THIS FILE CONTAINS THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR LOADING AND USING THE SPECIAL DEMO VERSIONS OF MOUSE MENUS DESIGNED FOR WORDSTAR 2000. THE APPLICABLE FILES ARE LISTED IN THE TEXT BELOW. THERE IS AN ORDER FORM AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT. HOW TO USE YOUR MOUSE MENU FOR WORDSTAR 2000 The menu was specifically designed for use with MicroPro Wordstar 2000, ver 2.00. although it may work satisfactorily with other versions. REQUIREMENTS You must have a Microsoft, Logitech or compatible mouse in order to use this software correctly. It is designed and tested for use with WORDSTAR 2000 VER. 2.00 using DOS 3.2 on an IBM PC, XT, AT, or compatibles. THE KBM MOUSEMENUS PROVIDED There are 7 demo files available. They are as follows. Four versions of the mousemenu provided for use with Wordstar 2000. Two of them are for use with 3 button Logitech and Logitech compatible mice. Two of them are for use with Microsoft 2 button mice and compatibles. There are two versions of the Menu for each type of mouse. One is a long version which can be used with all of the word processing functions and menus, contains an opening menu, and is very intelligent in determining where it is in the WS2000 program. The other is a short version of the same program which is for use only in the editor. I recommend you use the long version unless you absolutely need the additional 4K of memory the short version makes available. The filenames and their application are as follows: DLWS2LNG.MNU: This is the long version of the Logitech compatible menu. DLWS2SHT.MNU: This is the short version of the Logitech compatible menu. DWS2LNG.MNU: This is the long version of the Microsoft compatible menu. DWS2SHRT.MNU: This is the short version of the Microsoft compatible menu. 1 The other three files you will need are: DMSMNU.COM: This file is used with the Microsoft menus. DWS2READ.ME: That is the name of this file. DPRNREAD.BAT: Use this file to print out this manual --------GETTING STARTED-------- INSTALLING THE MENU The short versions of these menus are not nearly as clean as the long version but will save you about 4K of memory. The short version does not contain an opening menu, you cannot use the mouse to choose a file, and it gets "lost", which means that an inappropriate menu can pop up any time you hit a mouse button. It does, however, contain all of the commands you would need in the editor, which is what you will probably need 90% of the time. I recommend the long version unless you absolutely need the additional 4K of memory. The following instructions are written for the long version with the SHORT MENU VERSION OF THE INSTRUCTIONS IN PARENTHESES. NOTE: IF YOU HAVE OTHER RAM RESIDENT PROGRAMS BESIDES THE MOUSE DRIVER AND ARE GETTING FLAKY RESULTS TRY CHANGING THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE INSTALLED. I personally have found things work the best if I install the mouse driver FIRST. THE FILE NAMES USED BELOW ARE VERY SIMILAR. MAKE SURE YOU ARE USING THE RIGHT FILE. -----LOGITECH----- IF YOU HAVE A LOGITECH C7 OR COMPATIBLE MOUSE READ THIS SECTION. IF YOU HAVE A MICROSOFT MOUSE OR COMPATIBLE SKIP TO THAT SECTION. LOGITECH QUICK START NOTE: IF YOU ARE USING NORTON COMMANDER OR SOME OTHER RAM RESIDENT UTILITIES WHICH ALSO USE A MOUSE THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE MAY NOT WORK. MOVE ON TO THE SECTION ON MORE PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS. NOTE: IF THE LOGITECH PROGRAM "MENU.COM" HAS ALREADY BEEN LOADED WITHOUT THE /12 (/8) OPTION THERE WILL NOT BE ENOUGH MEMORY ALLOCATED AND THE WS2000 MENUS WILL NOT LOAD. YOU MUST REBOOT THE SYSTEM AND LOAD THE "MENU PROGRAM WITH THE /12 (/8) OPTION. 