DISKPIE.EXE (VERSION 1.0) Copyright (c) 1994, Neil Rubenking ------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Published in PC Magazine April 26, 1994 (Utilities) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISKPIE by Neil Rubenking PURPOSE: DiskPie is a Windows program that uses pie charts to give you a graphical view of what's taking up space on your hard disk. When you mouse click on a slice, information about that portion of your hard disk is displaced on the status bar. SETUP: DiskPie uses the Visual Basic 3.0 runtime DLL and various other support files. To install DiskPie on a system that has VB 3.0 Pro loaded, simply unzip DISKPI.ZIP into the directory of your choice and add DISKPIE.EXE to a Program Manager group. If VB 3.0 Pro is not on your system, unzip DISKP.ZIP into the directory of your choice and then move GRAPH.VBX, CMDIALOG.VBX, GSW.EXE, and GSWDLL.DLL into your Windows system directory (usually C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM). Put VBRUN300.DLL in the Windows system directory, too, if it isn't already present. Then add DISKPIE.EXE to a Program Manager group. REMARKS: DiskPie can display two types of pie charts: directory (displays files by name) or extention (displays files grouped by extension). You select the type of pie chart from the DiskPie Window menu. When you click on a pie slice, you get detailed in formation about that slice on the status bar. The circle at the left of the status bar changes to the color of the slice, and the status bar text shows the directory or extension for this slice, the actual number of bytes used, and the percentage. If you prefer to use the keyboard rather than the mouse, you can press the space bar to display each slice from the active window in turn. If the active pie window is a directory pie, you can use the mouse or the keyboard to zoom in on any of its slices. To do this, simply double-click on the slice, or press the space bar until its name appears on the status line and then press Enter. If the selected directory has subdirectories, DiskPie creates a new directory pie. Otherwise it will create an extension pie. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Rubenking is Technical Editor of PC Magazine. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------