Blurbs are windows within windows.

This program demonstrates some of the functionality of Blurbs. It is provided as an incentive for programmers to license the Blurb Manager from me for use in their own projects.

Play with the buttons to the right to create new blurbs with different attributes; your choices are in effect for the next new blurb you create.

Click on the joystick to select any blurb in this picture window for remote dragging.

See blurb events listed as they are happening by selecting "Show Events" from the pop up menu in the Events blurb titlebar. (All blurb events are mouse related.)

Try out the various commands on the Edit and Test menus.

Click the vase to display a hidden or iconified blurb.

And, finally, check out the "About Blurbs" window.

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Blurbs are mini-windows inside regular Macintosh windows that can contain styled text and pictures and can be overlapped, dragged, grown, closed, zoomed, iconified, and scrolled. Both text and pictures in a blurb can be copied separately to the clipboard, where they can be pasted into other programs for printing, etc.

This text is in a Blurb.

Pictures in a blurb can be attached either to the left, the middle, or the right of the blurb; or they can be fixed at a particular horizontal distance from the left. (If this blurb is growable or zoomable, try resizing it to see the pictures below shift to their new locations.)

 

The only picture that I have specified as copiable in this blurb is my business logo below. If this blurb is copiable you can select it by double-clicking it.

For color users:  If you are running System 7 the blurbs in this window happen to be colored according to whatever color scheme is set in the "Color" Control Panel.  Change it and all blurbs will be drawn in the new color scheme. If you are running an earlier version of the System, the blurbs are colored according to System 7's default window color scheme.  (Note: this is true only because I do this explicitly in this window; the programmer is in full control of all blurb colors.)

Note on "Faster Scrolling":  The Blurb Manager provides a "faster scrolling" option for vertical scrolling. This is particularly helpful when scrolling in color under System 7. In my opinion, in this situation, scrolling is unacceptably slow on my Mac II. So I have given the programmer the option of providing this choice to the user. If selected, scrollbar updating is completely bypassed as long as the mouse button is down. Instead, a minimal progress bar is drawn down the right side of the blurb text. And then, when the mouse button is released, the scrollbar is updated and redrawn as usual. Simple! But notice the dramatic speed increase, particularly under the conditions stated above.