This example is a bit of a departure from the earlier examples.
It shows how System aXs can be used to act as a front-end for a collection of useful PC tools and applications.
Here's our PC Tools entry in the Edit Tab...
The Eye 'Show Entries' option is selected so you can see most of the 'A1' to 'A6' text values...
The way I set this up was to test strings in the Acc field and then copy working ones across to the A1 to A6 strings using the 'Paste Access Text' Option.
Let's look at one example of this...
Assume we haven't set up the first calculator tool option.
There are certain tools and applications that can be run using the Run command, and 'calc' is one of them.
Here we can see 'calc' typed into the Run box.
[OK] will bring up the Calculator.
There are two ways we can run the Calculator from System aXs.
The first way is to use the Acc right-click 'Browse for Application' option and go find it...
Many operating system tools and apps can be found in the Windows directory inside another folder called System32.
And here we have it - calc.exe
Selecting the file and clicking the [Open] button loads the file name and it's folder location into the 'Acc' input field.
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\calc.exe' works perfectly when we select the Find Tab and try the [Access] button.
Note the 'pc' Text in the find search field which brings up our PC Tools entry.
But there is a shorter option.
As calc runs from the run box, that's all we need.
Adding 3 $ symbols to an 'Acc' string tells System aXs that this is an application that needs running.
$calc$$ will do the job.
The last two '$' signs allow us to pass other parameters to the application, but we're not going to use them in this example.
Right-clicking on the 'Acc' input field brings up several options which includes 'Copy Text', which is the one we're going to use here.
We then right-click over the 'A1' input field and select the 'Paste Access Text' option.
And there we have it, The Calc access string in A1.
To tell System aXs to treat an Answer string A1 to A8 as an Access string, we have to add extra characters to it.
These are '$@' added to the front of the string.
'Paste Over' would have simply pasted '$calc$$', and wouldn't have been treated as an Access string, it would just have been copied into the Paste buffer.
'Paste Access Text' adds the special characters to the front of the text in the Paste buffer for you.
And here we have the Calculator being opened by the Access string operated by the [A1] button.
The other PC Tools strings in this example are...
Command Prompt : $@$cmd$$
Event Viewer : $@$eventvwr$$
Notepad : $@$notepad$$
Registry Editor : $@$regedit$$
Performance Monitor : $@$perfmon$$