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WinEdit User's Manual Wilson WindowWare, Inc. 2701 California Ave SW #212 Seattle, WA 98116 USA Orders: (800) 762-8383 Support: (206) 937-9335 Fax: (206) 935-7129 Copyright c 1990-1993 by Steve Schauer All Rights Reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, for any purpose without the express written permission of Wilson WindowWare, Inc. Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment by Wilson WindowWare, Inc. The software described herein is furnished under a license agreement. It is against the law to copy this software under any circumstances except as provided by the license agreement. U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subdivision (b)(3)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at 252.227-7013. Contractor/manufacturer is Wilson WindowWare /2701 California Ave SW /suite 212/ Seattle, WA 98116 TRADEMARKS Microsoft and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. WinEdit is a trademark of Wilson WindowWare, Inc. CONTENTS WinEdit OverView ................................1 WinEdit Keyboard and Mouse Commands .............2 Moving the Insertion Point .................2 Selecting Text .............................2 Help Keys ..................................3 Other Keys .................................3 Mouse Operations ...........................4 Running Multiple Instances of WinEdit ...........5 WinEdit Menus ...................................6 File Menu Commands .........................6 Edit Menu Commands .........................9 Search Menu Commands ......................11 Project Menu Commands .....................13 Macro Menu Commands .......................14 Window Menu Commands ......................15 Utility Menu Commands .....................16 WinEdit Procedures .............................17 Changing Printers and Printer Options .....17 Compiling (Running other programs) ........17 Control Bar ...............................19 Editing Text ...................................20 Editing Shortcuts: ........................20 Deleting Text .............................20 Tab and SHIFT Tab .........................21 Working With Multiple Documents ................22 Extended Help ..................................23 Finding Text ...................................24 Using Regular Expressions ......................25 Windows 3.1 Support ............................26 "Drag and Drop" ...........................26 "Sounds" ..................................26 Printing Documents .............................27 Saving Documents ...............................28 Setting Preferences ............................29 Setting Margins, Headers and Footers ...........30 Headers and Footers .......................30 Margins ...................................30 Undo and Redo ..................................31 Undo ......................................31 Redo ......................................31 WinEdit Project Files ..........................32 WinEdit Extensions .............................33 Creating a WinEdit Extension ..............33 Loading the Extension .....................34 Processing Menu Selections ................36 Initializing the Extension Menu ...........36 WinEdit Extension Example .................37 Configuring the Utility Menu ...................42 WinEdit OverView WinEdit is an ASCII text editor capable of editing numerous ASCII text files of an almost unlimited size (limited only by available Windows memory). WinEdit is first and foremost a programmer's editor, with many features designed for creating and maintaining program source code. Build, debug and run your programs directly from WinEdit with the ability to view any compiler errors or warnings and the corresponding source code. As an ASCII text editor, WinEdit allows you to open numerous text files at once, print half sized "two-up" pages side by side in landscape orientation, print headers and footer text (document name, date and time, page number), merge files together, and word wrap your text to the size of the window (word wrap). 1 WinEdit Keyboard and Mouse Commands Moving the Insertion Point Key(s) Function Up Arrow Moves up one line. Down Arrow Moves down one line. Right Arrow Moves right one character. Left Arrow Moves left one character. CTRL+Right Arrow Moves right one word (insertion point is positioned at the beginning of the next word). CTRL+Left Arrow Moves left one word (insertion point is positioned at the beginning of the previous word). Home Moves to the beginning of the line. End Moves to the end of the line. PgUp Moves the view up one screenful. PgDn Moves the view down one screenful. CTRL+Home Moves to the beginning of the document. CTRL+End Moves to the end of the document. Selecting Text Key(s) Function SHIFT+Left or Right Arrow Extends the selection of text one character at a time. SHIFT+Down or Up Selects one line of text up or down from the current selection. SHIFT+Home Selects text from the insertion point to the beginning of the line. SHIFT+End Selects text from the insertion point to the end of the line. CTRL+SHIFT+Left Arrow Selects the previous word. CTRL+SHIFT+Right Arrow Selects the next word. CTRL+SHIFT+PgUp Selects the previous screen of text. CTRL+SHIFT+PgDn Selects the next screen of text. CTRL+SHIFT+Home Selects text from the insertion point to the beginning of the document. CTRL+SHIFT+End Selects text from the insertion point to the end of the document. 2 Help Keys Key(s) Function F1 WinEdit Help Index Shift+F1* Extended Help (Keyword Help) *The cursor needs to be positioned on the desired function, message or data structure name when pressing SHIFT+F1. Other Keys Press the Tab key to insert a number of spaces and bring the insertion point to the next tab stop. The number of spaces inserted when the tab key is pressed is configurable in File Preferences (choose any value from 1 to 12). For example if the "Tab Size" is set to 3 in File Preferences, pressing the Tab key will advance the cursor three spaces to the right. The SHIFT+Tab key combination moves the current position back to the previous tab stop (to the left). For example if the "Tab Size" is set to 3 in File Preferences, pressing the SHIFT+Tab key combination will move the cursor three spaces/positions to the left. If more than one line is selected, the Tab and SHIFT+Tab keys will shift every line in the selection forwards (Tab) or backwards (SHIFT+Tab) by one