Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!boyer
From: boyer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview command line options
Message-ID: <36300054@iuvax>
Date: 2 Aug 89 13:27:00 GMT
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Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington
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Ben Thornton writes:

>I need to be able to have Desqview load one or more applications
>automatically upon startup.  Is there a way to do this either using
>the command line or a script file?  I am running version 2.24 on a
>80286 machine.

You can create a startup script that is executed every time you start 
DesqView.  To do this, go into DV.  With the main DESQview menu displayed,
start learning a keyboard macro.  Name the macro "!startup" (I think only
the initial "!" is required to make this a startup macro.  Use your own naming
convention).  Open the windows that you want to be opened at startup.
Be sure to use the keyboard to do this, not the mouse.  When you have opened
the applications, finish the keyboard macro <shift-alt> etc.

By naming a macro with an initial "!", the macro will be executed every time
you start DesqView.  This also works for window specific macros.  Any macro
associated with a specific window and named with "!..." will execute when
the window is opened.

Dave Boyer