Version 1.3
Released on Wednesday, 23 June 1999

Created by Matthijs Hollemans
matthijs@weirdexperiments.com
http://www.weirdexperiments.com

What is it
Selective is a simple Tracker add-on for BeOS R4.5 or better that lets you enter a wildcard pattern to select files from a Tracker window.

How to install it
Double-click the Installer icon to launch the installation program. The Installer will automatically put Selective in the "/boot/home/config/add-ons/Tracker/" folder.

How to get rid of it
Double-click the Uninstaller icon to launch the uninstallation program. The Uninstaller will automatically remove Selective from your system.

How to use it
Go to the window that contains the files that you want to select. Then right-click somewhere in the window or open the File menu. Go to Add-Ons and choose Selective. Alternatively you can press the keys RightCtrl-RightAlt-W (PC keyboard) or Command-Control-W (Macintosh keyboard).

In the small window that pops up you can enter the selection pattern. The pattern may contain the wildcards *, which matches any character zero or more times, and ?, which matches any single character. Selective is not case-sensitive.

So, for example, be* will match BeOS and beer, and *.html will match any files with the extension .html. On the other hand, be? will only match things like bee and BET, but not beer.

If you selected any files before you invoked Selective, it will only try to match these files against the pattern. If you didn't make a selection, then Selective will consider all the files from that folder.

Thanks
Thanks to Michael Pieper and Yaka St. Aise for letting me know that version 1.0 did not compile correctly on PowerPC machines, and to Jonas Sundstrom for suggesting several new features.

Legal Stuff
Selective is public domain, so you may do anything you like with it. No warranties expressed or implied. I am not responsible for whatever may happen to whomever, whenever.

Release Notes
Version 1.0 (Saturday, 3 April 1999)

• First version.

• Fixed some bugs in the source code that prevented Selective from compiling correctly on PowerPC machines.
• If a selection has been made before Selective is invoked, it will only act on the files from this selection.
• Made various small changes, such as disabling the window's zoom button.

• Now the selection will be made as you type.
• Pressing the Cancel button will restore the selection that was made before Selective was invoked.

• Official release for BeOS R4.5.