Getting Started FileMenu Component 1. Introduction This document describes about how to get started with the FileMenu component. FileMenu is a java component and is distributed as fileMenu.jar It takes not more than 30 minutes for a reasonably good java developer to get started with this component. Please see more information available on the site at the following link http://www.makelogic.com/FileMenu/FMHome.htm 2. Licensing Policy and Trial Version FileMenu is an Open Source project. This software can be downloaded and used for evaluation purposes only for a period of 30 days. After the expiry of evaluation period a valid end user license must be purchased to continue using this software. There is practically no difference between the trial version and the production version. All the features are enabled in trial version. 3. Contents After unzipping the downloaded FileMenu_Trial_1.1.zip file, please verify that the following contents are present Check for the following files and folders docs lib samples src.zip GettingStarted.htm LicenseInformation.txt 4. Prerequisites Ant - ( see Ant project at http://ant.apache.org ) Java 2 platform Ant is used for building the sample applications. Each sample application comes with a build.xml file. From the command line go to the sampleXX folder. Ex. say you are at "C:\FileMenu\Samples\Sample01>" , to build and run the sample you just have to key in ant and then press enter. The sample will compile and run. The samples are provided with runsampleXX.bat files too. You can use the bat files incase you do not have ant installed or do not like to work with ant. 5. Running the samples Go to the sample folder at the command line and type ant OR runsampleXX.bat (see 4. Prerequisites for more) 6. Tweaking the samples Please feel free to use the sample code provided with the FileMenu. You can copy and paste the code given here. 7. Contact For any queries or more information please feel free to mail us at info@makelogic.com Or call us at +91 - 40 - 55322433
Changes in FileMenu1.1: The trial version of FileMenu 1.1 is built in with 'MakeLogic Version Manager'. It creates a local folder 'MakeLogic Version Manager' in which some property files and error logs will be created. These files are used for real time bug reporting and other usage parameter reporting.