tab stop. 3 Mouse Operations Click the Left mouse button on Control Bar along the top of the WinEdit screen and drag your mouse to "tear" the Control Bar from the top of the window. The Control Bar can be resized or moved anywhere on the screen. See Control Bar for more information. Click the Right mouse button anywhere on the document window and a Popup menu will appear with a number of commands (such as Open, Find, Save and Next Error). Hold the SHIFT key and click the Right mouse button on any function, message, or data structure name and WinEdit will access the help system topic for that item. Double click the Left mouse button over a word to select the word. Double click the Left mouse on message area of the status bar (the area to the right of the INS/OVR indicator) to jump to the Next Error message. Double click the Left mouse button on word "Line" in the status bar to bring up the Goto to Line box. Double click the Left mouse button on "INS" or "OVR" in the status bar to toggle between insert and overtype mode. 4 Running Multiple Instances of WinEdit When starting a new copy of WinEdit, the active copy will be reactivated. If an associated file is double clicked, the current copy will load that file. WinEdit will only allow a single instance, unless the following entry is added to the WINEDIT.INI file: MULTIPLEINST=1 The WINEDIT.INI file is a text file located in your Windows directory. 5 WinEdit Menus File Menu Commands New Opens a new untitled document window. Existing documents will not be closed when opening a new document. Open... Opens a new window with the contents of an existing document/file. List the files of a certain type by selecting one of the following from the lower list box of file types: Source Files (*.c;*.h;*.rc;*.def) Text Files (*.txt) All Files (*.*) WinEdit can open an ASCII text file as large as available Windows memory. Select the appropriate drive and directory, select a file to open and choose the OK button. The default directory for the File Open command is set in the Project Management dialog (choose Configure from the Project menu). Once a file is opened, the full path and filename is displayed in the caption bar of the window. Merge... To merge in the contents of another file into the active windows/document, position your cursor at the location where you would like the text from another file to appear. Choose Merge from the File menu, select a filename and choose the OK button to merge in the text. WinEdit will merge the contents of the file you selected starting on the line just below your insertion point. Previous Files... Choose Previous Files to quickly open a file that you previously edited. WinEdit remembers the last 20 files that you have had open and lists these files in the Reopen File dialog. Double click on a filename in the list box or select the file and choose the OK button to open the file. If the you wish to open is not listed, choose the Open Now button to access the standard File Open dialog. 6 Close To close the document window before you, select Close from the File menu or double click on the close bar for the active window. If the document has changed since you last saved the file, WinEdit will prompt you to save changes to the file. Save Saves the contents of the current window to disk. If the document is UNTITLED, WinEdit prompts you for a document name. In the Save File As dialog, provide a File Name with an extension (WinEdit does not automatically add a file extension to your filename). The file remains open after it is saved to disk. Save As... Choose the Save As option to save the contents of the active window to a new or different filename. With the Save As command you can save FILE1.TXT as FILE2.TXT, leaving FILE1.TXT on disk as previously saved with the latest changes written to FILE2.TXT. Print Prints the current document using the print settings entered in the Page Setup dialog box. Page Setup... Allows you to set the margins, header and/or footer text, select a printer font, and choose a page layout (one portrait page of text per page or two pages in a landscape orientation). Printer Setup... Before printing from WinEdit, choose Printer Setup to access printer options for the active Windows printer driver. Preferences... Allows you to choose the screen font WinEdit uses for displaying text in the document window, the tab size (number of spaces per tab), whether the Control Bar is shown, and startup window size and an optional message box sound. 7 Exit Closes all open windows and exits the WinEdit program. If there are any unsaved files, WinEdit prompts you to save each file before exiting. If you intend to close all of the open windows/documents and not exit WinEdit, then choose Close All from the Window menu. 8 Edit Menu Commands Undo Allows you to "undo" previous editing actions. WinEdit can undo the following edits: Inserting a character. Deleting a character. Cutting a selection. Pasting a selection. WinEdit can undo the last 2000 editing actions. Press CTRL+Z to undo the last editing action. Redo Allows you to reverse any Undo command. If you undo an editing action by mistake, you can "redo" the edit. Press SHIFT+CTRL+Z to redo the last editing action. Cut Removes the current selection (highlighted text) from the document and places it on the Windows clipboard. You can then paste the contents of the clipboard at another position in the document, into a new document, or into another Windows application. Copy Places a copy of the current selection (highlighted text) on the Windows clipboard without removing it from the document. You can then paste the contents of the clipboard at another position in the document, into a new document, or into another Windows application. Paste Inserts the text from the Windows clipboard into the document at the current insertion point. Delete Removes the current selection from the document without changing the contents of the clipboard. If there is no selection, the character to the right of the insertion point is deleted. 