Edit . 'Define' - Program Help
This is the context specific help for Find Files N Replace for function Define. It will be show when Shift+F1 is pressed after using menu item Define on menu "Edit".
It can also be shown using menu item Help for Last Function on menu "Help".
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'Define' - Program Help start.
Options to define how some parts of the system will function that are setup in standard ways by the installation process can be changed here.
Define - Action Menu Item
Use this option:
To Add or Change an Action Menu Item
To Remove one or all Action Menu Items
The Action menu allows you to open any file with any application.
Action menu offers a much greater amount of flexibility than Explorer or other shell programs.
With a single F-key, files can be opened in other applications.
- Any file can be opened with any application regardless of its filetype.
- F-keys are available to open selected file(s) with a single keystroke.
- Action menu items can be defined easily by selecting from a list of Windows/K-free associations.
- Or use the wizard to automatically define a set of action menus corresponding to associations for a file type.
The Action menu is in four parts according to F-Key combinations that are available.
For convenience/ease of use, groups of applications can be defined on a group of F-keys with the same number.
This is the way that Action menus have been setup when you installed K-free. Use the Setup Wizard to do this again and change the final result.
E.g.
Define IE, Opera, Dreamweaver and Frontpage Express to use F12, Ctrl-F12, Shift-F12 and Shift-Ctrl-F12 respectively.
Define applications for viewing/changing pictures on F11 keys, etc.
The four parts are:
On the main action menu are Items 4-12 that are the external applications that can (mostly) be started using F-Keys without Shift/Ctl.
There are 3 other action submenus containing applications that will be started with Ctl+F-key, Shift+F-Key, Ctl+Shift+F-Key respectively.
E.g. To Access an application which is on Menu More Actions (Shift-Ctrl) at position 12 Shift+Ctrl+F12, hold both Shift and ctrl keys down and then press F12. The application will then be started once for each file selected.
Note that some F-Key combinations - e.g. F4,F5,F10 - are used elsewhere in K-free/Windows and therefore not available on the Action menu.
See Also:
Use Of Kyboma/K-free Associations
How To Fix Problems With Kyboma/K-free Associations or Action definitions.
To Add or Change an Action Menu Item
1. Select The Action Menu Item to be Changed
2. Enter Details of Menu Item
1. Select The Action Menu Item to be Changed
Select Option Define/Action from the Edit menu.
All available Action menu items will be Listed whether or not a current definition exists.
On The List of Action menu items:
- "F-Key" will show F6, F7, F8, etc. when available.
If The F-key is shown as blank then that F-key is not available on the Action menu but is used elsewhere in K-free. E.g. F5, Shift+Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+F5 are used for refresh, add dir and refresh, single dir refresh.
- "Now defined as" will show Exe name and parameters.
Special application for the current definition will be shown here if the menu item is defined as a special application.
Parameters are shortname, noquotes and Use dde. These are listed when the corresponding option ["Use Short(8.3) File Names", "No quotes ..." and "Use DDE"] is checked.
- The Options column will contain FirstOnly / DoNotPause when the option is checked. It will also contain the directory entered for Move/Copy actions.
The DDE definition cannot be seen on this list. Select the action menu item and press the "Specify DDE parameters" button to view and change the DDE definition.
If any data is too long to be fully displayed, use Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+double_Click to see it.
[Hold Ctrl key down and double-click or press double-click key (usually Z)]
2. Enter Details of Menu Item
Description is used only for extra associations.
Usually it is easiest to copy an existing association that has been defined for either Windows or K-free.
To Copy an association, select "List Windows associations" or "List K-free associations".
Associations for all file types will be listed. Any existing associations for the current file type will be shown first.
Select any existing association using up/down keys on list or using the mouse and press Enter or Copy Association button to copy all details to the current definition screen.
NB the new association will not be saved until you press OK on the first "Change association .." screen.
See List K-free or Windows Associations for more help on the List screen.
