:h1 res=92000 name=PANEL_CONFIG.Config Menu :i1 id=aboutConfig.Config Menu :artwork name='bitmaps\tweak.bmp' align=center. :p. FM/2 can be configured as you like it using the commands under this submenu. It is highly recommended that you step through the items in this submenu when you first begin to use FM/2, both to familiarize yourself with the available configuration options and to make FM/2 work the way you like it to work. :p. To change fonts and colors, FM/2 uses the WPS Font and Color Palettes. The Config menu contains commands to call up these objects for you. :p. This submenu affects general FM/2 behavior. Each class of container has its own configuration menu that allows you to set the type of view, filtering, and so on. To get the popup menu that controls the container's appearance, request a :link reftype=hd res=93700.context menu:elink. while the pointer is over an empty area of the container, or select the Views pulldown submenu. :p. The :hp6.:link reftype=hd res=99400.Toggle quicklists:elink.:ehp6. command causes a dropdown listbox to appear below the toolbar (if one is being used; below the pulldown menu, if one is being used, or titlebar if not) and above other windows. The listbox contains the directory names you've assigned in the :link reftype=hd res=91500.Walk Directories:elink. dialog. If you pick one, a Directory Container for that directory is opened (hold down the Shift key while clicking to change an existing Directory Container instead). If the dropdown listbox is already present, this command causes it to disappear. :p. A Drive Finder dropdown listbox also appears with the quicklist; selecting a drive in this list causes the Drive Tree container to scroll to show the selected drive and make it the current object. :p. Finally, a Setup dropdown list also appears that contains names of setups (Drive Tree location, Directory Container locations and associated directory names). Pick a setup name, and FM/2 reopens and repositions the windows as they were when you saved the setup. A context menu requested on the setup list entry field is used to save and delete setup names. To add a name, enter it in the entry field of the dropdown, request a context menu, and select :hp1.Save state as name:ehp1. To delete a name, put it in the entry field, request a context menu and select :hp1.Delete state name:ehp1. :p. The :hp6.Autoview:ehp6. submenu controls the Autoview window. The default for this conditional cascade menu is the :hp6.Toggle autoview window:ehp6. command, which causes an autoview window to appear above the status line at the bottom of the screen. As you move the cursor from object to object, FM/2 displays the first few lines of file objects in this window. If the autoview window is already displayed, clicking this command causes it to disappear. You can also set the what is to be autoviewed -- either the file's .COMMENTS EA or the start of the file's contents (similar to the *nix HEAD program). When .COMMENTS EAs are being viewed, you can edit them and the changes will be saved when you switch the focus from the Autoview window. You can reach this editable Autoview window with the Ctrl + Tab hotkey if you are allergic to your mouse. :p. Clicking the contents Autoview window with B1 causes the file to be viewed. Clicking with B3 (or chording with B1 and B2 simultaneously) causes the extended attributes to be viewed. If viewing .COMMENTS rather than contents, you can pick :hp1.View file:ehp1. from the context menu. :p. The :hp6.Toggle bottom buttons:ehp6. menu item turns off and on a row of buttons that appear just above the status line(s). The buttons display the name, date, and attributes of the currently selected object, and the filter status of the current container. If clicked with B1, a command is generated (rename, info, edit date/attributes and filter dialog respectively). If clicked with B2, a context menu appears (the same one you get if you click B2 on the first status line). If clicked with B3, the sort changes for the current container: filename, last write date, file size and reverse sort respectively. :p. The :hp6.Toggle drivebar:ehp6. menu item turns off and on a bar showing all available drives. You can click these drive buttons to find or switch to a drive (depending on the active window when the button is clicked), drag objects onto the buttons, request a context menu on a button for more commands dealing with the drive, or click B3 to open a Directory Container for that window (or surface and activate one that already exists). :p. See also&colon. .br :link reftype=hd res=97600.FM/2 window layout:elink. .br :link reftype=hd res=99400.Using quicklists:elink. .br :link reftype=hd res=91800.Toolbar:elink. .br :link reftype=hd res=90400.Associations:elink. .br :link reftype=hd res=90700.Commands:elink. .br :link reftype=hd res=94200.Edit Archiver Data:elink. .br :link reftype=hd res=94600.Settings notebook:elink. .br :link reftype=hd res=100065.Set Target directory:elink. :h2 res=91800 name=PANEL_TOOLBAR.Toolbar :i1 id=aboutToolbar.Toolbar :artwork name='bitmaps\toolbar.bmp' align=center. The :hp1.toolbar:ehp1. is a collection of buttons that invoke some of the commands in the pulldown or popup menus. Placing the mouse pointer on a button and pressing and holding B2 displays brief help for the button on the titlebar. :p. Some of the buttons will allow objects to be dragged onto them; for example, you can drag objects onto the trashcan to delete them. Note that the hotspot of the mouse pointer itself should be over the button before releasing, not the icon being dragged (icons are slightly offset from the mouse pointer to give better target visibility). Target emphasis is provided in the form of a black outline around the button, and the arrow pointer turns into a hand when above a toolbox icon. :p. This