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# Standard adjustments

From version 1.80c this section consists of several tabs:

- Colors
- Misc
- Misc 2
- Bank
- Paths
- Archive
- Pop-Up

## Colors:

In the upper right is the drop-down gadget containing some predefined color-schemes. You may want to use this if you changed resolution to 8Bit temporarily.

Below this you can see the four possibilities of files:

    File not selected
    File selected
    Dir not selected
    Dir selected

Below are:
Path of inactive directory window (Destination)
Path of active directory window (Source)
Statusbar

- Single click on the name sets the color in the colorbox to the foreground color of the selected item.
- Double click sets the colorbox to the background color
- The color of the colorbox can be changed using the three sliders or by clicking on the box itself. This invokes the Windows colorrequester.
- Clicking on Forecolor or Backcolor sets the foreground color or background color of the item right of the button.
- Double-clicking on the window itself sets the colorbox to the background color of the window, clicking on 'PCOpus backcolor' sets the background color of the window and the statusbar.

The 'Directory Entry Test...' is a mirror of a line in the directory windows. Use the left slider to adjust the size of the line, the right slider to adjust the fontsize. Double-click on the line to change the font. Windows 95 seems to substitute some of the fonts. Don't know how to prevent this. You therefor can not use all fonts. Further you should only use non-proportional fonts. It works fine, but look quite ugly.

Checkbuttons:

- Use Filetype color:
  Selected files that represent a known filetype keep their foreground color, Only the background color of selected files is used.

## Misc

- Displaywidth of Filename:
  here you can change the width of the displayed filenames
- Chunk:
  Size of chunks copied. A larger value may result in speed-increases during copy. Originalvalue is 32768. Best results with 65536, at least for me. Below this is a button that changes the format of the memory display in the title of the PCOpus window:
- ISO Offset
  This gadget allows the adjustment of the offset PCOpus uses to read ISO images. The Background: We came across a CD that Win95 could not read. Inside the ISO image you can read :CeQuadrat Joliet Formatter 1995. So this image was created by WinOnCD. It uses UniCode filenames. The only way to read this CD was by reading out the ISO image and using 2048 as offset. We do not know if this is a CD specific problem or some new standard of protected CDS that even the OS can not read, anyway, use this option with extreme caution, for standard ISO images this should be set to 0 and for WinOnCD(DAO??)-BIN-images + CloneCD and Blindread-images to 8.
  The probable offset for an image can be automatically calculated by double-clicking on the text-field and selecting the image.
- ISO Address
  This is used if session >1 from a Multi-Session CD is used. The value needed here is the start of the session in BLOCKS in DECIMAL ! This value is display in the CD-info of your favourite CD-writer software (Easy-CD does it, at least). For standard images, this value must be 0 !
- Show in bytes, kilobytes or megabytes.
  This setting affects the display of the size of the drives and the free space on them, too.
- Buffers:
  Number of buffers available for directory buffering. You may use any number from 1 to 100.
- Languagefile:
  This allows the selection of the language file PCOpus uses. At the moment english and german are available.
  Double-click on the gadget to select a file. You may enter a filename without path if the language file resides in the PCOpus directory.
  I would be thankful for any help translating PCOpus to any other language. Preferably Kisuaheli and Japanese :-)
- De-Encode-Key:
  You may enter a password to use with De-Encode-Copy. Be sure to keep this password somewhere. If you forget it, you may have troubles in decoding your encoded files. It is saved in the configuration file

## Misc 2

Checkbuttons have been sorted alphabetically, I did not find any useful groups.

