
Utils is a ROX application destined to contain miscellaneous utility
functions, mostly accessible through the App-specific menu.

The currently implemented functions are:

--openurl

	Open a URL. If no extra arguments are given, uses xprompt to
	ask for a URL and opens it. If arguments are given, they can
	be either files that contain urls or urls by themselves, which 
	will be opened.

	URL files can contain one url per line, optionally prefixed by 
	the "URL=" string, which is ignored. Any lines that contain a
	string of the form "[whatever]" (in square brackets) are also
	ignored. This is because Internet Explorer .url files are this 
	way.

	A single file can contain more than one url, and they will be
	opened in sequence.

	By default the openurl script included in this directory is
	used to open URLs. You can customize it, or change the value
	of $openurl in AppRun if you want to use something else.

	The latest version of Choices/MIME-info/Standard defines .url
	and .uri files as type text/x-uri, so you can define this app
	as their default run action and they will be opened when you
	click on them.

--addurl

	Create a .url file with a URL you give. The URL is created in
	the directory specified by the ROX_URLDIR environment
	variable, or as set in the configuraton section of AppRun.

	.url files are defined as of type text/x-uri in the latest
	version of the Choices directory (from CVS). However, they do
	not have a run action associated with them by default. To do
	that, right-click on a .url file and select "Set run action"
	from the file menu. On the dialog that appears, type:

	netscape -remote "openURL($1)"

	or any other command you use to open a URL on your browser.

--showbook
--hidebook

	Show and hide a panel called "Bookmarks". You can customize
	where the panel appears (top by default) by changing the value 
	of $bookpos in AppRun.

	I use this panel to keep frequently used things, but not to
	have them visible all the time.


If you have any comments, bug reports, or suggestions for new
functions to add to this program, please let me know.

Enjoy,
--Diego Zamboni
  zamboni@purdue.edu
