key thing here. Releasing the
- files on top of a directory will copy all items INTO that
- directory. Just releasing the items on top of another file window
- (either in blank space, or on top of a file) will copy all the
- items into that file window's current directory.
-
- NOTE: If you DRAG the items to the same window that you
- picked them up from, Mouse Meister will do one of
- two things:
-
- 1. If you released the items on top of a file or blank
- space in the same window, the action is canceled.
-
- 2. If you release the items on top of a directory in
- the same window, Mouse Meister will attempt to copy
- all selected items into that directory.
-
- Mouse Meister will always check for cyclic or impossible
- copies. In other words, if you try to copy a directory into
- itself, you will be shown a message that says "Can't copy a
- directory into itself!". Similarly, if you try to copy a
- directory to somewhere that already contains a directory with
- that name, your attempt will fail. This is not true for files
- however. You can copy files with the same names on top of each
- other. If that was confusing, just remember that these rules are
- exactly the same ones that DOS uses.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 25
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- MOVING A FILE
- -------------
-
- Ahhh, the ease of Mouse Meister. "Move" is almost EXACTLY
- like "copy". The only difference is that you need to be holding
- the CTRL-key down when the button is released at the desired
- location.
-
- It does not matter when you hit the control key, as long as
- it is being held while the button is released. In other words,
- just hit the CTRL-key at any time during the item DRAGging and
- keep it held during the release of the mouse button, and if you
- want to be safe, keep that CTRL held until the confirm MOVE box
- appears.
-
- You will notice that while you're DRAGging, any time you hit
- the CTRL-key, the cursor changes to an 'M' to alert you that you
- are in MOVE mode. If you release the CTRL-key, but not the mouse
- button, the cursor will change back to normal. Try it out by
- DRAGging some files around and tap on the CTRL-key two or three
- times.
-
- As noted earlier "moving" an item(s) to the trashcan will
- perform a full delete of the selected items WITHOUT a confirm.
-
- The move function simply copies the selected items, and if
- successful at that, it will delete the originally selected items.
- The following paragraph describes the built-in safety feature of
- the move command.
-
- If for any reason Mouse Meister cannot complete the initial
- copy of a move with 100 percent accuracy, the originals will NOT be
- automatically deleted and you will be informed that something went
- wrong.
-
- EXECUTING A PROGRAM
- -------------------
-
- Running your favorite programs is quite easily done from within
- Mouse Meister. If, while looking through your file window, you see a
- particular program you would like to run, just double click on it.
- The program will load up just as if you had run it from DOS. When you
- exit your application, you will be returned to Mouse Meister, with the
- desktop just as you left it.
-
- If you want Mouse Meister to pause immediately after your program
- has run, just select the "Pause after File Runs" option from the
- "Options" drop-down menu (or [Alt] P if you prefer to use the hotkey.)
- Selecting this will pause after all files that you run (except file
- icons and relations, which have their own individual settings for
- pausing.) File icons are also a great way to run your programs, so we
- will cover those next.
-
- 26
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- FILE ICONS
-
-
- Essentially, a file icon is one of the quickest, easiest, most
- natural menu systems you've ever seen! We will now go through an
- example of setting up a file icon, which we feel better illustrates
- how they work and what they do.
-
- Let's say I have a word processor with the filename,
- "PROCESS.EXE" that I use quite often. I decide to make it a file
- icon because I heard that those are really great.
-
- First I open a file window for whatever drive PROCESS.EXE is
- on. Next I change to the directory that the word processor is in
- by DOUBLE-CLICKing on the directory name. Now I scroll down, if I
- need to, until I see PROCESS.EXE. I then position the mouse
- cursor over the filename PROCESS.EXE and DRAG it out over the
- desktop.
-
- CREATING I DRAG the file to an open area of the desktop
- A FILE ICON (where no file windows, or icons presently are) and
- release the mouse button, making double-sure that
- the cursor is not over the trashcan. I now see the
- filename sitting on the desktop and say to myself,
- "Hmmm."
-
- If I DOUBLE-CLICK on this newly created file icon, it will run
- my word processor, but I don't feel like doing that right now.
-
- If I CLICK-and-hold on the file icon, I can DRAG it
- MOVING OR around to any place I want. If I release it when
- DELETING A the cursor is on the trashcan, it will DELETE this
- FILE ICON file icon - not the actual file, just the
- representation of it that lays on the desktop.
