Copyright: AmiFind Installer Copyright® 1994 Matt Ginzton


AmiFind Installer

Installer v1.60 for AmiFind v1.60

Copyright 1993-95 Matt Ginzton, MaDdoG Software

Use the AmiFind Installer to install AmiFind into a directory of your choice, and optionally create a program item in Program Manager, a SmartIcon for AmiFind, or a menu item in Ami Pro that will directly launch AmiFind.

For more information on any Installer options, position the focus (gray dotted rectangle) on that option (in the Installer), and press F1.

Quick install instructions

How to use the Installer to...

Install AmiFind

Change options in existing installation

Uninstall AmiFind

Other information

Help on Help

More information on AmiFind

What the Installer does (technical info)


Quick install instructions

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Choose Install AmiFind on the main screen, then click Continue.

Verify or change the Installer's choice of the directory where you want to put AmiFind.  Again, click Continue.

After file copying is complete, you will be given choices on how to easily access AmiFind.

If you want an "AmiFind..." option to appear in your Ami Pro file menu, select Autoinstall in Ami Pro File Menu.  If you want a SmartIcon for AmiFind, select Create SmartIcon for AmiFind.  If you want an AmiFind icon in Program Manager, select Add AmiFind to Program Manager, and then select the name of the group you would like it to appear in from the dropdown list.

If you have the registered version of AmiFind, customize it with your name.

That's it!


Installer modes

Install AmiFind

Change options in an existing installation

Uninstall AmiFind


Installing AmiFind

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Select "Install AmiFind" on the main screen, and choose Continue.

You will be asked where you want to put AmiFind; the default is the Ami Pro directory, if the Installer can locate it.  Change this option if you like,  then choose Continue.

The Installer will copy the necessary files where you selected, requesting confirmation if it has to overwrite any existing files.

Then,

See also:

Easy access to AmiFind

Personalization


HOW DO YOU WANT TO RUN AMIFIND
How do you want to run AmiFind?

This dialog gives you options on how to integrate AmiFind smoothly into your system.  You can do either, or both:

•	Install AmiFind into the File menu in Ami Pro.  That way, when you are working in Ami Pro, file finding is only a menu selection away.

•	Create a SmartIcon for AmiFind in Ami Pro.  You can put this SmartIcon into your icon sets for easy access to AmiFind.

•	Create an icon for AmiFind in the Program Manager.  This gives you easy access to AmiFind when you aren't in Ami Pro.

For more information, see:

Autoinstall in Ami Pro File menu

Create SmartIcon for AmiFind

Add AmiFind to Program Manager


AUTOINSTALL IN AMIPRO MENU
Autoinstall in Ami Pro File menu

This option creates a macro that loads automatically every time AmiPro is run, that adds an "AmiFind..." option to your File menu.

The only reason that you would not want Installer to do this is if you do not want an AmiFind command in your menu, or if you already have an Autoexec macro and do not want Installer changing it.

In the latter case, you can deselect this option and add the line "CALL AddFindr.SMM!AddFinder" to your existing program load macro.


Create SmartIcon for AmiFind

This option creates a SmartIcon for AmiFind, and adds it to your Available Icons collection in Ami Pro.

The Installer will not modify your icon sets, so the AmiFind icon will not immediately appear on any Ami Pro icon bars.

Instead, after installing AmiFind, you should load Ami Pro, pull down the Tools menu, and select SmartIcons....

Then, find the AmiFind icon in the Available Icons list and drag it onto any icon sets as desired.


Add AmiFind to Program Manager

Select this option if you would like Installer to create an AmiFind icon in any specified group in Program Manager.

Simply select the Add option and then click the down arrow and select the name of one of your existing groups to create the AmiFind icon.  If you want to create a new group for AmiFind, type the name in the text field next to the down arrow.


Personalization

Enter your name or company name and click OK.

This option is available only if you have registered AmiFind.


Customizing an existing installation

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Select "Change options in existing installation" from the main screen, and choose Continue.

You can choose to add more ways to run AmiFind, or to re-enter your personalization information.

Select your options and then choose Continue.