2 IF "MENU" IS IN YOUR AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE CHANGE IT TO READ "MENU /12" ("MENU /8"). IF THERE IS ALREADY A NUMBER AFTER THE / AND IT IS LARGER THAN 12 (8), THEN IT IS OK. LEAVE IT ALONE. Copy DLWS2LNG.MNU (DLWS2SHT.MNU) in to the same directory or disk as your Logitech mouse files. Now, while you are in that disk or directory:(Do not type type.) Type "MOUSE" Type "MENU /12" ("MENU /8" ) Type "MENU DLWS2LNG" ("MENU DLWS2SHT" ) NOTE: "MOUSE" AND "MENU" are RAM resident. If you want to remove them from memory after you are done with WS2000 you must reboot the system by typing or by turning off the computer and turning it back on again. The menu is now loaded and you may load WS2000 as you normally would but when you are done you must return to the disk or directory with MOUSE.COM and type MENU OFF to disable the menu. Proceed to the section USING THE MOUSE MENU. If you want a more permanent and easier to use installation read the next section. LOGITECH MORE PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS. If you are using the mouse only with WS2000 copy the following files onto the disk or directory which has your WS2000 program files, or else make sure these files are all included in your PATH when you start WS2000: Logitech files: MOUSE.COM MENU.COM Mousemenu file: DLWS2LNG.MNU (DLWS2SHT.MNU) Create the following batch file and keep it in the same directory or on the same disk where you normally start WS2000. you can use WS2000 to create the file. Make sure you use the UNFORM.FRM format. I suggest you name the file WS2MOUSE.BAT. You can give it another name if you like but is must have the .BAT extension. The file should read exactly as follows: MOUSE MENU /12 (MENU /8) 3 MENU DLWS2LNG (MENU DLWS2SHT) WS2 MENU OFF Now, when you want to start WS2000 type WS2MOUSE instead of WS2, and the menu will automatically be installed. If you want to keep the mouse files on a seperate disk from WS2000 then follow the instructions above but create the following WS2MOUSE.BAT file: MOUSE MENU /12 (MENU /8) MENU DLWS2LNG (MENU DLWS2SHT) ECHO ON PAUSE Please put in your WS2000 disk now and strike any key. WS2 PAUSE Please put in your MENU.COM disk now and strike any key. MENU OFF This will do exactly the same as the file above but will pause for you to change disks. NOTE: "MOUSE" AND "MENU" are RAM resident. If you want to remove them from memory after you are done with WS2000 you must reboot the system by typing at the same time or by turning off the computer and turning it back on again. If you are using Logitech's CLICK mouse control, then you would rename DLWS2LNG.MNU (DLWS2SHT.MNU) WS2.MNU and follow the instructions in your Logitech manual for modifying the CLICK files to automatically load this menu. -----MICROSOFT----- MICROSOFT QUICK START NOTE: IF YOU ARE USING NORTON COMMANDER OR SOME OTHER RAM RESIDENT UTILITIES WHICH ALSO USE A MOUSE THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE MAY NOT WORK. MOVE ON TO THE SECTION ON MORE PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS. Copy the files DWS2LNG.MNU (DWS2SHRT.MNU) and DMSMNU.COM in to the same directory or disk as your Microsoft mouse files. Type "MOUSE" Type "DMSMNU DWS2LNG" ("DMSMNU DWS2SHRT" ) NOTE: "MOUSE" AND "DMSMENU" are RAM resident. If you want to remove them from memory after you are done with WS2000 you 4 must reboot the system by typing at the same time or by turning off the computer and turning it back on again. The menu is now loaded and you may load WS2000 as you normally would but when you are done you must return to this disk or directory and type DMSMNU OFF to disable the menu. Proceed to the section USING THE MOUSE MENU. If you want a more permanent and easier to use installation read the next section. MICROSOFT MORE PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS. If you are using the mouse only with WS2000 copy the following files onto the disk or directory which has your WS2000 program files, or else make sure these files are all included in your PATH when you start WS2000: Microsoft file: MOUSE.COM Mousemenu files: DWS2LNG.MNU (DWS2SHRT.MNU) DMSMNU.COM Create the following batch file and keep it in the same directory or on the same disk where you normally start WS2000. you can use WS2000 to create the file. Make sure you use the UNFORM.FRM format. I suggest you name the file WS2MOUSE.BAT. You can give it another name if you like but is must have the .BAT extension. The file should read exactly as follows: MOUSE DMSMNU DWS2LNG (DMSMNU DWS2SHRT) WS2 DMSMNU OFF Now, when you want to start WS2000 type WS2MOUSE instead of WS2, and the menu will automatically be installed. If you want to keep the mouse files on a seperate disk from WS2000 then follow the instructions above but create the 5 following WS2MOUSE.BAT file: MOUSE DMSMNU DWS2LNG (MENU DWS2SHRT) ECHO ON PAUSE