-
- I get tired of moving it around and decide to give
- EDITING A it a label. To do this, I make sure the file icon is
- FILE ICON selected, then move the mouse cursor to the menu item
- "Options" and select "Install Desktop Icon..." from
- that drop-down menu. I then see three options and pick
- the one that says "Edit". I can now keep any options I
- want by hitting ENTER on a line, or I can change any
- line by BACKSPACING over text and typing in the change
- and hitting ENTER. I also notice that MMeister set up
- the correct drive, path, and runfile automatically and
- this will never need to be changed except to add
- runfile paramaters. The pause value is initialized to
- be the same as the current setting that is in the
- "Options" drop-down menu, but I can change it if I so
- desire. Wow, am I impressed.
-
-
-
- 27
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- I backspace over the current label, which is just the
- filename by default, and type in "My Processor". I am
- allowed 16 characters for this label. I hit ENTER on
- the last field and am returned to the desktop to see my
- file icon with its brand new label.
-
- Now, no matter what file windows are open or what
- ONE GOOD drive I am currently on, anytime I want to use my
- USE OF A word processor I can just DOUBLE-CLICK on it, and
- FILE ICON Mouse Meister knows where to find it. The only time
- this won't work is if I delete, rename, or move
- PROCESS.EXE.
-
- But wait, there's more! Let's say that I would sure
- AND ANOTHER like to read up on that file called "MMEISTER.DOC".
- GOOD USE I can just go to that directory in my file window,
- OF A grab MMEISTER.DOC, DRAG it over until my cursor is
- FILE ICON on top of the file icon "My Processor", release it,
- and hold on to my shorts! Assuming my word
- processor allows filenames to be passed to it on the
- command line, then my word processor will load up
- and automatically pull MMEISTER.DOC in for my
- viewing pleasure.
-
- Incredible? Maybe. Does it work? Definitely!! File icons
- are a very powerful feature which we are sure you will use
- constantly once you get the hang of them.
-
-
- FILE ICON LIMITS
- ----------------
-
- The number of file icons you can have on your desktop is
- limited only by available RAM (and of course by how many will
- fit on the desktop.)
-
- Mouse Meister assumes you want to cancel the action if you
- drop more than one item on the desktop. In other words, to make a
- file icon, only the desired filename may be selected. If more than
- one file is selected, or if the selected item is a directory, the
- action is canceled.
-
- You will also notice that if you DRAG more than one item TO a
- file icon, nothing happens. This would be like running a file and
- passing it more than one filename (you would rarely need to do that
- anyway), or passing it a directory. If you need to add run-time
- options, just edit the file icon (See "EDITING A FILE ICON") and
- add the desired options to the filename. Almost any application
- that allows command line options will want the options before any
- filenames that are passed to it, so this should not generally be a
- problem.
-
-
- 28
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- RELATIONS
-
-
- Relations are one of Mouse Meister's most powerful and
- convenient features. It is, in essence, establishing a
- relationship or link between certain types of data files and
- their parent programs. For example, if you wanted all files
- with an extension of .DOC to be automatically loaded into your
- favorite word processor when you double-clicked on them, all
- you need to do is Establish a Relation.
-
- To do this, you need to go into the directory that
- contains your word processor, and select its .EXE or .COM file.
- (i.e., for Word Perfect, you would highlight WP.EXE.) Then,
- select the "Establish Relation..." item under the "Options" drop-
- down menu.
-
- You should now be prompted to enter two file extensions that
- are to be "related" with your word processor. Type DOC for the
- first extension, and just hit enter for the second extension.
-
- NOTE: If you wanted another type of file to be related to
- your word processor, such as .TXT, you could put it
- in the second position.
-
- NOTE2: You may have as many relations associated with one
- file name as you desire. For instance, if you wanted
- 4 file extensions related to one application name, you
- would just set up 2 relations for that application.
-
- That's all there is to it! Now, if you see an interesting
- .DOC file in your directory that you would like to look at (for
- example, let's say the ever-popular MMEISTER.DOC), all you have
- to do is go double click on it, and it will be loaded right into
- your word processor.
-
- Files can be related to either .EXE, .COM, and even batch
- files, providing you with high flexibility. The possible uses
- for Relations are endless! Another very useful example would be
- relating .ARC files to a batch file containing the line:
-
- @PKXARC -v %1
-
- This would allow you to just click on a .ARC file, and have its
- contents displayed to you on the screen! If you wanted to pause after
- displaying these contents, all you have to do is edit the relation,
- which is discussed on the next page. This tiny batch file
- assumes that the directory containing PKXARC.EXE is contained in
- your path. You could, of course, supply the full path for PKXARC
- in the batch file. Play around with Relations, and you will soon
- have many favorites.
