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- Album 1.4
- Album is a ToolBook application that lets you create
- collections of ToolBook objects and bitmapped graphics. It provides for
- indexed retrieval and lets you print paper copies of your Albums. It
- operates under either runtime ToolBook or full ToolBook.
-
- Copyright Notice
- Album is a copyrighted work of Doug Overmyer. You are granted a
- license to use it so long as you make no changes to the copyright notice
- or program operation, and include this documentation if passed on to others.
- You use the program entirely at your own risk.
-
-
- Installation:
- Copy the ALBM14.TBK model to your favorite ToolBook directory. You should
- copy the tbkopen.dll file (included) to the same directory your ToolBook
- ".exe" file is in. Also check that this directory is in the "DOS Path" or
- ToolBook will have a hard time finding its libraries. Bring up ToolBook,
- and open the ALBM14.TBK book. You may wish to save it to a new name of
- your choice.
-
- Using Album:
- Album has most of the explanations needed to run it on
- pages 2 and 3. Basically there are four steps to adding objects
- to your Album:
-
- a. copy the object you wish to store to the Windows
- clipboard
- b. create a new page in your Album using the NEW button
- c. PASTE the object into your Album
- d. position the object by click/drag
-
-
- Remember to save your Album with the changes.
-
- To get objects out of an Album, just doubleclick on the object, and
- it is copied to the Windows clipboard.
-
-
- Maintaining Albums
- First you select the object(s) using one of the methods below,
- then use the buttons at the upper right of the screen to manipulate them.
-
- a. Selecting objects - you can click on successive
- objects to create a group (please note, ONLY the objects
- you click are actually selected, regardless of the marquee's
- appearance). As an alternative, you can 'draw' a marquee by
- clicking on the page outside of any object and moving the
- pointer to "draw out" the marquee. When you release the
- mouse button, the objects completely within the marquee
- will be selected, and the marquee redrawn to box them in.
-
- b. Moving objects - select the object(s) as in a. above.
- Click and hold on one of the objects, and drag the group in the
- direction you wish to move it. You will need some patience for the
- objects to catch up with your mouse.
-
- c. CUT - this cuts the object(s) on the current page out of your
- Album (and copies it to the clipboard). You can paste it
- back in if you act right away.
-
- d. PASTE - this pastes the object on the clipboard into the
- Album page currently displayed. There is a limit on the size of
- bitmaps you can paste onto a page - Album will tell you if the
- image is too large to fit. If this happens, try creating a new, empty
- page and repeating the paste operation. If it still fails, the image
- is just too large for ToolBook.
-
- e. NEW - creates a new scrapbook page after the current
- page.
-
- f. DEL - deletes the current page (this is unrecoverable!)
-
- The horizontal bookmark at the upper left of Album page
- lets you enter a description for the object.
-
-
- Additional Features:
- a. If you click on the end of the horizontal bookmark, the
- search dialog box appears which lets you search for text in the
- name field. If Album finds the text, the page will be
- displayed.
-
- b. The FIRST and LAST bookmarks take you directly to the
- first and last data pages of the current Album.
-
- c. The HELP bookmark goes to the help page.
-
- d. If you click the page number field on the upper right
- corner of the book, a dialog box appears that lets you go directly
- to any page in the book.
-
- e. The index bookmark takes you to an index of the pages.
- You can click on one of the entries to go directly to that page.
- If you make changes to your Album, click the (U) button on
- the index list box, and the index will be rebuilt.
-
- Menu Items:
- The utilities menu on the menu bar has 3 items unique to Album:'
-
- a. Change Caption: this option lets you change the caption of
- the titlebar for your Album.
-
- b. Import Album: this item lets you import a range of pages
- from another Album. First, go to the page where you wish the import
- to begin (not pages 1 to 4). Select "Import", and you are asked for the
- beginning and ending page number, and the full name of the book which
- you can select from a typical Windows dialog box. If all is well the
- target pages will be copied to your Album via DDE.
-
- c. Erase Album: - well, this does just what it says. It
- erases all data pages 5 and up! (It is best not to delete page 4, so
- please leave it intact). This is an easy way to create a new Album-
- just save an existing one to a new name, use the Utilities/Erase option,
- and save Album again to yet another name. The last save is
- needed if you wish to compact your Album and recover the space of
- the deleted pages.
-
-
- Printing Pages:
- You can print thumbnail collections of your Album using the File/Print/Pages
- command from the File menu. You will be asked to select a layout (2 across
- by 8 down, for example) and can use a preview mode to figure out what will
- work best for you. This provides a handy access to your Album, especially
- after you've forgotten just exactly what it has.
-
-
- Hints:
- Try out the second help page (page3) by clicking on each object.
- A help message for each one will appear.
-
- If you delete pages from your Album, save it to a new name -
- ToolBook will compact the book and recover the unused space.
- This will not happen if you just save the changes to the same
- name.
-
- There is a limit on the size of bitmapped image that ToolBook
- will store on a page - it is something over screen size, but
- less than half page at 300 dpi. Of course, color images require
- more space than b&w. If an image is too large to display on the
- page, it appears chopped off on the right and bottom sides -
- don't worry, it's there. If ToolBook refuses to paste it in,
- however, it's too big.
-
- Regretably, the mouse handling routines for moving and selecting
- objects are none too responsive. Since this functionality does not
- normally exist at the reader (ie runtime) level, it had to be programmed
- in Openscript, the ToolBook programming language.
-
- Warning:I've tried to make this program as reliable as possible,
- but you use it entirely at your own risk. Please backup your Albums
- frequently. Since an Album is self-modifying (this is nature of ToolBook
- applications), it is subject to damage like any other data file.
-
- I hope you find it useful.
-
- Author:
- Doug Overmyer
- CIS 71021,2535
- 2/6/91 release 1.4
-