If you selected "Add program item or Ami Pro integration macro",  the Installer displays the "How do you want to run AmiFind?" dialog.  You can opt for a Program Manager icon for AmiFind, or to have AmiFind appear in the File menu in Ami Pro.

If you selected "Personalize AmiFind", if you have the registered version of AmiFind, you will see the Personalization dialog.  Enter your name and choose OK.

See also:

Easy access to AmiFind

Personalization


Uninstalling AmiFind

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Select "Uninstall AmiFind" from the main screen, and choose Continue.

You can uninstall the following AmiFind elements:

•	integration into Ami Pro's File menu

•	any Program Manager icons created

•	the AmiFind program files

You can select to remove Program Manager icons or the Ami Pro integration macro only if the Installer created these in the first place.  You can delete the program files only if the first two options have been carried out or don't apply.

Selecting "Remove AmiFind from Ami Pro" doesn't delete the integration macro, but merely disables it in Ami Pro.

If you choose either of the first two Uninstall options but do not uninstall the program files, you can run the Installer at a later time and choose "Change options in an existing installation" to reinstall them.


AmiFind Overview

AmiFind is designed to help you quickly and easily located "lost" files, created by Ami Pro and, to a lesser degree, other programs.

The idea in AmiFind is to locate your files based on the minimum amount of information you remember about a file that you saved perhaps years ago.  If you have any idea how you named or described the file, you can find it quickly; you can even search the document text itself, although this takes much longer.

AmiFind enables you to locate a file based on its name, date (of creation or last modification), description, keywords, or contents.  Remember a few letters of the filename?  How about a word from the description, or one of the keywords?  Even a general idea of the last time you accessed the file, or when it was created, will help find the file.  Finally, you can search through the text of your files, finding words in the main body.  And of course AmiFind has powerful wildcard and pattern-matching capabilities.

Once you have entered all information about the file that you remember, called search criteria, you are presented with a list of all matching files.  At this point, you can print the list of files, or copy it to the Windows clipboard.  You can view the document description, or the entire Doc Info window, just like in Ami Pro.  Or, you can load one ore many files into Ami Pro for easy editing, or print any files you want.  All without leaving AmiFind!

Go ahead.  Try it out for a week, or two.  Take a month.  At the end of this time, if you find AmiFind to be a useful addition to your collection of software tools, please register it.  Otherwise, delete it, or pass it on for a friend to try.  Enjoy!


What the Installer does

(Technical info)

Install

The Installer first prompts for a directory into which to install AmiFind; the default is the Ami Pro directory, if it can be located.

Next, the following files are copied to the Install To directory:
  AmiFind.exe -- the program file
  AmiFind.hlp -- the help file
  AFInstal.exe --  the Installer, for later customization or uninstallation
  AFInstal.hlp -- the Installer help
  SetupKit.dll -- an Installer extension
  AmiFind.dll (registered version only) -- a speed extension for AmiFind
The following file is copied to your Ami Pro macro directory:
  AddFindr.smm -- the Ami Pro integration macro
The following file is copied to your Ami Pro icon directory:
  AmiFind.bmp -- the AmiFind SmartIcon bitmap

If you received AmiFind on a disk containing VBRUN300.DLL (the Visual Basic runtime library), and VBRUN300.DLL is not present in your Windows System directory, it will be copied there (AmiFind, like any other program written in Visual Basic, requires this file).

If the Installer has to overwrite any files, you will be prompted for confirmation; the confirmation dialog will tell you which file is newer (based on its date on disk).

You will next be presented with the "How do you want to run AmiFind?" dialog.  This lets you create Program Manager icons for AmiFind and the Installer, and/or a menu item in Ami Pro for quick access to AmiFind, and/or a SmartIcon for AmiFind.  If you choose any of these options, it will be carried out and uninstall information saved in the [Uninstall] section of AmiFind.ini.

The installation of the integration macro that creates the AmiFind menu item in Ami Pro is a bit tricky.  First, it is only enabled if the macro file (addfindr.smm) was successfully copied.  Then, the Installer must force the macro to be run each time you start Ami Pro, without tampering with any existing program load macro(s).  So the Installer uses one of the following methods:

1	If you have no current Program Load macro in AmiPro, Installer makes ADDFINDR.SMM!AddFinder your Program Load macro.  ADDFINDR.SMM adds an AmiFind... command to the File Menu.

