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PROVISION:WINDOWS Screen Painter
Rel 1.5
Welcome to PVW Screen Painter.
This is a simple utility, written completely in Clipper 5.1 and
ProVision:Windows. We studied the "header" files supplied with PVW and created
the natural .dbfs to achieve a "data-driven" environment that would store
window definitions, allow you to see the windows as you created them, and write
out the code (command style) that would produce those windows.
Designing the screens for a system is usually a time consuming part of
the developement phase of most projects. A friend of mine was teasing me by
pointing out Visual Basic's strong screen design orientation, and in fact
he had a good point. So...., since Clipper is one heck of a developement
language, and PVW supplies fantastic user-interface tools, we figured --
why not give it a shot ?!
The menus are, for the most part, self explainatory. You create a project and
associate your windows with that project. This provides a natural grouping of
windows.
Under the "Window" menu you'll see:
Create ---> create new windows for this project
Edit ---> edit the windows of the present project
Show ---> display windows for the present project
(available during most functions anyway)
Duplicate ---> copy a window to save time
Write ---> generate window code for your projects
View ---> view a text file (not a window)
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The rest is pretty straight-forward.
Nelson and I are just about finished with an actual PAINTING version of this
program ala Visual Basic, where you create and resize objects dynamically on a
"form". This is written with the additional help of FUNCkyII.
We would be pleased to answer questions and would very much like to hear from
anyone interested in tesing the final beta of Rel 1.5, which we will offer as
shareware in about a month.
Best Regards and wishes for a happy and health (healthful) New Year.
Nelson Jimenez
Kenny Blackstein
Compuserve: 76576,1667
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