Copyright: What is This? (c) M.Pacchiarotti - Jimjams 1997


yesWhat is This? (c) M.Pacchiarotti - Jimjams 1997What is This?WITyesyesyesyesTRUEyesyes20/04/97


Table of Contents
W.I.T. - What is This?

	Introduction Overview F.A.Q. Known Problems Licence Registration Acknowledgment


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Introduction

How many files you have on your computer?

How many times you download a file, you examine it, you decide it can be useful sometime in the future and then you store it somewhere on your computer?

How many times you reuse it? How many times you download it again?

How many times you remember to have a file or document you finally need and you don't remember its name and where you stored it?

How many times you, may be hunting for space, examine that file again without remember what is it?

How much of your precious time you lose checking and checking again the same file, and searching it?

"What is this?" will help you to manage your files, remembering description, in an easy and not intrusive way.

Wit integrates with your Windows 95 or NT4.0 shell and is every time ready to use in the context menu of files and Desktop objects.

Wit gets only a few disk space and stores your data in a little and quick database.

Wit provides these useful functions:

easy activation by standard Explorer context menu;

file information summary (name, size, date (acces, creation, update), attributes, pic info);

view, update and delete file's description;

simple and quick search;

Try "What is this?", it worths the time.

Jimjams


Overview

"What is This?"  (Wit) is easy to use, simply click context mousebutton (normally it is right mousebutton) to activate context menu for a file and then select "What is This?" menu item. You can do this both from Explorer or from Desktop (and even from standard "Open Dialog").

If the selected file has an entry in Wit's database then Wit will show the associated description.

You can edit the description, it will be automatically saved when you close Wit.

You don't need to close Wit by hand, it will close by itself if you click everywhere outside Wit's window, or if you change focus to another application, so don't care to close it.

Selecting the "File Info" tab you can obtain more information about the physical file:

This view is also automatically selected if you call Wit for a file without a database entry.

If the file is a picture (GIF,JPG,BMP) Wit gives you also the picture pixel size and color depth.

Wit has a context menu, you can activate it in the usual way (right mousebutton):

"Help" will show this help guide;
"Register" will start the witreg.exe program to help you to pay and register Wit;
"Insert Key" allows you to insert your name and registration code to unlock Wit (unregistered version can store only 50 database items);
"Properties/Memo Color" enables you to change the memo background color as well as "Properties/Tab Color" enables you to change selected tab color;
"Properties/Memo Font" enables you to change memo font.

"Search" activates a simple string search routine. You will be asked to insert a string to find for and the results are quickly shown:

To the left you have the list of all files matching the search criteria, to the right there is the memo where file's description is shown anytime you select a file from the list.

You can edit file's description from this window and even delete a file description (select the file from the list and press Del key).

Some of these functions are also available from the "About" tab:

Well Wit is so easy to use and I have no more to explain. Good work.


Licence

License Agreement

By installing this software you accept the following license agreement.

The software is distributed through a means known as Shareware.  Shareware is not a type of software, but a means of distribution.  Shareware is not free software. You are granted a right to use the software for an evaluation period of 31 days.  If you continue to use the software after the evaluation period you are required to either register or remove the software from your computer.

The software is considered registered once the author has received the appropriate payment for the software and the "registration ID" has been entered to the program.

Your registration ID code is for your personal use only.  You may not publish your registration ID code or distribute it in any way nor may you distribute the software once it has been registered.  Distributing your registration ID is illegal and is no different from distributing illegal copies of the registered software.

You may freely distribute the SHAREWARE (not registered) version provided that

•	you distribute the original ZIP file containing all the original files

•	it's clearly stated that the software is Shareware

Shareware distribution systems can distribute the SHAREWARE (not registered) version in their CD-ROMs.

The software and documentation are copyrighted.

Warranty

This product comes with the ultimate warranty.  You can try it, use it and test it for 31 days without spending a cent.  If you are satisfied with the product (as I hope you will be) then register. If you are not satisfied with the product simply remove it from your computer and that’s it.

Disclaimer

THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES RELATING TO THIS SOFTWARE WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES ARE EXPRESSLY AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMED.  NEITHER THE AUTHOR NOR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF THIS SOFTWARE SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE SUCH SOFTWARE EVEN IF THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR CLAIMS.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR'S LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES EVER EXCEED THE PRICE PAID FOR THE LICENSE TO USE THE SOFTWARE, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF CLAIM, THE PERSON USING THE SOFTWARE BEARS ALL RISKS AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE.  SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF THE LIMIT OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.


Registration

Registering Wit you help Jimjams and the Shareware system.

Registration fee for Wit is only $9.95, if you are interested in buying multiple copies or site license please contact me by email.

To register you can use the attached witreg.exe program, or use the on-line internet registration page:

http://order.kagi.com/?JJ

or the secure one:

http://order.kagi.com/?JJ&S

Kagi will manage the registration stuff and you will receive a key to unlock the program in a few days.

After you received the key you should activate the "Insert Key Dialog" selecting "Insert Key" from the context menu, clicking the "Key" button on "About" tab or pressing ALT-K from Wit and then you have to type in your name and the unlock code.

You can find the latest version of this software at our internet site:

http://www.jimjams.com

Author contact:

Mario Pacchiarotti
Development & Support, Jimjams
mario@jimjams.com
jimjams@mclink.it
http://www.jimjams.com


Known Problems

1	After Wit installation my Office95 toolbar doesn't work, it launch Wit everytime instead of my Office programs.
I am findig for a solution.
You can still start Office programs from the toolbar using right mousebutton and then "Open".


F.A.Q.

1	I have many files in my computer and I don't want to waste the time to describe all of them. It's Wit really useful?
Yes it is! Don't care to describe all of your files. Simply start describing files from now, each time you download a file from Internet and you test it. If you archive it somewhere in your hard disk for future use, then use Wit to fill a description. This way you can find it easily when you need it.
I plan to release some prefilled Wit archive too.

2	Unregistered copy store only a few items. Performance are a concern if I store hundreds items?
Obviously Wit performance will slowly degrade if you have a big database, but we tested it with about two thousands items and only the search function is really affected by performance degrade (it run for less than 2 seconds on a 100mhz Pentium).


Acknowledgment

I used a powerful and easy to use freeware component to manage Wit database: QDB.

I want to thank the author, Robert R. Marsh, S.J.

If you are a Delphi programmer you can find very useful Quick Data Base component.

You can get more information about QDB here:

http://members.aol.com/robmarsh/qdb.htm