Please change to your WS2000 disk now and strike any key. WS2 PAUSE Please change to your DMSMNU.COM disk now and strike any key. DMSMNU OFF This will do exactly the same as the file above but will pause for you to change disks. NOTE: "MOUSE" AND "DMSMNU" are RAM resident. If you want to remove them from memory after you are done with WS2000 you must reboot the system by typing at the same time or by turning off the computer and turning it back on again. -----USING THE MOUSE MENU----- DIFFERENCES There are a few differences between the long, short, Microsoft, and Logitech versions which I will explain first. If you are using one of the short versions of these programs then you will not have the opening menus. There will be a section which you can skip which talks about these features. If you are using the Microsoft versions it is set up for a two button mouse and you will not have all of the button features available to the Logitech users. The instruction are written for 3 button mice. IF YOU HAVE A 2 BUTTON MOUSE PRESS BOTH BUTTONS WHEN THE INSTRUCTIONS CALL FOR THE CENTER BUTTON TO BE PUSHED. IGNORE ALL INSTRUCTIONS WHICH CALL FOR PRESSING TWO OR MORE BUTTONS AT THE SAME TIME. OPENING MENUS Short version users skip to the EDITOR MENUS section. Pressing any button once will cause the opening copyright information to be displayed. Pressing it again will open the main menu. Here you will see all the choices which are normally available in the WS2 menu, but they are all on one screen and they are in inverse video. You make your selection by moving the mouse around until the selection you want is highlighted. Then press any button to make the selection. For example place the highlight on "EDIT" and press a button and you will move to the "Choose a file to edit" submenu. 6 As a general rule, while you are in any one of these submenus the mouse will act as follows: If you are in a submenu which allows you to make a selection by using the arrow [cursor] keys, moving the mouse will have the same effect. Otherwise moving the mouse will have no effect. The buttons will work as follows: The LEFT button will act as the key. The RIGHT button will take you to the help screen for that menu. The MIDDLE button (BOTH buttons on two button mouse. Remember?) will act the same as the key and return you to the previous menu or exit you from the help screen. Remember: LEFT RIGHT Get help MIDDLE NOTE: SOMETIMES THE MOUSE HAS TO FIGURE OUT WHERE IT IS. THIS MEANS YOU WILL HAVE TO PUSH THE BUTTON TWICE IN ORDER TO GET A RESPONSE. This can be disconcerting at first but you will quickly learn when one "click" will do and when you need two. If you are still in the Edit submenu try moving the mouse around to select a file. Click the RIGHT button to enter help. Click the MIDDLE (both) button to from Help. When you are ready, highlight your choice or type in a new filename. Then press the LEFT button or the key. NOTE: THE ONLY TIME YOU CANNOT USE THE REGULAR WS2000 FUNCTIONS IS WHEN YOU HAVE A MOUSEMENU OPEN. AT ALL OTHER TIMES YOU CAN TOTALLY IGNORE THE MOUSE AND USE WS2000 AS IF THE MOUSE MENU WAS NOT INSTALLED. -----EDITOR MENUS----- It is important that you experiment with the mouse and get comfortable with how it works. Particularly if you have never used a mouse before. If you do not already have a file open and ready edit please not do so now. Preferably one that is at least a page long so that you can get a feel for how the mouse moves. If it is an important document copy it first so you will feel comfortable messing up this "practice page". AS A MATTER OF FACT, WHY NOT MAKE A COPY OF THIS INSTRUCTION MANUAL AND LOAD IT INTO WS2000 SO YOU CAN PLAY WITH IT AS YOU READ ALONG!! We can even use the mouse to do it. 7 If you are using a short version of the program the mouse will not help you once you leave the editor, follow the same procedure using the keyboard commands. To return to the opening menu from the editor just press the middle button until the menu opens at the top of the screen. Move the mouse until the ^Quit menu is highlighted and press any 1 button. Choose Save Changes by moving the mouse up or down. When you have highlighted your selection press a button. This will return you to the opening menu. Now press the middle button until the mouse menu