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When an application is first opened, a splash screen is presented which is a combination of...
- the About splash screen, which shows the title, version and registration details of the application;
- and the following 'Starting...' dialog, which allows you to select which library you wish to use and includes shortcuts for opening a new, existing, or recent drawing.
To locate information
click on the area of interest on image above.
This is the library which will be initially loaded. Any new drawings created will use the Friendly Pages and cabinets from the selected library, although the current library can be changed once the program has started (see the
Switching Libraries FAQ).
You will usually want a library loaded, however you can choose not to load one by selecting the "<none>" option. You will find that there are no cabinets or
Friendly Pages when you start a new drawing. This is advisable when creating a new template - see the
templates tutorial for more information. (Make sure you do not accidentally leave this option set to "<none>").
Clicking this will start CabMasterPro and create a new, blank drawing using the library you have selected from the "Library To Use" list. This is probably the most common way of starting the program.
This works exactly as if you had used the "Create a New Drawing" option, and then when CabMasterPro started, selected
Open from the File menu. It displays the standard
Open and Save dialog from where you can locate a drawing file to open. Note that clicking Cancel on the Open dialog will not return to the Start Up dialog, but will launch CabMasterPro and create a new drawing.
If you have worked on any drawings in CabMasterPro before, this button will include the name of the most recently edited drawing. Clicking it will start CabMasterPro with that drawing loaded, so it is effectively a shortcut for selecting "Open an Existing Drawing" and then locating the one you worked on last (similar to the
Recent Documents files command on the File menu).
If you click the Advanced button, the dialog changes to show the following...
Include libraries in subfolders
The "Library To Use" drop-down usually only includes "top-level" or full libraries. However, when developing libraries you frequently wish to open "lower-level" or sub-libraries. In this case, you can enable the "Include Subfolders" option which will display all available libraries in the drop-down list. This option is disabled by default because the additional libraries listed do not contain cabinets so may confuse people who try to use them. It should only be checked by those who need to open sub-libraries for editing purposes.
Modify file locations
At the top of the newly available options after clicking Advanced, the current value of the Library folder is displayed (which is "C:\AllMasterSoftware\CabMasterPro\Library" by default). Clicking the "File Locations" button opens the File Locations dialog, which allows you to change the place where CabMasterPro looks for libraries. Again, this feature is usually only handy to library developers, who may have several parallel copies of the Library tree which they need to switch between. If the Library folder gets changed, the "Library To Use" list will update itself to show the libraries in the new location.
This will exit CabMasterPro completely, without loading the rest of the program. It is useful if you accidentally started the program and do not want to have to load the rest of it before you can quit.
Another reason to use this is because you were only checking what product and version you had. Since the splash screen displays which program in the
Product Range is running, this effectively tells you which type of hardware lock was detected.
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