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- From: stack@techbook.com (Bill Stackhouse)
- Subject: Beyond the List Manager
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.052435.2385@techbook.com>
- Organization: StoneTablet Publishing
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:24:35 GMT
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- Portland, OR -- September 2, 1992 -- StoneTablet Publishing today
- began shipping StoneTable(TM) for use with MPW C. StoneTable is a
- replacement for the Macintosh List Manager. A version for use with
- Think C has been available for several months. Also with this release,
- StoneTable will now support application defined cell validation
- functions for both the Think C and MPW C versions.
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- StoneTable provides a rich set of functions for the Macintosh developer
- who needs to display or accept data in a tabular form. Conversion from
- the List Manager is straight forward because StoneTable contains
- functions with similar names and parameters that are semantically
- equivalent.
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- Functionality includes:
- - variable width columns
- - variable height rows
- - data in a cell can be edited in place
- - no internal limit to the amount of data that can be stored in a cell.
- The amount of text displayed in a single cell is only limited by
- TextEdit
- - multiple cells can be set at once
- - mouse down handling provides an optional interface for moving,
- copying, selecting, and resizing a column or row plus scrolling and
- editing the text in a cell
- - columns and rows can be hidden
- - optional lines between columns and/or rows can have a user supplied
- pattern
- - irregular selections can be made
- - columns and rows can have default titles (letters, numbers, or blank)
- - ability to scroll individual cell text
- - columns can have applications supplied titles
- - the formatting (font, size, style, first line visible) of cells can
- vary from cell to cell
- - columns and rows can have application supplied titles
- - ability to define a new drawing module for cell data
- - optional icon palette to aid in setting table mode for extended
- selections, cell edits, etc. Useful for users that limited use of hands
- and new users
- - define height of column title border and width of row title border
- - sort columns and rows
- - edit titles in place
- - cut/copy/paste cell/title text
- - have the cursor automatically change to the proper appearance as it
- moves around the table
- - user written cell validation functions called during cell edits and
- when cell text updated by application.
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- Questions may directed to:
- StoneTablet Publishing
- Internet: stack@techbook.com
- CompuServe: 70303,2546
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