DeskEdit Text Header Displayer
by Jeff Gorman

TextHead is designed to assist file management by rapidly extracting a non-printing heading from DeskEdit files. This should make it easier, for example, to select a particular text layout file from an extensive list, to find a file whose name has been half-forgotten, to find one from a series of similar files perhaps labelled with code numbers (membership numbers for example) or to help in rapidly sifting files to be retained or deleted during a disc tidying session.

To set up a DeskEdit file for use with TextHead, enter the Printer Hide code at the start of the line containing the descriptive text. This is done by holding down Ctrl and pressing the pound sign "" (on version 1.20 and later) or Ctrl and "\" (on earlier versions). Note that the character entered is the same in each version, but the keys used to enter it have changed.

Note: It is really intended that the heading should be on the top line of the text, but there is some flexibility in its location. Complete flexibility is restricted because of the delay involved in searching for the Printer Hide code within an entire text.

Running the application installs an icon on the icon bar. To display the information line in a file, drag it to this icon. This opens a window showing the header (if any), the filename and the file's date stamp (if it is date stamped). Alternatively click on the TextHead icon to open the TextHead window, and drag files to this window.

Choosing an un-headed file, or an inappropriate file, will generate a suitable message. 

Warning: the TextHead window does not gain input focus, so be careful to drag directly into this window and not into a nearby DeskEdit window, or the file will be appended to the existing DeskEdit file.

There are a number of example Text files in the !TextHead.Examples directory.

 RISC User 1992