-
-
- 29
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Suppose you wanted to have a specific documentation file
- (.DOC file) as a file icon so that when you DOUBLE CLICKed on that
- file icon, you would see this DOC file load into a text editor or
- word processor, but you only wanted THAT SPECIFIC doc file to
- work that way. In this case, you wouldn't want a relation.
- Just DRAG the desired text editor, word processor, or batch file to
- the desktop to make it a file icon. Next, edit that icon and
- append the name of the doc file to the end of the run-file name
- (i.e., "PROCESS.EXE C:\DATA\README.DOC" may be the new runfile name.)
- You can of course change the label to whatever you want also.
-
- NOTE: The run-file name of a file icon is limited to 40
- characters in length, including any switches or
- filenames passed on the command line.
-
-
- DELETING/EDITING A RELATION
- ---------------------------
-
- If you wish to change or delete an existing relation, you must
- first pick "Edit Relation" from the "Options" drop-down menu. You
- will then be given a list of all existing relations. Now just choose
- the one you wish to edit or delete and another window will come up
- that shows you what is currently in that relation, including the
- current pause status for it. You may choose "Edit" to change these,
- or "Delete" to remove this relation. Choosing "Cancel" will return
- you to the desktop with no changes made.
-
- Choosing "Edit" will allow you to change what extensions are
- related and whether or not to pause after this relation has been run.
-
- NOTE: "Edit Relation" will be unselectable if there are no
- existing relations.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 30
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- SAVING THE DESKTOP
-
- Once you have your desktop set up exactly to your liking,
- including relations, file icons, file windows opened and all of the
- corresponding screen locations, you will want to save that puppy! To
- do this, just select "Save Desktop" from the "Options" drop-down menu.
- If a saved desktop already exists, you will be asked if you want to
- overwrite it. Select "Yes" to save your newer desktop.
-
- Next time you run Mouse Meister, your desktop will be returned to
- you exactly how you saved it (except all file windows will be scrolled
- to the top of the directory they were in when you selected the save
- desktop feature.)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 31
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- DROP-DOWN MENUS
-
-
- The following pages give a quick overview of the various
- drop-downs available. The bracketed ([ ]) options to the left of
- some selections represent hot-key combinations. They act exactly
- the same as pulling the menu down and selecting the option.
- Hot-keys will only work in the same situations that their corre-
- sponding menu options will, of course. If you are not comfortable
- with operating Mouse Meister's drop-down menus, refer back to the
- section entitled "GETTING FAMILIAR WITH MOUSE MEISTER."
-
- NOTE: The notation "[Alt] R", as an example, means push
- and hold the 'Alt' key on your keyboard and tap the
- 'R' key.
-
-
- THE "FILE" DROP-DOWN
- --------------------
-
- Info File View Sort Options
- +-"--------------------------+
- | Open [Ins] | ----> Opens a file window for
- | Show Info [Alt] N | ---. the highlighted file icon
- |============================| |
- | Close Directory [-] | -. `---> Shows information for
- .--- | Close Window [Del] | `--. the currently selected
- | |============================| `. file window or
- | | Make a Directory [Alt] M | ---. `. drive icon
- | | Format Floppy [Alt] F | -. | `-.
- | |============================| | `-. `--> Backs up one
- | ,- | Quit the Meister [Alt] X | | | directory from the
- | | +----------------------------+ | `-. current one
- | | | |
- | | ,--' |
- | `--> Quits Mouse Meister .--' |
- | | `--.
- | \|/ |
- | ` |
- `-----. Format the selected |
- `. drive \|/
- `--. `
- `-----> Closes the currently Prompts for a new
- active file window directory name. The
- new directory will be
- placed in the current
- directory of the
- selected file window
-
-
- NOTE: For the "Format Floppy" option to work, you must have
- the DOS program FORMAT.COM in your path.
-
- 32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- THE "VIEW" DROP-DOWN
- --------------------
-
-
- Info File View Sort Options
- +-"---------------------------+
- | Single Columns [Alt] C | --> Toggles between
- .-------- | Show Size [Alt] S | showing single or
- | .---- | Show Date [Alt] D | multiple columns for
- | | |=============================| the currently
- | | | Update Window [ESC] | --. active file window
- | | +-----------------------------+ |
- | | |
- | `--> Toggles ON/OFF whether |
- | the date is shown for files `--> Re-reads the
- | in the currently active file currently active
- | window file window,
- | resetting it
- | to the root, but
- `---------> Toggles ON/OFF whether keeping the
- the size is shown for template intact
- files in the currently
- active file window
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 33
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- THE "SORT" DROP-DOWN
- --------------------
-
-
- Info File View Sort Options
- +-"--------------------------+
- ,-- | Sort By Name F1 |
- ,---- | Sort by Date F2 |
- .--------------- | Sort by Size F3 | .-> View files in
- | `-- | Sort by Type F4 | | the order DOS
- | | No Sort F5 | -' thinks they
- | |============================| are in.
