The first thing to do after launching PPPop is to move the Button window to a good spot on your screen. You may also wish to change its size and eliminate the window's title bar. (See Special menu.) Once you eliminate the title bar, you can still move the window by holding down the Command key while dragging it. If you make the window "float", it will always be visible on top of other program's windows.
Tip: You can hide/show floating windows by pressing Command-Escape from within any program.
Next you should adjust the location of the Timer window. You can move it too by holding down the Command key while dragging it. If you select "Auto Position Timer" from the Timer menu, the Timer window will move along with the Button. You can also select a specific font, font size, and style.
To cycle the Timer through session time, daily time, and cumulative time press the space bar or click on the Timer window.
To set warning time limits and to make the total time automatically reset on a specific day of the month, open the Timer Setup dialog.
Important: The timer and log file do not keep time if PPPop is not running!
2. Set up the Launcher
Here is an example of how to set up Launcher items:
Let窶冱 set up Eudora as our email application. We'd like it to start up automatically whenever we connect, and we also want a command key shortcut for this mail function.
First open "Launcher Setup..." from the Launcher menu.
Click "New". The Launcher Item Editor will appear.
Now enter a label, "Mail" for instance.
Tab to the next field and enter "M" to assign Command-M to this Launcher item.
Next, press "Set..." to pick the application for PPPop to launch. Better yet - in the case of Eudora and other applications which can use different settings files - select your "Eudora Settings" file.
Finally, check "Launch After Opening Connection".
Press "OK".
Next, let's add a web browser Launcher item using Netscape.
Click "New" again.
Enter the label "Web" and a command key shortcut "W".
"Set..." the application to Netscape or one if its settings files in the "Netscape Users" folder.
Let's say we don't want the browser to start automatically with every connection, but we do want Netscape to quit automatically when we close the connection: check "Kill Before Closing PPP Connection".
Finally, add a Launcher item for a frequently visited web page, for example "MacNN".
Go to the Launcher Item Editor, enter the label "MacNN".
No command key for this one.
In the "Object" box, click the URL radio button.
Enter the URL which Internet Config 2.0 will then send to your web browser: "http://macnn.com/".
Back in the Launcher Setup screen, click "OK", and then take a look at the Launcher menu.
Our three items are now in the menu: "Mail", "Web", and "MacNN".
When you select one of them from this menu, PPPop will go online and then launch the item.
Tip: To conveniently launch applications and URLs from PPPop, use one of the "hot key" utilities to setup a function key which brings PPPop to the front.
3. Connect
To connect, all you have to do is click the Button.
If you are often getting busy signals with one dial-in number, you can set up different PPP configurations which use different dial-in numbers (if available). You then can easily switch to another number with PPPop's Server menu.
For more information regarding this see the chapter "More than one Account?".
For more Help...
Aside from this online help there is a full "PPPop2 Reference" available.
It is an easy to use HTML document with all the information.
If you have several Internet accounts, or several users share your computer, or if you work at different locations, you should look at the PPPop2 Reference sections regarding the Server menu, Profiles, and Location Manager.
Also all menus and dialogs have balloon help.
Tip: With an extended keyboard, you can use the "Help" key to turn balloons on and off.