9 Insert Mode When Insert Mode is selected from the Edit menu, text is inserted at the current insertion position (if there is text to the right of the insertion position the text is pushed to the right as you insert text). When Insert Mode is not selected, WinEdit is in "Overtype" mode. When in Overtype mode, text to the right of the insertion position is overwritten with the new text that is typed. The status line at the bottom of the WinEdit screen, indicates the current editing status: OVR - Overtype is active INS - Insert mode is active The Insert or INS key toggles the editing mode from OVR to INS and back. Word Wrap When Word Wrap is selected from the Edit menu, any text you enter will automatically wrap to the next line when the end of the line is reached (the end of the line is determined by the width of the document window). Turning Word Wrap "on" does not affect the word wrap of existing text, but rather only new text that is typed into the window. Column Block (ALT+C) To select a column of text, turn the Column Break option on (press ALT+C) prior to selecting text. You can then select text using the mouse or by holding down the Shift key and using the arrow keys on the keyboard to extend the selection. Column select allows you to select a portion of a line for multiple lines, i.e. columns 5-10 for lines 100-120. The status bar at the bottom of the WinEdit window displays the column and line number for the cursor position (i.e. Line 6 Col 16). Select All Selects all of the text in the document window. 10 Search Menu Commands Find... Searches for text in a document. You can specify these options: * Find Type the text you want to find. * Match Upper/Lower Case Select this box to match the upper and lower case exactly. * Forward Search forward in the document starting at the insertion point. * Backward Search backward in the document starting at the insertion point. Repeat Last Find Allows you to repeat the last search using the same options as the previous search, without opening the Find dialog box again. The quick key combination to repeat the last search/find is CTRL+F5. Change... Searches for text within a document and replaces the found text with text you specify (essentially a search and replace function). You can specify the following options: * Find Type the text you want to find in the document. * Replace with Type the text you want to insert in place of the found text. * Match case Select this box to match the upper and lower case exactly. * Search backwards Search backward through the document starting at the insertion point. * Confirm before changing When the search text is found, you will be asked if you want to change the occurrence with the replacement text (choose Yes, No or Cancel). * Change All When this option is selected, WinEdit will start at the current cursor position and search the entire document. If the "Confirm before changing" box is selected, you will be asked if you want to change the occurrence with the replacement text (choose Yes, No or Cancel). 11 Next Error Prev Error If any warning or error messages have been captured from the output of one of the Project Menu items, the Next and Prev Error menu selections allow you to review the error messages and the corresponding source code. Double clicking with the mouse on message area of the status bar (the area to the right of the INS/OVR indicator) is equivalent to choosing Next Error from the Search menu. View Compiler Output If any of the options in the Project Management dialog (choose Configure... from the Project menu) were set to "capture output", the View Compiler Output command will open a new document window with the contents of the captured output file. Go to line... Choose this menu item to jump to a particular line number in your document. After choosing "Go to line", type the appropriate line number in the "Go to line" box on the status bar. Press the Enter key and WinEdit will accept the number and move the cursor to the beginning of the indicated line. By default the current line number is displayed in the "Go to line" box on the status bar. There are three ways to access the "Goto box" on the status bar: Press ALT+G on the keyboard. Double click on the line and column text on the status bar. Choose "Go to line..." from the Search menu. 12 Project Menu Commands The commands on this menu allow you to run other programs from within WinEdit. Before compiling your program using the choose the Configure menu command to enter the necessary commands to run the program/compiler. Select the Capture Output box and WinEdit will run the program you configure and save its output (choose View Compiler Output from the Search menu to view compiler errors). When the compilation (Build or Rebuild) finishes, WinEdit will ask if you wish to review any warning or error messages, along with the corresponding source code. %f = file name %n = base name with no extension %e = file extension only Compile command: tee.com cl -c -AM -W4 -Zps -Od -DNOCOMM %f Make command: tee.com nmk.com %n Rebuild command: tee.com nmk.com /a %n Debug command: cvw %n Execute command: %n TEE.COM is included with WinEdit and is the DOS equivalent of the UNIX TEE. WinEdit uses TEE.COM to redirect the stdout and stderr to a file while also echoing the information to the screen. Note: WinEdit constructs a batch file to execute from DOS when you choose to capture output. For this reason, when running a Windows application from the Run menu, do not choose to capture the output. 13 Macro Menu Commands The macro menu includes a macro recorder (Record on) and a listing of your recorded macros. To turn on the macro recorder press ALT+R from the keyboard or choose Record on from the Macro menu. The command name for the Macro recorder changes to Record off when the macro recorder is on (also note that the text "Recording macro" text appears in the lower right corner of the status bar). While the recorder is "on", WinEdit will record your keystrokes so that they can later be assigned to a key for quick playback. To turn off the recorder once your macro is complete, choose Record off from the Macro menu or press ALT+R. Once the recorder is turned off a dialog will appear prompting you for information about the recorded macro. WinEdit prompts you for a name for the macro. The name you enter will be listed under the macro menu along with it's corresponding ALT key combination. The key combinations that can be assigned are ALT+1 - ALT+10. Example of a recorded macro to delete the current line: 1. Turn on the macro recorder by pressing ALT+R or choose "Record on" from the Macro menu. 2. Press the Home key on the keyboard to move to the beginning of the line. 3. Press SHIFT+END to highlight from the beginning of the line to the end. 4. Press the Del or Delete key. 5. Choose "Record off" from the Macro menu or press ALT+R. 6. Choose a number from 1 to 10 to indicate the ALT key combination for the macro (i.e. ALT+1). 