Short: User friendly Button launch menu. Commodity. Author: anthony@backyard.demon.co.uk Uploader: anthony@backyard.demon.co.uk Version: 1.0 Type: util/wb Requires: WB2.04+ Distribution: Giftware Buttonz is a system friendly commodity so you can control it from Exchange. It features a new feature I call subdock in its menu system so one button can be set to call up a new bank of buttons. See the examples for how this works. Intelligent configuration system. Buttonz is instinctive to both use and configure. Just click on a button to launch the program, hold shift and click on it to configure it or hold control and click on it to delete the configured entry. Couldn't be easier. Buttonz also has a swap button feature. Hold down the right shift key (don't confuse this with the left shift key for configuring a button) and click on both buttons and they will swap places. Buttonz config window is an AppWindow, meaning you can drop a program icon onto it and Buttonz will take care of most of the configuring for you. Buttonz can set each button with one of four different launch types. CLI - Normal setting for launching programs. SCRIPT - Executes AmigaDos scripts. REXX - Executes the file as an AREXX script. Arexx must be running! SUBDOCK - is used to load another configuration file with a new set of button definitions. Add a button on the new set to go back to the first set of buttons and you can have unlimited definitions all linking to each other. Similar to a menu system in fact. Buttonz uses very little CPU time due to some very tough work in making it non-resource hungry. It needs no external libraries (everything is in the main program) and is as stable as a rock. It will run on any 2.0+ machine fine. Buttonz has been extensively tested by a heap of testers on the internet. If there's any serious problems or bugs in it now I'll be very surprised. Buttonz has intelligent file handling routines for loading and saving configs to save setting up time. Confirmation prompts for unsaved data are there to stop mistakes being made and information lost. Buttonz can be launched from the keyboard as well as clicking on them with the mouse. Buttonz author is nearly sane and also a huge Pink Floyd fan. And he does not have long hair (strange for a programmer). Yes, the author is the same guy "Wot works for CU-Amiga" whenever there's any work worth doing. As well as setting up a programs name and filepath, stack size and arguments can also be configured for each button. Buttonz also has a file requester for selecting programs for those of you who hate dragging and dropping icons :-) Buttonz features HTML docs as well as this Amigaguide document. I wanted to be different and Phillip Snell kindly obliged by creating these. Please note that these HTML docs still need a bit of work. The docs are also used on Buttonz' homepage http:\\www.backyard.demon.co.uk\buttonz.html Buttonz has its own install script which, while simple, does the job just fine. It's bloody neat, okay? 8-) ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 1183 348 70.5% 23-Jan-97 02:03:16 +Buttonz.bcfg 1035 328 68.3% 05-Feb-97 18:11:18 +Comms.bcfg 1144 354 69.0% 29-Jan-97 14:08:06 +Disk.bcfg 1102 351 68.1% 26-Jan-97 15:48:32 +Games.bcfg 1176 402 65.8% 20-Jan-97 15:45:18 +Graphics.bcfg 1230 364 70.4% 29-Jan-97 14:57:08 +Internet.bcfg 916 262 71.3% 14-Jan-97 05:06:52 +Music.bcfg 1166 342 70.6% 14-Jan-97 05:10:36 +Programming.bcfg 1146 379 66.9% 13-Jan-97 02:13:18 +Utilities.bcfg 372 223 40.0% 06-Feb-97 14:31:14 +File_ID.Diz 1188 675 43.1% 06-Feb-97 14:58:20 +Fonts.info 2589 503 80.5% 06-Feb-97 14:58:06 +Install.info 4320 1529 64.6% 06-Feb-97 17:22:46 +Buttonz-Installer 1918 1037 45.9% 06-Feb-97 14:25:36 +Install.info 1188 674 43.2% 06-Feb-97 14:58:30 +Docs.info 1442 872 39.5% 06-Feb-97 14:58:30 +Buttonz.guide.info 354 262 25.9% 06-Feb-97 14:58:30 +History.info 1188 678 42.9% 06-Feb-97 14:58:30 +HTML.info 524 47 91.0% 18-Oct-96 18:09:00 +Workstation.font 976 503 48.4% 01-Jun-96 21:34:16 +6 1336 698 47.7% 01-Jun-96 21:34:16 +8 3036 2321 23.5% 11-Jan-97 20:08:42 +bg.png 1905 1905 0.0% 17-Jan-97 09:44:08 +bg2.png 2174 2174 0.0% 11-Jan-97 19:42:08 +config.gif 1889 1889 0.0% 11-Jan-97 19:55:42 +options.gif 514 514 0.0% 16-Jan-97 20:35:24 +b.gif 8314 6130 26.2% 16-Jan-97 20:31:18 +backdrop.iff 5234 1670 68.0% 17-Jan-97 09:36:40 +bg.iff 1887 1887 0.0% 11-Jan-97 19:56:02 +window.gif 543 543 0.0% 16-Jan-97 20:35:24 +n.gif 519 519 0.0% 16-Jan-97 20:35:24 +o.gif 486 486 0.0% 16-Jan-97 20:35:24 +t.gif 533 533 0.0% 16-Jan-97 20:35:24 +u.gif 1635 921 43.6% 06-Feb-97 17:33:36 +about.html 3190 1472 53.8% 17-Jan-97 17:33:50 +config.html 1456 778 46.5% 17-Jan-97 17:28:00 +config2.html 2069 1040 49.7% 17-Jan-97 17:28:10 +copy.html 493 493 0.0% 16-Jan-97 20:35:24 +z.gif 3755 1755 53.2% 06-Feb-97 17:35:20 +features.html 369 239 35.2% 11-Jan-97 19:59:40 +other.html 1450 849 41.4% 17-Jan-97 17:33:28 +reg.html 1270 668 47.4% 17-Jan-97 17:34:12 +support.html 461 294 36.2% 17-Jan-97 09:56:06 +template.html 24047 9781 59.3% 06-Feb-97 17:25:06 +History 1482 638 56.9% 06-Feb-97 17:32:02 +index.html 2660 1412 46.9% 17-Jan-97 17:28:46 +thanks.html 2297 1069 53.4% 17-Jan-97 17:29:04 +tool.html 1204 700 41.8% 06-Feb-97 17:35:56 +usage.html 1188 674 43.2% 06-Feb-97 14:58:06 Buttonz.info 92280 39481 57.2% 06-Feb-97 17:23:22 +Buttonz 1961 1371 30.0% 06-Feb-97 16:59:38 +Buttonz.info 3137 1522 51.4% 06-Feb-97 17:44:42 +Buttonz.readme 17808 7019 60.5% 06-Feb-97 15:08:40 +Buttonz.guide -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 218739 103578 52.6% 07-Feb-97 03:54:56 53 files