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About theta group CyberDog Demos
These demo parts allow you to use a standard Macintosh Button and Popup controls within the CyberDog environment.
How to install these parts
Please drag the contents of the "theta Editors" folderinto your "Editors" folder. Then drag the "theta Stationary" folder into your "Stationary" folder and you are set. Make sure that CyberDog A3 is installed.
How to use these parts
All parts require you to use a container application or part such as RagTime 4.0, ODFDraw 1.0 or other containers.
･ CyberTextButton
Drag the CyberTextButton stationary into your document. Associate an URL with the button by either dragging a URL file (e.g. from the Finder or your Notebook) or an appropriate text onto the button. You can activate the button by option-clicking onto it to access it's menus (like "Edit contents", which lets you change the buttons title). The CyberTextButton will open the URL everytime you're clicking on the button. To select the CyberTextButton for moving it around, either cmd-click in the CyberTextButton or drag a selection around the button (Depending on your container apps metaphor).
･ CyberPopup
Drag the CyberPopup stationary into your document. Associate some URLs with the popup by either dragging a couple of URL files (e.g. from the Finder or your Notebook) or an appropriate text onto the popup. You can activate the popup by option-clicking onto it to access it's menus (like "Edit contents", which lets you change the popups title). The CyberPopup will open the appropriate URL everytime you're choosing an item from the popup. To select the CyberPopup for moving it around, either cmd-click in the CyberTextButton or drag a selection around the button (Depending on your container apps metaphor).
･ Both Controls (Button, Popup)
Activate the controls by option-clicking onto them to access their menus. The menus allow you to customize font/size/style of the labels, choose 3D or plain-toolbox look and to edit the contents of the buttons.
Demo Limitations/Bugs
All parts are currently shipped as a PowerPC binary only. They are not working on a 68K Macintosh. If you are using ODFDraw or DrawEditor as a container, make sure the document size is at least 768KB.
About theta group/dtF Americas, Inc.
Both CyberDog parts are derived from their cousins, the dtF Database Button/Popup. These are part of the dtF Database Toolkit which allows the integration of SQL-data with traditional documents like word-processing, spreadsheet, graphics or DTP-documents. It provides a suite of highly integrated, interacting OpenDoc parts to incorporate data from relational databases in your favorite productivity applications.
What is dtF?
dtF is a relational database system for the Apple Macintosh combining high performance, SQL, error recovery, full transaction control with moderate resource requirements. dtF is supporting your cross-platform development for DOS, Windows 3.x und OS/2. Applications built with the single-user version of dtF are royalty-free. Multi-user applications developers are able to purchase single-, project- and free-licenses of the dtF client/server version. dtF is available as 68K and native PowerPC versions for MPW C/C++, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Symantec C/C++, and as a HyperCard XCMD, SuperCard XCMD, MacroMind Director XCMD (soon) and SmalltalkAgents ECLT. dtF is also part of the innovative Peregrine client/server development system from Pictorius, Inc.
theta group, a corporation located in Karlsruhe, Germany, is dedicated to database application development systems on the Apple Macintosh. dtF, introduced in 1993, is the high-performance relational database system for the Apple Macintosh and is distributed in the USA and Canada by dtF Americas, Inc., located in Cupertino, California.
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