- Allow SHIFT for multiselect:
  With this option checked you can select a directory-entry by clicking on it or pressing space, move the cursor to another entry, press shift and click on this entry. All files between the first selected entry and this one will be selected or deselected, depending on the selection first made.
- Auto Notification:
  When this option is on, PCOpus will reread the directories if any change is made on them from outside PCOpus. The dirs are not reread if any files are selected (adjustable with Auto Notification: Ignore selected files now). The disadvantage is, that PCOpus will always jump to foreground if directories are read.
- Auto Notification: Ignore selected files
  When this option is on and Autonotification is on, too, PCOpus will always read a modified directory, ignoring any selected files. If off, PCOpus will only reread directories when no files are selected.
- Cursor follows click:
  If checked, the cursor that can be moved with the cursorkeys is set on the entry that is clicked with the mouse.
  Attention: If you move your mouse slightly while clicking, PCOpus will interpret this 'click' as a 'move'. Therefore the cursor is not always moved to the file you clicked on.
- Delete non empty directories:
  If this option is off, the user will be asked if he is sure to delete a directory that contains files or other directories. If this option is on, every directory will be deleted regardless of files or directories inside.
- Disable Directorybuffering:
  This disables the directory-buffers.
  Well, does not make THAT much sense, but if you need it ...
- Disable Timer
  This completely disables the internal timer. No free memory will be displayed and Autonotification will not work when this option is on. Helpful if you are trying to burn CDs and your Computer is not the fastest one.
- Exit at once:
  If this option is checked, PCOpus will terminate immediately on exit. The user will not be asked if he wants to save the configuration or change his opinion.
- Handle dropped files directly:
  If you drag and drop files from outside PCOpus into PCOpus and this option is checked, the first file dropped will get a simulated double-left-click and the program or command you assigned to L-L is executed. Press any Qualifier (Shift, CTRL, Alt) when dropping the file to prevent this handling.
- Ignore 'Read-Only' flags:
  With this option on 'read-only' files are treated as normal files. Switch it off and be bored with a request if a read-only file should be deleted or not.
- Keep defective files:
  If an error is encountered and this option is checked, then the destination file is not deleted but kept. At least as much as possible. For safety reasons this setting is NOT SAVED !
- Keypress moves Directorydisplay:
  With this option on you can move to directoryentries by pressing a letter-key on the keyboard. For example pressing 'm' moves the display and the cursor to the first file beginning with 'm'. Shift and 'm' moves to the first directory beginning with 'm'. This is only useful if Sort by name is activated.
  It is possible to enter more than one letter, if the time between keypresses is less than 1 second. You can enter 'win386.swp' to move directly to this entry (if it exists). Press 'Backspace' to delete any entries you made already and start with a new search or wait more than 1 second.
- Parent from Root shows Drives:
  If this is checked and 'Parent' is called from the root of a drive, the drivelist will be displayed.
- Rename to move:
  If you select Move and the source and destination drives are the same (for example: move c:\windows\system to c:\temp), the files are not copied and deleted, but renamed. This is considerably faster, of course. With this option on you can move your Windows directory to anywhere on the same drive. Please take care !
- Disable Content-checking when displaying:
  When this is on, PCOpus will not check the files for their contents to determine the correct filetype. The color of files will not be set to the correct color as a result. When double-clicking a file and when using 'FileInfo' the check is done, of course. This is considerably faster, of course.
- Reread always:
  With this button checked, the Source is always re-read when deleting or moving files. With this button off, successfully moved or deleted files are only removed from the internal buffer. This is considerably faster and much more convenient, but if a directory was changed by another program, these changes do not take effect.
  If the number of files left in the window is smaller than the number of lines displayed per window, the directory is always re-read. This is quite fast and the user is on the safe side.
  If an error occurs during moving or deleting files, the directory is re-read, due to the internal handling.
- Reread drivenames:
  When this option is on, PCOpus always reads the drivenames when displaying the drivelist. This results in a slightly longer time to display the drives but all names of drives are correct (especially those of CD-Roms). When this option is off, the drivelist must be refreshed to get all current names.
- ReRead if same:
  If this option is checked and the source and destination path are the same, both sides will be updated if one side has changed. If one or more files are selected in the destination, this display will not be updated.
- Replace all files on copy:
  Always replaces existing files without asking the user. Leave it off if you don't like it
- Save Windowposition:
  If on, the position of PCOpus on the screen is saved. If off, PCOpus will be centered on the screen on startup.
- Stick at position on Reread:
  With this option on the display is moved to the position where it was before when a 'reread' of the directory is performed.
- Use DOS 8+3 Names:
  Only the short names are used, no long filenames.
  With this option on, all programs are able to process the selected files. Since the long filenames may be long :-) and can contain spaces not all programs are capable of using them. Please make sure that it is possible that a directory has a long name. If you want to access a file in this directory check this option in the root of this drive and enter the directory where the file is located afterwards.
  The need for this option has been widely reduced since external calls are mostly done using 8+3 names.
- Autosense Filename length
  with this option on, PCOpus will look for the longest name in the directory and adjust the display to fit this name.
- Allow Pictures in Buttons:
  When this option is on, it is possible to use nearly an picture (GIF,JPG, BMP, I CO, CUR ...) as background of a command-button. If activated you will experience a slight flickering when moving the command-button-slider. Also there will be a significant speed decrease in updating the buttons if you use many and/or large pictures. You may use any size of pictures, though. It looks quite impressing when using a large picture as background of a button and only one button in the bank itself !
  If you like those little pictures/icons found in many programs, we recommend to define quadratic buttons, perhaps without a text on them. But as always, you may define whatever you want !
- No Tooltips in Dir-Windows
  When this option is on, no text will appear if the mouse stays over an entry in the directory-windows. Some users found those texts a bit annoying
- Show Bytes/Sec
  When this option is on, PCOpus will show the byte-rate per second when the copy-requester is visible, the time elapsed and the complete time needed is displayed also.
- Set 'A'-flag on copied files When this option is on, the 'A'rchive-flag is set on all files copied.
- Right Button activates Pop-Up Menu When this option is on, clicking on the right mousebutton in a directory window will activate the pop-up menu. ALL functions and commands that need a right click, like Filetypes and the Drive-List can no longer be called in the usual way ! Leave this off, if you are a true PCOpus-User :-)
- Enter invalid archives When this option is on, PCOpus will display an empty directory if an invalid archive was to be entered. This is very helpful if you have batch- commands that rely on being INSIDE archives.
- Autoadjust displaywidth of filenames When this option is on, PCOpus will automatically adjust the display of filenames in the directory windows: Names will be left-aligned and sizes will be right-aligned always, even if the window is resized.
- Draw border around buttons When this option is on, PCOpus will draw lines around the commandbuttons (as it has been prior to version 2.16d), if off, no borders will be drawn, but the button the cursor is over currently will be highlighted. be right-aligned always, even if the window is resized.
- Use Tray when minimized When this option is on, PCOpus is put to the system-tray when minimized. Right-click on the icon in the tray and 'Restore' afterwards to make the window visible again.
- Allow write access on CD Switch this on, if you are using Packet-CD drivers. Those drivers should report the drive as CD-Rom (what is correct), but are writeable. PCOpus declares CD-Roms as read-only if this option is off.
- Buttons at top of window When this option is on, the buttons are displayed at the top of the window instead of the bottom. Some people requested this.
- Copy to ISO: Do not set new filesize When this option is on, PCOpus will not overwrite the current filesize with the one when files are copied into an ISO/FCD image. This solves some 'certain' problems :-)
- Hide System and Hidden files in dir-display Switch this on to hide all System and Hidden files.
- Display average data rate for the last 10MB during copy If on, it does exactly this. It displays the speed for the last 20MB processed during copy, delete, etc. !
- Use automatic ISO-Offset calculation If on, PCOpus will automatically try to calculate the correct offset for the image. It takes slightly longer (around 1 second) to open the image then, but there is no need to pre-set the ISO-Offset anymore.