- | | Select Template F10 | -.
- | +----------------------------+ |
- | |
- | |
- `----> Toggles between sorting files \|/
- by name, date, size, or type `
- for the currently active file Prompts for a temp-
- window. late to be applied
- to the current file
- window. (i.e., "*.C"
- would show only files
- that have ".C" as an
- extension.) This
- remains intact until
- the template is reset
- (Default template is
- always "*.*")
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 34
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- THE "OPTIONS" DROP-DOWN
- -----------------------
-
- Info File View Sort Options
- +-"----------------------------------+
- .--------------------- | Install Desktop Icon... [Alt] I |
- | | Establish Relation... [Alt] R | ---.
- | | Edit Relation... [Alt] E | --.|
- | |====================================| ||
- | .---------------- | Pause after File Runs [Alt] P | ||
- | | | Set Preferences... F6 | -.||
- | | .----------- | Save Desktop F7 | |||
- | | | +------------------------------------+ |||
- | | | |||
- | | \|/ .----------------'||
- | | ` \|/ ||
- | | Saves the current ` ||
- | | desktop configuration Loads the setup ||
- | | (including coordinates program (for colors, ||
- | | for windows and all miscellaneous startup ||
- | | icons and all the infor- options) ||
- | | mation associated with ||
- | | them) ||
- | | ||
- | `-----> Toggles between "Pause..." and "No Pause..." ||
- | which refers to the way MMeister returns from ||
- | a program that you run by double-clicking on. ||
- | If this option is set to "Pause..." then you ||
- | will be prompted to hit a key after your ||
- | program runs. This does not affect file icons ||
- | or relations because they have their own settings ||
- | ||
- `------> Creates a new or edits an existing icon, ||
- depending on what is highlighted ||
- (default is a drive icon.) It does not ||
- create file icons, only lets you edit .-'|
- pre-existing ones. See FILE ICONS for | |
- information on how to create file icons. | |
- | |
- Let's you pick from a list of previously <-' |
- established relations and change them or |
- delete them. (This option is only |
- selectable if at least one relation |
- has already been installed) .----'
- \|/
- `
- Prompts for up to two extensions that may
- be run with the selected file. When a file
- with either of these two extensions is
- DOUBLE-CLICKed on, its related program will
- be run with that file being passed to it as
- the last thing on the command line.
-
- 35
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- THE MOUSE MEISTER SETUP PROGRAM
-
-
- The setup program may be run from within Mouse Meister via the
- "Set Preferences..." option from the Options drop-down, or it can
- be run from DOS by typing MMSETUP at the DOS prompt. If loaded
- from Mouse Meister, you will automatically re-enter the program
- upon exiting the setup facility, and any changes to Mouse Meister
- that were made in the setup will be in effect.
-
- When you enter the setup program, you will notice a desktop,
- a file window, a drop-down menu, some sample icons, a clock, and
- an options window. Something like this:
-
- (Forgive the ASCII translations, but some printers don't like
- the extended ASCII codes.)
-
-
- 9:33 PM
- +========File Window========+ +------Drop Downs-------+
- # # | | File Icon
- # # | Highlighted option |
- # DIRECTORY # | Regular option | Selected Icon
- # SELECTED DIRECTORY # | Unselectable option |
- # # | | +====+ =+===+=
- # FILENAME # | Other | # C: # |DEL|
- # SELECTED FILENAME # +-----------------------+ +====+ +---+
- # #
- # # +=================+
- # # # Other Options #
- # (Dead-space) # # - and - #
- # # # EXIT MMSETUP #
- +===========================+ +=================+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 36
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- SETTING UP THE FILE WINDOW COLORS
- ---------------------------------
-
- CLICKing anywhere on the file window will let you set up the
- colors for it. The important thing is where you CLICK on it! If
- you CLICK anywhere other than one of the 4 names inside the window,
- nothing will happen. When you CLICK on one of the names, you will
- be given a color menu - one set of colors for the foreground, one
- for the background, and an OK and Cancel box.
