~Click Here And Press View ~A quick introduction to the Cheet Sheets User Interface By Neil Gorin ~SELECTING AN ARTICLE Articles in Cheet Sheets are categorised under four headings, each shown as a tab on the main menu dialogue box. To select a category, click on a tab - the articles in the list will change accordingly. To select an article, click on it (this will highlight the article) and press the View button. More articles may be found by scrolling the list using the arrows at the right of the list box. ~VIEWING AN ARTICLE The viewing window (which you're looking at now) can be scrolled up and down using the mouse cursor on the scroll bar to the right. Alternatively, you can use the cursor keys and Page-Up/Page-Down keys to move around. Note that if you haven't got a mouse, the cursor keys are used to move the mouse pointer, so you should use CTRL-PAGEUP and CTRL-PAGEDOWN to scroll the document. NOTE: Some computers can't handle the single line scrolling used in Cheet Sheets, due to a Video BIOS limitation. These are detected automatically, and page up/page down scrolling used instead. GO BACK: Returns you to the main menu. PRINT: Clicking on the print button will send the text of the article to the printer on LPT1. PLAY: Activates "Noise Suppression" feature! If you're listening to the music through the PC Speaker, you'll hear a lot of hiss while the magazine processes mouse and button handling - clicking on this button disables everything but the page-up and page-down keys to give vastly better sound quality! Just press any other key to return to normal. VIEW SCREEN SHOTS: Some documents have accompanying screen shots (reviews for instance). Clicking on View Screen Shots allows you to see these - click once to progress to the next picture, the magazine will return when you've finished. ~THE MUSIC INTERFACE If you've got a SoundBlaster or compatible, you'll hear great music all the while you're running Cheet Sheets. If you've not got one, you'll hear the same music sent through your PC Speaker - which sometimes sounds good, but on many PCs is a bit crap. The main CHEET.EXE program accepts the following music command lines, should you want to force Cheet Sheets to use a different setting: Force SoundBlaster mode if not detected: CHEET /SB Force Internal Speaker: CHEET /SP No music: CHEET /SILENT When using the main menu, you can access the features of the sound system at the base of the screen. Buttons are provided for searching forwards and backwards in a song, playing and stopping the music and for advancing to the next track (which is done automatically at the end of any song). The three buttons to the right, confuse many people. These control the quality of the music coming through your SoundBlaster or Speaker - initially, this is set to the lowest quality (the left hand side setting) which is Ok for all PCs. However, if you have a fast 386 or 486 and a SoundBlaster, try the middle setting for much better sound quality. Similarly, with a high power machine (like a 486DX-50+) setting the highest setting may increase quality further still. If you don't have a sound blaster, selecting the highest setting will give much better quality music - even on a relatively slow PC.