Program Setup

Setup your own homepage
You can start NavRoad with the a blank page, or a homepage of your choice.
To setup your homepage, simply goto Options|Home Page. Select the option - 'Start NavRoad with Home Page', and assign the HTML file you want to use as your homepage to the 'Home Page Location' field.

NavRoad can also automatically re-load your homepage when there is no user activity (like a screen saver). To use this feature, please check the 'Load Home Page after..' box, then set the period of idle time (in seconds) NavRoad will wait before re-loading the homepage.

Setup NavRoad Window
If NavRoad's Window is too small for you, it can be resized. You can also position the Window anywhere on your screen, or set it to the maximum Window size. After you make those changes you can choose [Save Options] from the "Options" menu.

Config NavRoad's Directory Buttons
NavRoad allows you to setup your own directory buttons - i.e., you can change the captions on buttons, and assign your own files to those buttons. To setup directory buttons, click on the ICON beside the rightmost directory button.

Use NavRoad as your default HTML Viewer (Windows 95/98 users)

• First, open up the Win95 Explorer
• Choose View | Options | File Types
• Double click on the .htm or .html file type (Often they are the same association)
• Choose the NEW button and type in the command "View with NavRoad"
• Then select the NavRoad.exe application to associate them.
• Close all dialog boxes and that's it!

** If you have problem to start NavRoad **
Some very old VGA card drivers have problems when running in 256 color mode. If you are not able to run NavRoad, please try to switch you VGA driver to use some other color mode (true color / 16 color), or setup Windows to use one of the standard VGA driver, this will normally solve the problem. If you have any other question, please feel free to email us.

Internal commands

<A HREF="Back"> - back in document
<A HREF="Next"> - forward in document
<A HREF="Print"> - print current document
<A HREF="Exit"> - exit program
<A HREF="Open"> - open a document
<A HREF="Refresh"> - refresh current document
<A HREF="HOME"> - goto home document

You may use all the above keywords in your HTML document, as well as the directory bar.

Files Copying

• You may use NavRoad to copy files from one location to another location.
• "CopyFiles" is implemeneted as a helper application. You do this by goto [Helper application], check the 'Save to disk' box for the type of file which should be 'Copied'. e.g. You setup '.ZIP' type in helper application, and check the 'Save to disk' box. NavRoad will popup the 'Save As' dialog box whenever your user click on a hyperlink which points to a '.ZIP' file.

Message Box

• Use <A HERF=SHOWMESSAGE?Your message> to call a pop-up message box.
• SHOWMESSAGE is the command
• ? is the separator
• Your Message is the message you want to display

PAGRE BREAK
You can insert the page break tag - <PAGE> in your HTML document, to enforce page breaks. If you print out this document - USRGUIDE.HTM, you will see how the page break works.

Multi-users environment

The initial setting of NavRoad is to show all menu options,

[ADVANCE]
ALL_ENABLED=1

Remove this line you will see how NavRoad can protect your work by hide options from users.

To selectively enable your menu options, please remove the above line, and then add the following lines under [ADVANCE] section to enable each menu item:

HTML_OPEN=1                        -- Enable [File Open]
XP_PLAIN=1                        -- Enable [Export file as plain text]

Setup Kiosk Mode / Full Screen Window

• Goto [Options], switch off ToolBar, Directory Buttons, Menu Bar, Location, and Status Bar.
• Add FullScreen=1 in NRACCESS.INI, under [Advance] to run in Full Screen mode, and disable Window from moving and resizing
• If you register for a multi-user license (site/royalty-free), you will receive a list of switches upon registration which is to be added to NRACCESS.INI. Include a switch to prevent user from closing the applications' window.

Link with other applications

• You can link word documents, spreadsheet files, movie files to NavRoad. Once you have assign a helper application to a file type, NavRoad will launch that application automatically when the user clicks on a hot-spot which links to the particular file type.
• Choose Options|Helper Applications
• Type the extension name of the file type in the field "File extension"
• Click on the [Open File] icon to locate the helper application for this file type, include parameters,
• e.g., Use media player to play .WAV files
  File Extension: wav
  Application: mplayer /play
• If you prefer Windows to execute the default program associate with the file type, simply check the Launch Default App. box.

Config NavRoad to lauch default browser and email client

• Choose Options|Helper Applications
• Check the "launch default browser for http:// requests" box, for launching your system's default browser upon HTTP request
• Check the "launch default mail client for mailto: requests" box, for launching your system's default email client upon mailto: request
• If you have more than 1 browser installed, you can assign the web browser manually by fill in the "Web Browser" field.

• Choose Options|Helper Applications
• For the field "Tool Button', click on the [Open File] icon to locate the HTML Editor.
• You may assign any program to the "Tool Button", NavRoad will change the buttons' icon to the same as your program.
• To link more programs to NavRoad, you may assign upto 10 different program to the directory buttons.

CD-ROM / Network Distribution

1. You must include the following files:
   • NavRoad32.EXE
   • NRACCESS.INI - contains your registration key and access control info.
   • NROAD32.INI - contains your NavRoad preferences (e.g. helper applications info, background color, homepage location, etc).
2. Useful dynamic variables for defining homepage location:
   %exedir% - the directory of the program files
   %exedriver% - the driver ID from which the program is running from.
   These 2 variables are very useful if you need to refer programs, html files, images on your CDROM/Floppy, but don't know the driver ID where the user will run the program from. e.g. if your user install your program under E:\DEMO\NavRoad
   %exedir%content.htm -> E:\DEMO\NavRoad\content.htm
   %exedriver%\IMAGE\banner.GIF -> E:\IMAGE\banner.gif
   
3. There is no difference between 16bit & 32bit version of NavRoad, except 32bit version supports long filenames. If not all your users are using Windows 95/NT, you should also distribute the 16bit version, for those Windows 3.1x users.
4. If you distribute files on CD-ROM, or a read-only floppy, you should stop user from saving their preferences/boomarks to the same disk. You can do this by:
   • Save NavRoad.INI (or NROAD32.INI) in another directory, as explained below.
   • Hide the [Options] menu from you user - see above
5. Register user of roylaty-free license will receive a switch to replace the 'NavRoad' title with their own title.

[APPINFO]
INIPATH=\yourdirectoryname\


You can also save bookmark to another file instead of the default 'bookmark.txt'.
Please add the following lines to NavRoad.INI
[StartUp]
bookmark=nameofyourbookmarkfile
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NavRoad.INI - Contains  users' preferences about using NavRoad (NROAD32.INI for 32bit)
NRACCESS.INI - Contains access options and registration info.




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