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- This bonus disk contains demonstration programs for Desaware's five products,
- SpyWorks-VB, VersionStamper-VB, The Common Dialog Toolkit, CCF-Cursors and
- the Custom Control Factory for Visual Basic.
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- You can run the executable of these sample programs even if you do not currently
- own any of these products.
-
- It also contains several sample programs for use with SpyWorks-VB and
- VersionStamper-VB. You must have SpyWorks-VB or VersionStamper-VB in
- order to load these projects. The forms for the sample programs are compressed
- with COMPRESS, you can use the EXPAND command to decompress them. COMPRESS and
- EXPAND comes with VB 3.0 Professional and is usually installed in the
- \vb3\setupkit\kitfiles directory.
-
- COOP1 and COOP2: Shows how to communicate between applications using Windows messages.
- Run COOP1 and launch COOP2 from COOP1.
-
- TH_RT_M: Shows how to tile and cascade your Visual Basic application like other
- Windows applications. Visual Basic applications do not respond to the Task List's
- "Tile" or "Cascade" commands. In fact, if you have a Visual Basic application minimized
- and tried to perform a "Tile" command from the Task List, you will see a hole where the
- Visual Basic program is suppose to be.
-
- CTRL_ESC: Shows how to intercept the Ctrl-Esc key and prevent the Task List from
- appearing.
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- TOPMOST: Shows how to keep your form as the top-most (i.e. Always on Top) form.
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- CAPSLOCK: Properly handle the Caps Lock key when detecting hot keys.
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- TOOLTIP: How to display status bar help and tooltips using SpyWorks.
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- SPLASH: Implement a Splash screen while Verifying VBXs and DLLs with VersionStamper.
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- KEYSND: Demonstrates the use of the SBC.VBX DelayedEvent.
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- NL1TOP10: Top 10 Windows tricks for Visual Basic that you can do with the Windows
- API functions (this does not require SpyWorks-VB).
-
- The online catalog onlcat.hlp can viewed using the window help program (winhelp), or
- launched via the rundemo.exe program.
-
- You can run the demonstration programs from the help file or directly from the directory in
- which you install these programs:
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- SpyDemo.exe: SpyWorks-VB demo
- VerDemo.exe: VersionStamper-VB demo
- CDTDemo.exe: Common Dialog Toolkit demo
- CurTest.exe: CCF-Cursors demo
- CCBDemo.exe: Custom Control Factory demo
-
- For better performance, you can copy the files onto your hard disk before
- running them.
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- This disk also contains files apibk.doc (word for windows format) and apibk.rtf (RTF format)
- which contain a list of all changes and corrections for "PC Magazine Visual Basic Programmer's
- Guide to the Windows API" from Ziff-Davis Press as of the 4th printing.
-
- For more information, contact:
-
- Desaware
- 5 Town & Country Village, #790
- San Jose, CA 95128
- CIS: "Go Desaware" 74431,3534
-
- (408) 377-4770
- fax: (408) 371-3530