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Subdirectory Creator Example

Note: To execute this example, you need a commercial license since the tagged drop feature is not available in the freeware version. However, the freeware version will associate a drop with a tag but it will not execute the program.

This sub-section illustrates the "efficient way" of creating many subdirectories from text fragment taken from viewed Web pages; it corresponds to Example 1 of the Introduction. It assumes that you already have started D&Do, that you know how to load a metascript and that you know how to highlight text, to use the clipboard and to drag and drop desktop objects.

D&Do is now ready to accept another target directory followed by other text fragments. D&Do had simply eased the program usage for you; it is the program itself that has created the subdirectories.

Try the program from the command line and see how many typing and clicking you have to do. Try also to create directories manually directly from the Windows Explorer and see how inconvenient it is if you want to create tens of subdirectories.

Let us experiment a little more.

The results are the same except that the subdirectory names are slightly different -- spaces in each text fragment are replaced by underscores. This is because you are using the underlying program differently. You can display the documentation about the DCreator metascript, just click the "Help" menu item of the popup menu.

That gives a good idea on how D&Do is used and on some of its possibilities. If the metascript and program files are provided by someone else, you may skip the Metascript Exploration section. For those who want to build metascripts, read on.

 


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