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- MANUAL FOR Click! Filer 1.1 for Windows 3.0
-
- FILE DRIVING
-
- The first windows to really learn to use are the Source and Destination
- ListBoxes. There is a pair of listboxed for each Source and Destination.
- The Left ListBox is the File Listbox and the right is the Directory Listbox.
- The Directory Listbox operates on double click mode. Two clicks and you head
- to that directory or Drive. Moving to a new drive always starts at the top
- of that drive. Future enhancements are projected to allow an option for
- the user to allow remembering the paths for each drive. The File Listbox
- is a multiselection listbox. All highlighted files are available for action
- by many of the Click Pushbuttons. In the Source directory, as each file is
- selected, it's size is added to the currently selected size Text DIsplay at
- the bottom righthand of the Click! Filer Window.
-
- ****1.1 Directory ListBox now 2 clicks to move. Single click highlights
- for use in DELDIR BUTTON
-
- SEARCH EDIT BOXES
-
- Both Dest and Source have an Edit Box at the top of the display. Entering
- a wildcard extension and pressing TAB causes a search in the related File
- Listbox and update of it's display. Entering a path in this Edit causes the
- Directory Listbox to change directories. A path and wildcard causes a
- directory and a new search in the FileList. The currently active search
- string is always displayed next to the Edit Boxes for both Source and Dest.
-
-
- SOURCE AND DESTINATION CONTROL BUTTONS
-
- Below the Listboxes are a set of 10 push buttons. Most of these have been
- programed at this time. The extras will be used in later versions of Click!
-
- ALL This button selects all files in the associated FileListBox
- NONE This button de-selects all files in the associated FileListBox
- RENAME This button calls a dialog program to rename each selected file
- in the associated FileListBox. You are presented with the file
- name selected and offered an edit box to enter a new name.
- Provided all goes well, they will rename. After all files have
- been renamed, the FIleListBox is updated to reflect all changes
- successfully completed.
- DEL This button will delete all highlighted files in the associated
- FileListBox. Upon completion, the FIleListBox is updated to
- reflect the changes.
- RUN This button will launch the first highlighted program in the
- Source FileListBox. You will be offerd an edit box to append
- arguments to the program call. Programs can be either Windows 3.0
- programs, MS-DOS execs or MS-DOS batch files. To run Batch files
- it is suggested you write the first line as a drive move to the
- required drive. The second line should be a cd to the desired
- directory. This should ensure satisfactory batch file execution.
- I've even compiled through batch mode. It is suggested that
- you have a nice fat environment size. Other ways to run files
- are discussed later under the Custom Button section of this
- manual.
-
- EDIT This button will run the Editor which you have defined and pass
- it the highlighted source files from the Source FileListBox. To
- select the Editor you want, use the Default Edit button described
- later in this manual. The desired editor name will be entered in
- the Click.INI file and be restored each time you run Click! Filer.
-
- Beneath the Directory ListBoxes are two labeled buttons:
-
- MKDIR This will provide an edit box for you to enter the name of the
- desired directory. After completion, the Directory ListBox will
- update to reflect the addition ( if successful ).
-
- DELDIR This button provides a new dialog if no directory is selected.
- The dialog has a listbox to pilot your way to the desired
- directory. One click in the listbox selects the file for
- deletion, 2 clicks moves you to that directory. Only files which
- DOS will delete can be deleted. Remove all files and
- subdirectories from a directory before you can delete it.
- Future expansion may provide a clear directory sub directories
- feature. You let me know if this would be desireable, or if
- this SAFER mode is prefered.
-
- **** 1.1 If a directory is selected and you press DELDIR then the
- directory is deleted, no dialog will appear.
-
- SIZE TEXT BOXES
-
- The bottom left Text Box shows the combined size of all selected source
- files. The bottom right Text Box shows the free space on the Destination
- Drive. Each has 3 buttons to select display mode. Bytes, KBytes ( % 1024 ),
- and MBytes ( %1024000 ). This setting can be remembered by setting them
- into the Click.INI in the define defaults button discussed later.
-
- CENTER CONTROL PUSH BUTTONS
-
- > This button selects the current Source directory into the Current
- Destination directory.
- <> This button swaps the Destination and Source Directories
- < This button selects the current destination directory into the
- source directory
-
- COPY This button copies all selected source files into the directory
- current in destination. As each is copies it is reflected in
- text above the associated ListBoxes.
