Selective

Version 1.0
Released on Saturday, 3 April 1999

Created by Matthijs Hollemans
mahlzeit@bigfoot.com
http://home.concepts.nl/~hollies

What is it
Selective is a simple Tracker add-on that lets you enter a wildcard pattern to select files from a Tracker window.

How to install it
Double-click the Installer icon to launch the installation program. The Installer will automatically put Selective in the "/boot/home/config/add-ons/Tracker/" folder.

How to get rid of it
Double-click the Uninstaller icon to launch the uninstallation program. The Uninstaller will automatically remove Selective from your system.

How to use it
Go to the window that contains the files that you want to select. Then right-click somewhere in the window or open the File menu. Go to Add-Ons and choose Selective. Alternatively you can press the keys RightCtrl-RightAlt-W (PC keyboard) or Command-Control-W (Macintosh keyboard).

In the small window that pops up you can enter the selection pattern. The pattern may contain the wildcards *, which matches any character zero or more times, and ?, which matches any single character. Selective is not case-sensitive.

So, for example, be* will match BeOS and beer, and *.html will match any files with the extension .html. On the other hand, be? will only match things like bee and BET, but not beer.

Known Problems
If some files were already selected before you invoked Selective and no files match the selection pattern, then the old selection is not automatically cleared. Because of this, you might want to make sure that no files are selected before you start Selective.

Legal Stuff
Selective is public domain, so you may do anything you like with it. No warranties expressed or implied. I am not responsible for whatever may happen to whomever, whenever.

History
Version 1.0 (Saturday, 3 April 1999)

  • First version.