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- Date: 19 april 1989
- The basic loader.
-
- I have made this simpel routine from my previously made wimp shell library
- (of course not yet fully completed,... but I'm working on it) and the
- routines I could steel from the demonstration programs. It works need and
- gives an user friendly ring to the desktop for developpers (Why din't you
- make it ACORN??). In future I hope to build a real Basic editor multitasking in the ARC unless someone beats me to it.
-
- The basic loader sets the system variable Current$Dir to the current
- directory. So when finally you want to save your program press F3 enter
- <Current$Dir>.filename and hit return or place the name in a REM statement
- on the first line (REM > <Current$Dir>.filename) to save your program.
-
- In basic the function keys are programmed in the following way.
- key 1 : <Current$Dir>.
- These keys are set in the !run command file of the !BasicEdit application
- directory so you can change them to your specific needs.
-
- If anyone feels the need to publish the program in any kind of magazine
- please feel free to do so. The program is mostly self explanatory. But for
- more information you can also contact me. (Phone : 070-291508 The
- Netherlands).
-
- Hugo Eckhardt
-
-
- Er, yeh. Thanks, Hugo. I'll take it from here...
-
- It's been hacked a bit since then...
- ArmBE has been modified to let you use any screen mode (i.e. 76!)
- BSFixRM has been added so that backspace works like DELETE (Note that this
- is a keyboard buffer module...)
- CursorRM has been added so you can move the cursor with the mouse (But may
- have been removed again in this version as I got sick of it...)
-
- Also, Dragging an application directory to it now loads the !RunImage
- inside it.
-
- Dragging non-BASIC files to it no longer causes an error to be displayed.
-
- And other misc. hacks...
-
- Captain Midnight & The Master of the Arcane
-