The Shared Menu is a custom menu installed by either URL Manager Pro or Web Confidential in the menu of your web browser or other Internet applications. The Shared Menu gives you access to all your bookmarks stored in URL Manager Pro, the bookmark and URL manager, or your passwords in Web Confidential, the password organizer and encryption tool, provided you have previously installed either or both programs.
By default,
the Shared Menu icon is displayed as a diamond symbol:
In Web Confidential mode (see below), it is displayed as a card symbol:
By default, all bookmarks in your current open URL Manager Pro document will be shown as extra bookmark menus in your web browser's menu bar. Optionally, your bookmark menus will also be shown in other Internet applications, like Eudora and Interarchy.
Your passwords can be accessed from the Confidential submenu of the Shared Menu.
Note: On Mac OS X, you can also access to your bookmarks and passwords from Dock popup menus.
Shared Menus are provided by the so-called Shared Menus Component.
When either URL Manager Pro or Web Confidential is first run, the Shared Menus Component, with your permission, will automatically be installed. However, circumstances may arise when you need to install it manually. In that case, you need to perform the following steps:
Its file name is 'SharedMenus.component'. Its location on your Mac is:
On Mac OS 9:
On Mac OS X:
The ~ character signifies your home directory.
If you wish, you may also move the component to the folder:
Do not install the component in both places; one will suffice.
To deinstall, just remove the component from the 'Extensions' or 'Components' folder and move it to another location. You can also choose the Preferences command from the Diamond Shared Menu and press the Deinstall button.
This lists all commands from the URL Manager Pro or Web Confidential Shared Menu.
For your bookmark documents, please create a folder named 'Bookmarks' in your 'Documents' folder and put your 'Startup Items' and 'Cabinet' folders in your 'Bookmarks' folder of your 'Documents' folder. Idem dito for your password documents: please create a folder named 'Passwords' in your 'Documents' folder.
In other words, the paths of these folders are:
On Mac OS 9:
On Mac OS X:
This lists all preferences:
In the 'General' tab:
In the 'At Startup' tab:
Note: you need to use the Select button to specify which copy of the application on your hard disk you actually want launched.
In the 'Appearance' tab:
U as URL Manager Pro shortcut - enable this keyboard shortcut in your applications.
For your bookmark documents to automatically open at launch time of URL Manager Pro, create a folder named 'Bookmarks' in your 'Documents' folder and within that folder create a folder named 'Startup Items'. Put your default or startup bookmark document in that folder.
In other words, the path is:
On Mac OS 9:
On Mac OS X:
Also make sure that the URL Manager Pro preference 'Open Startup Items' is checked.
To launch URL Manager Pro automatically at launch time of your web browser see the section Preferences/At Startup in the previous paragraph.
For your password documents to automatically open at launch time of Web Confidential, create a folder named 'Passwords' in your 'Documents' folder and within that folder create a folder named 'Startup Items'. Put your default or startup password document in that folder.
In other words, the path is:
On Mac OS 9:
On Mac OS X:
Also make sure that the Web Confidential preference 'Open Startup Items' is checked.
To launch Web Confidential automatically at launch time of your web browser see the section Preferences/At Startup in the previous paragraph.
When you hold down the Control (ctrl) key while choosing Add Bookmark from the Diamond menu, it toggles the behaviour of your Add Notes preference for that instance of the command.
When you hold down the Option (option) key while choosing Add Bookmark from the Diamond menu, a new card with the name and URL of the current web page will be added to Web Confidential instead.
When you hold down the Command (Apple) key while choosing a bookmark menu item, the URL of the bookmark will be copied to the Clipboard.
When you hold down the Command (Apple) key while choosing a password menu item, a utility window showing the card information will be shown.
When you hold down the Option (option) key while choosing a bookmark menu item, the URL of the bookmark will opened in a new browser window.
When you hold down the Option (option) key while clicking the Internet icon of the utility window, the URL of the card will opened in a new browser window.
When you hold down the Command (Apple) key while choosing a menu item of the Mac News submenu, you will load that news page instead.
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