7. Type a name for the macro such as "Delete Line" and choose the OK button. 8. Drop down the macro menu (ALT+M) to see the newly added recorded macro. Note: The macro recorder can only record keystrokes and not mouse movements. 14 Window Menu Commands Tile Choose Tile from the Windows menu to arrange all of the open windows on the screen so that a portion of each windows can be seen. Cascade Choose Cascade to arrange all of the open windows in a stack. When this is done the title bar for each window is visible so that the window can be made active by clicking on the title bar. Next Choose Next to change the active window to the next open document window. Arrange Icons WinEdit windows that have been minimized appear at the bottom of the screen as an icon. Arrange Icons will place the document window icons along the bottom of the window in rows left to right. Close All Closes all open document windows. If changes have been made to a document since it was last saved, you will be prompted to save changes before WinEdit closes the file. Document Names Each open window is listed by name at the bottom of the Window menu. Choose a window name and the active window will change so that the selected window will become the active document window. 15 Utility Menu Commands The Utility Menu is a custom menu created with WIL commands. For complete help on using the WIL language, consult the WIL.HLP help file. The menu items on the Utility Menu and the functions behind them are totally configurable. The WINEDIT.MNU file contains the menu item text and the WIL language functions behind them. To edit this file and thus edit the Utility Menu, choose "Edit Utility Menu" from the Utility Menu. 16 WinEdit Procedures Changing Printers and Printer Options Select Printer Setup from the File menu to change settings in the printer setup dialog for your installed Windows printer drivers. Select a printer driver and choose the Setup button to access the printer driver options (the resulting dialog . Select Page Setup from the File menu to change the following WinEdit page settings: Margins Header and/or footer text The printer font Page layout (one or two pages up) WinEdit will remember your page settings from session to session. Compiling (Running other programs) The first five commands on the Project menu are user-configurable commands to execute another program. You may configure these commands to execute any .EXE or .BAT program by typing the command text in the appropriate Configure... edit box.. For example a sample compile line may read: tee.com cl -c -AM -W4 -Zps -Od -DNOCOMM %f If the program supports DOS redirection (as most compilers and linkers do) you can select the Capture Output box to have WinEdit capture the program's output in a file. When the program has executed, WinEdit will allow you to review any messages generated, along with the corresponding source code. The following wildcards are provided so that filenames in the Project Management dialog do not need to be changed when compiling different files: %f = file name %n = base name, no extension %e = file extension only 17 If you select the Capture Output box, WinEdit will run the program you configure and save its output. When the program finishes, WinEdit will ask if you wish to review any warning or error messages, along with the corresponding source code. WinEdit constructs a batch file to execute from DOS when you choose to capture output. For this reason, when running a Windows application from the Run menu, do not choose to capture the output. In this case, just indicate the EXE to run in the Execute command edit box (such as Cardfile). To run the exe listed in the Execute command edit box, do one of the following: 1. Choose the traffic light button on the Control Bar. 2. Press ALT+F7 from the keyboard. 3. Choose Execute from the Project menu. 18 Control Bar The Control Bar allows you to access some frequently used commands by clicking on an icon button along the top of the window. The function of the buttons left to right is as follows: Open Access the File Open dialog. Save Saves the contents of the document window to disk. File List Reopen a file from a listing of the last open files. Print Prints the contents of the document window. Undo Restores the previous editing action. Redo Restores the previous undo action. Cut Cuts your selected text to the clipboard. Copy Copy your selected text to the clipboard. Paste Pastes the contents of the clipboard at cursor location. Find Finds specified text in the document. Find Next Finds text in the document using the previously entered search string. Change Allows you to change text (search and replace). Compile Compile. Make Make. Rebuild Rebuild. (Visible only on SuperVGA or above displays) Debug Debug. Execute Executes your program from WinEdit. Previous Previous Error. Next Next Error. Help Keyword Help (Extended Help). The Control Bar along the top of the WinEdit screen can be resized and repositioned anywhere on the screen. Click the left mouse button on the Control Bar and pull downward to "tear" the Control Bar from the top of the window (the mouse cursor will change to a box with the text TEAR). Let go of the mouse button and the Control Bar is now floating on top of the WinEdit screen. Position your mouse over the edge of the bar and you can resize the bar just as you can document windows. The Control Bar can be docked along any window edge. So if you'd like you can "dock" the control bar on the left of the WinEdit window. To dock the bar, click in the middle of the Control Bar and move your cursor to the middle of the top, left, right or bottom window edge. Move your mouse cursor until the cursor changes from "TEAR" to "DOCK". Once your cursor reads "DOCK" release the left mouse button to dock the Control Bar along the window edge. You can turn the Control Bar on or off at any time from the File Preferences menu (mark or unmark the Show Control Bar check box). 19 Editing Text To "copy and paste", or "cut and paste" the selected text, do the following: 1. Select the text to copy or cut. 2. Choose Copy from the Edit menu to copy the selected text to the clipboard. Or choose Cut from the Edit menu to cut the text to the clipboard. 3. Move the insertion point where you want the text to appear. Or if you want to replace a section of text with the contents of the clipboard, select the text in the document that you want replaced. 