toolbar submenu is a conditional cascade menu, meaning that if you click other than on the boxed arrow a default command is executed (the toolbar is toggled off and on), but if you click on the boxed arrow you get a submenu of items you can select (the other choices are Text Toolbar, which will cause the toolbar to appear as "normal" buttons with text on them, or Toolbar Titles, which will cause text to appear below the toolbar bitmap buttons). :p. Toolbar buttons are user-configurable. To change the toolbar, click mouse button two (usually the right button) while the mouse pointer is over a button to pop up a context menu. You can get the "Load Toolbox" dialog by clicking B2 on a blank area of the toolbar, and the "Add Button" dialog by chording on a blank area of the toolbar. :p. For advanced/curious users&colon. Information on what buttons are in the toolbar is kept in a file named FM3TOOLS.DAT. This file is an ASCII (plain text) file that contains information defining the toolbar. The file contains comments that explain its format. :p. FM/2 allows you to create customized toolboxes that can be loaded as required to provide toolboxes for specific activities. Although FM/2 provides ways to edit the toolbar internally, it's probably easier to load the definition files into a text editor and make the changes manually en masse. :p. If you'd like to see a different toolbar layout (and try out the Load Toolbox command), right-click on the toolbar, pick Load Toolbox from the resultant menu, and pick a toolbox from the listbox. Then you might try creating your own and saving it with the Save Toolbox command. :p. See also&colon. .br :link reftype=hd res=96300.Reorder Tools:elink. .br :link reftype=hd res=94400.Edit Tool:elink. .br :link reftype=hd res=96400.Add Tool:elink. .br :link reftype=hd res=94000.Save Tools:elink. .br :link reftype=hd res=94500.Load Tools:elink. :h3 res=96300 name=PANEL_REORDERTOOLS.Reorder Tools :i1 id=aboutReorderTools.Reorder Tools This dialog, accessed from the context menu of a tool button, allows you to rearrange the order of the toolbar's tool buttons. You take selected items from the left listbox and Add them to the end of the right listbox with the :hp1.Add>>:ehp1. button. When you've moved everything to the right listbox, click :hp1.Okay:ehp1.. Click :hp1.Cancel:ehp1. if you change your mind. :p. In reality, you don't need to move everything to the right listbox. You can move only what you want moved to the top of the list, then click Okay. Anything remaining in the left listbox is added to the end of what's in the right listbox. :p. The :hp1.<.TLS). By starting with the full toolbar, you'll spend more of your time deleting buttons you don't want (a trivial task) and less adding buttons. :h2 res=99980 name=PANEL_FLAGS.Drive flags :i1 id=aboutFlags.Drive flags Here you can set flags for various drives. Command line switches override these flags. The flags are stored in FM/2's INI file and loaded when FM/2 starts, so this is an alternative to all the esoteric drive command line switches :hp1.except:ehp1. the :hp2.Ignore:ehp2. switch. :p. :hp6.No prescan:ehp6. Setting this causes FM/2 to :hp1.not:ehp1. pre-scan removable drives. You have to double-click the drive before it's checked to see if it has any subdirectories. This is handy for those of you with CD carousels. :p. :hp6.Don't load icons:ehp6. Prevents FM/2 from loading icons for files and directories on this drive. If the drive contains only DOS programs and data files or is a very slow drive, you might want to check this one. :p. :hp6.Don't load subjects:ehp6. Prevents .SUBJECT EAs from being automatically loaded on this drive. Again, if your drive is slow or you don't use .SUBJECTs with objects on this drive, you might want to check it. :p. :hp6.Don't load longnames:ehp6. Prevents .LONGNAME EAs from being automatically loaded on this drive. You've got the idea by now, right? :p. :hp6.Slow drive:ehp6.. Check this for drives which have extremely slow seek times (like ZIP and EZ removable hard drives). The Autoview window and associated messages are disabled for this drive, and the "Quick Arc find" method is always used, whether on globally or not, which snaps up response time. I may take other shortcuts for drives with this attribute later (loosen error checking). For such slow drives you may also want to check the various :hp1.Don't load...:ehp1. flags listed above. :p. :hp6.Include files in tree:ehp6. If you check this, files will be shown as well as directories in the Drive Tree for this drive. I have no idea why you would ever want to check this. :p. You get this dialog by selecting Edit->Drive flags from a context menu requested on a drive (root directory) in the Drive Tree or VTree window. :p. Note&colon. To set the drive flags on a removable drive, like a floppy or CD-ROM, be sure you put a disk in the drive first. FM/2 won't let you set drive flags on a currently invalid disk. :h2 res=100065 name=PANEL_TARGETDIR.Set Target directory :i1 id=aboutTargetDir.Set Target directory You can set a default Target directory with the :hp6.Set Target directory:ehp6. command, which FM/2 will use whenever you use the menu or accelerator key commands to move or copy file system objects. Otherwise, FM/2 will attempt to intelligently guess what you'd like the target directory to be each time based on open Directory Containers or the currently selected directory in the Drive Tree. :p. If you have a Target directory already set and wish to clear it, select this command, click Cancel at the :link reftype=hd res=91500.Walk Directories:elink. dialog that appears, and answer Yes to the question subsequently asked. :p. See also the :link reftype=hd res=99950.General page:elink. of the internal Settings notebook. .im assoc.ipf .im command.ipf .im notebook.ipf .im databar.ipf