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- Welcome to the QBSCR Screen Routines!
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- First of all, I'm sure you'd like to know how to use
- this text viewing box (created using the QBSCR ViewList
- routine). Here's what you can do and how to do it:
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- Function... ...How to do it
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- Move up one line . . . . . . . . . . . . Up Arrow
- Move down one line . . . . . . . . . . Down Arrow
- Move up one page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PgUp
- Move down one page . . . . . . . . . . . . . PgDn
- Move to the beginning . . . . . . . . . . . Home
- Move to the end . . . . . . . . . . . . . . End
- Quit reading this drivel and get
- to the fun stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . Esc
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- Now that that's over, here's what's in store for you.
- The QBSCR Screen Routines provide a great deal of
- functionality, including windows, menus, buttons and
- boxes, lists and screens, text mode fonts (with VGA
- or EGA) as well as mouse support.
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- But equally important is the fact that the QBSCR Screen
- Routines can serve as an excellent teaching aid and
- tutorial. Many registered users have written to me
- saying that they have learned more from these routines
- in a week than they did from several books in six
- months! If you are looking for learning tools about
- QuickBASIC, you've found one of the best (and least
- expensive) on the market.
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- This demo will show you most of QBSCR's capabilities.
- Some have been ommitted to keep the program compilable,
- but you can discover more by glancing at the code or
- at the documentation. For example, the disk-oriented
- routines have been omitted, but some are used behind the
- scenes.
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- This demo makes use of some higher-grade hardware that
- you may not have. It runs best with a faster machine.
- On an 8 Mhz 8086 XT clone, it was pretty slow in some
- areas, but acceptable in most. Any faster machine will
- provide better performance. QuickBASIC simply isn't as
- fast as high-performance languages like C. Also, there
- is a lot of mouse activity here. If you don't have a
- mouse attached to your computer, some of the demos will
- not be available to you. The EGA/VGA Fonts demo in the
- "Other" menu will not be available to you if you do not
- have an EGA or VGA card and monitor. And finally, the
- EGA/VGA extended colors demo will not be available to
- CGA or monochrome users. Sorry about these inconven-,
- iences, but there so many fun things to do with better
- hardware!
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- If you're done reading this, you can hit ESC or click
- the right mouse button.
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