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- Turbo Pascal for Windows
- Turbo Utilities Disk
- Tips and Techniques Source Code
-
- Copyright (c) 1991 by Borland International
-
- Welcome to the Turbo Pascal for Windows Turbo Utilities. This disk
- contains a number of useful and educational utility programs written in
- Turbo Pascal for Windows. Some of these programs were written at Borland,
- and some come from users like you. You can use these utility programs
- as-is, or delve into the source code to learn more about how they work and
- to learn special programming techniques for programming in Windows with
- Turbo Pascal's Object Windows Library (OWL).
-
- This disk also contains all of the source code examples from the
- Turbo Pascal for Windows Tips and Techniques book available from Borland
- (order instructions below). You can load these examples directly into
- the Turbo Pascal for Windows IDE and learn from them without having to
- type them in yourself. Feel free to incorporate these techniques into
- your own programs. Study the code and experiment so that you can develop
- your own techniques.
-
- This disk may be distributed to any registered Turbo Pascal for Windows user.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- ------------
-
- The Turbo Pascal for Windows Turbo Utilties Disk contains the utilities
- and source code in a ZIPped archive format. In order to use the programs,
- you must first run the INSTALL program to UNZIP the archive file onto your
- hard disk. To run the installation program from Drive A type:
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- A:INSTALL A: C:\TPW
-
- You can also manually install by using the UNZIP.EXE program.
-
-
- NOTES
- -----
-
- Most of the demo and utility programs have resource files associated with
- them. These are provided in *.RES files and are ready to use with the
- TPW compiler. Just open the main program's *.PAS file in the TPW editor,
- and select Run|Run from the main menu. The program will be compiled and
- the resource file will be linked in automatically.
-
- ORDER INSTRUCTIONS
- ------------------
- To order the Turbo Pascal For Windows Tips & Techniques book call Borland's
- order desk at 1-800-331-0877. Please have your serial number available.
-
- FILES ON THE DISK
- -----------------
-
- INSTALL BAT Installation program
- UNZIP EXE Archive unzipping program
- TPWUTILS ZIP Zipped archive file containing Turbo Utilities and source
- TPWTIPS ZIP Zipped archive file containing Tips and Techniques source
- README COM Utility for reading this file
- README This file!
-
-
- CONTENTS OF ARCHIVED FILES
- --------------------------
-
- TPWUTILS.ZIP The files in this archive are grouped in subdirectories,
- which UNZIP will create for you if you use the INSTALL
- program or if you manually unzip with the -D parameter
- UNZIP -D TPWUTILS
-
- ICONVIEW EXE An icon viewer
- MODEMX EXE A simple communications program
- PAINT EXE A bitmap paint program
- PREVIEW EXE A font viewer
- TODO EXE A to-do list manager
- SYSCOLOR EXE Tom Swan's system color editor, from his book
- "Turbo Pascal for Windows 3.0 Programming" (Bantam, 1991).
- CURVE ICO A few sample icon files to look at in the viewer.
- SWORD ICO
- DIAGRAM1 ICO
- DIAGRAM2 ICO
- DIAGRAM3 ICO
- DIAGRAM4 ICO
-
-
- Directory ICONVIEW:
- ICONVIEW PAS The Icon Viewer demo program source code.
- ICONFILE PAS A unit to read ICO format files.
- ICONVIEW RES IconView's resources
- ICONS ZIP 64 more icons to look at with ICONVIEW
- and use in your programs.
-
-
- Directory MODEMX:
- MODEMX PAS A telecommunications program with XMODEM file transfer.
- MODEMX RES ModemX's resources
-
-
- Directory PAINT:
- PAINT PAS The Paint demo program's main program file.
- PAINTDEF PAS Paint tools and misc. utility functions
- PAINT RES Paint's icon, cursor, and other resources
- TOOLBAR PAS The Toolbar object
- BITMAPS PAS Functions to load and store bitmaps in the BMP file format.
- CANVAS PAS The Canvas object
- PALETTE PAS The Color Palette object
- LINEBAR PAS The Line Bar object
- RECT PAS Functions to manipulate rectangles
- TOOLS PAS The many Tool objects that Paint uses.
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-
- Directory PREVIEW:
- PREVIEW PAS The Font Preview utility program to examine the screen
- fonts installed in Windows.
- PREVIEW TXT A readme file for Preview in plain text format.
- PREVIEW RES Preview's resources
- WFPLUS PAS Utility functions for Preview.
- WOPLUS PAS Utility objects for Preview.
-
-
- Directory SYSCOLOR:
- SYSCOLOR PAS The SysColor utility program, for setting Window's
- system colors.
- SYSCOLOR TXT A readme file for SysColor in plain text format.
- SYSCOLOR RES SysColor's resources
- SYSCOLOR RC The resource script file used to create SYSCOLOR.RES
- SYSCOLOR ICO The icon file, used by SYSCOLOR.RC
- SYSCOLOR DLG The dialog template for SYSCOLOR.RC
- SYSCOLOR WRI A readme file for SysColor in Microsoft Write format.
-
-
- Directory TODO:
- TODO PAS The TODO list utility program.
- TODO RES TODO's resources.
-
-
- TPWTIPS.ZIP Here are the TPW Tips & Techniques example programs that
- are referred to in the Tips & Techniques book. These
- are placed in the TIPS subdirectory by Install:
- ANIMATE PAS
- CENTER PAS
- CENTER RES
- CURSOR PAS
- DBLCLICK PAS
- DUDE RES
- FORMLINE PAS
- HCOPY PAS
- MDIAPP RES
- MDISPLSH PAS
- MDISPLSH RES
- MENUDEMO PAS
- MINMAX PAS
- MODEM PAS
- MODEM RES
- MYDLG RES
- MYEDIT PAS
- OWNRDRAW PAS
- PICTURE PAS
- PICTURE RES
- PRINT_IT RES
- PRINTBMP PAS
- PRINTBMP RES
- PRINTER RES
- RUBBER PAS
- SPLASH PAS
- SPLASH RES
- STATUS PAS
- T&TMENU RES
- TRANSFER PAS
- VALID PAS
- VALID RES
- WINPRINT PAS
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