appears, move the mouse until Copy is highlighted and press a button. This should put you in the Choose a file to copy menu. Move the mouse until you have highlighted DWS2READ.ME and press the LEFT button to select it. Now type in the name of the file you want to copy it to. Let's call it MOUSE.EXP. Now press , or the LEFT button on the mouse to copy the file. This will return us to the opening menu again. Press the middle mouse button to open the menu, press it again to select Edit, move the mouse to highlight MOUSE.EXP and press the LEFT mouse button to select it. This should now put you back in the editor with the file MOUSE.EXP. MOUSE MOVEMENT The first thing to note is that when you are in the editor moving the mouse has the same effect as the arrow keys, but the functions of all the buttons changes. When you are in the editor and have no function windows open (such as the Locate text window). The mouse buttons are as follows: LEFT BUTTON The LEFT button toggles the horizontal and vertical SPEED at which the CURSOR moves when you move the mouse. When it is set one way the mouse will move very QUICKLY up and down the PAGE but very SLOWLY back and forth across a LINE. Try it. Move the mouse around, then push LEFT button and see what happens. It takes a little getting used to, but once you do you will find this makes it very easy to quickly locate the cursor just where you want it. RIGHT BUTTON The RIGHT button toggles the cursor from wherever it is on a LINE to either the BEGINNING or the END of the line. Once again this helps to get the cursor quickly to exactly where we want it to go. Go ahead and give it a try. Put the cursor on a full line and click the RIGHT button several times and watch what happens. The cursor should move from the beginning to the end of 8 the line. MIDDLE BUTTON (BOTH BUTTONS ON A TWO BUTTON MOUSE.) The MIDDLE button opens a BAR MENU at the top of the screen. This menu corresponds to all of the CONTROL key functions normally used in WS2000 and found in the editing menu but it takes up only the top two lines of the screen. In addition there are a couple of extra menus you can use. One not so obvious, called the ^KEY menu and the other obvious one called Help/Menus. Go ahead and try it. Push the middle button and watch the menu appear at the top of the screen. Notice that Help/Menus is highlighted. Push ANY ONE BUTTON and notice that another, pull down style menu, appears. This one says: "----ESCAPE----" "GET HELP" "NO MENUS" "SUBMENUS ONLY" "ALL MENUS" IMPORTANT: AFTER YOU HAVE OPENED A MENU ALWAYS USE ONLY ONE BUTTON TO MAKE A SELECTION. USING TWO BUTTONS AUTOMATICALLY CLOSES A MENU AND MAY LEAVE A CONTROL KEY FUNCTION SELECTED BUT UNFINISHED. THIS CAN HAVE UNPREDICTABLE RESULTS. EACH OF THE MENUS HAS AN ---ESCAPE--- SELECTION. ALWAYS USE THIS TO EXIT A MENU WITHOUT TAKING ANY ACTION. If you should accidentally exit a menu by hitting two buttons at the same time check the upper left corner of the screen for the ^ caret sign followed by a letter. If it is there then press to clear it before you continue. Escape has been placed at the top of the list deliberately in this menu. If you accidentally open the main menu simply pressing any button twice will get you back to the editor. Go ahead and press a button. REMEMBER: LEFT BUTTON CHANGES CURSOR MOVEMENT RIGHT BUTTON TOGGLES CURSOR TO END OR BEGINNING OF LINE. MIDDLE BUTTON OPENS EDITING BAR MENU The next section is for 3 button mouse users. IF YOU ARE USING A 2 BUTTON MOUSE SKIP THIS SECTION AND GO TO "USING THE PULL DOWN MENUS".. The notation convention is as follows: 9 Two button names with a dash in the middle means push both the buttons at the same time, for example LEFT-MIDDLE means push both the left mouse button and the middle mouse button at the same time. If you have a three button mouse you also have the following very valuable options: LEFT-MIDDLE will BEGIN a BLOCK RIGHT-MIDDLE will END a BLOCK LEFT-RIGHT will OPEN the BLOCK MENU directly, bypassing the bar menu. Since the BLOCK commands are some of the most frequently used of all the commands learn to use these button combinations. They can be a real time saver. Go ahead and give them a try. The following combinations are also very useful: LEFT-MIDDLE-RIGHT twice will CHANGE the functions of the