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- HOT SPOT Version 1.0
-
- INTRODUCTION
- Hot Spot lets you quickly launch your most often-used
- programs from the Hot Spot icon's system menu. Launching
- your program from Hot Spot takes less time than restoring
- Program Manager and the appropriate group from their icons.
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- USING HOT SPOT
- Start Hot Spot like any other Windows application by
- any of the following methods: clicking on it, placing it
- in the "load" line of your WIN.INI file, or adding it to
- a Program Manager group. Hot Spot only runs as an icon.
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- To launch a program from Hot Spot, click on Hot Spot's icon
- to display its system menu. Hot Spot displays a list of the
- descriptions of programs, which you chose earlier, to launch.
- Click on the description to launch the associated program.
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- If you've configured Hot Spot to prompt you for parameters
- before launching the given program, Hot Spot will display
- an additional "Parameters" dialog box into which you
- may add parameters.
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- Hot Spot continues running as an icon until you close it.
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- SYSTEM MENU
- Besides the standard Windows menu items, Hot Spot's
- System Menu includes these special items:
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- A list of the descriptions of your chosen programs,
- which you can launch from HotSpot. Each is marked with a
- hot spot symbol for quick identification. You can add
- items into the list by selecting Hot Spot's "Options"
- menu item. Click on the description to launch the
- associated program.
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- "Options..." displays Hot Spot's Options dialog box,
- discussed below.
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- "Exit Windows Now!" shuts down Windows and returns you
- to DOS. You may disable this option or configure it to
- prompt first before exiting, using the Options dialog box.
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- "Help" displays this document.
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- "About HotSpot..." displays summary and version info.
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- OPTIONS DIALOG BOX
- Hot Spot's Options dialog box allows you to add, delete, or
- change the programs that you launch from Hot Spot's
- system menu. The terms used below are similar to those
- found in Windows Program Manager.
-
- To add a new program:
- 1) Fill in the Description field with the entry you
- would like to appear on Hot Spot's system menu.
- You may enter up to 25 characters. You may insert an
- ampersand character '&' before any character you would
- like Hot Spot to use as a keyboard speed-up character.
- In the menu, the ampersand will not be displayed;
- however, the character following it will appear underlined.
- To launch the program from Hot Spot's system menu, just type
- the speed-up character.
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- 2) Fill in the Command Line field with the command name
- and any parameters. This is the command that Hot Spot
- will launch when you select the Description entered above.
- You may type up to 150 characters. If you enter your
- command with a full path name, Windows will start it
- slightly faster; otherwise, Windows will search the
- current directory, your PATH, and the Windows directory.
- The "Browse" button brings up the Browse dialog box,
- which helps you to find the desired program name and
- transfer it to the Command Line field.
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- 3) Fill in the Start-up Directory field if you need
- Hot Spot to start your application in a certain directory.
- You may leave this field blank if the start-up directory
- doesn't matter.
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- 4) The "Initial Size" combo box lets you choose whether
- Hot Spot starts your program as Normal, Minimized, or
- Maximized size. The default is Normal.
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- 5) Check the "Prompt for Parameters" box if you would
- like Hot Spot to prompt you to add parameters before
- launching the command.
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- 6) Select the "Add" button to put your choices into place.
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- To change a command, select it from the list box; modify
- its Description, Command Line, Prompt for Parameters, and
- Initial Size values; then select the Change button.
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- To delete a command from Hot Spot's menu, select it from
- the list box then select the Delete button.
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- The "Exit Windows Now! Options:" combo box determines how
- the "Exit Windows Now!" menu selection behaves.
- You can set up Hot Spot to:
- 1) Prompt you first before exiting Windows, or
- 2) Exit Windows immediately without a prompt, or
- 3) Disable the menu item completely.
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- To exit the Options dialog box, select the OK button.
-
- THE MATCHES
- Got a little carried away with myself here. The match icon
- turns to a flame on launching the first program. An individual
- match checkmark on the menu turns into a flaming match on
- first launching the matching (Did I say "matching" ?) program.
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- WINDOWS RELEASES SUPPORTED
- Hot Spot runs under Windows 3.0 in real, standard,
- and 386 enhanced modes.
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- LIMITATIONS
- Sorry, Hot Spot has no fancy panorama of selectable icons.
- On the other hand, this lets Hot Spot run a little faster
- for some of us '286 users. At any rate, Hot Spot is
- probably worth the cost. (See below.)
-
- LEGAL
- Hot Spot's users take all responsibility for using it.
-
- TRADEMARKS
- 386 -- Intel Corp.
- Windows -- Microsoft Corp.
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- ICON ARTWORK BY
- Becky Cobb
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- DISTRIBUTION
- Please distribute Hot Spot to anyone who would like
- to use it. I place Hot Spot in the public domain.
- No license. No copyright. No donation. No registration.
- It's free, free, free!
-
- Robert A. Heath
- 157 Chartwell Rd.
- Columbia, SC 29210
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- CIS: 71600,437
- Internet: heath@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM
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