Associations can also be entered manually as either a Link To another application or a Special Action.
Press "Special Action" to define an item on the action menu which calls one of the allowed K-free functions.
First press Special Action to choose the action:
Special actions include show file in K-free or Move/Copy File.
Select the action required from the list.
For Move/Copy a directory must also be entered to which the file will be moved or copied when the action is selected or if it is the default action when the file is double-clicked.
Select special action "Open/Print/Explore using Windows Association" to pass each file selected to Windows API function ShellExecute. See An alternative way to open files using the windows association.
Manual Specification of a Link To another application is recommended only for advanced users.
Exe name and command line parameters should be entered separately.
Exe name can be entered without a path (e.g. notepad.exe) if the program would usually be available without the path. A warning will be displayed if the exe cannot be found in a directory specified in the path statement.
Browse can be used to select an exe name.
If Use DDE is selected, you can enter standard DDE parameters in the same format as that used by Windows using the "Specify DDE ..." button. The documentation for the application to which the association points should be consulted for info on DDE parameters for that application.
If Pass file is selected, how many files to pass is specified using the "Specify Files ..." button. Usually file names passed will be enclosed within quotes to allow spaces within file names. For some older (Windows 3.1/Dos) applications, quotes will not be allowed. To override addition of quotes, check "No Quotes ...".
Additional options specify the format of the string to be executed. They Can be entered using the "Options" button.
Exe name parameter and file names will usually be concatenated as "exe parameter files". To avoid adding either or both spaces, check the option.
By default a long file name will be passed to the application. For old windows applications, a short name will be required and Use short (8.3) names should be checked.
Finally a command line string can be entered in the same format as used by Windows including parameters %1, %2, etc. The selected file name and printer parameters will be used to substitute the %1, %2 specifications.
To process a command line string in this way, enter the string as exe name prefixed with "Substitute %1 In: ".
To Remove one or all Action Menu Items
Select Option Define/Action from the Edit menu.
All available Action menu items will be Listed whether or not a current definition exists.
On The List of Action menu items:
- "F-Key" will show F6, F7, F8, etc. when available.
If The F-key is shown as blank then that F-key is not available on the Action menu but is used elsewhere in K-free. E.g. F5, Shift+Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+F5 are used for refresh, add dir and refresh, single dir refresh.
- "Now defined as" will show Exe name and parameters.
Special application for the current definition will be shown here if the menu item is defined as a special application.
Parameters are shortname, noquotes and Use dde. These are listed when the corresponding option ["Use Short(8.3) File Names", "No quotes ..." and "Use DDE"] is checked.
- The Options column will contain FirstOnly / DoNotPause when the option is checked. It will also contain the directory entered for Move/Copy actions.
The DDE definition cannot be seen on this list. Select the action menu item and press the "Specify DDE parameters" button to view and change the DDE definition.
If any data is too long to be fully displayed, use Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+double_Click to see it.
[Hold Ctrl key down and double-click or press double-click key (usually Z)]
To Remove a single Action menu item use Up/Down keys to select it and press Remove Action.
To Remove all Action menus. Just press Remove All.
Define - Action Menu Items (Setup Wizard)
The Action menu is in four parts according to F-Key combinations that are available.
For convenience/ease of use, groups of applications can be defined on a group of F-keys with the same number.
This is the way that Action menus have been setup when you installed K-free. Use the Setup Wizard to do this again and change the final result.
E.g.
Define IE, Opera, Dreamweaver and Frontpage Express to use F12, Ctrl-F12, Shift-F12 and Shift-Ctrl-F12 respectively.
Define applications for viewing/changing pictures on F11 keys, etc.
The four Parts are:
On the main action menu are Items 4-12 that are the external applications that can (mostly) be started using F-Keys without Shift/Ctl.
There are 3 other action submenus containing applications that will be started with Ctl+F-key, Shift+F-Key, Ctl+Shift+F-Key respectively.