- MOVE Copies the selected source files to the destination directory and
- then deletes the source files. SHould anyone have problems here
- let me know so I can beef up error conditions during the process.
- Verification move could be added if desired by enough people.
-
- EDIT DEFS
-
- This button provides for editing the CLick System settings in the
- Click.INI. You can set the initial paths for Source and Destination.
- and the SOurce and Dest search masks. Also the Editor can be named.
- Pressing SET places the displayed values into the INI ( the size
- defaults current are also set into the INI ). Load retrieves the
- INI settings into the current defaults for Click!.
-
- DEFAULTS
-
- The current Click! defaults are placed into action. The directories
- files and searches all update. This is the current defaults. If
- were in edit and changed defaults, but didn't set them into the INI
- these will be used. Thus DEFAULTS are the current settings. IF
- they are not desired. Go to EDIT, LOAD the INI and if these are OK
- USE THEM. Thus you can have session defaults and use this button.
- Switching later to your standard defaults as convenient.
-
- ABOUT As expected tells you your using this program and plugging ME!
-
- CUSTOM DEFS
-
- This calls the dialog to set the 12 buttons on the bottom of the
- Click! Window. Select a button from the radio group. The current
- settings for that button are displayed below. You can determine the
- Label for the Button, the program to execute and whether to pass
- no args, fixed args ( as you define ), highlighted source files or
- provide a dialog requester for entering args at runtime. Once
- you have these are desired. Press the SET button to record them.
- If you do not SET the new settings, they will be forgotten. SET
- writes only the currently selected button.
-
- Since so many people use HOTKEYS I didn't allow this feature. If
- there is enough interest, I might provide associated HOTKEY for
- these buttons.
-
- *** 1.1
-
- There is now an UP/DOWN arrow beside the programmable buttons.
- This will select from 10 different sets of 12 buttons. The Set
- DEFS acts on the current set of 12 buttons. Now you can group
- logical projects or environments of custom buttons to work from
- Click! Filer.
-
-
- ARCHIVAL BUTTONS:
-
- Currently I support PKPAK, PKUNPAK, PKZIP and PKUNZIP, four very nice
- programs by PKWare. You must have these programs to use the buttons
- I provided. There are 4 .PIF files provided with this program. You must
- edit these to reflect the correct directory on you hard drive where
- Windows can find these programs. The source directory is the directory
- where files will be effected. The archive name must be entered inthe
- provided edit box in the center of the Click WIndow. Pressing one of
- the ARCHIVE buttons, provides a dialog to set features of the compression.
- To understand these use the documentation from PKWare. While in the
- Dialog you can set the initial settings with the SET button. The settings
- displayed inthe Dialog will be written to the INI file. Press OK to
- compress. The compressed file will be written to the current DESTINATION
- directory. If you press CANCEL no compression will occur. Note, if you
- changed setting in the INI and press CANCEL, those settings are already
- in the INI file, so mean it when you press SET.
-
- *** 1.1
-
- Well we've added support for some other very nice shareware compression
- programs. The ARC, PAK and LHARC programs now function from Click! Filer.
- Please support these programs authors as suggested about the above PKWare
- software.
-
- ARC COPYRIGHT 1985,86,87,88,89 by System Enhancement Associates, Inc.
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
-
- LHarc Version 1.13c 05/31/89 Copyright (c) Haruyasu Yoshizaki (Yoshi),
- 1988-89
-
- PAK Version 2.10 Copyright 1988, 1989 by NoGate Consulting
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
-
- Some features for each of these programs may have been glossed over in
- this version, but in time the full possible set will be provided. I
- basically wanted this tool to aid me in archiving my programs and so
- I did them to my needs. Obviously full support is desireable, but I
- didn't want to leave users of the new programs in the lurch with no
- easy interface.
-
- FUTURE EXPANSION...
-
- Where to next? Several possibilities exist, as well as small changes and
- tune ups. While reasonably small, I need to compact Click! and optimize it's
- memory use for 640K folks. Help access would be nice as would system
- information features. A format for Floppies ONLY would be simple enough.
- A delete for a directory/subdirs/*.* would be nice. Expanded setups for
- the PD compression programs would be nice.
-