PowerMenu 1.50 Readme (5
August 2001)
By Thong Nguyen (Tum)
thongnguyen@mail.com
http://thongnguyen.veridicus.com
http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu
Introduction | Installation
| Uninstalling |
Command line options | Release
history | License
PowerMenu adds some new useful extensions to the "window" (aka system) menu of application windows.
The current extensions include:
| Priority | Changes the priority of the window's parent process |
| Transparency | Changes the transparency level of the window (Windows 2K/XP only) |
| Always On Top | Makes the window sit on top of other windows even if it doesn't have focus. |
| Minimize To Tray | Remove the window from the tasklist and places the window's on the system tray. |
You can find out about new versions from here: http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu.
Webmasters - can you email me and let me know if you're mirroring PowerMenu
so I can notify you when there's a new version. Thanks.
Uninstalling
Simple delete the install directory.
PowerMenu doesn't place any files or settings anywhere else.
You can supply command line options to PowerMenu to
perform additional tasks.
| Options |
| -quiet When used, PowerMenu will not display any message boxes. |
| -close Tells PowerMenu to exit and release all windows that are minimized to the tray. |
| -about Shows the about box. |
| -help Shows this readme. |
| -hideself [on | off] Tells PowerMenu whether or not to display an icon of it self on the system tray. Example: PowerMenu -hideself on Tells PowerMenu to not show itself on the system tray. |
| -minimized [on | off] title Minimize or unmiminize the window with the title "title" to the system tray. Example: PowerMenu -minimized on "Notepad" This will make all windows with the word "Notepad" in it's title minimize to the system tray. |
| -topmost [on | off | toggle] title Make a window "always on top". PowerMenu -topmost on "Notepad" Example: This will make all windows with the word "Notepad" in it's title appear on top of other windows. |
| -transparency name level Sets the transparency level of a window. PowerMenu -transparency "Notepad" 50 This will make the all windows with the word "Notepad" in it's title be 50% transparent. |
| -enable [priority | transparency |
alwaysontop | minimizetotray] Enables a PowerMenu extension. Every application window's system menu will have an extra menu item for each enabled extension. By default, PowerMenu starts up with all extensions enabled. Examples: PowerMenu -enable priority Enables the priority menu and adds it to every application's window menu. |
| -disable [priority | transparency |
alwaysontop | minimizetotray] Disables a PowerMenu extension. Every application window's system menu will have an extra menu item for each enabled extension. By default, PowerMenu starts up with all extensions enabled. Examples: PowerMenu -disable priority Disables the priority menu and removes it from every application's window menu. |
| Version | Date | Comments |
| 1.5.0 | 05 Aug 2001 | Removed command line options (visible, invisible, hide, toggleontop). Added command line options (selfhidden, hidden, topmost). |
| 1.4.5 | 27 May 2001 | Fixed some Windows 95 related bugs. Added new command line options (enable, disable, visible, invisible). Removed command line option hidden (use visible/invisible instead). |
| 1.4.0 | 25 May 2001 | Fixed ghost PowerMenu window appearing when left clicking on tray icon. Added new command line options (hide, unhide, transparency, quiet, toggleontop). |
| 1.3.1 | 20 May 2001 | Fixed multiple priority menus appearing in Windows 95 (I think). |
| 1.3.0 | ?? ??? 2001 | Released to the public after two years of no development ...oops :). |
License
PowerMenu is free software. If you want
to use PowerMenu, you must accept the following:
PowerMenu (c) 2001 Thong Nguyen