MiniDisc is able to remove all of the filer icons (and a few others) from your iconbar. Instead, you are presented with a simple menu allowing you to access your drives.

Features include:

• Recovery of your iconbar space by removing all system device icons from the left hand side of the iconbar
• All devices are made available via a dynamic, fully customisable iconbar menu
• Many filer functions (Rename disc, free, dismount etc...) available via (hideable) filing system control sub-menus
• Generates dynamic, hierarchical directory listings for each attached device as sub-menus of the main MiniDisc menu
• Many filing-system-specific customisable features that enhance the operation of the original filing system
• Support for a number of third-party programs, such as 'ArmTCP' and 'Memphis'

The MiniDisc icon, as well as providing a filer drives menu, includes a wealth of customisable features:

Up to 16 customisable iconbar 'Click' actions.
Combine Select and Adjust mouse clicks with Shift, Ctrl & Alt keyboard modifiers. Iconbar actions include the ability to:

• Execute commands
• Open files, directory windows, or run applications
• Launch a URL
• Display menus of files in a directory (a-la Director)
• Cycle iconbar icon type
• Display MiniDisc Shortcuts menus
• Coming soon : Insert keystrokes into the keyboard buffer

Up to 8 customisable iconbar 'Drag-To' actions.
Different actions can be assigned for files dragged using Shift, Ctrl & Alt keyboard modifiers. Iconbar drag actions include the ability to:

• Copy / save files to a specified directory
• Delete files
• Set the CSD
• Execute commands
• Add new items into Shortcuts menus
• Coming soon : 'Smart' saves and Trash facilities

Customisable iconbar icon appearance including:

• Normal (sprite-only)
• Display the current time underneath the iconbar icon
• Display the current date underneath the iconbar icon
• Display your computers available memory underneath the iconbar icon
• Display some user-defined text (including system string substitution) underneath the iconbar icon

Previous versions of MiniDisc used Nick Craig-Woods Director application for the generation of icons and menus. Many users were put-off of using MiniDisc due to the complexities of Director.

Introducing MiniDisc Shortcuts...

From version 0.5.0 onwards, MiniDisc no longer depends upon Director, generating icons and menus all by itself! In fact, with the introduction of Shortcuts menus and Filters, MiniDisc almost completely replaces Director!

Features include:

• Straight-forward, fully WYSIWYG drag-and-drop menu builder
• Shortcuts menus can be opened from:
  • The main MiniDisc menu
  • As additional menus from the iconbar icon
  • Attached to other shortcuts menus
  • Via a keyboard shortcut
  • From a desktop filter
  • Via a * Command (so that you can use them in other programs)
  • Assigned to a Toolbar button

Shortcuts menus can contain items to:

• Exexute RISC OS commands
• Open files, directory viewers or run applications
• Launch URLs
• Generate hierarchical directory listings menus
• Link to other shortcuts menus
• Coming soon: Insert keystrokes into the keyboard buffer

As a result of user requests, MiniDisc also now sports a toolbar facility!

Key toolbar features:

• Toolbar will hide from view whilst not in use, then 'pop-up' when you move the mouse over a desktop 'hot-spot'
• Your drive icons can be added to the toolbar, just as in the MiniDisc menu
• The contents of a Shortcuts menu may also be added to a toolbar (thus allowing you to use the friendly 'Shortcuts Builder' program to configure your toolbar)

As a result of ongoing MiniDisc development, it has been possible to intercept normal desktop events (mouse clicks, movement, key presses etc.) and enable MiniDisc to perform alternate / additional actions

At present, these filters are limited to those that MiniDisc requires, however future versions will incorporate an easy-to-use filter creation tool that will allow you to build your own desktop filters.

Watch this space...