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Main Index
 Bali TOOLS

Help Index :

Introduction

Description

First steps

Phone Book

Internet mail check

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In case of problems


About
Bali TOOLS

© Jean-Michel CAMBOT 1996

Contact the author at :

baliciel@cge-ol.fr


Description
 Bali TOOLS

Description :

Use the mouse on programm icon (Exit door) to :

• Quit Windows if you double click with the left button

• Restart Windows if you double click with the right button

• Temporary Inhibit the screensaver if you click with the left button

Use the mouse on date icon to :

• Call setup dialog if you click with the left button

• Start the task you setup in the Desk parameters if you click with the right button

With this dialog, you may :

• Compute using the calculator

• Query your mailboxes right now, or automatically

• Manage a phone book and "to do" list

• Modify the desktop wallpaper right now, or automatically

• Launch applications directly from the tray area

• Count how much time you spend in a particular task

• Inform your friends that you are on line

If you have a sound card, the time will be announced every half an hour.


BaliMEMO
 Bali TOOLS

Bali MEMO phone book :

Bali TOOLS is accompagnied by Bali MEMO (Windows 3.x or 95/NT). That software let you manage your contacts (Names, phones, and memo text), and your list of "things to do". Bali TOOLS may use automatically Bali MEMO.

Bali TOOLS let you visualize the phone list of Bali MEMO, and launch the application. It may also query the list of "things to do" to recall you automatically when necessary. Type a frequency of 0 if you don't wish to use This functionnality.

Bali TOOLS will not recall you if the screen saver is active, or if you decided to make it inactive.

In the list of contacts, you may call a popup menu by right clicking on a name in the list. This menu let you :

• visualise the contact information card,

• send a small message to the selected contact,

• send an Email to this contact (using your mail application),

• place a phone call to this contact (you must have installed Windows 95 phone "caller").

Using Bali MEMO :

Please read the Bali MEMO online help to get more informations.


Calculator
The calculator let you compute simple

processes (+ - * / % ± memory).

You can use the keyboard or the mouse.

For instance, to compute the "all taxes

included" of 1082.35, type in :

1082.35*20.6%+

To compute (256*12)+(150/3), type in :

256*12=M 150/3=M R

To compute (256/16)-(48*12), type in :

256/16=M 48*12=SM R


Email
To be able to use the Email functionnality,

your computer must be able to access Internet.

Click on [Email] to launch your favorite Email application.

Type in a frequency if you want Bali TOOLS to query

automatically your mailboxes, otherwise type in 0.

If you've got some mails in your mailboxes, Bali TOOLS will

list the authors and subjects, then announce it by voice

(NEWMAIL.WAV) and change the icon on the tray area.

To load and visualize your messages, you may use your

mail application. Or you may select them in the list, and

right click with your mouse to display a popup menu, and

then display or delete the selected messages. Messages

using Base64 encoding method should be decoded. Any

attached file will be in the message body.

Click on [Query] to query your mailboxes right now.

Of course, you have to define your server(s), user name(s)

and password(s) by clicking on [Setup].

Bali TOOLS will not query your mailboxes if the screensaver

is active, or if you decided to make it inactive.


Wallpaper
If, like me, you think that you have a lot of bitmaps

that you would like to use as desktop wallpaper, and

you want to change sometimes, Bali TOOLS is made

for you ! Just group your bitmaps in a folder, and

indicate that folder to Bali TOOLS by clicking on

[Bitmap Folder]. Then, choose a frequency to change

the desktop wallpaper (or type in 0 if you don't want to

use that functionnality).

To change immediately the wallpaper, click on the

button [Change].

Bali TOOLS will not change the wallpaper if the

screensaver is active, or if you decided to make it

inactive.


Screensaver
Bali TOOLS let you temporary inhibit the screensaver,

which may be usefull if you don't want to be disturbed

during a particular task. Click on the icon of Bali TOOLS

to inhibit ou reactivate the screensaver. While inhibited,

the icon is red.

Bali TOOLS will not query your mailboxes nor recall you

the "things to do" or change the wallpaper while you inhibit

the screensaver.


Task listening
That functionnality is checking the list of active

tasks, to detect if there is one having the title you

have defined. You may check for any task, but

if you use the Email functionnality, you should

choose the task indicating that you are connected

to Internet. It should be something like

Connected to

Like this, your time spent surfing on Internet will

be counted, and Bali TOOLS will be able to

detect if it is necessary to dial your provider or

not while retrieving messages.