4. Choose Paste from the Edit menu. Editing Shortcuts: Keypad + (Plus) Copies the current line to the clipboard if nothing is selected or if there is a selection, the + key functions the same as Edit Copy (CTRL+INS). Keypad - (Minus) Cuts the current line to the clipboard if nothing is selected or if there is a selection, the - key is the same as Edit Cut (SHIFT+DEL). Deleting Text To delete text without sending it to the Windows clipboard, do the following: 1. Select the text to delete. 2. Choose Delete from the Edit menu or press the Del key from the keyboard. If no text is selected, Edit Delete will delete the character to the right of the cursor. To delete characters to the left of the cursor use the Backspace key. 20 Tab and SHIFT Tab Press the Tab key to insert a number of spaces and bring the cursor to the next tab stop. The number of spaces inserted when the tab key is pressed is configurable in File Preferences (choose any value from 1 to 12). For example if the "Tab Size" is set to 3 in File Preferences, pressing the Tab key will advance the cursor three spaces to the right. The SHIFT+Tab key combination moves the current position back to the previous tab stop (to the left). For example if the "Tab Size" is set to 3 in File Preferences, pressing the SHIFT+Tab key combination will move the cursor three spaces/positions to the left. If more than one line is selected, the Tab and SHIFT+Tab keys will shift every line in the selection forwards (Tab) or backwards (SHIFT+Tab) by one tab stop. 21 Working With Multiple Documents WinEdit allows you to open multiple documents and switch back and forth from document to document. To open a new document, choose New from the File menu and a new, untitled document window will appear. To load an existing document/file, choose Open from the File menu. Chose the file type you would like to open from the list box labeled "List Files of Type:". There are selections for source files (*.c;*.h;*.rc;*.def), text files (*.txt) and all files regardless of file extensions (*.*). Change to the appropriate drive and directory and double click on the file to open or select the file name and choose the OK button. Once you have several windows/files open, you can view a list of the open windows by pressing ALT+W. The open files (drives and subdirectory paths included) are listed at the bottom of the Window menu. The active window is indicated by the check mark before the file name. Choose any of the windows listed to change the active window. Additionally, Tile and Cascade are available from the Windows menu to change the arrangement of the windows. Choose Cascade to arrange all of the open windows in a stack. When this is done the title bar for each window is visible so that the window can be made active by clicking on the title bar. Choose Tile from the Windows menu to arrange all of the open windows on the screen so that a portion of each windows can be seen. All of the document windows can also be sized and minimized. To size the document window, move the mouse over a window edge so that the mouse cursor changes to a double sided arrow. Now, click the drag the mouse to change the size of the window. To minimize a document window, click on the down arrow in the upper right corner of the document window. The windows will appear at the bottom of the WinEdit screen as a icon (appears as a white piece of paper). To restore the document window back to its original size, double click on the icon. 22 Extended Help Press SHIFT+F1 or hold the SHIFT key and click the Right mouse button on any the desired function, message, or data structure name and WinEdit will access the help system topic for that item. 23 Finding Text Choose Find from the Search menu to search for text within the active document. You can specify the following options: * Find Type the text you want to find. * Match Upper/Lower Case Select this box to match the upper and lower case exactly. * Forward Search forward in the document starting at the insertion point. * Backward Search backward in the document starting at the insertion point. Choose Repeat Last Find (or press CTRL+F5) to repeat the last search using the same options as the previous search, without opening the Find dialog box again. Choose Change from the Search menu to search for text in a document and replace the found text with text you specify. You can specify the following options: * Find Type the text you want to find in the document. * Replace with Type the text you want to insert in place of the found text. * Match case Select this box to match the upper and lower case exactly. * Search backwards Search backward through the document starting at the insertion point. * Confirm before changing When the search text is found, you will be asked if you want to change the occurrence with the replacement text (choose Yes, No or Cancel). * Change All When this option is selected, WinEdit will start at the current cursor position and search the entire document. If the "Confirm before changing" box is selected, you will be asked if you want to change the occurrence with the replacement text (choose Yes, No or Cancel). 24 Using Regular Expressions A regular expression is a search or replace string that uses special characters to match text patterns. WinEdit supports UNIX style regular expressions. When WinEdit conducts a search using regular expressions, it must check character by character in your text. For this reason, searches using regular expressions are slower than regular searches. The following table describes the regular expression characters recognized by WinEdit. Expression Description \ Escape. WinEdit will ignore any special meaning of the character that follows the Escape expression. Use the Escape if you need to search for a literal character that matches a regular expression character. . Wild Card. Matches any character. For example, the expression 'X.X' will match 'XaX', 'XbX, and 'XcX', but not 'XaaX'. ^ Beginning Of Line. The expression matches only if it occurs at the beginning of a line. For example, '^for' matches the text 'for' only when it occurs at the beginning of a line. $ End Of Line. The expression matches only if it occurs at the end of a line. For example, '(void)$' matches the text '(void)' only when it occurs at the end of a line. [ ] Character Class. The expression matches any character in the class specified within the brackets. Use a dash (-) to specify a range of character values. For example, '[a-zA-Z0-9]' matches any letter or number, and '[xyz]' matches 'x', 'y', or 'z'. [ ^ ] Inverse Class. The expression matches any character not specified in the class. For example, '[^a-zA-Z]' matches any character that is not a letter. * Repeat Operator. Matches zero or more occurrences of the character that precedes the '*'. For example, 'XY*X' matches 'XX', 'XYX', and 'XYYX. + Repeat Operator. Matches one or more occurrences of the character that precedes the '+'. For example, 'XY+X' matches 'XYX' and 'XYYX, but not 'XX'. 