7.1 Startup Launcher
The Startup Launcher
normally shows
only two buttons:
The
Login button is used to
start MetaEdit+. The login process is described in more detail in Section
2.1.1.
The
Reconstruct button
is
needed if the repository has been left in an inconsistent state, e.g. by a power
failure during a MetaEdit+ session, and you need to reconstruct it. Normal users
can perform minor reconstructions; more detailed reconstruction functions are
available only to system administrator and thus described in System
Administrator’s guide.
By pressing the down arrow button, or resizing the Startup
Launcher to its maximum size extra buttons will be shown:
The
File in Patches button
opens a browser on patch files and a help window showing currently loaded
patches.
The Edit Reports button opens a Report Browser for
the generic reports stored in the image.
The Options button allows you to specify your
preferences for using the MetaEdit+ online HTML manual, external text editor,
and printer.
The
Time Zone button allows you to set the time
zone. The correct time zone is needed in order to show times correctly, and to
write files with the correct time. This is especially important in the
multi-user version, where some operations may depend on file dates and times
(see Section
2.1.1).
The Save Image button lets you save your changes in
patches, reports, manual browser etc. preferences to the MetaEdit+
program.
The
Roots Filename button
prompts the directory and filename of the artbase.roo file. In a single user
version the roots file is located in the same directory as MetaEdit+, but in the
multi-user version it is also possible to use a single roots file normally
located in the server directory.
The
Roots Browser button
allows you to enter information about the repository directories (see the System
Administrator’s Guide).
The Create DB button will create a new, totally
empty repository.
The other buttons are described in the System
Administrator’s guide.