-
- In some instances, you are changing a little more than JUST what
- you selected. For instance, if you change the directory color, the
- border will change to the same thing. Obviously this should tell you
- that the border will always be the same color as that of the
- directories. Here is a list to help you out:
-
- I CHANGE THIS... THIS WILL CHANGE TO MATCH!
- ================== ==========================
- Directory color File window's border color
- Selected dir color Top border path info color
- Directory background File background
- Directory foreground Selected directory foreground
- File/Dir background File window's main color
-
- Once you are through playing around with this, if your new
- colors suit you, just hit OK. Otherwise, hit Cancel to revert to
- the existing colors. You can also exit the program without saving to
- cancel all changes.
-
-
- SETTING UP THE DROP-DOWN COLORS
- -------------------------------
-
- This works exactly the same as the file window in that you
- CLICK on the specific option you want to set the colors for.
-
- In the drop-down area, if you CLICK anywhere on the border,
- you will be able to set the colors for the border (remember that
- the file window's borders are set automatically depending on the
- directory color.)
-
- The only non-obvious color change comes when you change the
- colors for "Regular Options". Doing so will also change the top
- line of the screen's colors (including the clock's.)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 37
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- SETTING UP THE FILE ICON COLORS
- -------------------------------
-
- To set the file icon colors, just CLICK on the file icon.
- Changing the colors of the file icon will automatically change the
- colors of the selected file icon. The change is an inverse of the
- colors, which is sometimes not too pretty, but if you play with it
- a little bit you will come up with a good combination.
-
-
- SETTING UP THE DRIVE AND TRASHCAN ICON COLORS
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- Just CLICK on whichever one of these you want to set colors
- for. There is just one foreground and one background to worry
- about. The trashcan does inverse when selected, but this does not
- show up in the setup program. This is because the only time the
- trashcan needs to be selected is when it is being moved, which
- isn't all that common once you've got it where you like it.
-
- THE CLOCK
- ---------
-
- If you don't like the clock showing all the time, just
- CLICK on it. CLICKing on that area of the screen in MMSETUP will
- toggle the clock's status (either off or on.) If it is toggled
- off, you will see the words "NO CLOCK" where the clock normally
- is. This is just to remind you of the current status; the area
- where the clock normally is will be blank in Mouse Meister if the
- clock is turned off.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 38
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- SETTING MISCELLANEOUS OPTIONS
- -----------------------------
-
-
- Selecting "Other Options and EXIT MMSETUP" will bring up
- the following window:
-
- +==================OPTIONS=================+
- # #
- # Click Delay: 3 Confirm Move: Y #
- # Drag Delay: 3 Confirm Copy: Y #
- # Scroll Delay: 2 Confirm Delete: Y #
- # #
- # Click here to test delays #
- # #
- # Screen Blank: 5 Hog Memory: N #
- # Sort By: NAME Stop CGA Snow: N #
- # Show Name &: Direct Video Wrts #
- # #
- # Exit Save #
- # #
- +==========================================+
-
- Any line you CLICK on in this window will allow you to change
- the given option, with the exception of blank lines, the test line,
- and the Exit/Save line. There are 12 changeable options in this
- window. The following is what happens when you select the given
- item:
-
-
- CLICK DELAY
- -----------
-
- Prompts for a new CLICK delay. This action will affect single
- CLICKs and double CLICKs only. A larger number means you can
- wait longer between clicks on a double click, so set this number
- a little higher if you are having trouble double clicking.
-
- A time of zero, for instance, would disable double CLICKs and
- everything would be treated as a single CLICK. In the same respect, a
- time of 50 would mean that you could wait for quite a long time before
- clicking a second time, and a double click would still be detected.
- Single clicks would take a long time to register, though, since Mouse
- Meister would wait the full 50 ticks to see if you pressed the button
- a second time.
-
- After changing a value, always test it on the test bar given in
- the middle of the window. This will give you a good feel of how the
- change will affect your mouse.
-
- NOTE: All numbers are relative. They do NOT represent
- seconds (actually, closer to a tenth of a second.)
-
- 39
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- DRAG DELAY
- ----------
-
- The DRAG delay is how long you have to hold the button down
- before it is detected as a drag. The longer the DRAG time, the
- longer you must hold down the button to do a DRAG. A very short
- DRAG delay may make it difficult to single or double click since
- you would only have to hold the button down a short time for a
- DRAG to be detected.
-
- After playing with the CLICK and DRAG delay values for a
- little while you will become comfortable with these two options
- and the above paragraphs will actually make sense. Remember to
- use the test bar every time you change a value so that you can
- "feel" the change better.