25 Windows 3.1 Support "Drag and Drop" WinEdit is fully compatible with Windows version 3.1. WinEdit version 2.0 adds support for drag and drop from File Manager. To open files in WinEdit, simply drag and drop one or more files from the Windows File Manager onto WinEdit. Drag and drop from File Manager is functional when WinEdit is either minimized or maximized. "Sounds" Whenever a Message Box comes up, WinEdit plays the WAVE file corresponding to the Message Box icon under Multimedia Windows or the Asterisk event under Windows 3.1. Under Windows Win 3.0 the standard beep will play. "Warning Sounds" is an option in File Preferences dialog and can be disabled if you'd like. There is also a WinEdit Startup event that can be configured for any WAVE file when operating under Windows 3.1 or Multimedia Windows (sound card required). 26 Printing Documents Choose Print from the File menu to send the text of the current document to the active printer. All print options such as the layout (one up portrait printing or two page landscape printing) and printer font, are set in the Page Setup dialog (accessible from the File menu). The default printer selection is made in the Windows Control Panel Printers section. When choosing Print, the entire contents of the document file is sent to the printer. To print only a selection of text, do the following: 1. Select the text to print. 2. Choose Copy from the Edit menu. 3. Choose New from the File menu. 4. Choose Paste from the Edit menu to paste the contents of the clipboard. 5. Select the printer button on the Control Bar or choose Print from the File menu. 27 Saving Documents To save a document to disk under the current file name (the filename appears in the title bar for the document window), choose Save from the File menu. If the file has not been saved before, WinEdit will prompt for a file name. To save a document to a new name and/or location, choose Save As from the File menu. When a file is saved in WinEdit, the previous version of the document is renamed to the with a .BAK file extension. For example, if you make changes to FILENAME.TXT and choose to save the file, the previous version of the file is renamed to FILENAME.BAK while the new changes are saved to FILENAME.TXT. The backup file (FILENAME.BAK) is saved to the same directory as FILENAME.TXT. 28 Setting Preferences The WinEdit program preferences are accessible by choosing Preferences from the File menu. To change the screen font used to display document text, choose the button labeled Screen Font. In the resulting dialog choose a font name from the listing of fixed spaced screen fonts on your system. In addition to the typeface, there are four styles to choose from: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. Select a style a point size for your on screen text. The Tab Size list box allows you to set the number of spaces you would like to be inserted into your document, each time you press the tab key. Values range from one space to twelve spaces per tab. The "Reopen last file at startup" is helpful if you usually start working were you left off in your last WinEdit session. If this option is selected, the last file open in WinEdit will be opened automatically the next time WinEdit is started. If this option is not selected, WinEdit will open with no windows open (use the File New or File Open command to begin working in WinEdit). The "Zoom window at startup" option determines the size of the document window on startup of WinEdit. If the "Zoom" option is selected, then the WinEdit program will start with the document window zoomed out so that it fills the WinEdit program area. If the "Zoom" option is not selected in File Preferences, then the WinEdit document window will not fill the WinEdit program area. The Show Control Bar option simply toggles the Control Bar of buttons On (if selected) or Off if not selected in File Preferences. The "Warning sounds" option plays the WAVE file corresponding to the Message Box icon under Multimedia Windows or Windows 3.1, whenever a Message Box pops up such as search text not found. Under Windows version 3.0, the standard system beep will sound. 29 Setting Margins, Headers and Footers Headers and Footers Choose Page Setup from the File menu to configure header and footer text. Type the text you wish to appear at the top and bottom of each page. You can use the following special characters in headers and footers: * %f The document name will appear. * %d The date and time of the printout will appear. * %p The page number will appear. The default header text is "%f - %d" or Document Name - Date and Time of the printout. The default footer text is "Page %p" or Page 1. Changes made to the header and footer text are remembered for the next session of WinEdit. Margins Choose Page Setup from the File menu to change the margins used for WinEdit's printouts. You can enter the measurements for top, bottom, left, and right margins. The margin values are either in inches or centimeters, depending upon the Measurement setting in the Windows Control Panel International section/icon. 30 Undo and Redo Undo Allows you to "undo" previous editing actions. WinEdit can undo the following edits: Inserting a character. Deleting a character. Cutting a selection. Pasting a selection. WinEdit can undo the last 2000 editing actions. Press ALT+Backspace to undo the last editing action or select Undo from the Edit menu. Redo Allows you to reverse any Undo command. If you undo an editing action by mistake, you can "redo" the edit. Press CTRL+Backspace to redo the last editing action or choose Redo from the Edit menu. 31 WinEdit Project Files Information entered into the Project Management dialog (choose Configure... from the Project menu) can be saved in a private INI file with a .WPJ (WinEdit Project File) extension. Choose the Save... pushbutton to save the contents