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o Introduction
o Setting up user profiles
o Sharing documents
o Using several initialization files
      This section describes how to launch VTrain with different settings. In particular, you can do this in order to make different Cardfiles be loaded automatically when you run the program.


1.

  What is an initialization file?
     
    When you launch VTrain, the program loads the settings specific to that user from the file train.ini, which is located in the following folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\<User name>\Application Data\VTrain

This file contains information such as which Cardfile shall be loaded when VTrain is launched, which options of the dialog boxes are active, etc.
     

2.

  Create a new initialization file
     
    Start VTrain, make the changes you want to the program options (in dialog boxes, or open another Cardfile for example) and exit the program.

Open the folder mentioned above and make a copy of the train.ini (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V). Then, rename that copy, for instance train-1.ini (press F2).
     

3.

  Create a batch file that launches VTrain with the new initialization file
     
    Open the Windows Note Pad (Start menu | Programs | Accessories) and enter the following:

copy train.ini train_old.ini /y
copy train-1.ini train.ini /y
"c:\program files\vtrain\train.exe"

Save the resulting document as train-1.bat in the folder mentioned above. This is a so-called "batch file". When you double click on this file, it will launch VTrain with the settings contained in train-1.ini.
     

4.

  Create a shortcut to the batch file
     
    In Windows Explorer, right click the batch file you have just created (train-1.bat) and choose Create shortcut.
     

5.

  Move the shortcut to the Windows Start menu
     
    Open two instances of Windows Explorer and place them side by side on your desktop. In one of them, open the program folder. In the other one, open the Start menu folder of the user Cathy:
c:\Documents and Settings\<User name>\Start menu

Finally, drag the shortcut created in the previous step to your Start menu folder.
     

6.

  Repeat this procedure
     
    Follow the previous steps again for every settings file you need (train-2.ini, train-3.ini, etc.).
   
                 
                 
   
     
   
    Updated: 2008 January 5
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