-
-
- CONFIRMING MOVES, COPIES, AND DELETES
- -------------------------------------
-
- CLICKing on any of these three fields will toggle that field
- between a Yes or a No. This just means, "Do you want Mouse Meister
- to ask you if you are sure about the Move/Copy/Delete that you
- picked?" We strongly suggest keeping all three of these set to
- Yes, simply because it is very nice to have a second chance to back
- out.
-
-
- SCROLL DELAY
- ------------
-
- This option will allow you to change the speed that your file
- windows scroll when you push one of the scroll buttons (see "THE
- SCROLL BUTTONS" section.)
-
- Decrease this value if you want a faster scroll. Again, the
- numbers are not in seconds, but fractions of a second. The only
- way to test the speed is to save the setup, exit back to Mouse
- Meister, and test it by scrolling through a file window.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 40
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- SCREEN BLANK
- ------------
-
- This is how many minutes of inactivity to allow before blanking
- out the screen. A value of zero here will disable screen blanking.
-
- This is NOT a memory resident screen blanker, and will
- therefore only work in Mouse Meister (won't work in the setup
- program either.) It does have one powerful feature over 99% of
- the screen blankers on the market - Mouse sensitive screen
- blanking and un-blanking! This means that the screen won't blank
- if there has been keyboard OR mouse activity in the last X amount
- of minutes. Likewise, it will unblank with the touch of a key OR
- with mouse activity of any type (movement or button press.)
-
- We strongly suggest the use of the screen blanker, especially
- for a monochrome system. If an image stays on your screen too
- long, it will become a permanent part of the scenery for you, and
- there is no way to get rid of it once it is there. Our screen
- blanker or any memory resident one will protect you from this
- terrible fate while you are in MMeister.
-
- NOTE: The number in the "Screen Blank" field IS in
- minutes.
-
- NOTE 2: MMeister's screen blanker is totally compatible
- with all display types!!
-
- DEFAULT SORT
- ------------
-
- Selecting this field will toggle you sequentially through 5
- different options: Name, Size, Date, Type, None (meaning no
- sort.)
-
- These options are what your default will be when you open any
- file window in Mouse Meister. This will not affect windows that
- are currently open or saved in your desktop file.
-
-
- STOP CGA SNOW OPTION
- --------------------
-
- This is for those of you with old CGA cards. If your screen
- is having a blizzard while running Mouse Meister, then turn snow
- suppression on. If that still doesn't fix it, try changing the "Use
- Bios?" option also.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 41
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- USE BIOS OPTION
- ---------------
-
- If your CGA monitor still has snow, even with the "Stop CGA Snow"
- option set to "Yes", you can choose to have Mouse Meister use your
- BIOS to write to the screen. Click on the entry that says "Direct
- Video Wrts", and it will change to "Use BIOS for updates". Clicking
- on it again will change it back to direct video writes. Setting this
- to use your BIOS will slow down your screen updates incredibly, but
- will get rid of all traces of snow. Only set it this way if you
- prefer a clean screen to speed.
-
-
- HOG MEMORY OPTION
- -----------------
-
- We've saved the best for last. The name was just a filler at
- first, but we decided it fit so well that it should stay in. This
- option controls whether or not Mouse Meister shrinks itself to a
- small shell before running a program.
-
- Mouse Meister initially takes up about 174K of RAM. This
- number will grow as the number of file windows and icons that you
- have on the screen increases.
-
- If you are running anything that requires more RAM than is
- available when MMeister is in memory, you will want this option
- set to off. This is what most people will want to use since most
- popular applications require large amounts of RAM.
-
- So what does Mouse Meister do if you set this option to off?
- It does NOT make you wait while it builds a batch file. Here
- is the process:
-
- The "Hog Memory" option is set to off.
-
- A program or file icon is DOUBLE-CLICKed on.
-
- Your desktop configuration is saved to a temporary
- file.
-
- Mouse Meister throws itself into a 17K shell.
-
- Your program is run.
-
- You exit your program and the shell immediately reloads
- Mouse Meister from disk, supplying it with the pre-exit
- configuration that was saved to a temporary file.
-
-
-
-
-
- 42
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- SUMMARY: The built-in shell keeps all your
- configuration options for you, including placement
- of all icons, opened file windows, sort options,
- etc. This eliminates the need for you to build a
- batch file every time you run a program or
- manually saving your current configuration. At
- the same time, it takes up only 17K of RAM, which
- is almost nothing these days.