of the dialog box in a .WPJ file. The default save path for the WPJ files is the Windows directory. After creating several project files you can load an existing .WPJ file by clicking on the Open... pushbutton. There five edit boxes for your Compile, Make, Rebuild, Debug and Execute command line information. The following wildcards are provided so that filenames in the Project Management dialog do not need to be changed when compiling different files: %f = file name %n = base name, no extension %e = file extension only If you select the Capture Output box, WinEdit will run the program you configure and save its output. When the program finishes, WinEdit will ask if you wish to review any warning or error messages, along with the corresponding source code. WinEdit constructs a batch file to execute from DOS when you choose to capture output. For this reason, when running a Windows application from the Run menu, do not choose to capture the output. The Project Name field can be filled with a brief description of the project. The Working Directory field sets the default open and save directories for your project to the path indicated in this field. Note: The last project file open in WinEdit, will automatically be loaded the next time you start WinEdit. To change to another project file, choose Configure... from the Project menu and choose the Open... pushbutton. 32 WinEdit Extensions A WinEdit Extension DLL is a dynamic-link library (DLL) that contains a pre-defined entry point that processes menu commands and notification messages sent by WinEdit. You can redefine WinEdit's menus and accelerators and write new functions which access WinEdit functions directly. Creating a WinEdit Extension A WinEdit Extension DLL must be named WE_EXT.DLL and must include a standard entry point, the WE_ExtensionProc function. It must include the WE_EXT.H header file that defines WinEdit messages and structures. WinEdit communicates with the Extension DLL by sending messages to the DLL's WE_ExtensionProc function. The WE_ExtensionProc function is defined as follows: WE_ExtensionProc(HWND hWnd, /* WinEdit's window handle */ HANDLE hInst, /* instance identifier */ UINT wParam, /* command ID */ LONG lParam) /* additional information */ The hWnd parameter identifies the main WinEdit window. This window handle is used in most of the extension functions, and should also be used as the parent window for any child windows, dialog boxes, or message boxes created. The hInst parameter is the HINSTANCE of the Extension DLL. This parameter is used when retrieving resources from the DLL. The wParam parameter contains the message ID, which may be a command ID from a menu or accelerator, a notification message from WinEdit, or a request for information from WinEdit. The lParam parameter is used in some messages to pass additional information to the Extension DLL. 33 Loading the Extension WinEdit searches the current directory and the path for WE_EXT.DLL, and explicitly loads the Extension DLL if it is found. If the DLL is successfully loaded, WinEdit then sends the following notification and request messages to the Extension DLL: WEN_LOADMENU This message is a request for a menu handle to be used as the main WinEdit menu. If the Extension DLL returns a handle to a menu as the return value for this message, WinEdit uses that menu. If the Extension DLL returns 0, the standard WinEdit menu is used. WEN_LOADSHORTMENU This message is a request for a menu handle to be used as the "No file" menu. WinEdit displays this menu whenever no MDI child windows are open. If the Extension DLL returns a handle to a menu as the return value for this message, WinEdit uses that menu. If the Extension DLL returns 0, the standard WinEdit menu is used. WEN_LOADACCELS This message is a request for a handle to an accelerator table. If the Extension DLL returns a handle to an accelerator table as the return value for this message, WinEdit will use that accelerator table. If the Extension DLL returns 0, the standard WinEdit accelerator table is used. WEN_GETWINDOWMENU If the Extension DLL returned a menu handle in the WEN_LOADMENU message, this message will be sent to obtain the handle to the Window popup menu. WinEdit uses this menu handle to append MDI child window names to. WEN_GETMACROMENU If the Extension DLL returned a menu handle in the WEN_LOADMENU message, this message will be sent to obtain the handle to the Macro popup menu. WinEdit uses this menu handle to append macro names to. WEN_INITMENU This message is sent before showing any drop down menu items. Respond by setting any check marks, graying any inapplicable items, etc. 34 WEN_MACROSTARTPLAY This message is sent when a keyboard macro playback is started. WEN_MACROSTOPPLAY This message is sent when a keyboard macro playback is stopped. WEN_MACROSTARTRECORD This message is sent when a keyboard macro recording is started. The menu item for toggling starting and stopping recording should be changed to "Stop Recording". WEN_MACROSTOPRECORD This message is sent when a keyboard macro recording is stopped. The menu item for toggling starting and stopping recording should be changed to "Record Macro". WEN_RBUTTONDOWN This message is sent when the right mouse button is clicked in an MDI child window. WEN_RBUTTONDOWNC This message is sent when the right mouse button is clicked while the control key is down in an MDI child window. WEN_RBUTTONDOWNS This message is sent when the right mouse button is clicked while the shift key is down in an MDI child window. WEN_RBUTTONDOWNSC This message is sent when the right mouse button is clicked while the control key and the shift keys are down in an MDI child window. WEN_END This message is sent before the DLL is unloaded. Any cleanup processing should be done, such as releasing allocated memory. 