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- PROVISION:WINDOWS Screen Painter
- Rel 1.5
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-
- Welcome to PVW Screen Painter.
-
- This is a simple utility, written completely in Clipper 5.1 and
- ProVision:Windows. We studied the "header" files supplied with PVW and created
- the natural .dbfs to achieve a "data-driven" environment that would store
- window definitions, allow you to see the windows as you created them, and write
- out the code (command style) that would produce those windows.
-
- Designing the screens for a system is usually a time consuming part of
- the developement phase of most projects. A friend of mine was teasing me by
- pointing out Visual Basic's strong screen design orientation, and in fact
- he had a good point. So...., since Clipper is one heck of a developement
- language, and PVW supplies fantastic user-interface tools, we figured --
- why not give it a shot ?!
-
- The menus are, for the most part, self explainatory. You create a project and
- associate your windows with that project. This provides a natural grouping of
- windows.
-
- Under the "Window" menu you'll see:
-
- Create ---> create new windows for this project
- Edit ---> edit the windows of the present project
- Show ---> display windows for the present project
- (available during most functions anyway)
- Duplicate ---> copy a window to save time
- Write ---> generate window code for your projects
- View ---> view a text file (not a window)
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- The rest is pretty straight-forward.
-
- Nelson and I are just about finished with an actual PAINTING version of this
- program ala Visual Basic, where you create and resize objects dynamically on a
- "form". This is written with the additional help of FUNCkyII.
-
- We would be pleased to answer questions and would very much like to hear from
- anyone interested in tesing the final beta of Rel 1.5, which we will offer as
- shareware in about a month.
-
- Best Regards and wishes for a happy and health (healthful) New Year.
-
- Nelson Jimenez
- Kenny Blackstein
-
- Compuserve: 76576,1667
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