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- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.0
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- Version 3.0 of Dialog Design supports the new features of Turbo Pascal
- version 7 and has some new features of its own. If you've previously
- used Dialog Design, this section will give you an idea of what's new and
- what's changed in Version 3.0.
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- Supports the three standard Dialogbox palettes.
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- Supports validators for TInputLine.
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- EnableMask selections can now be made to Enable/Disable individual
- checkboxes and radiobuttons.
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- Supports the new TMultiCheckboxes.
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- A Merge command allows predefined dialog controls to be merged into
- the design dialog.
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- Help context values are automatically updated when reading in either
- a .DLG file or a help context file.
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- A .DLG file may now be specified on the command line.
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- A group of controls may now be selected by dragging the mouse to enclose
- them in a rectangle.
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- NEW TO VERSION 2.x FROM VERSION 1.x.
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- Controls can now be directly sized on screen by dragging the lower right
- corner.
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- Multiple controls may now be selected. This allows operations like move
- to be done on several controls at once. Selected controls are now colored
- red in design mode.
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- Clicking on a control with the right mouse button (or double clicking on it)
- will bring up the Edit box for the control.
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- There is now support for additional control types:
- TMemo
- Horizontal and vertical scroll bars.
- TInputLong a long integer extension to TInputline.
- TColoredText a colored TStaticText extension.
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- When adding a control, you can specify its label at the same time.
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- Source code can now be previewed on screen as well as written to a file.
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- You can now specify Options and Eventmask. In particular, setting
- ofFrame allows frames and lines to be included in the dialogbox.
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- COMPATIBILITY ISSUES
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- Resource Files
- Resource files produced by Dialog Design version 3 can only be used
- with Turbo 7 programs. If you're still using Turbo 6 and need resource
- files, you'll have to stay with Version 2.x of Dialog Design.
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- Source Files
- Source files produced by Dialog Design Version 3 may be used with Turbo 6
- if you're careful not to use any new Turbo 7 features.
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- .DLG Files
- Version 3 .DLG files differ from those of previous versions. However,
- version 3 can read .DLG files from older versions.
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- FILES SUPPLIED
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- DLGDSN.EXE EXE file for Dialog Design
- DLGDSN.DOC DOC file for Dialog Design
- DLGHLP.HLP Help file for Dialog Design
- TESTCASE.PAS Program to test source code generated by Dialog Design
- COLORTXT.TPU TPU for TColoredText
- COLORTXT.INT Doc and partial source for TColoredText
- INPLONG.PAS Doc and source for TInputLong
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- BUG FIXES
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- V3.01
- Fix crash problem when accessing CheckBox/RadioButtons Add/Edit dialog.
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