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Here it comes again !! An update of my little all purpose library of
programming tools. For those who never heard of this humble work, it
contains PB routines to allow you to write complete pulldown menu
interfaces, rodent-aware, just by copying a demo program; fancy entry
routines for string or numeric data, phone #s, dates etc (never use
INPUT again!), date arith., get file dirs & diskspace, open a data-entry
window, dialog box, let users customize colors, push & pop screens, &
much more! All in PB units. Free -- but if you use it to make money I do
request that you send me a little. Just whatever you think it's worth.
It has happened -- and I do much appreciate it, as an acknowledgement of
my work as well as extra dinero.
So I call this Version 2.00002, November 90. It is compatible with both
versions 2.0 and 2.1 of POWER BASIC. I incorporated some suggested
improvements and a 3 fixes into FENTRY-U. The window preprocessors now both
compile under PB -- one of them hadn't been updated from the TB 1.1 version
when I first uploaded this suite. Oops!
I'm leaving DirFirst and DirNext as is, since they return the file date,
time and size. Users of PB version 2.1 will of course want to use the
built-in function DIR$ if all they need is a filename or a yes-or-no
answer to the file's existence. (For the latter need under 2.0, we still
have function EXIST in this library. Just say IF EXIST ("filename.ext") ...
I wrote sub FASTPHONE () -- much better than ENTERPHONE; and based on a
suggestion , I fixed ROTADATE so you can choose the cursor key system
(incr/decr date) or just type in a 4 or 6-digit date without pressing
the spacebar first (thanks, Al). I bulletproofed of QBox () and
BOXMESSAGE () and made a new demo routine to test them. I made
InsertStatus for the entry routines a Global var. so it stays set from
field to field and made minor inprovements in PWW & SWW which don't
affect input or output.
Last, I wrote a MAKEDEMO.BAT to compile the utilities & units, do the
preprocessing and create & run the demo automatically !!
Have fun --
Howard