ADDING FILES TO LAUNCH GROUPS

Once you have added one or more launch groups to your Launch Groups tool, you are ready to populate them with actual audio files for future launching.

NOTE:  Audio files in the LaunchGroups tool can only be added to custom launch groups, not to the “Groups” anchor itself. If you wish to have launch access to independent audio files not in a launch group, use the QuickLauncher tool. 

To add a file to a launch group, right-click on that group entry, and select “Add File” from the pop-up menu.

This will display the "Add New File to Group" form. This form has two pieces of information to enter, “New caption” and “New file/path”. At the top it tells you which launch group you are adding the file to (in this example, a file is being added to the “Sound FX” group.)

New caption
This is where you type in a “nickname” or caption by which you wish to identify the file in the display. For example, if you wish to add the sound effect file of a car crashing to this group, you might give it the caption “Car crash” (you do not need to type the quotation marks.)

New file/path 
This is where you type in the whole path and file name for the actual audio file associated with this entry.

Browse button
If you do not wish to type the file path and name manually, or are not sure of the exact file path or name, you may click the “Browse” button located just to the right of the file/path field to pop up a standard Windows “file dialog box”, which allows you to browse your system’s (or network’s) drives and folders for the audio file you wish.  When you find and select the desired file, the dialog box will disappear and the selected file name will appear in the file/path field 

When done, click “OK” to save the new information to the Launch Groups tool. To back out without adding any new information, click “Cancel.