Buttonz Features

• 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 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. These are also used on Buttonz' homepage:
  
  http://www.backyard.demon.co.uk/buttonz.html
  
  
• Buttonz has its own install script which uses the standard installer.
  
  
• It's bloody neat, okay? 8-)
  
  

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