eNote - what is this? eNote is an electronical notebook. It is like a text editor, but it was developed specially for comfortable notes keeping. eNote does save automatically and may be called as fast as possible. RESIDENT mode This mode is a main feature of eNote. Program in resident mode may be launched from WBStartup and stays resident without window opening. If you call it, eNote opens his window immediately, without startup delays, libraries opening etc. eNote has two open methods - double start (simply double click on it's icon again) and AREXX command "OPEN". If Resident mode is not active, eNote will open window immediately after start and exit after window closing. Several files support eNote allows editing any number of files. If you send new file to eNote, it will automatically save current file (ATTENTION: it is a note book, not simple text editor!) and load new one. You can send new file to eNote in three ways: double start, OPEN command and drag'n'drop file from Workbench or Directory Opus 5. Security eNote has cryptographics support for "secret" files. You can select encryption method, security level and a password in Set Encrypt menu. Encryption of current file may be turned on by Encrypt checkmark in menu. eNote will request password when you will try to load "secret" file. If password was incorrect, eNote stays at previous file. If password was ok, eNote will automatically encrypt this file with same password. Encryption was supported with XPK package. eNote does not allow to select any XPK method without encryption support, because compression is useless for note book. But if you want, you may compress files "by hand", and eNote will automatically decompress them and compress during save. We can recommend you to use IDEA as a reliable encryption method. If you don't have XPK installed, encryption will be unavailable. Supported file types eNote supports three file formats - TEXT, EMAIL and PLAIN. This formats differs in formatting, style and color control codes. TEXT does not contain any special codes at all. If you will save text on this format, any formatting will be lost. This format may be useful for text transfer to another application. EMAIL is an extended text format. It can contain text styles and separator bar. It is widely used in electronic mail applications like Spot, YAM etc. PLAIN contains all codes, including formatting and color. You can store current file in any of these three formats, and export it to any other format. Program launching eNote may be launched both from CLI and WB. Most simple method is moving eNote to WBStartup and turning RESIDENT mode on. Program tooltypes actually is a preferences, and eNote will read them even from CLI. After starting eNote reads file from NAME argument. For eNote activation from RESIDENT, execute following command: rx "address ENOTE; 'OPEN filename'" This command may be executed from DOpus5 button bank, ToolManager, ToolsDaemon. If you have several texts, you can create several buttons with different files. Usage of eNote eNote has graphical interface, very similar to programs like WordWorth, FinalWriter etc. You can select text in editor field and change it to italic, underline, bold and colored. If you have Toolbar.mcc installed, eNote window will contain optional draggable toolbar. You can drag it to any edge of window. Most operations may be done from keyboard - see hotkeys in menu. Other eNote capabilities include time/date insertion, two different separators, undo/redo, upper/lowercase, clipboard operations, text formatting. You can explore them independently. Search/Replace This function may be called both from menu and keyboard. If text succesfully found, it will be selected, next Search will repeat operation. Replace button replaces selected text. Replace All will repeat replace to the end of file. Attention: Replace function will replace selected text! If you find one text, and then select another - another text will be relpaced! Autosave Autosave may be turned on by AUTOSAVE tooltype with interval in seconds. Text will be saved after selected interval from last text change. This feature is very useful for users, who don't have UPS :) Autosave may be turned off from menu. Toolbar Toolbar may be present on any side of window. You can drag it to any another side or turn it off (Settings -> Toolbar menu). Every button in toolbar may be controlled separately by NOxxxx tooltypes. You can use Virtual Toolbar feature (controlled by VIRTUALTB tooltype). If it is turned on, window may be smaller that toolbar. View Mode View Mode in Settings menu disables text editing. This feature is useful for important read-only texts. Screen switching If you will select «Frontmost» screen in MUI settings, you can use Next screen menu item. This item will transfer eNote window to next public screen. Custom screens like ShapeShifter will not be used. REXX-commands eNote has a REXX-port «ENOTE» (uppercase!): SAVE - current text save, without arguments. SAVEAS - export text to selected file. Text may be saved in any format, controlled by PLAIN/S,EMAIL/S,TEXT/S OPEN - change current file with current file saving. OPEN must contain file format agrument. VIEWMODE - ON/S,OFF/S TOOLBAR - ON/S,OFF/S TOOLBARPOSITION - TOP/S,BOTTOM/S,LEFT/S,RIGHT/S eNote supports all Texteditor.mss commands: CLEAR CUT COPY PASTE ERASE GOTOLINE GOTOCOLUMN CURSOR LINE COLUMN NEXT PREVIOUS POSITION SETBOOKMARK GOTOBOOKMARK TEXT UNDO REDO GETLINE GETCURSOR MARK DELETE BACKSPACE ToolTypes of eNote: NAME - path to file opening at eNote startup. If this file was encrypted, eNote will request password during system startup. If password fails, eNote quits even in RESIDENT! WORKMODE - file format (PLAIN/EMAIL) AUTOSAVE - interval in seconds. If it is not selected, Autosave will be unavailable in menu. STARTCMD - CLI command, executed at startup. QUITCMD - CLI command, executed at quit. OPENCMD - CLI command, executed when window opens. May be used, for example, for DOpus5 buton bank (with several files selection) opening. CLOSECMD - CLI command, executed when window closing. IMAGES - directory contains gfx buttons and Toolbar images. VIRTUALTB - Virtual Toolbar mode RESIDENT - RESIDENT mode ICONIFY - iconify when user closes window. If this tooltype not selected, eNote will simply close window. Iconify is slower than closing, but it is required for using eNote on his own screen. If you use eNote on WB or any existing screen, we recommend you to disable INCONIFY tooltype. PEN - pen number for Colored text. TOOLBAR - turn Toolbar on TOOLBARPOSITION - TOP/BOTTOM/LEFT/RIGHT TOOLBARKEY - this key will switch Toolbar on/off SPACING - window spacing for ediding window. It is not controlled by MUI prefs and may be changed here separately. It is useful if you will use toolbar dragging. NORESIZE - disable window resize gadget. FIXED - use fixed width font in editing window. Proportional font will be used as default. USEXFD - use xfdmaster.library with XPK. Slow down eNote launching (scans all XFD libs when XPK opening), practically useless. EXPORTTEXTWRAP - exported text file width. EOF - positioning to the end of text at startup. VIEW - view mode. Following tooltypes disable corresponding toolbar buttons: NOCUT NOCOPY NOPASTE NOUNDO NOREDO NOSEPARATOR NOBOLD NOITALIC NOUNDERLINE NOCOLORED NOLEFT NOCENTER NORIGHT CLI arguments All eNote CLI arguments are similar to tooltypes. If you select any CLI argument, it will be used instead of corresponding tooltype. Status of eNote eNote is a CARDWARE. It means that you must send me a postcard if you like this program. Author AmiS Snail mail: Russia, Moscow, 121108, Kastanaevskaia street, 27/5-45. E-mail: amis@cch.pmc.ru