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D&Do has been designed for efficiency with maximized but uncluttered and non-disruptive user feedback system. Its most prominent part is the target area. We want it easy to see and to reach with the minimum of user strain. The status line helps the user to refocus on his task if
- he has been distracted by an external event (e.g. a telephone), or if
- he had made a mistake or if,
- the program specified in the metascript cannot perform the task.
Here is its initial display (a registered version) after the splash screen display:

As it is, it can accept multiple drops to its target area. D&Do will execute a "null" program once its target area is clicked (the null program simply copies the dropped items into the clipboard, one item per line). The status line can display a multi-line tool-tip as illustrated below. Note: The freeware version can load a metascript that involves tagged drops, you can drop items as usual but you cannot execute the metascript; you will get an error message.
To the End-Users
Here are the most important sub-sections to the end users:
The following sub-section might be useful to end-users:
Starting D&Do
There are many ways that you can start D&Do.
- If the D&Do setup software (setup.exe) has been used (after unzipping ddo1.zip):
- You can you double click the "DDo" icon

- You can click the Start > Program menu item "
D&Do"
- You can double click a metascript file (this file has also the icon
); D&Do will start, preloaded with the related metascript.
- You can right click a metcscript file for displaying its context menu then click the Open menu item; D&Do will start, preloaded with the related metascript.
- You can double click the dragdo.jar file object (Viewed from the Windows Explorer or from the Gnome's Nautilus)
- You can also start D&Do from the Shell/DOS box as explained below
To start D&Do from the Shell/DOS box:
- It is assumed that Java is already installed in your system and properly configured
- Set the working directory to the D&Do home directory (using the "cd" command)
- Type in the following command; there are three options
- Without any argument
java -jar dragdo.jar
- With just one argument
java -jar dragdo.jar metascript_file
With a list of untagged argument list; each one corresponds to a different metascript file (See Metascript List feature)
java -jar dragdo.jar metascript_file1 metascript_file2 ... metascript_fileN
With a tagged argument list; any one is optional and the order is not important (-oslook for displaying D&Do, Windows style; -debug for displaying additional information on the DOS/Shell box)
java -jar dragdo.jar ms=metascript_file -oslook -debug
After a few seconds, you should see a splash dialog box followed by the main D&Do window. Starting D&Do from a Shell/DOS box is recommended for debugging untested metascript files because you will see resolved argument list or commands and you will see the program response.
To close D&Do, click the small square button at the top right corner of the D&Do frame (the one marked as "X").
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