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- RTMOUSE - RTMOUSE Help Text Custom Control
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-
- The RTMOUSE Control adds a new technique of providing help to the user that
- is not available any other way. This control allows the developer to provide
- the user with a dynamic popup help balloon for all the controls on each form
- in the VB application. The popup help text provided is especially useful to
- new user and is ideal for custom in-house applications where the user may not
- have a manual to refer to.
-
- When enabled, the control provides a custom event which defines when the user
- moves the mouse cursor over a form's control and clicks the right mouse button.
- The VB application then passes a help text string to the RTMOUSE.VBX control
- which then pops up a help balloon in the vicinity of the selected control and
- displays the help text in the popup balloon. If help text for a control is not
- desired, then no return text should be provided by the VB application. The
- popup help balloon is removed when the user releases the right mouse button.
- Releasing the right mouse button terminates the help session.
-
- A separate RTMOUSE Control is placed on each form that will have a right mouse
- button popup help session available. A "popup help session" is defined from
- the time the RTMOUSE popup help balloon appears on-screen to the point at
- which the RTMOUSE popup help balloon is removed.
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- OTHER PRODUCTS:
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- Weimar Software's WSIHLP sells for $75.
- The WSIHLP help control collection contains NINE VBXs as follows:
- BALLOON.VBX provides balloon help popup windows for all form controls.
- CLACKER.VBX provides the hooks for dynamic menu help using a status bar.
- NUMWIN.VBX enumerates and returns hWnds for all windows and controls.
- MNBLUN.VBX provides balloon help for each menu item as it is selected.
- RTMOUSE.VBX provides ballon help when the right mouse button is clicked.
- SHADBX.VBX provides a popup shadowed text message, like windows help does.
- SNDDEX.VBX Soundex and enhanced Soundex word matching and searching.
- STMOUSE.VBX provides a status line help for each control on a form.
- WSHELP.VBX contains all of the functionality of these three controls,
- balloon.vbx, stmouse.vbx and rtmouse.vbx plus a unique
- capability in DTBALLOON section to provide timer activated
- balloon help.
- A great value for the money. See file WSIHLP.ZIP.
- To Purchase, E-Mail or call Weimar Software, see address below, or
- Register WSIHLP in Compuserve's SWREG forum, ID #2146.
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- Weimar Software's WSHELP sells for $45.
- The WSHELP help control collection contains FOUR VBXs as follows:
- BALLOON.VBX provides balloon help popup windows for all form controls.
- RTMOUSE.VBX provides ballon help when the right mouse button is clicked.
- STMOUSE.VBX provides a status line help for each control on a form.
- WSHELP.VBX contains all of the functionality of these three controls,
- balloon.vbx, stmouse.vbx and rtmouse.vbx plus a unique
- capability in DTBALLOON section to provide timer activated
- balloon help.
-
- A great value for the money. See file WSHELP.ZIP.
- To Purchase, E-Mail or call Weimar Software, see address below, or
- Register WSHELP in Compuserve's SWREG forum, ID #1428.
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- Weimar Software's 5PAK20 sells for $45.
- The 5PAK20 help control collection contains FIVE VBXs as follows:
- BALLOON.VBX provides balloon help popup windows for all form controls.
- SHADBX.VBX provides a popup shadowed text message, like windows help does.
- CLACKER.VBX provides the hooks for dynamic menu help using a status bar.
- NUMWIN.VBX enumerates and returns hWnds for all windows and controls.
- SNDDEX.VBX Soundex and enhanced Soundex word matching and searching.
-
- A great value for the money. See file 5PAK20.ZIP.
- To Purchase, E-Mail or call Weimar Software, see address below, or
- Register 5PAK20 in Compuserve's SWREG forum, ID #1220.
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- This ZIP file contains:
-
- RTMOUSE.VBX VB version of the RTMOUSE custom control
- RTMOUSE.HLP RTMOUSE documentation
- SAMPLE.ZIP Sample VB program showing how to use RTMOUSE
- README.TXT This file
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- REGISTRATION
-
- You can register this Control by:
-
- 1. On-Line registration with Compuserve, type GO SWREG and register
- product number 1432. The fee is $18.00. A registered copy will
- be sent by E-Mail.
- 2. Sending $18 (plus tax) and your name and address to the E-Mail address
- below.
- 3. VISA and MC are accepted. We accept phone orders and E-Mail orders.
-
- Please provide us with an E-Mail address where the control can be sent,
- alternatively add $3.50 for shipping and a disk will be mailed to you.
- Overseas shipping varies with destination.
-
- Registering the control will get the registered runtime and a design time
- SPECIAL DEBUGGING VERSION OF THE CONTROL useful in helping you verify the
- operation of your application when using the control. Special debugging
- checks are made on various parameters and at critical locations in debugging
- control to provide you with feedback on proper control and program menu
- operation.
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- NEW THIS VERSION
- 1. Fixed video problem with some drivers.
- 2. Fixed design mode break screen update.
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- SOURCE CODE
-
- Source code to this control is available on a case by case basis. Please
- contact Weimar Software regarding your requirements.
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- HOW TO REACH US
-
- If you have any comments or questions, please send them to us. We can be
- reached at
-
- Weimar Software,
- 18515 Annie Lane
- San Jose, CA 95120-1006
- 408-268-6638, FAX 408-268-7655.
-
- Or E-Mail us at our primary location at Internet bglover@netcom.com or
- at our secondary E-Mail address CIS 71220,2755.
-
- The most recent files are archived on;
- --Compuserve MSBASIC forum, library 5
- --Compuserve WUGNET forum, library 6
- --INTERNET at the ftp site ftp.netcom.com, cd to /ftp/pub/bg/bglover.
- The file which contains all of the controls plus the manual file
- for all controls is WSIHLP.ZIP.
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- LICENSE:
-
- The RTMOUSE control may not be commercially distributed, used for
- applications other than trial use, distributed by government agencies
- or any of its contractors, UNLESS a registration fee is paid by the
- distributing party. A registered control may be distributed with the
- applications that use it at no additional cost.
-
- This trial use file may be only distributed in its entirety. This file may
- not be included in CD-ROM distributions, bundled with other files, or
- offered for retail sale without contacting Weimar Software and obtaining
- a license to redistribute RTMOUSE.VBX.
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