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THE VERMONT VIEWS DESIGNER(tm)
LIMITED-USE DEMO
ORGANIZATION OF READ_ME.DES
1. About This Release
2. Installation
3. Designer Notes
1. ABOUT THIS RELEASE
VERSION: v2.05
RELEASED: August 3, 1990
OS: PCDOS
2. INSTALLATION
The disk VV_DES1 contains an installation program called 'install'.
It will automatically copy and de-archive the necessary files.
See the Installation Guide for more information.
3. DESIGNER NOTES
3.1 Selection Characters on Monochrome Displays
High intensity on reverse is used to highlight the selection character and
unavailable items in the Designer menu system. You may have to adjust the
brightness and contrast to show the selection character and unavailable
menu items. However, this video attribute combination may not be
distinguishable on some monochrome monitors regardless of the brightness
and contrast settings.
3.2 Using mice with the Designer
Although the Designer does not directly recognize a mouse, it is
possible to use a special mouse driver (supplied by the mouse
manufacturer) that converts mouse movements into keystrokes which the
Designer will recognize. We have successfully used the Designer with
both the Logitech mouse and Microsoft mouse in this manner.
3.2.1 Using the Microsoft mouse
The following files are used with the Microsoft mouse:
vvd_ms.def -- Mouse menu source code
vvd_ms.mnu -- 'Compiled' code
To use the mouse with the Designer, give the following commands:
mouse
menu vvd_ms
vvd
menu off
Here is a listing of the keys that the mouse is made to simulate:
Mouse left: <Left Arrow>
Mouse right: <Right Arrow>
Mouse up: <Up Arrow>
Mouse down: <Down Arrow>
Left Button: <Enter>
Right Button: <Alt-f>
Left-Right Chord: <F2>
If you have the Microsoft Mouse Developer's Kit, you can refer to the
Programmer's Reference Manual for more information, including how to
change the mouse sensitivity and key mappings.
3.2.2 Using the Logitech mouse
The following files are used with the Logitech mouse:
vvd_log.def -- LOGIMENU source code
vvd_log.mnu -- 'Compiled' code
To use the mouse with the Designer, give the following commands:
mouse
menu
menu vvd_log
vvd
menu off
Here is a listing of the keys that the mouse is made to simulate:
Mouse left: <Left Arrow>
Mouse right: <Right Arrow>
Mouse up: <Up Arrow>
Mouse down: <Down Arrow>
Left Button: <Enter>
Middle Button: <F10>
Right Button: <Alt-f>
Left-Middle Chord: <F2>
You can refer to the Logitech Mouse User's Manual for more information,
including how to change the mouse sensitivity and key mappings.
3.3 Compatibility with computers with monochrome monitors that display
shades of gray
Some IBM PC compatibles have a monochrome monitor that will duplicate the
function of the IBM PC MONOCHROME card and the COLOR/GRAPHICS card. This
enables the monitor to work in either the MONOCHROME mode or COLOR mode.
When in the "COLOR" mode, the colors are mapped to various shades of
gray. For systems like this, the monochrome video attribute UNDERLINE is
not supported. The computer maps this video attribute to a shade of
grey. Compaq computers, AT&T 6300's, and possibly other brands as well
have this problem. The work-around is to set the video mode to BW80 from
DOS before executing the program. This will also force Vermont Views to
work in monochrome mode.