HipClipBoard 1.0
for Windows 95/NT
Copyright 1997 Harro Mueller

iNTRODUCTiON

HipClipBoard enhances the Windows desktop with up to eight independant
clipboard-buffers, each having its own hotkeys for copy, cut and paste.
You can run it totally in the background or you can watch and modify
the buffers in an easy-to-use environment.
HipClipBoard is very useful if you have more than one piece of text
that you want to insert at different locations of a document. Get rid
of the annoying switching around between documents.
It can also be useful when surfing on the internet: If you want to
visit some new sites, you can first copy or enter their addresses into
HipClipBoard. When going online you have them all at your fingertips
and you will not waste any time typing them in while you are online.

FEATURES

- HipClipBoard helps you to save your precious time.
- HipClipBoard offers an easy-to-use environment also comprehensible
  for less experienced users.
- If minimized HipClipBoard runs silently sitting in the system tray
  (the area on the right of your taskbar). If you are using Windows NT
  3.5x it will simply run iconized.
- You can define your own hotkeys for each buffer using almost every
  possible combination of Control, Alt, Shift and any of the
  remaining keys.
- You can disable single buffers to release their hotkeys so that
  special key combinations of Windows or other programs can be used
  without having to switch off HipClipBoard.
- When closing down HipClipBoard all contents of the buffers and all
  settings are saved to disk and reloaded at the next start of 
  HipClipBoard.

iNSTALLATiON

Installation is easy. As you have obviously been able to unzip this
archive it is now your task to run 'setup.exe' by doubleclicking it
in the Explorer or elsewhere. After that you will be guided through
the rest of the installation.

UNiNSTALLATiON

Uninstallation is easy too. Just launch 'Add/Remove Programs' out of
the control panel, highlight 'HipClipBoard' and click the
'Add/Remove...' button. The uninstallation will then proceed
automatically.

FiRST STEPS

Start HipClipBoard by doubleclicking its icon in the HipClipBoard
group. What you see now is the main window of HipClipBoard with its
eight textbuffers. Do now change to another text window, select some
text and press Alt+1. If you change back to HipClipBoard you can see
that the selected text has been copied into the first buffer. You can
modify the copied text by simply clicking into the buffer and editing
it. Go back to the other text window, put the cursor on any position
and press Ctrl+1. If everything went right the text has been pasted
to the selected position. The same way you can cut text out by
pressing Alt+Ctrl+1. The key combinations you have just used are
only the default settings. You can change them by doubleclicking the
accompanying buffer. In addition you can disable certain buffers by
unchecking the 'Enabled'-checkbox next to a buffer.

TROUBLESHOOTiNG

- Doubleclick the icon in the system tray to open HipClipBoard.
- Perform a rightclick on the icon in the system tray to see a 
  popup menu with 'Open' and 'Exit'.
- Put HipClipBoard into the Windows Autostart-folder and check the
  box 'Startup minimized' to run it automatically in the background
  on each startup of Windows.
- The default configuration at the first start of HipClipBoard is
  the one I recommend. For buffer 1 it is Alt+1 to copy, Ctrl+Alt+1
  to cut and Ctrl+1 to paste. For buffer 2 it is Alt+2 to copy and
  so on. This configuration is easy to learn and will most probably
  not interfere with any predefined hotkeys of other programs.
- HipClipBoard will only work with text, not with graphics or some-
  thing else. Maybe this will be changed in future versions.
- If you use HipClipBoard, the use of the standard Windows clipboard
  with text is not recommendable, because HipClipBoard makes use
  of the standard clipboard to buffer copied text. This will be
  fixed in future versions (promise!).
- If you discover a strange behaviour like a hotkey does not work
  although you have defined it, please check if every hotkey is
  only defined once.

SHAREWARE NOTES

As this software is shareware it comes 'as is', there is no warranty
implied or otherwise, nor is support provided. This shareware version
is freely distributable as long as it remains unchanged.

The unregistered version of HipClipBoard will allow only up to 20
copy/cut/paste actions per session.

If you find HipClipBoard useful and want to get rid of this
limitation, please consider registering this program. For further 
details on how to register please read the enclosed textfile
'Register.txt'.

COPYRiGHT NOTES

HipClipBoard uses the Freeware component
TrayIcon v1.0 Copyright (c) 1996 James Roberts-Thomson

CONTACT

For any suggestions, ideas, problems, comments or bug-reports (?!)
contact me by EMail: mueller@iname.com

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