Multi-panel plug-in for FAR Manager, Installation guide

1. Copy the files into the FAR plugins directory, under, for example,
MultiPanel/. Restart FAR.

(If FAR reports that it cannot load the plugin, make sure the system has the
%SystemRoot%\system32\msvcp60.dll file. This standard library was not shipped
with Windows versions before Windows Millenium Edition. However, many popular
applications, like Office 2000, would install this library for you themselves.
Moreover, before Windows 95 OSR 2.5 and Office 97, the system did not have
another library required by the plugin, %SystemRoot%\system32\msvcrt.dll.
Usually if your system has been installed for a while, it should already have
all the libraries necessary for the plugin to work.)

2. Assign a key to the plugin item in the FAR plugin commands menu (F11),
for example, z.

3. Create the following FAR key macros in the Shell macro group:
	Ctrl~       -> F11 z CtrlQ Ctrl~       (Next panel)
	CtrlShift~  -> F11 z CtrlQ CtrlShift~  (Previous panel)
	CtrlF3      -> F11 z CtrlQ CtrlF3      (Clone panel)
	CtrlF4      -> F11 z CtrlQ CtrlF4      (Close panel)

To get advantage of automatic saving and restoring of files panels between
FAR sessions, also create the following macros in the Shell macro group:

	F10              -> F11 z ShiftF9 Enter Esc F10  (Quit (extended))
	CtrlAltShiftF10  -> F11 z CtrlShiftF9 Enter Esc  (Start (extended))
		NOTE: The CtrlAltShiftF10 macro command must have
		its "Run after FAR start" flag set. In this case,
		the actual name of such a macro command does not
		matter, so the name CtrlAltShiftF10 is used here.

Optionally create the following macros in the Shell macro group:

	CtrlShiftF4      -> F11 z CtrlQ CtrlShiftF4       (New panel)
	CtrlMsWheelDown  -> F11 z CtrlQ MsWheelDown       (Next panel)
	CtrlMsWheelUp    -> F11 z CtrlQ MsWheelUp         (Previous panel)
	CtrlDown         -> F11 z CtrlQ CtrlF Ctrl~       (Next panel*)
	CtrlUp           -> F11 z CtrlQ CtrlF CtrlShift~  (Previous panel*)
		(* - fixed panel order)

	CtrlU -> F11 z CtrlShiftF4 Enter Tab F11 z Ctrl~ Enter Tab F11 z
		CtrlF4 Enter (Swap panels (extended)) - Swaps panel contents,
		but not panel sizes. (The FAR's standard CtrlU swaps both -
		panel contents and panel sizes, and is considered not very
		logical.) Additionally, the new CtrlU macro fixes the panel
		index bug (see TECHINFO 1).

	CtrlShiftF3 -> CtrlL CtrlL F11 z CtrlF3 Enter Tab F11 z Ctrl~
		Enter Tab (Clone panel aside) - Clones the currently selected
		panel to the other side of the screen. Sometimes can be very
		convenient for fast expert work!

Note that in the future, if and when the Editor and Viewer screen panels
are supported by the plugin, the Next panel and Previous panel commands
of the plugin might eventually be assignable to CtrlTab and CtrlShiftTab,
which currently execute the standard FAR screen switching commands. Right
now, from the usability standpoint, the old FAR screen switching commands
are kept accessible at the same time with the new commands of the plugin.

Panel list can also always be invoked in the "normal" dialog mode, using
F11 z, and all the commands of the plugin, available in the file panels,
will be available there too (Next/Previous/Clone/Close panel). In the
future, the Screen list command (F12) might become assignable to activate
the Panel list. Right now, both commands, the new and the old one, can be
independently accessed, until all the panel types are supported (meaning
the Editor and the Viewer panels).

See a install_*.reg file for a sample key assignment.