You may reset the meter (except during a

detected connection).

The title of the task must have at least 5 chars.


Setup
E-Mail setup :

Use this dialog to declare your mail application (the one used

to read your messages), and to declare your account(s).

You may define 5 POP3 accounts. Indicate for each account

 the server (something like "mailhost.provider.us"), your user

name and your password. To send mails to your friends, the

first defined server must be SMTP compatible (you must be

able to use it to send mails).

Check the box on the bottom of the screen if you want to

force Internet connection when Bali TOOLS automatically

questions your mailbox (if there is no active connection

at this time). If you don't check this box, and if no

connection is active, Bali TOOLS will not query your

mailbox automatically (but you can do it manually).

Please note that Bali TOOLS detects an Internet

connection using the task listening you have defined.


Internet
 Bali TOOLS

Internet mail checking :

Interface with Windows remote access :

Bali TOOLS is trying to simplify your manipulations while querying your mailboxes. It is able to determine when you are connected, to press [Ok] button for you, to count spent time on Internet, ...

You are supposed to use a "Dialup" connection, whith a modem or an ISDN card. We recommand that you install "Microsoft ISDN Pack 1.1" that you may download from the Microsoft site.

Bali TOOLS needs that you type in 2 strings (minimum 5 chars), using the "Internet" tab :

• The first one is necessary to recognize the window opened when a connection is active. You should type in something like Connected to (depending on your Windows language). When a window's title contains that text, Bali TOOLS considers that a connection is active.

• The second one (at the bottom of the screen) should contain the exact title of the window opened for you to type in your login and password while connecting to Internet. This text might be Connecting to. If you type in this title, Bali TOOLS will be able to press the [Ok] button for you. That means that you must have recorded your password during a previous connection (note : if you have installed Microsoft ISDN 1.1 pack, you may setup an automatic connection, and you don't need this functionality).

Once you have typed in those strings, Bali TOOLS may detect a connection, and then count the time you spend on Internet. You may visualize that time, reset the counter, and edit the log file which contains all connections since last reset.

If you check manually your mailboxes, and you are not connected, Bali TOOLS will establish a connection (type [Ok] alone), get your messages headers, and disconnect !

Setting up your mail accounts :

In the "Mail" tab, click on the [Setup] button.

You have to indicate the path of your mail application, and your mail(s) account(s) reference(s) (you should indicate at least one).

• For instance, if your mail application is Microsoft Internet Mail, type in :

C:\WIN95\EXPLORER.EXE /root,C:\WIN95\Internet Mail.{89292102-4755-11cf-9DC2-00AA006C2B84}

Replace the correct Windows path on your computer.

• Your server name must be something like : mail.youprovider.com

Your login and password are those your provider gave you.

• The check box at the bottom of the screen means, if checked, that Bali TOOLS should attempt to connect to Internet if no connection is active, while automatically querying your mailboxes. If not checked, and if you are not connected, your mails are not checked (they are checked only while connected).


Launch applications
From the "Desktop" tab, you may define some

icons to display in the tray area (actually 20 icons

may be defined).

A command must be a valid executable or a document,

if Windows is able to find an association for that

document. The Icon displayed in the tray area will

be extracted from the file you indicate. The first icon

of that file will be used, unless you specify another one

by adding a comma and a number at the end of the

file name.

Example : C:\Windows 95\System\Shell32.DLL,5


Inform your friends
If you have defined at least one mail server

and if that one is SMTP compatible (you may

send messages using it), Bali TOOLS will be

able to inform some of your friends using

themselves Bali TOOLS, that you are on line.

To send such messages, click on the round

icon in the top left of the Bali TOOLS Window.


First steps
 Bali TOOLS

First steps :

To start using Bali TOOLS, please follow the above instructions :

1) "Internet" tab

To manage the time you spend using Internet.

• In the filed "Task", type in 	: Connected to (please check with your language)

• In the field "Auto connection", type in	: Connection to (please check with your language)

• Press button [Reset] to initialize the time counter.

2) "E-mail" tab

Indicate here your mailbox(es) parameters. For instance, we suppose that you want to check for new mails only if you are connected to Internet. You will be able to check manualy your mailboxes by pressing the [Query] button, even if you are not connected at this moment.