-
- If you do want to hog the memory, then Mouse Meister will
- remain in memory while your program runs. This will take up
- 178+ K, depending on how many icons and windows are open. You
- will get a slight speed advantage with this method however since
- there is no disk saves or reads to perform.
-
- All it boils down to is that you are not going to be slowed
- down that much if you can't afford to hog the memory. We typically
- just keep memory hogging off and let the Meister do all the work.
-
-
-
-
- LIMITS FOR MOUSE MEISTER
- Version 1.0
-
-
- Item Limit Description
- ================= ===============================================
- Drive Icons Unlimited!!! ^
-
- File Windows Unlimited!!! ^
-
- File Icons Unlimited!!! ^
-
- Relations Unlimited!!! ^
-
- Extensions within
- a Relation 2 (meaning that each installed relation may
- have up to two extensions associated with it)
-
- Files within a
- file window Unlimited!!! ^
-
- Mice 1 (Must have a Microsoft compatible driver
- installed to work properly)
- ===================================================================
- ^ Up to available RAM
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 43
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- DROP-DOWN MENU LAYOUTS
-
-
- Info File View Sort Options
- +----"-------------------+
- | Talk To Me! |
- +------------------------+
- Info File View Sort Options
- +-"--------------------------+
- | Open [Ins] |
- | Show Info [Alt] N |
- |============================|
- | Close Directory [-] |
- | Close Window [Del] |
- |============================|
- | Make a Directory [Alt] M |
- | Format Floppy [Alt] F |
- |============================|
- | Quit [Alt] X |
- +----------------------------+
-
- Info File View Sort Options
- +-"---------------------------+
- | Single Columns [Alt] C |
- | Show Size [Alt] S |
- | Show Date [Alt] D |
- |=============================|
- | Update Window [ESC] |
- +-----------------------------+
-
-
- Info File View Sort Options
- +-"--------------------------+
- | Sort By Name F1 |
- | Sort by Date F2 |
- | Sort by Size F3 |
- | Sort by Type F4 |
- | No Sort F5 |
- |============================|
- | Select Template F10 |
- +----------------------------+
-
- Info File View Sort Options
- +-"----------------------------------+
- | Install Desktop Icon... [Alt] I |
- | Establish Relation... [Alt] R |
- | Edit Applications... [Alt] E |
- |====================================|
- | Pause after File Runs [Alt] P |
- | Set Preferences... F6 |
- | Save Desktop F7 |
- +------------------------------------+
-
- 44
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- TROUBLE-SHOOTING
-
-
- Q: I load up Mouse Meister and everything looks fine except
- that I get the message, "No mouse was detected..."
-
- A: Mouse Meister didn't detect a mouse and is just letting you
- know that fact. All that you can use without a mouse is
- the hot-keys (including ALT-X for exiting.)
-
- Check your mouse connections and make sure you have installed
- your Microsoft-compatible mouse driver.
-
-
- Q: Every time I run a certain file(s), the screen flashes black
- for a second, then comes right back in to Mouse Meister!
-
- A: You probably didn't have enough memory to run the program.
- Try going into Options -> Set Preferences -> EXIT MMSETUP...
- -> Hog Memory and CLICKing on it until it switches to 'N'.
-
-
- Q: I run a file and the messages go by too quickly for me to
- read.
-
- A: This will happen if you run an information-only program (i.e.,
- CHKDSK). The cure is to set the pause option on the drop-down
- menu to say "Pause after File Runs" before running this file.
- When this option is set, you will be asked to hit a key or
- mouse button before returning to MMeister.
-
-
- Q: I think $16 is way too cheap for this great program!
-
- A: Feel free to send in more.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 45
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Q: I did something in error (i.e., tried to copy a file to an empty
- drive A:, etc.), and I got this ugly DOS error on my screen
- that I can't get rid of!
-
- A: Yes, this is a minor bug that we came across and fixed where
- we could find it, but it MAY crop up on you. This doesn't
- affect the program except for the ugly message.
- The cause for it varies, but it is usually an open drive door
- or data error on a disk. We are intercepting all of these
- messages that we know of and prettied them up to a MMeister
- window. But please let us know if you ever find one of
- these.
-
- To get rid of the message, just run "Set Preferences" from the
- Options drop-down, exit out of it, and when you re-enter Mouse
- Meister, all should look normal. Or you can leave it on the
- screen - it's ugly, but it doesn't affect the program at all.
-
-
- Q: I want my unsolicited testimonial to appear in your docs.
-
- A: Send it to us and we'll see!
