Starting a program by executing its file

[kinook]

Originally Posted by PJMiller

I have not yet found any way to set window background colours in Windows 7. I could easily set them in Windows XP but since Windows 7 I have not had the ability to set many of the things I had control over in Windows XP.

See the screen recording at http://www.kinook.com/Download/Temp/bgcolor.7z

or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Zp8LY1yz4

I suspect Windows 8 would be even more dire and hide even more settings from the user than Windows 7, after all Microsoft knows best.

And, yes, it's even more hidden in Windows 8.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/cont...und-colour.htm

[HippyCraig]

is there a way to open multiple database files in one view (instance of the application) ?

[kinook]

Originally Posted by HippyCraig

is there a way to open multiple database files in one view (instance of the application) ?

As PJMiller mentioned, you can configure it so that each database is displayed in a tab. Show the Database toolbar (View | Toolbars | Database), set Tools | Options | General | Windows taskbar entries to 'One for all when database toolbar displayed', restart UR, and then each database that is opened will be displayed as a tab in the Database toolbar. Click on a particular database tab to switch to it.

[HippyCraig]

Great thanks all for your help

[PJMiller]

Originally Posted by kinook

See the screen recording at http://www.kinook.com/Download/Temp/bgcolor.7z

or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Zp8LY1yz4


And, yes, it's even more hidden in Windows 8.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/cont...und-colour.htm

This is a bit of a cheat really because you are setting the background colour of all windows, not just Ultra Recall.

Programs like MyInfo and MyBasel and even to a certain extent WhizFolders allow the setting of the background colour of individual elements of the user interface. For instance in MyBase I had the background colour of the main editing window as a very light beige, the hierarchical tree of items was a very light green and the hierarchical tree of keywords was a very light blue (yes MyBase has a hierarchical tree of keywords but it main flaw was that it fell over if you had more than about 250 to 300 megabytes of notes within it).

Most of the note taking solutions I reviewed had major faults to a greater or lesser extent, apart from Ultra Recall which has minor faults, which would not be that difficult to correct.

Ultra Recall represents the best note taking solution I have found so far.

[kinook]

Here is another way to set a custom background color for the rich text editor:
http://www.kinook.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=2133