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- SAY FOLKS... FELLOW HACKERS...AND WINDOWITES,
-
- Just too exciting for words, eh? You know, the latest and greatest from
- the MS folks.... yes, WINDOWS 3.0. What? You haven't got anything to run
- yet? Well have no fear for Click! Filer ( Windows 3.0 ) version 1.0 is here
- to manage all those hundreds of files you'll be getting real soon for
- WINDOWS 3.0. Brought to you by non other than The TrogloByte, hisself!
-
- Enough fanfare on to the documentation.
-
- WHAT IS CLICK! FILER ?
-
- This program is essentially a file managing utility for those of you who
- find Program Manager inadequate for power file management. Basically you are
- presented with 2 main objects. The Source and the Destination. Each of
- these is represented as a File Listbox and a Directory Listbox.
-
- Single Clicking the directories moves you through the disk drives and the
- directories. Single clicking filenames selects them for action by
- pushbuttons. Source and Dest both have the ability to Delete, Rename, select
- all and select none. Also you may create directories and remove empty
- directories.
-
- In the center of the Click! Filer from top to bottom are the following
- push buttons. The top 3 are respectively 1. Src Directory copy to Dest,
- 2. Swap Source and Dest and 3. Dest Directory copy to Src. The next row
- is Copy all selected Source files to the Destination directory and Move
- all selected Source files to the Dest Directory.
-
- The Next 2 rows are only of value if you are a user of PKPAK, PKUNPAK,
- PKZIP and PKUNZIP. These are wonderful Shareware programs which I hope
- you use and support. If you don't support them, please don't use Click
- to use them. These programs are by PKWare and are copyrighted programs.
-
- The best visual response in Click using these compression utilities is
- accomplished by having an appropriate .PIF file for each of them. I have
- supplied examples, please edit them to reflect the correct PATHS.
-
- You must enter an Archive name for any of the above to act on in the
- Archive Edit Box in the center of the program.
-
- The bottom right text box reflects the combined sixe of the selected
- source files. The bottom left text box reflects the size of the dest
- drive. The 3 buttons by each are obvious in their actions.
-
- Empty buttons are for future expansion of features.... plenty are
- possible and in the works.
-
- The Default button loads the default settings for Click Directories
- and extension masks, as well as the size formats. The Edit defaults
- button provides a Dialog Box to set new current defaults. These can be
- set into the CLICK.INI file to initialize the program on startup. You
- can always retrieve these from this box as well.
-
- Settings for PAK,UNPAK,ZIP and UNZIP can also be set into the CLICK.INI
- files or retrieved as well, in their Dialog Boxes. These dialogs appear
- in response to button clicks.
-
- The top of the Window to Click! Filer, provides an edit box, which in
- which you can enter search masks and new paths.
-
- Click! Filer is hardly perfect, besides needing a real manual ( also
- int he works ) it could use refinement in it's response to the user. How
- this will evolve depends on you. Send me messages via PEOPLELINK and GENIE.
- I'll try to respond to concerns and suggestions. Just be patient.
-
- Now for the required.... This program while possibly very handy isn't
- guaranteed to do anything. And I'm not responsible if you create any
- catastrophic event while using this program. Use at your own risk and
- hopefully it is an enjoyable experience. Also, if anyone out there has
- a protected program with the name Click! Filer or very close, don't get
- mad at me, just tell me via PEOPLELINK and GENIE and I'll change the
- name and post a message of apology for any confusion. We're all trying
- to have fun here. Also please do not charge anyone for this program
- other than cost of disk or transmission over the wires. It is FreeWare and
- will remain so for as long as I can keep it that way. It you like it
- so much you want to give me money, please write a check to a nice ecology
- group or something similar and tell 'em it's by my recommendation.
-
- ONE LAST ITEM.....
-
- Click! Filer is dedicated to the ever vigilant ever toiling programmers
- of the world. For you , in the privacy of your own computer, please feel
- free to link to Click! FIler for development purposes only. You can
- use the .DLL easily, please do not include it attached in this way in a
- commercial release.
-
- The use is simple, just link with CLIK.LIB. There is an include file
- called CLIKEXP.H which has the prototypes for the importable functions.
- Call ClickIn( ) once to initialize. Then call DoClick(). When you are
- exiting your program call ClickOut() to shut down the Click! Filer DLL.
-
- The CLIKEXP.H file has explanations of the parameters you need to pass.
-
-
- ...... Late changes and editions.... You have an Edit Button , you can
- configure the editor of choice with the Edit Defs. Click will pass the
- highlighted files in the SRC directory.
-
- ...... A Run button has been added as well.... select one file in the
- source directory and click RUN.... you may enter args at the dialog
- which follows or just click OK....
-
- ..... There are 12 user programmable buttons on the bottom of the
- screen. User the User Defs button to configure them. As you select each
- button inthe configure dialog, you can edit and SET with the SET button.
- If you don't set it, the changes are forgotten. You can start a program
- with
- 1. no arguments
- 2. fixed arguments ( entered in edit box and stored )
- 3. dialog entry of arguments
- 4. cmd plus the highlighted src files
-
- A better DOC will follow I just couldn't let this sit here.. have fun
-