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- THE WORKSHOP
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- WORKSHOP.EXE
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- The WORKSHOP has been provided, complete with source code, to
- facilitate the designing and building of graphics screens. Graphic
- objects can be placed onto the screen, repositioned, resized, etc.,
- until the screen appears as you wish. Then, when you save the screen,
- the WORKSHOP writes the source code for you into a .COD file which you
- can then easily paste into your source code. WHAT A TIME SAVER!!!
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- When the WORKSHOP starts up, the tool palette, and the memory
- indicator are all that is present on the screen. Pressing ALT-T will
- toggle the display of the tool bar. ALT-M will toggle the memory
- display. If you move the mouse cursor to the top few pixels of the
- tool bar you will see it change to a black pointing hand. You can now
- drag the toolbar to a new position by pressing the left mouse button.
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- Choose one of the buttons on the toolbar to add an object of
- that type to the screen. You will be prompted to enter a name for the new
- object. This will be the variable name of that particular instance
- within your application. The mouse cursor will change to crosshairs.
- Click the left mouse button when the cursor is at the position you wish
- for the upper left corner of your new object. It will than appear at
- that position on the screen.
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- When the cursor is over any object, it will change to a hand. You
- can then drag the object to a new position while pressing the left mouse
- button. If the cursor is within 4 pixels of the lower right corner of
- an object, it will chage to a pointing finger. You can then resize the
- object by dragging with the left mouse button pressed. If you click the left
- mouse button when the cursor is over an object while holding down a
- SHIFT key, a dialog will pop up allowing you to change the characteristics
- of the object.
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- Line objects can only be moved from their endpoints. Pressing
- the right mouse button at any time will cause the entire screen to
- be redrawn.
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- When the screen appears as you wish, press the save button and
- enter a filename for your screen. Two files will be created. The file with
- a .SCR extension is a binary file used by the WORKSHOP to re-create your
- screen when loading it from disk. The file with the .COD extension is
- the code that the WORKSHOP has created for you to paste into your app-
- lication.
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- Complete source for this project has been provided for both
- reference and enhancement purposes.
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