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- %CO:A,12,70%Manual
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- © Data Store 1990
-
- Manual is a compact textfile display utility with search and print
- facilities: in other words it is ideal for displaying help files for
- applications in a smaller amount of memory than Edit would use, and
- whilst allowing the user to find references in the text, does not
- risk corruption of the text because it is a 'read only' system.
-
- This program is contained within most Data Store utilities and is
- accessed in two ways: either via the Filer help facility or within
- the program itself from an icon in its Info box.
-
- To display help via the Filer, you do the following: click MENU
- whilst pointing at an application, then slide across the 'App' option
- in the menu, and then click SELECT on then 'Help' option in that
- menu.
-
- To display help from a running Data Store application, bring up its
- main menu, and slide across the first option which is Info. The Info
- box will appear which has the icon 'On-line Manual' at the bottom.
- Click on this icon to bring up the manual.
-
- Scrolling the manual
- --------------------
- You can scroll up and down the text using the scroll bars of the
- window or by using the cursor keys/Page Up and Page Down keys on the
- keyboard.
-
- The Find facility
- -----------------
- Clicking MENU over the text will bring up Manual's menu. This
- contains the option 'Find...'. You can search for any string of three
- or more characters by clicking on this to open a dialogue box in
- which you enter your search string and then press RETURN or click on
- OK. After a brief pause the dialogue box will be updated to show how
- many matches were found. The first match is highlighted and displayed
- in the middle of the window. You can scroll the window if you wish to
- see more of the context. Clicking on 'Next Match' will scroll the
- window automatically to display the next match. Similarly, should you
- be viewing the second or later match, you can scroll backwards by
- clicking on 'Previous Match'.
-
- The Print Facility
- ------------------
- Clicking on 'Print' in the Manual menu will output the text to your
- printer, so long as the appropriate RISC OS Printer Driver is
- running. If this is not the case, an error message will appear.
-
- Using Manual in your own Applications
- -------------------------------------
- To do this, just copy !Manual into the Application, and include
- within !Manual the textfile you want displayed as a file called
- 'Manual'. The only limitations on the content of the file are that
- (a) it must end in a carriage return and (b) whatever is on the first
- line is displayed in the title bar of the window after the string
- 'On-line Manual for...', so it is best to restrict the first line to
- the name of the application.
-
- You should also create an obey file within your application called
- '!Help', which should contain just one line:
-
- RUN <obey$dir>.!Manual
-
- This is so that the Filer help facility operates correctly. You can
- of course be as creative as you like in deciding how to access the
- on-line manual within your own application: just because we at The
- Data Store do it by including an icon in the Info box doesn't mean
- you have to do it the same way.
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