35 Processing Menu Selections A WinEdit Extension DLL's menu resource can include two levels of menu identifiers. Identifiers in the range of WE_EXTFIRST through WE_EXTLAST (defined in WE_EXT.H) are sent to the Extension DLL for processing. Other identifiers defined in WE_EXT.H that begin with IDM_ are internal WinEdit commands that WinEdit handles without calling the Extension DLL. When designing menus or accelerators, use the IDM_ identifiers for predefined functions which WinEdit will handle without further processing by your Extension DLL. Use identifiers in the range of WE_EXTFIRST through WE_EXTLAST for functions you define. When the user selects a menu item or presses an accelerator key which is defined with an identifier in that range, WinEdit will pass the message on to the Extension DLL for processing. The following code example shows a simple example of a user-defined function being called: #define EXT_EXAMPLE WE_EXTFIRST+1 . . . switch (wParam) { case EXT_EXAMPLE: return MyFunction(); break; Initializing the Extension Menu Whenever the user selects a menu item, WinEdit sends the WEN_INITMENU message to the Extension DLL. The Extension DLL should respond to this message by adding check marks or disabling or enabling items. If the Extension DLL did not load its own menu, it can ignore this message. 36 WinEdit Extension Example The following example shows a minimal WinEdit Extension DLL's WE_ExtensionProc function. The Extension DLL loads its own menus and accelerator table, and defines one new command. #include <windows.h> #include "we_ext.h" #define MACROMENU 4 /* position of macro menu (0 based) */ #define WINDOWMENU 5 /* position of window menu (0 based) */ #define EXT_EXAMPLE WE_EXTFIRST+1 UINT FAR PASCAL WE_ExtensionProc(HWND hWnd, HANDLE hInst, UINT wParam, LONG lParam) { switch (wParam) { case WEN_LOADMENU: /* This is the menu WinEdit will display when there * is at least one document window open. Return NULL * to use the default WinEdit menu. */ return (UINT)LoadMenu(hInst, "MyMenu"); break; case WEN_LOADSHORTMENU: /* this is the menu WinEdit will display when there * are no document windows open. Return NULL * to use the default WinEdit menu. */ return (UINT)LoadMenu(hInst, "MyShortMenu"); break; 37 case WEN_LOADACCELS: /* To re-define the WinEdit command keys, load your * own accelerator table here. Return NULL to * use the default WinEdit accelerators. */ return (UINT)LoadAccelerators (hInst,"MyAccels"); break; case WEN_GETWINDOWMENU: /* WinEdit needs the handle of the submenu to * append MDI document names to. The hWnd parameter * is used to send the handle to the main menu. * This message will not be sent if you return * NULL to the WEN_LOADMENU message. */ return (UINT)GetSubMenu ((HMENU)hWnd, WINDOWMENU); break; case WEN_GETMACROMENU: /* WinEdit needs the handle of the submenu to * append macro names to. The hWnd parameter * is used to send the handle to the main menu. * This message will not be sent if you return * NULL to the WEN_LOADMENU message. */ return (UINT)GetSubMenu ((HMENU)hWnd, MACROMENU); break; case WEN_END: /* WinEdit is shutting down. Do any clean-up processing * here. */ return TRUE; break; 38 case WEN_INITMENU: /* This message is sent before showing any drop down * menu items. Respond by setting any checkmarks, * graying any inapplicable items, etc. */ { POINT ptStart,ptEnd; HMENU hCurrentMenu; UINT wStatus; hCurrentMenu = GetMenu(hWnd); /* if there is a current selection, enable the cut & copy * commands. */ wStatus = (UINT)edGetSelectionState(hWnd, &ptStart, &ptEnd); if (!wStatus) wStatus = MF_GRAYED; else wStatus = MF_ENABLED; EnableMenuItem(hCurrentMenu, IDM_EDITCUT, wStatus); EnableMenuItem(hCurrentMenu, IDM_EDITCOPY, wStatus); /* if there is text on the clipboard, enable the paste * command. */ if (OpenClipboard(hWnd)) { if (IsClipboardFormatAvailable(CF_TEXT) || IsClipboardFormatAvailable(CF_OEMTEXT)) EnableMenuItem(hCurrentMenu, IDM_EDITPASTE, MF_ENABLED); else EnableMenuItem(hCurrentMenu, IDM_EDITPASTE, MF_GRAYED); CloseClipboard(); } else EnableMenuItem(hCurrentMenu, IDM_EDITPASTE, MF_GRAYED); 39 /* set the Undo, Redo, Insert, and WordWrap menu items */ wStatus = (UINT)edGetUndoState(hWnd); if (!wStatus) wStatus = MF_GRAYED; else wStatus = MF_ENABLED; EnableMenuItem(hCurrentMenu, IDM_EDITUNDO, wStatus); wStatus = (UINT)edGetRedoState(hWnd); if (!wStatus) wStatus = MF_GRAYED; else wStatus = MF_ENABLED; EnableMenuItem(hCurrentMenu, IDM_EDITREDO, wStatus); wStatus = (UINT)edGetWordWrapState(hWnd); if (!wStatus) wStatus = MF_UNCHECKED; else wStatus = MF_CHECKED; CheckMenuItem (hCurrentMenu, IDM_EDITTOGGLEWRAP, MF_BYCOMMAND|wStatus); wStatus = (UINT)edGetInsertState(hWnd); if (!wStatus) wStatus = MF_UNCHECKED; else wStatus = MF_CHECKED; CheckMenuItem (hCurrentMenu, IDM_EDITTOGGLEINS, MF_BYCOMMAND|wStatus); return TRUE; /* we handled it, don't return 0 */ break; } /* You can define your own commands in the range * WE_EXTFIRST to WE_EXTLAST that can be attached to * menu items or accelerators. */ case EXT_EXAMPLE: MessageBox(hWnd,"Example command","WinEdit Extension", MB_ICONINFORMATION|MB_OK); return TRUE; break; 40 default: /* return NULL to all messages not processed. */ break; } /* end switch (wParam) */ return NULL; } 41 Configuring the Utility Menu The Utility Menu is a custom menu created with WIL language extension commands. The menu items on the Utility Menu and the functions behind them are totally configurable. The WINEDIT.MNU file contains the menu item text and the WIL language functions behind them. The functions are made up of statements, constants, and variables, much like any programming language. To edit the Utility Menu file choose "Edit Utility Menu" from the Utility Menu. In the WINEDIT.MNU file, the menu item text that appears below the Utility Menu begins in Column one of the text file. Commands for the menu item are at least 8 spaces to the right below the menu text. In the example below, "File Open with prompt" is the text that will appear on the Utility Menu and the "WFileOpen("")" command will be executed if the menu item is selected. File Open with prompt ; Open a document file via dialog box WFileOpen("") wFileOpen(filename) Comments wFileOpen creates a new MDI child window and reads an existing file into the window. To open a file without a prompt, pass a valid filename to wFileOpen. If the FileName parameter is "", the File Open dialog box will be appear prompting for a filename to open. To create a pop-out submenu, add one space before the menu title for every item of the main menu. For example, "Accessories" will appear on the Utility Menu with "Appointment Scheduling" and "Calculator" appearing as pop out menu selections. Accessories Appointment Scheduling run("Calendar.exe","") C&alculator run("calc.exe","") Adding an ampersand before any letter in the title causes that letter to be displayed underlined. Such underlined letters are recognized by Windows as menu hot keys accessed through an ALT+letter key combination. Please refer to the WIL.HLP help file for detailed information on WIL language menu scripts. 42