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USER's INTERFACE
The program interact with user with dialogs and icon on the SysTray.
Icon (on the figure - in the middle of clock and volume)
is a multifunction entry - it is out an information and also get
control action. With it user can get following information:
- Runner is working
- current version of the Runner (on the tip)
- RAM usage (if the option mc is on)
- free RAM capacity in % (in the tip, if the option mc is on)
Control actions is following:
- rapid call of the schedule editor or user defined action;
- call of the popup menu with a
mouse rightclick on the icon.
On double click in icon text editor will be started to edit the
schedule file
. It can be any ASCII-text editor as Windows Notepad.
Path and filename of it can be defined with
ed option.
If the last is absent Windows Notepad will be launched.
Using option dc it is possible
to set any schedule command as action on doubleclick on icon.
On mouse rightclick popup menu will be activated.
Using this menu user can gives orders to the program. This menu
has a two section. Low section is a standard and contains four entries
to control works of the program:
-
Edit - to edit the schedule file;
- Hide - as the instruction hd, to
hide the icon;
- Reset - as the instruction re, to
reload the schedule;
- Exit - as the instruction ex, to
finish the Runner.
High, optional section of the menu
contains user-defined entries.
Using special schedule section [mu], user can add to this part
of the menu commands. The format of the command line difference from
format of the executable sections and has following common view:
command name=command
command name - will be showed in the menu; command
- any assumed command (as executable command without time field):
command or
built-in instruction. Command can contains any
assumed
modifiers, but it can not contains time field.
There are number of the mu sections in the schedule.
It can not be combined with executable or option sections.
When menu is activated, you can use "speed keys" to select one of entries.
This is underlined letters. Also you can assign "speed keys" for your entries using
char & before selected letter. Sample (as on figure):
&User entry=>me=This is the user defined entry
For event messages, queries and user messages with the instruction
me simple
dialogs is used. It can be following:
- User defined messages - see
above;
- Message, which is showed when user try to start a
second hinstance of the program.
-
Message to inform user about execution error.
Such message may occure if the Runner can not launch application (EXE-module not
found, etc.).
This dialog can be showed, if user do not set POP3-server parameters or network
is fails, but try to execute
cb instruction.
- Fatal messages,
showed if the schedule file can not be found, or read, or not enough system
resources to start a timer. If schedule was not found, this message also contains
path, defined by user.
- Query to load the schedule.
It will be showed after the editing of the schedule file
using double click
on the icon or using the menu of the Runner.
If user click on "Yes", the schedule will be reload.
It may be used independent program
"Sender"
to get current system status information. For details see
"Works with e-mail".
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