-
-
- Q: I found this bug that you didn't even bring up in the docs!
-
- A: Write us and tell us about it!
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 46
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS
- (Yeah, right)
-
-
-
- "Wow! What a concept! I use it constantly!!!"
-
- Mark Blythe, MOUSE MEISTER author
-
-
-
-
- "Not since Gone With the Wind has there been such a masterpiece.
- Powerful, yet simple! Simple, yet elegant!"
-
- Brad Coleman, MOUSE MEISTER author
-
-
-
-
- "Gurgle blaphhht ga ga spittle!"
-
- Some little kid
-
-
-
- "Most excellent!"
-
- Bill S. Preston
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 47
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- INDEX
-
-
- activating an item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 47
- backspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23, 27
- batch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29, 30, 42, 45
- bios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41, 42
- bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 46
- changing directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
- click delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
- click: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36-38
- close directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 44
- close window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 20, 32, 44
- close window button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
- color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 37
- confirm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 26, 39
- copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 12, 25, 26, 39, 40, 46
- copying a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
- credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- ctrl-key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 26
- death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- delete . . . . . . . . . 3, 7, 15, 18, 20, 24, 26-28, 30, 35, 39, 40
- deleting a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
- deleting a file icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- deleting a drive icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- direct video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
- directory . . . . . 12, 15, 19, 22, 24, 25, 27-29, 31, 32, 36, 37, 44
- dos . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 2, 5, 12, 15, 19, 25, 34, 36, 45, 46
- double click: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- drag delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 40
- drag: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- dragging files or directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 23
- dragging items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- drive icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-19, 32, 35
- drop-down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 16-18, 27, 30-37, 44, 46
- drop-down menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 32
- edit a file icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- edit relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 35
- establish relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29, 35, 44
- executing a program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
- exotic sports cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4, 7, 8, 13, 29
- file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 12, 13, 15, 17-38, 40-46
- file icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 23, 27, 28, 30, 32, 36, 38, 42
- file icon limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- format floppy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 44
- full screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
- future versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7
- hog memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 15, 39, 42, 45
- hot-key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 32
-
- 48
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- icon . . . . . . . . 17-19, 22-24, 27, 28, 30, 32, 35, 36, 38, 42, 44
- important terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 15, 16, 32-35, 37, 44
- install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 17, 18, 27, 35, 44
- install desktop icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 18, 35, 44
- installing a drive icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 5, 20, 28, 43
- make a directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 44
- memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 5, 15, 39, 41-43, 45
- menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 3, 7, 16-18, 27, 29-32, 36, 37, 44
- mmovrlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
- mmsetup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 36, 38, 39, 45
- money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 10, 11
- mouse driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
- mouse meister: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 14, 16, 18, 20, 26-28, 39, 40
- moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 17, 21, 26, 27
- moving a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 26
- moving a file window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
- network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- no sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 34, 41, 44
- open . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 16, 19, 25, 27, 28, 32, 41, 43, 44, 46
- opening a file window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
- operations from the file window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
- options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 16-18, 27-37, 39-42, 44-46
- path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 12, 15, 27, 29, 37
- pause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 27, 29, 30, 35, 44, 45
- pkxarc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
- quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 44
- ram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 3, 5, 17, 28, 42, 43
- ram drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- re-size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
- register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 8, 39
- registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10
- relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29, 30, 35, 43, 44
- remove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 18, 24, 30
- renaming a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
- requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- running a program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
- save desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31, 35, 44
- screen blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 41
- scroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 27, 39, 40
- scroll delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 40
- select template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 44
- selecting items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 23
- set preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 35, 36, 44-46
- setting miscellaneous options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
- setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 14, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41
- shareware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 4, 15, 42
- shift key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
- shift-drag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
-
- 49
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- show date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 44
- show info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 44
- show name & . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
- show size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 44
- single columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 44
- snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 39, 41, 42
- sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 19, 32-35, 39, 41, 42, 44
- sort by date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 44
- sort by name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 44
- sort by size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 44
- sort by type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 44
- space bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
- system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 5, 6, 11, 12, 15, 17, 41
- toggle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 38, 40, 41
- trashcan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 17, 22-24, 26, 27, 38
- trouble-shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
- unselect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
- unsolicited testimonials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
- update window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 44
- view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 32-35, 44
- window . . 3, 4, 16-25, 27, 28, 30, 32-34, 36, 37, 39-41, 43, 44, 46
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 50
-
-
-
-
-
-
-