Super Group Help Contents

Super Group is a utility that allows you to display your Program Manager groups as separate windows anywhere on your desktop.  Super Group also provides 5 different views for listing your groups.  Super Group is NOT designed as a shell replacement, rather it is designed as an enhancement for those who continue to use Program Manager and want more control displaying their groups.

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What is Super Group?

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Hide the Super Group Main Menu

Launch an Item

View Properties for an Item

Creating a Sub-group

Change the View for a Super Group Window

Sort Items in a Super Group Window


What is Super Group?

Super Group is designed as an enhancement utility for viewing and accessing your Program Manager groups.  Some of the key features that Super Group provides are:

Support to view your groups in up to 5 different formats.  The different views supported by Super Group are, Icon view, Vertical List view, Multi-Column view, Text view, and a Toolbar view.

Support for standard features such as launching items, viewing the properties of an item, and minimizing groups after launching an item.

Options for sorting the group items in the same order as Program Manager groups or by their description titles.

Option to hide the main menu.  This allows you to view the group as a true group window once all the preferences have been set.

Ability to create multiple Super Group windows for each Program Manager group.  With this feature you can configure each Program Manager group with a different view and save its settings to be displayed the same way each time it is displayed.

Ability to create nested groups (groups within groups) within existing Program Manager groups just by selecting an option from the Super Group menu.


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Hide the Super Group Main Menu

Super Group allows you to hide the main menu to give the Super Group window a true group window look.  Once you have your preferences defined for a particular window you can select this option to give the Super Group window a group window appearance.

To toggle the Super Group main menu on and off, from the System Menu, select Hide Main Menu.


Launch an Item

Launching an item from a Super Group window is performed just like in Program Manager.

To launch an item from a Super Group window:

1.	Select the item to launch.

2.	From the File menu, select Open, or just press the Enter key after selecting the item to launch.  Double-clicking on the selected item will also launch the item.

TIP:	To launch an item and have the Super Group window closed after the launch has completed, hold the Ctrl key down while launching the item.  To launch the item minimized, hold the Shift key down while launching the item.


View Properties for an Item

You can view the associated properties of an item from Super Group without having to switch back to Program Manager.  This information is displayed as read-only, which means that you cannot change it from within Super Group.

To display the properties of a selected item, from the File menu, click on the Properties menu item to display the Properties dialog.

TIP:	The properties dialog can also be displayed by selecting Alt-Enter from the keyboard.  You can also bring up the properties dialog by holding the Alt key while double-clicking on the icon.


Add a Super Group to a Program Manager Group
Creating a Sub-group

Super Group supports a feature that allows you to create nested groups (groups within groups) within Program Manager group files.  Super Group takes all the complexity out of creating a Super Group within a PM group by creating a new Super Group item within a PM group.

To Create a Sub-Group:

1.	From the File menu, select Create Sub-group.

2.	Enter the description for the icon.  The default description is the current group's description name.

3.	Select from a group of existing PM groups to add then new Super Group item to.

4.	Check on the Run Minimized button if you want the Super Group icon to be displayed as an icon when it is initially launched

5.	Click on the OK button to perform the task.  Cancel will abort the task.  If OK is selected, a new Super Group icon is added to the selected group which will launch a Super Group.


Change the View for a Super Group Window

Super Group supports 5 different views for displaying your groups.  The five types of views are: Icon View, Vertical List, Multi-Column List, Text View, and a Toolbar view.

To select a list view for the current Super Group window:

1.	From the View menu, select the view type to display the group with.

2.	The selected view type will have a check mark beside it indicating the current view type selected.

Hidden Features:

Super Group has two hidden values that can only be changed by editing the SUPERG.INI file.  These values can be used to adjust two settings that are not currently available from a dialog box.

When viewing a group with the Vertical List or MultiCol List option, you can also set a key value under the section for that group to display the icons on the right side of the list.  The key value is IconOnRight.  For example, if a group called Main is displayed and you would like the icons displayed on the right, add then following line under the section labeled [MAIN]:

IconOnRight = 1

When viewing a group with the MultiCol List option, you can set the horizontal width for the columns.  This allows you to define how wide the columns will be in screen pixel units.  To change the width of the columns, adjust the value for the key name labeled HorizontalWidth (default is 125) under the the groups section in the INI.

There is also a hidden feature that allows you to define you Super Groups with certain window style characteristics.  These window styles will make your Super Group windows, especially you toolbars look better.  The key name for this feature is labeled WindowStyle.  The WindowStyle key name will recognize the following settings.

1 = sizeable window without a caption (title bar).

2 = an unsizeable window with a caption.

3 = an unsizeable window without a caption.

anything value will indicate that the default settings are to be used for the window style.


Sort Items in a Super Group Window

Super Group allows you to sort the program items either by the order they are displayed in Program Manager or by their description titles.

To select the sort option for the Super Group window, click on the View menu to display the sort options.  Click on the menu associated with the sort preference that you desire.  The selected sort option then becomes the active sort.  The active sort can also be determined by noticing which sort menu item is checked.