• Type in 5 minutes for example as frequency.

• Press button [Setup] to indicate the command for your mail application (that you may launch using button [E-Mail]), and at least one POP3 server reference, with your login and password. If you use Microsoft Internet Mail, the command should be :

C:\WIN95\EXPLORER.EXE /root,C:\WIN95\Internet Mail.{89292102-4755-11cf-9DC2-00AA006C2B84}

(replace C:\WIN95 in both places with your Windows path).

• Don't check the box "Connect to Internet when necessary".

3) "Phones" tab

• You might type in 60 minutes for example as a frequency to remind you some "things to do".

• Press button [BaliMEMO] to create your contact cards or define some "things to do".

4) "Desktop" tab

• Choose a folder containing some BMP files (bitmaps) that you want to use as desktop backgrounds by pressing button [Bitmap Folder].

• Indicate a frequency to change that wallpaper. For instance, 60 mn.

• Choose a reaction to your right click on the date icon in the tray area. For example, Inform a friend that you are on line.

• Press button [TrayIcons] to define your own shortcuts in the tray area.

5) Contact the author

... by pressing button [baliciel@cge-ol.fr], or visit our site to download the very last version of Baliciel softwares by pressing button [Baliciel HomePage].

6) Send mails to your friends

If some of your friends use Bali TOOLS (of course you encourage them to do so, do you ? ...), you may communicate with them using small messages that will popup automatically on their desktop as they check their mailboxes. Your friends will be able to answer you right away, and so on ... To send a small message, click on the animated icon in the Bali TOOLS dialog box.

7) Register your copy of Bali TOOLS

This is probably not what you prefer to do ... But you will have to do it, if you are fed up with the splash screens. And if you use the software for more than 45 days, it will not work anymore ! Please read the file LICENSE.WRI for registration instructions.As soon as we receive your payment, we shall send you your license code by mail. This license code must be typed in the dialog box opened when you press button [License UNREGISTERED] to free the software.


In case of problems
 Bali TOOLS

In case of problems :

If Bali TOOLS doesn't detect your Internet connection, that means that it doesn't find a window having its title starting with the text you typed in the "Task" parameter. You may ask Bali TOOLS to list the active tasks. To do this :

• Establish your Internet connection (and minimize the connection window if any).

• Type in the "Auto connection" edit control (Internet tab) the text : List of Tasks.

• In the list of messages (Mail tab), look at the list of active tasks, and note the one you want to track.

• Come back in Internet tab, and type the normal text in "Auto connection".

• Type in the text you have found in the "Task" edit control : Bali TOOLS should announce that you are connected, and start the counter (you may need to press the [Reset] button) !

More details about "Auto connection" :

The text you type in "Auto connection" must be the exact title of a window for which you want that Bali TOOLS press the [Ok] button. It may be usefull to press [Ok] on the dialup window. It is not usefull if you installed Microsoft ISDN 1.1 pack, because you may setup the display of this dialog in the Remote access server of Windows 95.

But you may use this functionnality to press any button in any dialog box ! If you don't give any precision, Bali TOOLS will press a button whose id is 1. You may ask to press another button by giving this id at the end of the "Auto connection" text : for example, type MyProg»2 to press the button having the id value 2 in the window having the title MyProg (use the character » (alt 175) as a separator).


Introduction
 Bali TOOLS

Introduction :

Please, consider that English is not my natural language, and that even if I make a lot of efforts to be comprehensible, I probably made some enormous mistakes, or used some inadequate words (my word processing understands and corrects French only ...). Please feel free to mail me any suggestion, including choice of english words. Thank you for your indulgence.

Bali TOOLS needs Windows 95 or NT to function properly.

Il adds two small icons in the tray notification area.

Here is what you can perform :

• Quit Windows directly

• Restart Windows

• Inhibit temporary the screensaver

• Use a calculator

• Query your mailboxes

• Manage your phone numbers and "to do" list

• Change automatically your desktop wallpaper

• Launch applications or documents directly from the tray area using your defined icons

• Count how much time you spend in a particular task (for instance an Internet connection)

• Inform some of your friends that you are actually connected to Internet

The second icon is the day of the month.

You may download the latest version of Bali TOOLS on Internet at :

http://www.cge-ol.fr/baliciel/welcome1.htm

If you have a sound card, time will be announced every half an hour.