home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Shareware Overload
/
ShartewareOverload.cdr
/
database
/
litebr42.zip
/
LBGEN.ZIP
/
LBGEN.DOC
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1987-07-25
|
2KB
|
57 lines
_______________________________________________________________________________
Documentation for LBGEN version 1.0
_______________________________________________________________________________
LBGEN generates text file input for LITEBAR.BIN (& OBJ) version 4.2 or greater.
It is a crude program, but demonstrates dome of the abilities of LITEBAR, as
LITEBAR is the only BIN file used. The version of LITEBAR in LBGEN.ARC is
4.2 with one change--it has four screen save/restore areas.
LBGEN needs the following files:
LBCOLSCR.LBS
LBGENC.LBS -- LBS=LITEBAR SCREENS
LBOPTS.LBS
LBTMPLAT.DBF -- template DBF file
LITEBAR.BIN (special version)
LBGEN is not perfect--in fact, it ain't close <grin>. It *only* generates
TEXT INPUT files for use with LITEBAR. In the process, it generates a MEM
file and a DBF file for each text file (TBT) so that you can then modify the
file at will. Each time you modify, a totally new text file is generated.
It is probably a good idea to keep LBGEN in a separate directory so that your
DBF, MEM, and TXT files won't get distracting. Hopefully, the next version will
eliminate some of this stuff.
If you want to use memvar input instead of text files, you can do this:
(TEST.LBT looks like this:)
H31T0,0EKV/31,111,
1,1,option 1 \1\23,0,help1\
2,1,option 2 \2\23,0,help2\
3,1,option 3 \3\23,0,help3\
MAKE temp.prg from TEST.TBT:
m1="H31T0,0EKV/31,111,;"
m2="1,1,option 1 \1\23,0,help1\;"
m3="2,1,option 2 \2\23,0,help2\;"
m4="3,1,option 3 \3\23,0,help3\ "
SAVE ALL LIKE M? TO mem.mem && or whatever
...or you could use Andrew Schulman's MAKEMEM to do it for you I guess. The
next version of LBGEN will do mem files and probably deBASE code as well, I just
wanted to get this one out so that people can use it until a better version
is done.
*****************************************************************************
This is the demo version of LBGEN. It has been DBCODED.
If you are using the demo version of LBGEN, you will not be able to define
more than three options per menu (normally 50). Also, the source code is
not available unless you register.
*****************************************************************************