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Dir or Shortcut Creator Dialog

To display the Dir or Shortcut Creator non-modal dialog, you do File > Create Roots and Shortcuts command. Here is the screen shot of its initial display:


Dir or Shortcut Creator Dialog (3/4 Scale)

With this dialog, you can create a sub-directory (normally to be used as a topic root) with a name that is based on a text that you copied from elsewhere (normally from a Web browser text display). You can, also create an Internet shortcut from an URL display. With this dialog, you save a lot of typing compared to manual methods.

It can create a sub-directory under the directory that you have specified (with a drag-drop operation) from a text that you pasted to the dialog and with the resulting name being adjusted by a specified naming policy. Let us suppose that from "values: max, min and middle", using "2-Capitalize no space" and replacing the following characters "," and ":" by an underscore "_", the resulting sub-directory name will become: "Values_Max_MinAndMiddle". You could have chosen to replace "," by a no character or space; the comma will be deleted from the name and no space will be left, as follows: "Values_MaxMinAndMiddle".

It can create an Internet shortcut under the directory that you have specified (with a drag-drop operation). The URL that the shortcut file will contain is exactly the text that you have specified. The shortcut file name will be based on the URL, applying the policy and removing the protocol segment. An example:
From the text
(http://java.sun.com/products/index.html),
the shortcut file name will be
(java.sun.com_products_index_html.url).
Once the file is created, it works exactly as an Internet shortcut.

 


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