Name/Version: AppBrowser v2.0.01
1st Release : 14.01.2001
Last Update : 05.02.2001

Short Description
Auto-detects the system for exe-files and offers buttons and popmenu
to open them.

Reason for the Development
It was developted as a program extension for RemoteKeys but can also
be used as a stand-allone application.
Start buttons are often needed but in this case, the user should
have less of define work.

Note
Try AppBrowser together with TrayMan (of ToolsPackage). If the AppBrowser-
Pop.exe is listed in TrayMan, you have a nice startmenu in the systray.

Appearance
Language ..........: English
User Interface/Form: Yes
Input  by Interface: (See drag&drop)
Input  by Command$ : No
Input  by Clipboard: No
Input  by Drag&Drop: Supported
Input, Other ......: Auto-detection from disk
Output by Interface: Yes (start buttons/menu)
Output to Clipboard: No
Output by Drag&Drop: No
Output, Other .....: No

More Requirements
No

Instructions

What does Auto-detect meen?
AppBrowser checks the start menu and the registry (not NT)
for registered applications. It will not search the whole
harddisk because there would be to many exe files which
are not useful to be listed.

Generell the user should have success with doing nothing else,
as to open i.e. the AppBrowserBut.exe or -Pop.exe and to be able
to start a lot of application that are on his system.
But - of course - the editor offers to adapt these buttons or
popmenu entries to his own need.

Open the editor and click the edit button to enlarge the
interface:
If one of the three exe files are opend first time, AppBrowser
will auto-detect the system for available exe-files. The Refresh-
button does the same. All what it founds is listed in the right
list. All entries of this list which are checked are available
in a button window or popmenu for the user and also listed in
the right list.
Check or uncheck entries in the right list to add or remove
entries to/from the left list. You can control the result when
you open the menu "Popup-Menu" or if you click on "buttons".

The .dat-files are all ascii-formatted and can be edit with an
editor if wanted.

Alias: The auto-detected application names are sometimes not so
pretty to be listed in the start buttons/popmenu. Alias allows
to create own names which are shown.

BPref: Preferences for Button window. Allows to fix the matrix
and if the window should automatically closed after a button
has been clicked.

Filter: This allows to exclude applications for the auto-
detection.

FirstCall: All entries of this list will be auto-checked, if
found when AppBrowser opens first time.

User: Allows to add exe files to the list which are not found
with the auto-detection. To add a file to the list, there is a 
drop area: Open Explorer, drag a file and drop it to the image
"Drop exe". This will add the file into the user.dat.

{End of instructions}

Limitations
Unknown

Future Planning
No

Updates
1.0    14.01.01 > New: First Release (1st name was ExReg)
2.0    21.01.01 > New: renamed from ExReg to AppBrowser
		> New: scans startmenu (also NT)
		> New: many additions like filter.dat
2.0.01 05.02.01 > Imp: Window resize prevention changed (0.5k smaller)
