[4513] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
SOFTWARE: Assistant/2 (WPS enhancement)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hinnerk Becker)
Fri Jan 1 16:48:02 1999
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: 01 Jan 1999 16:05:00 -0500
From: in7x079@public.uni-hamburg.de (Hinnerk Becker)
Reply-To: in7x079@public.uni-hamburg.de (Hinnerk Becker)
Reply-to: in7x079@public.uni-hamburg.de (Hinnerk Becker)
[Followups directed to comp.os.os2.utilities]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Assistant/2 (the successor of Extended Clipboard/2) is a WPS extension which
is designed to make work with OS/2 more comfortable in various ways.It can
now be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/assist10.zip
Extended Clipboard
EClip offers new and improved functions to use the clipboard more
efficiently. Because extensive changing between source and destination is no
longer required, the clipboard becomes an even more universal aid. With
EClip it is possible to copy all needed clips into the clipboard first and
paste them into the destination application later.
Drag&Drop
With Assistant/2 you can Drag&Drop pieces of text from one application to
another. This works with almost every PM-application which supports the
clipboard as well as with windowed VIOs. If you drop a piece of text on the
desktop, Assistant/2 will create a clip object that is compatible with
Extended Clipboard. If the dragged text is an URL it can create a URL
object.
Macros
Keyboard and mouse events can be recorded with the integrated macro
recorder. It is also possible to write a macro with any text editor or to
edit an already recorded macro. Since macros are special text clips,
everything that you can do with text clips is applicable to macros as well.
Especially the hotkeys make macros a very powerful feature. Dynamic macros
can be used to generate macros on runtime. So it is possible to insert the
current date into your application or to change the case of selected
letters! Other macros included: Open text as URL, add text to file.
Hotkeys and Hottext
You can assign a hotkey or a sequence of keys (hottext) to clips and macros.
If you need a certain clip frequently, assign a hotkey (hottext) to it. The
clip will be pasted and macros will be played everytime you press the hotkey
in a PM application. The mousebuttons and Win keys can be used as hotkeys,
too.
Popup Menus
Create flexibly configurable popup menus which are accessable from almost
every PM application by hotkey (mouse button). The structure of the menu is
read from the folder you have chosen.
English and German versions are included and registrations for Extended
Clipboard/2 are valid for Assistant/2 as well!
_____________________________________________________________________
| NOTE: Please EMAIL submissions to comp-os-os2-announce@moderators.isc.org
| Correspondence to the COOA Moderator: lfirrantello@bix.com .
| Please see: http://www.bix.com/pub/os2ann/pindex.htm for posting guidelines
