The percent character ('%') is used at the start of a directory entry, or following the plus/minus status character, to allow you to specify a WintextCom function or list of functions, which are internal actions normally carried out with a menu item, shortcut key or button click. This functionality enables you to invoke almost all internal WintextCom actions from the directory, so that required features can be made available when other means of access have been disabled, and organised according to the user's preferences.
This capability can also be useful as a general customisation and automation tool. Embedded WintextCom functions can appear consecutively in a directory entry, followed by a standard operation. For example:
"+% d+Noepad.exe"
causes the Windows time dialogue to be displayed, then when you dismiss it, the diary is opened and Notepad started. WintextCom does not hide because of the plus sign at the beginning.
The percent character should not be repeated for each embed, it begins a list of embeds that is terminated by a plus sign, as shown in the example above. Anything following the terminating plus is processed as a standard directory entry. T
Generally, the plus sign does not need to appear at the end if you do not want to add a standard specification.
The following lists the available embeds. They are case-sensitive. Each entry shows the associated keyboard commands in the same format as in the menus - the separate keys of local command key combinations are separated by a space, global equivalents use the plus sign. The action performed by the commands with global keyboard equivalents are customisable, so that the descriptions should be taken as the default actions.
- ' ' (Space) or ';' (Semicolon)), WindowsKey+Space: Invoke time dialog. Note that if the space syntax is used, a terminating plus sign is necessary if it is the last or only specification, even if there is no standard entry following.
- 'a', Control Shift O, Shift+WindowsKey+O: Open Windows address book for browsing.
- 'A', Shift+WindowsKey+G: Open Windows address book for information retrieval.
- 'b', Shift Space, Alt+WindowsKey+B: Browse with reader.
- 'c', Control S: Save capture file (text-to-text communications).
- 'd', Control D, Control+WindowsKey+D: Go to diary.
- 'f', Control F, Control+WindowsKey+X: File Manager.
- 'H', Escape? Applies to text-to-text telecommunications, hang up call and clear communications buffer.
- 'h', Escape: Same as 'H', but only hang up call.
- 'j', Control+Alt+WindowsKey+J: JAWS for Windows user settings folder or user alternative.
- 'k', WindowsKey+ENTER: Open linked directory document.
- 'l', Control Space, Control+WindowsKey+Space: Go to reading list.
- 'L', Control O, Control+WindowsKey+O: Go to library in File Manager.
- 'n', Alt Space, Alt+WindowsKey+Space: Go to notes.
- 'p', Escape, WindowsKey+Escape: Answer incoming call when using text-to-text telecommunications.
- 'P', Alt+Escape: Toggle text answerphone (text-to-text telecommunications).
- 'r', Control R, Control+WindowsKey+R: Resume File Manager.
- 'R', Control Shift T, Shift+WindowsKey+T: My Documents accumulated reading text.
- 't', Control T, Control+WindowsKey+T: Library accumulated reading text.
- 'T', Control Alt T, Alt+WindowsKey+T: Alternative accumulated reading text.
- 'u', Control+WindowsKey+P: Allow user to send text to printer.
- 'U', WindowsKey+F5: Process user-written text according to the directory information mode.
- 'w', Control K, Control+WindowsKey+K: Go to workspace.
- 'W', Alt K, Alt+WindowsKey+K: Workspace in File Manager.
- '{': Keyboard script. The script is enclosed in braces, so terminate it with '}', any ensuing embeds or terminating plus should follow immediately without space.
- ':aa' Control Application Menu Key, Alt+WindowsKey+Application Menu Key: WintextCom Run Dialogue.
- ':ac', Alt C: Clear text-to-text communications buffer.
- ':ad', Alt Control F9, Alt+Control+WindowsKey+D: Alternative dialer.
- ':ae', Alt F9, Alt+Control+WindowsKey+E: Alternative e-mail client.
- ':ai', WindowsKey+F2: Store information from underlying application in directory, if it is supported.
- ':am', Control Shift F9, Control+WindowsKey+F9: Read SMS text messages.
- ':aS', Control V, WindowsKey+V: Store clipboard contents in directory. After invoking this entry, move to required position in directory and invoke editing command.
- ':av': Clear editing window.
- ':aw', Control F9, Control+Alt+WindowsKey+W: Alternative web browser.
- ':b', Control B, Control+WindowsKey+B: Open database (Microsoft Access by default).
- ':c', Control Shift L, Shift+WindowsKey+C: Calculator.
- ':e', Control E, Control+WindowsKey+E: Open e-mail.
- ':E', Control Shift E, Shift+WindowsKey+E: Send e-mail message using Windows address book.
- ':f'', Control Shift F, Control+WindowsKey+9: Windows favourites.
- ':h', Control H, Control+WindowsKey+H: Home page in system web browser.
- ':m'', F7, WindowsKey+F7: Personal start menu.
- ':n', Control Shift N, Control+WindowsKey+N: Notepad.
- ':N', Alt Shift N, WindowsKey+Period: Runs Windows system editor. This is Notepad by default, so this command is the same as the previous, but either or both can be customised.
- ':r', Alt Control 0, Alt+WindowsKey+0: Recent documents.
- ':s', Control S, Control+WindowsKey+S: Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel by default).
- ':S', Control Shift S, Alt+WindowsKey+S: WintextCom scripting IDE.
- ':w', Control W, Control+WindowsKey+W: Word processor (program associated with ".doc" files by default).
- ':y', Control Shift Space, Control+WindowsKey+M: My Documents.
- '%': specifies the opening percent sign of a system environment variable. The environment variable terminates WintextCom embed processing, so it must be the last or only specification. The closing percent sign is followed immediately by whatever the environment variable is intended to be part of, such as a full path specification. In effect, the opening percent sign is its a WintextCom string terminator, and is processed as the initial percent sign of an ensuing environment variable that is part of a standard entry.
- '+': Terminates WintextCom embed processing.
You can included environment variables embedded functions in the program or document specification at the beginning of a directory entry, in the startup directory specification (if any), and in command line parameters.
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