
                   ---===<    ToolBox v 2.0   >===---
                               For Windows
                             by John A. Reder
                                   1996


Overview:

The Toolbox program is a menu.  That is all it is meant to be.  
The Toolbox serves as a simple way to setup pointers to disk resources 
contained on a local or networked shared drives.

The toolbox works like any Icon on your desktop it needs a command line 
and a working directory to run properly.

< Network Advantages >
The advantage to having a simple menu that everyone can run from a 
network shared directory is that this allows a Systems Administrator to 
install and run software on a network and point everyone to that resource 
by adding it to the toolbox.  The toolbox simply points to any number of 
network resources that the Systems Administrator wants everyone to know 
about and have one easy central point to launch and access those resources.

The toolbox uses 9 common menus and one personal menu (menufil0 in the INI),
the only diference between the personal menu and the others is that the
toolbox will not ask for a password if the toolbox home directory is diferent
from the personel directory.

each menu can be given a title and a file name in the toolbox.ini file.

A Password is required for editing the toolbox. The default password is
"toolbox".  You can change this by clicking on the Red text in the lower
area of the main toolbox window.  This text states the registration key
or the text Please register. You will need to provide the current password
and the new password before clicking the update password button.


< The Toolbox main screen >

From this screen you can:

<Control Buttons:>	      	
Add / Modify		If nothing is selected it will allow you to add
                        a new item, otherwise you will modify the item
                        that is selected.
Delete			This will delete a selected Item.
Path			This will tell you where toolbox expects to find
                        a program or file. This is helpful when you get
                        launch errors. You can use this to find out what
			toolbox expects your configuration to be.
Info / Help             This may tell you something about the highlighted
                        menu item.
Copy / Move		Copies a menu item to another menu.
Run			Runs a selected program or file. (same as double
                        clicking on the menu item)
Run Min		        Runs a selected program minimized.
Save Screen Pos	        This saves the position of the toolbox on the
                        screen to a c:\windows\toolbox.pos file



< Add Modify screen >
		
If you select Add / Modify with no menu option selected you are in add
mode otherwise you are in modify mode.

<Add/Modify Buttons:>
Browse			This will let you search for the file that you
                        want to add and place the correct information
                        in the command line and path fields.

OK	 		Updates or adds menu items that you have built
                        to your toolbox file.

Cancel			Returns you to the toolbox menu. (if you haven't
                        added any item with the Add to menu button the
                        current information will not be added or changed.)

Note: files that are selected that are not exe, com or bat files may use
one of the associations in the toolbox.ini file, if not you will have to
spell it out on the command line with the correct exe and the file name.


< The TOOLBOX.INI file: >

This is an example of a running toolbox on a networked drive.

[title bar]
titlebar=Toolbox v2.0

[directories]
# This is the location of the Toolbox program and the common menus
standard=n:\toolbox

# This is the location of the personal menu toolbox menu 0.
userpath=d:\data

[menu names]
# This allows you to set menu names.
menunam1=Programs
menunam2=Documents
menunam3=Parts
menunam4=Admin
menunam5=Internet && Comm.
menunam6=Reports
menunam7=Docs && Help    
menunam8=Updates && Fixes    
menunam9=Systems
menunam0=Personal

[menu files]
# this sets the menu text file for each menu.
menufil1=toolbox.001
menufil2=toolbox.002
menufil3=toolbox.003
menufil4=toolbox.004
menufil5=toolbox.005
menufil6=toolbox.006
menufil7=toolbox.007
menufil8=toolbox.008
menufil9=toolbox.009
menufil0=toolbox.DAT


[viewers]
# default locations of viewers and editors this information will be
# placed in the command lines of files that need a viewer.      
# toolbox only recognizes these file types any others will need to be hand 
# entered on the command line field.

docfiles=
docxpath=
xlsfiles=
xlsxpath=
txtfiles=c:\toolbox\rededit.exe
txtxpath=c:\toolbox
pptfiles=
pptxpath=
bmpfiles=
bmpxpath=
pcxfiles=
pcxxpath=