This wizard is used to easily define a set of F keys by copying Windows / K-free associations.
The wizard consists of the following screens:
1. Enter Set No.
1a. Select Set No.
1b. Delete existing Definitions
2. Select Sources
3. Confirm Actions to Use
Move to the next screen using the "Next" button or pressing Enter.
Move to the previous screen using the "Prev" button or pressing Esc.
To Exit the Wizard, press cancel or the Esc key on the first screen.
To complete the creation of Action menu items, press the Finish button or the Enter key on the last screen.
1. Enter Set No.
Enter the number (1-12) of the F-Key set to be defined.
E.g. Enter 6 to define the actions that will be done with keys F6 / Ctrl+F6 / Shift+F6 / Shift+Ctrl+F6
To display current definitions for all sets, press the "Select from List of Definitions Button.
1a. Select Set No.
A list of all current definitions for all sets will be displayed.
To show this screen, press the "Select from List of Definitions" Button on the Enter Set No. screen.
A single action definition can be removed here by using up/down keys to select an item in the list and then clicking the "Remove Action Defn" button.
All action definitions can be removed by clicking the "Remove All Defns" button.
NB This will permanently remove definitions of actions in ALL sets
The same Set is also used by the K-free Setup program. Sets and corresponding file types that are supplied with the installation files for K-free are:
Set 2 - Open/Add to archive file - zip|cab|arj|lzh|arc
Set 6 - Open in text editor - txt ini wri rtf
Set 7 - Open in wordprocessor or spreadsheet application - doc|xls|xlw|csv|rtf
Set 8 - Open in music/sound player - mp3|wav|ra|ram|midi|mpg|mp2
Set 9 - Open in movie player - mpeg|mov|avi|qt
Set 11 - Open in picture Viewer/editor - jpg|jpeg|gif|bmp|ico
Set 12 - Open in web Browser/Editor - htm|html|css|asp
1b. Delete existing Definitions
If ANY definitions exist for the selected set no, you will be shown a list of existing definitions for the selected set.
A single action definition can be removed here by using up/down keys to select an item in the list and then clicking the "Remove Action Defn" button.
All action definitions IN THIS SET can be removed by clicking the "Remove All Defns" button.
2. Select Sources
The set of Action menu items will be defined by copying:
- associations for one or several different file types.
- any combination of K-free associations and Windows associations.
This screen is used to enter or select:
- File type(s)
- What associations to search for
Select Sources - File type(s):
A list of file types can be entered here separated by |
E.g. htm|html|css will search for file types of htm then file types of html then file types of css.
Press Alt+DownArrow key to select from a list of file types used before for this set number.
Or type a new list separated by |
Select Sources - What associations to search for:
A List of associations can be selected here.
Press Alt+DownArrow key to select from all lists used before (lists used for ANY set number are shown).
After an existing list has been selected, extra windows actions can be added and the sequence can be changed by clicking the button:
"Search - Add Win Action". See Add Windows Action.
"Search - Change Seq". See Sequence for use of associations.
K-free associations are shown on the list as "Default action"
K-free Extra associations are shown on the list as "Extra Asso.s"
Windows associations are shown on the list in format "Win: xxx" where xxx is the action (e.g. Open).
Select Sources - Add Windows Action.
Enter the Action (e.g. Open, Print, Open In Same Window , etc) here.
An * notation can be used to select all actions starting with a given value. (E.g. Open* will select Open and Open In Same Window as well as any other actions for the file type starting with Open)
The Win: prefix shown in the list should NOT be entered.
After the new action has been entered, the screen to change sequence will be displayed so that the new action can be moved up to the position required.
Select Sources - Sequence for use of associations.
Associations will be searched for up to "Skip Rest".
Select an association and press Up to move it to the position required to have that association searched for.
Select an association and press Down to search for/use that association after other associations.
Move an association to below "Skip Rest" to ignore it.