## Bank

This lets you configure your buttonbank.
You can select the number of vertical buttons, the number of horizontal buttons and the gaps between single buttons. Should be quite self-explaining.
You can set the function for a third mouse-button here, too. You will have to switch off double-click emulation for the third button in your Windows-settings.
Due to space problems, some options have been moved here:

- Enable k separators in Dir window If this option is on, the sizes of files and directories are displayed with a dividing point after each 3rd digit. 12345 Bytes will be displayed as 12.345
- Delay after DOS-calls This is the time in milliseconds PCOpus sleeps before checking if a batch-files execution has ended. Do not set this to very small values (below, say, 10), because it could slow down your system a bit.
- Delay after WIN-calls This is the time in milliseconds PCOpus sleeps before checking if a Windows-command execution has ended. Do not set this to very small values (below, say, 10), because it could slow down your system a bit.
- Internal double-click time (for RL, LR, LcL, LcR) This the maximum time allowed between two mouse-clicks to recognize this as double click. LL and RR double-clicking inside the directory windows is not affected by this value, since Windows handles this on its own. Also affected by this value is the time that the right button must be down to NOT recognize it as a right-click, when 'Right-click activates pop-up-menu' is activated. Right of the gadget is a command button where you can test the time by double clicking on it.
- A drop-down gadget allows you the selection of the sliders to use next to the buttons.