2	If your AmiPro Program Load macro is AUTORUN.SMM or _AUTORUN.SMM, Lotus' macros that allow multiple Program Load macros, Installer adds ADDFINDR.SMM!AddFinder to the end of AMIAUTO.CFG (located in the Windows directory), and deletes any existing references to ADDFINDR.SMM.

3	If you have any other macro specified as Program Load in AmiPro, Installer saves this value (in AmiFind.ini, under the [AmiFind] heading, with the key Old Program Load Macro).  The Program Load macro is then set to ADDFINDR.SMM!AddFinderChain.  The AddFinderChain portion of the macro adds an AmiFind... command to the File menu in AmiPro, then calls the old program load macro.

If you opt for the SmartIcon, it will be added to your collection of Available Icons, but will not be automatically placed into any icon sets.

Finally, if you have the registered version of AmiFind, you will be given the option to personalize it.

The Installer will exit after giving you the option to run AmiFind.

Changing options in existing installation

You can choose to add a Program Manager program item for AmiFind, create the SmartIcon, and/or enable the integration macro in Ami Pro.  If you have the registered version of AmiFind, you can also re-enter your personalization information.

These steps are carried out the same way they would have been during an original installation, as described above.

Uninstall

The Installer looks in the [Uninstall] section of AMIFIND.INI to find whether the integration macro was installed, whether the SmartIcon was created, and into what, if any, Program Manager group AmiFind was placed.  If any of these labels are found, the Installer enables the appropriate checkboxes in the Uninstall dialog.

You can choose to disable the integration macro and/or remove the Program Manager program items the Installer created.  You can also opt to delete the AmiFind program files from your system.

If you choose to delete the Program Manager icons:  the Installer deletes the icons, and if the icons were the only icons in the group that contained them, the group is also deleted.

If you choose to delete the Ami Pro menu item for AmiFind:  the Installer prevents ADDFINDR.SMM from being run at startup, and restores your original program load macro if it had been changed.

If you choose to remove the SmartIcon for AmiFind, the icon description and behavior will be removed from your Available Icons collection.  The SmartIcon will not be removed from any icon sets that you have already  added it to.  The icon itself will still appear in the Available Icons list unless you remove the icon bitmap file.

If you  choose to delete the AmiFind program files:  all the AmiFind files copied to the Install To directory (mentioned in the first step of the Install section, above)  will be deleted.  If these files are the only  files in the directory that contains them, the directory will be removed.  Finally, the AMIFIND.INI file will be deleted from your Windows directory.


How to use the Installer

The following are detailed instructions on the use of Installer.

Installer copies files from their current location to a directory of your choice, and optionally makes it easier for you to access AmiFind.

First, make sure that the Install From directory is set to the current location of the AmiFind files (it should be, unless you ran Installer from a different directory).

Next, set the Install To directory to wherever you want the AmiFind files to end up.  The default is your AmiPro directory, which is not a bad choice since there are only 3 files required by AmiFind.  Selecting Delete Originals will cause Installer to move, rather than copy, the files from their current location to the new location.  This option defaults to off when installing from a floppy or network drive, or on when installing from a fixed hard drive.

Now click Install AmiFind Now! and you're off!

After files are copied, you will be given choices on how you want to be able to easily access AmiFind.  Choose one or both:

Select Autoinstall in AmiPro File Menu if you want an "AmiFind..." option to appear in the File Menu of AmiPro.  To do this, Installer has to create a new Autoexec macro, so if you already have an Autoexec macro, you can stop Installer from doing this and insert the line "Exec AddFindr.SMM" at the end of your current Autoexec macro.

The Add AmiFind to Program Manager creates a new program item in the group of your choice (you can only do this if Program Manager is running).  Press the down arrow and select one of your existing groups to add AmiFind to, or type the name of a new group.

If you have the registered version of AmiFind, customize it with your name.

That's it!  Exit the installer; to access AmiFind use any of the methods that you enabled above.


Ami Pro

Superb Windows word processor.  AmiFind is designed to work with files created by Ami Pro.  Ami Pro is copyright Lotus Development Corporation.