3. Confirm Actions to Use
Actions found will be Listed in the order in which they were specified on the previous screen.
The first four actions will be used to define action menu items on the main action menu.
If some actions are already defined and were not deleted, only the actions that are not already defined will be defined now.
Use Up/Down keys to reposition the actions required or "Do Not Define Action" to the top four slots.
To change the filetypes or associations to search for, click "Prev" or the Esc key to return to the previous screen.
To create and save action definitions for the first four actions click the "Finish" button.
Define - Special Links (Browser for Help etc)
Use this option to change:
- Internal links used to display help from the File List screen or from the Show HTML detail screen.
- Options to open the selected file on the file menu of the Show HTML detail screen.
First select which Link you want to change and then press either "Change Link" or "Use Wizard"
See:
1. Change Link
2. Use Wizard
3. Internal links used to display help
4. Options to open the selected file
1. Change Link will show the current definition of the selected Link. To change the link it is easiest to select an existing Windows or K-free association to be copied.
This screen works in the same way as that used for Define - Action Menu Item except that options do not apply to special links and are therefore not shown. See Define - Action Menu Item
2. The "Use Wizard" button will show the sources used to create the special link when K-free setup was run.
After changing the sources, press Next to continue to the second step of the wizard and display the actions found. You can then confirm/change/accept one of the actions as the new definition for this special link. The screens work the same way as those used in
Define - Action Menu Items (Setup Wizard).
See Define - Action Menu Items (Setup Wizard):
a. Select Sources
b. Confirm Actions to Use
3. Internal links used to display help.
All K-free Help is written in HTML (web pages) which will usually be displayed in your browser. Both the File List screen and the Show HTML detail screen will use the same link to show help.
To Change the Link used for display of help, select item "Browser For Help" from the list of special links.
This Link will not use a caption. Any value entered will be saved and displayed on this Change Link screen but not used elsewhere.
If you have IE installed, you can also enter a value of "LinkedIE" as the definition for Browser For Help. Enter LinkedIE in the box titled "Specify Exe Name for application and any parameters (except filename) [2]".
When you enter LinkedIE, the IE window opened to display help will be linked to the K-free window that created it (as long as it is used to display K-free Help). When you Exit K-free the corresponding IE window will automatically be closed.
The IE window created with option LinkedIE will be also be simpler (easier to read) than your standard IE window.
Menus, toolbars and explorer bars will not be showm. To Show help in a regular IE window (with menus, toolbars and explorer bars), simply change the special link and copy any Windows or K-free association which works to display a (HTML/other) file in IE.
4. Options to open the selected file on the file menu of the Show HTML detail screen.
The Show HTML detail screen is used to display tag examples, scripts, etc. extracted from any of a list of files or to display the source of any HTML file split neatly into trwo seperate columns of tags and text respectively.
It is very useful when looking at examples to load a particular file in a browser or to open it with notepad (the same display that would usually be shown when you select View Source from the context menu of IE).
This option will define up to three Special Links to be available on the File Menu of the Show HTML Detail screen. The three menu options will also be accessible using shortcut keys F12, Ctrl+F12, F6.
See File-Menu [Show HTML Detail] - Open Selected File.
The Caption entered is the caption that will appear on the File menu of the Show HTML Detail screen.
Define - Default Sequence to check file type associations
When a file is double clicked K-free will look for one, both or neither of default association for K-free, association for Windows. If no association(s) is/are found, K-free can then either Skip that file or Prompt with a list of associations.
The Sequence specifies what K-free will look for first/second and what it will do if no associations are found.
For more info see Sequence in which associations are checked
There is a default sequence and each file type can have a specific sequence.
A specific sequence is used if it is defined for the file type. If no sequence is defined for the file type, the default sequence is used.
This option is used to display and change the default sequence
To change the sequence:
1. Select any action in the sequence
2. Press U/W to move it up or down in the sequence.
3. Press OK to save the changes.
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