Drag any text file from Tracker into an open Pe window to insert that file at the current point. If you’d rather open that file in a new window than insert it, hold down your Alt key will dragging from Tracker.
If there are search and replace strings you find yourself having to run repeatedly, Pe can remember them so you never have to type them in again. Pull down Window | Preferences | Grep Patterns and add a new search and replace operation (with or without regular expressions).
Give your pattern a memorable name, click Apply, then re-open the Find dialog. To the left of the Find field is a Find button. Click the Find button, and all of your named patterns wil appear on a context menu. Select one, and the pattern you just entered in Preferences will pre-fill the Find and Replace fields.
Pe has the most excellent ability to import other files as „includes.“ This functions similar to a server-side include (SSI), but works within the editor itself. Insert code like this in your HTML document:
<!-- #include "./anotherfilename.html" -->
bla bla
<!-- end include-->
anotherfilename.html can be any block of HTML — a page header or footer, or your left-hand navigation, for example. When you’re ready to hoover the include into your document, click the Update button on the HTML tool palette. This lets you manage a page „object“ as a single file, so you can update lots of files without having to paste the same object into each one.
Pe includes also accept static variables such as: $date$, $time$, $name$ and $file$.
When editing filenames (Alt+E) or attributes (single-click and pause) from Tracker, you can „back out“ of your edits by hitting Escape. This will return the filename or attribute to what it was before you started editing it. This is useful if you mess up while editing, especially if you’ve forgotten what the string in question originally was.
By default, any documents saved from Pe get the text/plain MIME type. However, when you save a document from within Pe, take a look at the bottom of the file panel, where you’ll see a drop-down picklist of MIME types to be assigned to the files you save. You can add to the filetypes displayed in this list by including them in the FileTypes section of Pe’s main preferences panel. The new filetypes won’t appear in the picklist until after you’ve closed and restarted Pe.
In addition to the obvious convenience provided here, this feature gives Pe the ability to work around a limitation encountered when you establish a new filetype on your system but don’t have an editor capable of generating that filetype. For example, if you install TrackerBase, you’ll find that it wants to work with files of the type text/trackerbase. But when you create a new file with StyledEdit, it ends up with the type text/plain. One solution to this problem is to simply duplicate existing TrackerBase files, but if you work a lot with Pe, you can simply tell it about the text/trackerbase filetype, and then save them directly into that format.
Pe has two separate preferences panels: one for global settings (pull down Window | Preferences) and one for settings that affect only the current document (pull down Window | File Options). In the Colors section of the Preferences panel, single-click any color square to change that background or text color. If you have a copy of RoColor, you can drag colors out of it and onto the color squares, to make the process even easier, or to easily match colors to your desktop color, for example.
You can move your BeOS system to a logical drive within your extended partition.
Using PartitionMagic, fdisk, or other partitioning software, create an empty logical drive within your extended partition. You’ll probably want to allocate space for it at the very end of your hard disk.
Format your new logical drive as a DOS partition and label it with a name of your choice, let’s say „FREE“ for example.
From within BeOS, run the Installer application.
Install a new BeOS system onto your new „FREE“ logical drive. Installer will copy everything from your basic BeOS system to the new drive/partition. At this time you can block your new logical drive any way you want (let’s say 4K) and also rename your partition/logical drive from „FREE“ to „BeOS New“ for example.
You can also choose to boot this new partition by default via the Boot preferences panel by launching it and choosing „BeOS New.“ Voila, BeOS is now within the extended partition!
You can use the DOS/WIN CONFIG.SYS menu options (see example below) to launch the BeOS from AUTOEXEC.BAT. Use the variable %config% within the AUTOEXEC.BAT to branch to the piece of the bat file that runs the BeOS launcher. It will find your logical drive with the „BeOS New“.
The logical drive with BeOS is not visible from your DOS/Windows partition.
Be Happy.
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Here’s my autoexec/config.sys setup, which you can use as a template to configure your own system:
CONFIG.SYS:
------------BEGIN OF CONFIG.SYS-----------------------------------
[MENU]
menuitem=NORMAL, Windows 98
menuitem=BEOS, BeOS Intel Release 3
menuitem=DOS,Win98 with DOS CD drivers
menudefault=NORMAL,30
menucolor=0,3
[COMMON]
DEVICEHIGH=C:WINDOWSCOMMANDANSI.SYS
[DOS]
DEVICEHIGH=C:TOSHIBATAISATAP.SYS /D:OEMCD001 /N:1
[NORMAL]
[BEOS]
------------END OF CONFIG.SYS---------------------------------
AUTOEXEC.BAT
------------BEGIN OF AUTOEXEC.BAT-----------------------------
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $p$g
@ECHO C:AutoExec.Bat is starting... (WIN98)
SET TEMP=E:TEMP
SET TMP=E:TEMP
SET winbootdir=C:WINDOWS
SET WIN$=C:WINDOWS
SET PATH=C:WINDOWS;C:WINDOWSCOMMAND;C:
SET PATH=%PATH%;D:SOFTWARE;
goto %config%
:BEOS
D:BELAUNCHLOADLIN D:BELAUNCHBEOS
goto END
:DOS
C:WINDOWSCOMMANDMSCDEX.EXE /S /D:OEMCD001 /M:16 /L:Y
goto END
:NORMAL
:END
---------------------END OF AUTOEXEC.BAT---------------------------
Gobe Productive’s Image Processing mode has a wide variety of plug-ins that you can use to improve the look of your documents. Just insert an image into any Gobe Productive document and choose the effect you wish to apply. Transparentize is a cool plug-in that allows you to blend an image with a background of your choice.
Try this: Insert an image that has a white background that you would like to blend with the background. Click inside the image to enter Image Processing mode, click on the Foreground color indicator, and choose white as the color. With the image selected, choose ‚Transparentize‘ from the ‚Miscellaneous‘ Plug-in submenu. The white background of the image will become transparent.
Note: Applying this plug-in to 8-bit images will not work, so use 32-bit images for best results.
When you’re finished with your FTP session, just hit Alt+X to logout and close the session window simultaneously. Closing the session by clicking the title bar close button will cause GetIt to prompt you for logout confirmation, which you usually don’t need or want.
You can select multiple contiguous files for transfer in Get-It by first selecting a single file, then holding down the Shift key while clicking on the last file you wish to transfer. To select multiple non-contiguous files for transfer, hold down the Command key while selecting each file you wish to transfer with the mouse. Once you’re satisfied with your selections, press the „<“ or „>“ button to start the transfer.
You can stop an active or idle file transfer from the Transfer Status window. To do so, select the file transfer you wish to stop from those listed and choose Session.Stop from the menu. You will subsequently receive a message from Get-It notifying you that the download has been terminated.
If for any reason a file transfer is interrupted prior to completion, Get-It automatically allows you to resume transferring the file from the point of interruption. Simply select the file and start the transfer as you normally would. Before the transfer begins, Get-It will ask you if you wish to Get the file (i.e start the transfer over from the beginning), or ReGet the file (resume the transfer from the point of interruption).