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Welcome
"Soon we shall gold-dusted snapdragon
Sweet William with his homely cottage smell"
Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888
What is Gold?
TJ Software has been developing Pascal toolkits for ten years.
Gold represents an effort to embody all the best features of our
successful TTT and TOT in a single procedural toolkit. Gold is
designed to provide easy to implement procedures which free you
from the more tedious and repetitive programming chores, such as
windows, menus, full screen input, string formatting, date
management, ... you get the idea! The full value of Gold is not
limited to saving you time -- the final program will have a
consistent, easy to use interface, and will lend a very
professional quality to your work. If you want to transform your
dusty old DOS programs into state-of-the-art text mode applications
with features you might expect to find in the best DOS programs
today, just read on. Gold includes the entire source code,
including the ASM routines used for screen writing. Many schools
and colleges have used our products as educational material for
student programmers. If you like a feature in Gold, all you have to
do is look at the source code to see how it's done. The quickest
way to gain an appreciation of the capabilities of Gold is to
execute the program GOLDDEMO.EXE. This program demonstrates some of
the more visible procedures and functions available. The demo
itself was, of course, written with the toolkit. If you haven't yet
run it, do so now.
How to Use Gold
The documentation assumes that you have a basic knowledge of
Borland's Turbo Pascal and understand the structured programming
tenets of procedures, functions and units. One of the best ways to
learn how to take advantage of Gold is by example. We have included
over one hundred example demo files to speed your learning. Chapter
2 provides some guidance on which demos to run first. As a quick
primer, here is an example of how to display a pop-up message in a
dialog box with an interactive OK button (as shown in Figure 1.1).
Required Hardware & Software
Gold is designed to work with versions 6 and 7 of
Turbo/Borland Pascal in both real and protected modes. Programs
developed with Gold will function on the same hardware as specified
in the Turbo Pascal compiler documentation. Any of the standard
display adapters are supported, including monochrome, CGA, EGA and
VGA. Applications built with Gold automatically support a Microsoft
(or true compatible) mouse. Although it appears that Gold will
function with version 5.5 of Pascal, we have not thoroughly tested
it on this platform, and we do recommend that any 5.5 programmers
seriously consider upgrading. We think it's well worth it.
Royalties
The following text is extracted from the User's Guide, and only
applies to the registered version:
"Many Gold users develop commercial programs specifically
to sell for profit. TJ Software, Inc., neither expects
nor requires a royalty fee on such programs. The major
restriction is that you may not develop a program that is
itself a toolkit. In addition, neither the toolkit source
code nor the compiled units may be distributed or sold as
part of another product. If you have not registered your
copy of Gold, you may not develop programs for sale or
distribution. Refer to the license agreement at the front
of this manual for our definitive statement on royalties
and warranties."
Users of the Shareware version of the product may NOT distribute
any executable files created with GOLD. If you want to create EXE's
with Gold for sale or for any form of distribution, you must register
your copy of GOLD.
Support
TJ Software, Inc., strives to support its users. If you have a
problem that you are unable to resolve: Send an Email and upload
your programs to our support BBS at (409) 737-1705. Use cyberspace
to send your problem details to our Compuserve address at
74017,227. Send a diskette containing the problematic software,
together with details of the program and instructions on how to
generate the problem to:
TJ Software, Inc.
6212 Sea Isle, Suite 300
Galveston TX 77554
Fax pertinent details to us at (409) 737-5458.
We regret that we cannot offer continued telephone support and
still provide toolkits at such low registration fees. Feedback from
our customer base indicated a preference to keep prices down and
support problems electronically.
Give Us Your Feedback! Our toolkits are as good as they are
thanks to the feedback from many, many users. We encourage you to
send us any suggestions, code fragments and ideas that you may have
which could improve the product. Many thanks to our long-standing
customers for helping to make Gold as good as it is.