ben@val.UUCP (Ben Thornton) (08/02/89)
I need to be able to have Desqview load one or more applications automatically upon startup. Is there a way to do this either using the command line or a script file? I am running version 2.24 on a 80286 machine. -- Ben Thornton packet: WD5HLS @ KB5PM Video Associates Labs uucp: ...!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!val!ben Austin, TX fidonet: 1:382/40 - The Antenna Farm BBS
boyer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (08/02/89)
Ben Thornton writes: >I need to be able to have Desqview load one or more applications >automatically upon startup. Is there a way to do this either using >the command line or a script file? I am running version 2.24 on a >80286 machine. You can create a startup script that is executed every time you start DesqView. To do this, go into DV. With the main DESQview menu displayed, start learning a keyboard macro. Name the macro "!startup" (I think only the initial "!" is required to make this a startup macro. Use your own naming convention). Open the windows that you want to be opened at startup. Be sure to use the keyboard to do this, not the mouse. When you have opened the applications, finish the keyboard macro <shift-alt> etc. By naming a macro with an initial "!", the macro will be executed every time you start DesqView. This also works for window specific macros. Any macro associated with a specific window and named with "!..." will execute when the window is opened. Dave Boyer
davidr@hplsla.HP.COM (David M. Reed) (08/02/89)
This capability is one of the many reasons I love DESQview! Read your manual! It is in the section on scripts! One part specifically talks about Defining a Startup Script!
wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall) (08/09/89)
>I need to be able to have Desqview load one or more applications >automatically upon startup. Is there a way to do this either using Record a macro where the macro name begins with '!' from the initial Desqview menu. Note that Desqview stores separate macro files for each application also, and separate !startup macros can be used to perform functions when you start up each application.