LEFT and RIGHT buttons to: LEFT button Pg Up RIGHT button Pg Dn MIDDLE button RETURNS all buttons to the ORIGINAL settings Note that it is sometimes necessary to press all three buttons twice to make the conversion so it is good practice to always press them twice before attempting a Pg Up or Pg Dn with the left and right buttons. When restoring with the middle button, however, only press it once. Pressing twice will open the edit menu. -----USING THE PULL DOWN MENUS----- We have already used one of the pull down menus to Quit and save. Now lets take a look at some of the other menus. For the most part we will look at the special commands in this section which are not a part of the regular WS2000 menus. If you order a registered copy of this software you will receive complete documentation of all of the menu commands. HELP/MENUS This special menu does three things. 1. It allows a quick ESC from the bar menu in case you enter it by accident. Just keep pressing a button until you exit. IT 10 ALSO CAN BE USED TO ESCAPE FROM SUBMENUS. For example if you had the ^Locate text window open and wanted to ESC from you could do it two ways. You could press the key, or you could press the MIDDLE mouse button 3 times. NOT ALL OF THE ---ESCAPE---S ON THE OTHER MENUS WILL DO THIS. 2. It provides entry into the Help screens. While in the Help screens the LEFT and RIGHT buttons act the same as the SPACEBAR. The MIDDLE button acts as . 3. It provides a quick way to set the MENU levels. Let's turn off all the menus now, since we won't need them with the mouse. Press the MIDDLE button to open the bar menu. Press any button to open the Help/Menus menu. Move the mouse to highlight NO MENUS and press a button. Voila!! All of the commands necessary to change the menu level are executed. ^OPTIONS MENU There is one special feature on the ^Options menu and that is on the SPELLING submenu. You can select check ENTIRE DOCUMENT. This option is not available on The WS2000 menu. Let's look at it. Press the MIDDLE key to open the bar menu. Move the mouse to highlight ^Options and press a button. SPELLING CHECK is the first item on the menu and is already highlighted so press a button again and this will open the SPELLCHECK WHAT? menu. Note the fourth item is ENTIRE DOCUMENT. We don't want to spellcheck right now so move the mouse to highlight ---ESCAPE---, and press a button. ^CURSOR MENU In the ^Cursor menu under MARKER SET 0-9 and 0-9, GO TO MARKER a submenu will open with the numbers 0-9 there to select. ^NEXT LOCATE When you execute ^Next locate from the bar menu the function of the LEFT button CHANGES. Pushing the LEFT button opens small menu so you can quickly go to the ^Next locate. Using EXIT LOCATE, or pushing either of the other buttons restores the LEFT button to its normal function. ^TABS AND MARGINS The MARGINS ON PAGE command on the ^Tabs & margins menu opens a submenu. If you select --VIEW SETTINGS-- you can view all the settings, and even select one to change, BUT AFTER YOU HAVE MADE THIS SELECTION THE NEXT TIME YOU PUSH A MOUSE BUTTON THE FIRST THING THAT WILL HAPPEN IS ALL MENUS WILL BE TURNED OFF. ^KEY GLOSSARY --- ^KEY 11 The ^Key file is available in the long version of the menu only. ^Key glossary works in the same way as it does in WS2000, but note that you can also HIGHLIGHT THE WORD ^KEY BY ITSELF TO BRING UP A SEPARATE MENU. This allows you to execute 5 ^Key glossary macros using the mouse. You do this by NAMING your macros KEY1, KEY2, KEY3, KEY4, OR KEY5. You must still make sure you are at the beginning of a line before you execute one of these macros or it will simply type the the macro name on the line. ^QUIT The last extra little menu that you need to know about happens if you choose ABANDON CHANGES from the ^Quit menu. If you have made changes you will be asked, "This document has changed. Abandon changes? (Y/N) N ". If you encounter this menu pressing the LEFT mouse button will bring up a menu for you to make this decision from. BE CAREFUL because the first choice on the menu is to abandon the changes. This concludes the section on special functions. -----ORDER FORM------ TO ORDER ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS SOFTWARE FILL OUT AND SEND IN THE FORM BELOW. 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