(Note: Some text in this application will not display properly unless you have Courier and New York fonts installed in your System.)
If you are a Macintosh programmer then Blurbs are for you.
With my Blurb Manager code in your programs you can easily implement multiple "windows", or blurbs, with styled text and pictures inside your own Macintosh windows, letting the Blurb Manager do all the drawing, scrolling, overlapping, dragging, growing, closing, zooming, activating, etc. I have gone to great lengths to make blurbs conform, in general, to the way windows work on the Macintosh.
As the programmer, you have full control over numerous blurb attributes. You can make blurbs as simple as plain text in borderless boxes, or as full-featured as styled text with pictures in draggable, closeable, menuable, iconifiable, zoomable, growable, scrollable, and copiable regions.
You can pop up blurbs anywhere in your windows, over any type of background, and across multiple screens with different color properties and the Blurb Manager takes care of it all.
Adding text and pictures to blurbs can be as simple as, but not limited to, passing the desired 'TEXT' and 'PICT' resource IDs to the Blurb Manager.
You can color a blurb's frame any way you want.
Blurbs application demonstrates just some of things you can do with the Blurb Manager. You are limited only by your own imagination. Anytime you want non-trivial text and graphics display, use blurbs. For instance, you can create very sophisticated help and tutorial systems with the Blurb Manager.
All blurbs in a program are organized into a simple hierarchy:
1) Each blurb is a member of a "Blurb Cluster", which may contain any number of blurbs, or no blurbs at all. Blurbs in a cluster share a common graphics background, a common viewing region, and a common click interaction. There are two blurb clusters in this "About Blurbs" window. One is the cluster to which the blurb you are reading belongs, and the other is the cluster of blurbs in the little computer screen. You can gain insight into the built-in capabilities of the Blurb Manager by observing the interaction between these two clusters as you drag the little computer around the window and fiddle with the blurbs in both clusters. (By the way, this "About Blurbs" window is growable.)
2) Each blurb cluster belongs to a "Blurb Group", which may contain any number of clusters, or no clusters at all. There is one blurb group for every Macintosh window that has blurbs.
3) All blurb groups in a program are listed in, and accessed through, the single "Blurb Manager Record".
Other blurbs in this window offer more information. You access them by scrolling the blurb titled "Click an Icon" in the little computer screen and then clicking the icon of any subject in which you are interested.