## Paths

Here you can define the paths to your prefered ASCII and HEX editors and viewers and your favourite Virus-Scanner.
Below this is a wide drop down gadget containing all your drives and your preferred directories.
On entering this configuration window, the path of your active directory is displayed in the gadget. Click on it and press 'Return' to add this directory to your preferred directories list. These directories will be accessible via Alt-F1, Alt-F2 or Select Drive. It is quite convenient if you have your text files saved in a directory like Y:\WINDOWS\WORD\TEXT\PRIVATE\ME\FOOBAR and you want to get there as fast as possible. These directory definitions are saved with the configuration.
Assigning names:
You can enter a certain directory inside the field with your keyboard, too.
You may want to add a 'name' or description for this directory. For the case above, you may want to use 'Texts2' as a description. Do this by using a '>' behind the directory and then then name you want to use. i.e.: Y:\WINDOWS\WORD\TEXT\PRIVATE\ME\FOOBAR>Texts2
You can assign names to drives (C:\, A:\), but these names are NOT saved ! Below this is the startup-directory definition. You can define a startup- directory for the left and the right window. Double-clicking the text- gadget will bring the path from the directory-definition gadget to the startup text-gadget. Of course you can enter a directory by yourself. It is also possible to enter 'home' or 'current', where 'home' is the directory where the PCOpus executable is located and 'current' is the current directory you are in when starting PCOpus.
Below this is a drop-down gadget that displays the current temporary directory. The drop-down list containes the following directories to select from:

- Application directory
- Windows Temp directory
- current path
- current Temp directory.

Of course you can enter any directory you like. If the path you entered does not exist, PCOpus will use the path you used before changing.

## Archive

This allows setting of archive paths and options.
You can enter your path to ARJ, LHA, PKZIP, PKUNZIP and RAR executables, WinRAR is supported, too.
You do not need to enter something for the archivers if the executables are in your DOS (or Windows) path.

Checkbuttons:

- The Checkbuttons on the far right can be used to deactivate DLL-support for de-packing.
- The 'No PK' Button switches on support for ZIP2.2 instead of PKZIP when packing to ZIP-files. ZIP2.2 supports long filenames !
- The 'Use WinRAR' switch affects ZIP-archives only. If checked, WinRAR will be used instead of PKZIP, UNZIP or ZIP 2.2. WinRAR supports ZIP files from version 2.50.
- Parent only in Archives:
  With this button checked, the Parent-function on the far left and right of the PCOpus Window does not exit an Archive that is displayed. It is considerably safer (to safe time) to leave this on. Otherwise it is possible that you will have to wait quite a long time again, until the archive that you left accidently is read again. Well, YOU asked for this.
- Archivet. auto check:
  Enables automatic checking for archivetypes (LHA, RAR, ARJ, ZIP). PCOpus will recognize these types by itself.
- Stay in Archive Requester:
  The Archive Requester is not exited if 'Test', 'View' or 'View .DIZ' is selected. May come in handy.
- 'Copy' extracts files directly:
  with this option on, files inside archives are extracted to the destination directory directly. All subdirs above the current directory from inside the archive are created, if no DLL is used for extraction, any existing file will be overwritten without warning. Use this only if you have to extract single large files from an archive.
- Keep extracted files:
  as long as we have no possibility to check if commands we called are still running. we implemented this switch. If it is on, files that are extracted to the temporary directory from archives will not get deleted by PCOpus directly. This way you can benefit from the speed increase that results from the use of the unarchive-DLLs. But you have to delete the files from the temp-directory manually. If you have many archives to look through, you can switch this on. After your work is done, delete the unnecessary files from the temp-dir and switch this option off.

## Pop-Up

The Pop-Up-Menu is a Context-Menu-Like Menu. It can be accessed by holding the right mouse-button down for slightly more than half a second. When the 'Shift'-Key is held down when the right button is pressed, the menu is opened immediately.
The size of the menu can be changed and is saved with the configuration.
The configuration is done here. The following items are available:

- '^'-Button
  moves the selected item in the Pop-Up-Menu-List upwards
- 'V'-Button
  moves the selected item downwards
- '---'-Button
  adds a dummy item that has no function. It can be used to divide up the menu a bit or for some descriptions
- 'X'-Button
  deletes the selected item from the Pop-Up-Menu-List
- Pop-Up-Menu List
  this is the menu as it will appear on screen. You can rename items by clicking on the item, changing the name in the gadget below the list and pressing return.
  If you click on an item, the function associated with this item will be highlighted in one of the two lists on the right.
- Internal Commands List
  This is a list of all available internal commands. Double-click on an item to add this command to the Pop-Up-Menu-List.
- Buttons List
  This is a list of all available buttons. Double-click on an item to add this button to the Pop-Up-Menu-List. Please note that the position of the button is saved in the Pop-Up-Menu, not its function. So you should have a look on the Pop-Up-Menu after changing buttons that are available over the Pop-Up-Menu. We used this approach to save some unecessary space with duplicate definitions.

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