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- FormEd
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-
- Purpose : Edited Template Files
- Version : 1.14 and above
-
- Description :
-
- FormEd is an editor of Template files. To understand this
- you need to understand the program interface of the Window
- System, as described in the Programmer's Reference Manual.
- The description here assumes an understanding of template
- files.
-
- FormEd is started by double-clicking on a template file
- after the FormEd icon has been "seen". This will cause
- FormEd to be loaded, and to display all of the windows in
- the template file. Alternatively, double-click on FormEd
- itself and it will be loaded with no current windows. If a
- template file does not appear to load properly, give more
- memory to FormEd before it starts using the Task Manager
- window.
-
- A template file is often constructed with reference to a
- specific set of sprites. A sprite file can be dragged onto
- the FormEd icon on the icon bar to set the available
- sprites. These are displayed in a window. To edit the
- sprites, use the Paint application.
-
- The menu provided from the icon bar provides the following
- functions:
-
- Info
- - program information
- New template
- - shows a new browser window
- Quit
- - quit FormEd
-
-
- The template windows displayed by FormEd mirror precisely
- the size, position and properties of the windows in the
- Template file. The following actions directly affect the
- stored values:
-
- Close the window
- - removes the window from view
- Move/scroll/resize the window
- - moves the default setup of the window in the
- template file.
-
- Clicking MENU on a template window produces a menu tree
- that allows a wide variety of alterations to the menu
- structure, based on the various control fields of a window
- structure as described in the Wimp documentation. It also
- allows you to create icons in the window. An icon, once
- created, can be moved and resized using drag-SELECT and
- drag-ADJUST. It can also have its properties adjusted by
- pointing at it and then clicking MENU, and following the
- "amend icon" submenu.
-
- Your ability to drag and resize icons may be affected by a
- button type affixed to an icon: only those button types
- which generate the appropriate Wimp events can be dragged
- and resized directly. It's interesting to note that FormEd
- keeps no data structures describing each template window,
- relying on the Wimp to keep and manipulate each structure.
-
- FormEd keeps a file of sprites in memory which can be used
- in icons in the template being edited. The default sprite
- file used is the file Default inside !FormEd, which is in
- fact a copy of the sprites found in the RISC OS ROM. To
- load in a separate sprite file to use with your template
- file, drag the sprite file onto the FormEd icon.
-