FmEdit95® A File Manager Editor For Windows 95/NT - FREEWARE

Version 2.0 – Released to the public domain 12th December 1997

FmEdit95 Help File and Main Featues – Note: This is just a brief help file and more help will be added in due course (time permitting), within the actual program there are plenty of hint’s.

Some tip’s, toggle F5 & F6 for full screen / normal screen, when editing an html file, press F3 to view it, most display window ‘s have a pop up menu, use the right hand mouse button to envoke it, take great care when deleting files from the Multiple Files option, I did not as I found out to my cost?

Introduction Disclaimer Editor

Html Viewer Zip Manager Image Viewer

Media Player Database Viewer File Utilities

 

Introduction to FmEdit95

FmEdit95 was written and programmed by Raymond Allan using Borland Delphi – Version 2.0

FmEdit95 evolved around a project I was doing at work, I needed a flexible editor to manipulate large label files, I eventually found the Delphi components required in the form of LEdit32 , this in turn allowed me to achieve my requirements.

I then got thinking about various Editor's, File Managers, Image Viewer's, Html Viewers/Editors and Zip Utility Programs I have used or am currently using, since I had found the components for the Editor, I started searching the various Delphi site's looking for components I could use to build one complete program in which I had total control over, the net result is FmEdit95, so instead of having to use 5 or 6 programs I now only use FmEdit95.

Although FmEdit95 is geared toward's my own need's, I decided to release it to the public domain so that other's could enjoy the use of the program.

It may not be as classy or as functional as some other program's, but FmEdit95 is a very robust program and does the job required, I do not intend to stop working on FmEdit95, and will be constantly looking to add new component's, improve the interface and to make it more user friendly.

If you think it can be improved in anyway, or have any comments to make, drop me an e:mail and I will try to incorporate them into FmEdit95.

All components used in FmEdit95 are available from the various author's home page's or from various Delphi site's on the Web, and are used by kind permission from the respective authors. (See About Box)

Anyone finding faults when using FmEdit95 please e:mail me at the address below, stating what you were doing and what happened.

I can be contacted at: Home: raymond.allan@cableinet.co.uk

Work: raymond.allan@avex.com

Home Pages: http://wkeb1.cableinet.co.uk/raymond.allan/html/fmedit95.htm

http://wkeb1.cableinet.co.uk/raymond.allan/delphi.htm

http://wkeb1.cableinet.co.uk/raymond.allan/index.htm

Raymond Allan (December 1997)

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DISCLAIMER

This entire freeware release is provided free, "as-is". Like anything else that's free, FmEdit95 comes with no warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. In no event will the copyright holders be liable for any damages resulting from the proper or improper use of this software.

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Editor – Edit or create text based files up to 60MB in size.

Use the right hand mouse button when in the editor for more editing options.

Key control's when using the editor

Mouse left button - cursor movement

Mouse left butt dblclk - application defined action

Mouse right button - pop-up menu

Arrows - cursor movement

Ctrl+Arrows - move cursor to the edge of visible area

Ctrl+Left - one word left

Ctrl+Right - one word right

Ctrl+Up - to the beginning of the paragraph

Ctrl+Down - to the end of the paragraph

Home - to the beginning of the line

End - to the end of the line

PgDn - page down

PgUp - page up

Ctrl+Home - to the beginning of the text

Ctrl+End - to the end of the text

Ctrl+PgUp - to the beginning of the visible page

Ctrl+PgDown - to the end of the visible page

Shift - when combined with all previous keys (including mouse) expands the Current selection

Insert - changes the write mode

Delete - deletes one character or the entire selection

BkSp - deletes one character or the entire selection

Ctrl+Y - deletes one line (does not clear the selection)

Ctrl+R - one word to the right

Ctrl+L - one word to the left

Ctrl+U - to the beginning of the visible text

Ctrl+D - to the end of the visible text

Ctrl+Z - Edit | Undo

Ctrl+X - Edit | Cut

Ctrl+C - Edit | Copy

Ctrl+V - Edit | Paste

Ctrl+A - Edit | Select All

Ctrl+F - Search | Find

Ctrl+H - Search | Replace

Ctrl+G - Search | Goto Line Number

Ctrl+Ins - Edit | Copy

Shift+Ins - Edit | Paste

Shift+Ctrl+Ins - Edit | Duplicate

Ctrl+Del - Edit | Clear

Shift+Del - Edit | Cut

Ctrl+BkSp - Edit | Undo

Shift+Ctrl+BkSp - Edit | Redo

F3 - Search | Search Next

Esc - Disabled

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Html Viewer – View Html as you would view it on the web, Print pages, you can also edit the Html and view your changes by going back to view mode, use right hand mouse button for Html options.

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Zip Manager - By clicking on a zipped file in FmEdit95 the contents will be displayed in the Zip window. When in the zip window, use right hand mouse key to bring up the zip options.

Open - Select this option to open an existing zip file.

New - Select this option to create a new zip file, any zip file that is currently open will be closed, you will then be prompted for the name of the new zip file you want to create. After you have named your zip file, you can then add files to the zip.

Extract - Extract individual files, selected files or all files from within the zip to a destination of your choice.

The default settings for extract is All Files, this can be changed to Selected if required, you can extract them to the current directory, a directory of your choice, or you can create a new directory.

Delete - Deletes files from within the zip, highlight the file or files you wish to delete, then select this option.

Add - A dialog box is displayed, with filenames on the left.

Double clicking a filename places the file into the Files to be added list box, You can multi-select files by highlighting them and using the Add File button to move them into the list box.

Select all, places all files in the current directory into the Files to be added list box.

Scan any directory for any files you wish to add to the new or current zip file.

If you want to remove a file from the list box, just double click the filename.

Select Add to Zip when you have finished the file selection, the files will then be added to the zip file.

Close - Closes the currently open zip file

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Image Viewer – This allows you to view images when you click on any filename with the extension: Bmp, Dib, Gif, Ico, Jpg, Jif, Pcx, Rle, Tga and Wmf. Some images allow for a double click to show a full screen view, the status bar displays what the images can be displayed at full screen. Can also display animated gif files.

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Media Player - Can play Avi, Midi and Wave files by clicking on a MultiMedia filename

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Database Viewer – View or Edit DB or DBF files

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File Utilities – By highlighting a filename in the File List box and using the right hand mouse button you are able to copy, move, rename and delete single files. By selecting Multiple File’s from the Files Menu, a dual dialog box is displayed with 2 file list’s, the left hand file list contains files from the current directory, the right hand file list displays files from the default directory (c:\).

Either file list box can be the destination, you can also create a new directory to be the destination.

Multiple files can be copied, moved or deleted. NOTE: The recycle bin is not used when deleting multiple files, so take great care when deleting files.

Manuipulate Files – This brings up a Save dialog box (the save is disabled), highlight a filename or directory then click the right hand mouse button, this brings up all the Windows 95 file option’s.

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