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- Official Demonstration Program for version 0.59
- Programmed by Karl Anders Øygard and Ken Hollis
- Demo documentation by Ken Hollis
- Released by BitGate Software and Clever Bits
-
- All material copyright © 1992-1994, Bitgate Software, USA
- and Clever Bits, Norway
-
- ** THIS IS THE >FINAL< RELEASE OF WINLIB PRO! **
- ** LOOK FOR XAES FOR UPDATED MATERIAL **
-
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-
- Use of this demo program is not restricted, and may be given away as
- a whole archive, in unmodified form. No fee may be charged for such
- distribution of either the archive or the program. Since WinLIB Pro
- is currently not available, the demo will be given away for now.
-
- Additions to the demo:
- """"""""""""""""""""""
- Since the programmers have decided to update the program, various
- additions have been made. But since this is the newest release, it
- means that a major improvement has been made. These improvements are
- as follows:
-
- ∙ 5 different 3D Drawing types (MultiTOS, Zoom!, Geneva, Motif,
- Our own custom design)
- ∙ Subtle, but definitely better looking text drawing based on if the
- "whiteback" bit (obstate) is set. It creates a white shadow one
- pixel up and to the left of the text. Although it takes a bit
- longer to draw, it looks so much better.
- ∙ Added BOXFRAME bit for Extended Object Type, looks better
- ∙ Popup menu bars are now implemented
- ∙ Added alert boxes (still need work, though)
- ∙ Added new documentation and new indices to the library
- ∙ Added even more support for TOS 4.0+
- ∙ Fixed and optimized dialog editing routines
- ∙ Added much more to the demo... Take a look!
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-
- Using the demo:
-
- When you first boot up WinLIB Pro, it will display a menu at the top
- of your desktop, or screen, depending on if you are in a multitasking
- environment or not.
-
- To bring up a sample dialog box, all you have to do is select an
- item in any one of the menu bars. Once you do, you will then be
- able to click on a selection to close the window.
-
- The info window cannot be untopped, so if you have tried to untop it
- and you wonder what is going on, now you know. This is a feature
- to WinLIB Pro, which lets you pause for importaint information which
- cannot be avoided by any means. This window can be activated under
- the "CTRL-I" key, which immediately shows the dialog. To close this
- window, simply click "OK" or press [ALT-O] or [O]. If you want more
- information, press [ALT-I] or [I].
-
- Hotkeys can be activated by using the ALTERNATE key. If there is a
- dialog box with NO editable fields inside it, simply press the key
- corresponding to the hotkey. The hotkey is currently underlined, but
- that will change in the future.
-
- Window 1 is a timer window, which just shows a window with filled
- colors cycling once every second. This is an example of the multi-
- tasking windows. Although we have not programmed the routines to
- handle more than one window up at a time that is of timer type, you
- can keep it up to show multitasking capabilities of WinLIB Pro.
-
- Dialog 1 can be opened as many times as necessary. You may notice
- that if you have more than one window of the same dialog box up at
- any given time, it will do all redraws to each window that contains
- the same information. Although editing objects are not yet redrawn,
- they will be. All this window does is show its ability to perform
- radio buttons, selectable buttons, 3D buttons, as well as editing.
- It also shows its ability to select buttons in the background, ie.
- you don't have to top this window to select an item inside it, and
- shows what the BOXFRAME looks like.
-
- Dialog 2 gives an example of a MultiTOS-like feature of buttons, in
- "Button 2". This is highlighted, just like the bit mask 0x400 would
- do under MultiTOS or TOS 4.0+. This window can also be activated by
- a background click, and so can its menus. The image has been scaled
- to show the WinLIB Pro scaling capabilities, although, it will be
- worked on, for obvious reasons.
-
- Dialog 3 gives an example of popup menu bars. Although the cycle
- button does not work, it will work in the next version. But, the
- popup menus work, giving an example of what is to come.
-
- Dialog 4 gives an example of slidable objects, and the custom design
- buttons. It also gives an example of rooted objects, but since the
- sizing routine for rooted objects is not yet complete, the text with-
- in the box is off a bit. This will be fixed in the next update.
-
- This program also has an internal help menu, which can be activated
- by pressing the [ALT-CTRL-HELP] key. It would then show a window
- with the text, and you can then go in and select a word, and it will
- display information based on what you clicked. This option is known
- as Hottext (or Hypertext for you Mac junkies), and is unique to
- WinLIB Pro.
-
- Information about the WinLIB Pro demo in general can be obtained by
- pressing the [ALT-CTRL-F1] key, which will then display a general
- information window which can be selectable by hottext as well.
-
- The WinLIB Pro demo currently works with MultiTOS, but is incompat-
- ible (currently) with Geneva. New versions of Geneva should be
- released that will be compatible. So far, WinLIB Pro is not.
-
- Try running this program under low resolution. Although the text
- windows are not wrapped yet, they will be. The hottext works under
- any resolution.
-
- Changing the 3D Drawing types can be activated by using the keys
- ALT-CTRL-F5 thru ALT-CTRL-F10. They are as follows:
-
- F5 : MultiTOS/TOS 4.0+ 3D look (Atari's own design)
- F6 : Zoom! look (from Olaf Meisiek) (To be modified)
- F7 : Motif/Openlook look (XWindows design) (To be added)
- F8 : Geneva look (Actually just a modified TOS 4.0+ look)
- F9 : "WinLook" (Our very own customized look) (To be designed)
- F10 : Standard TOS look (no 3D enabled, bypass TOS 3.3 3D enable)
-
- Here's a slight list of the keyboard equivalency commands. All of
- these keys are activated by using [ALT-CTRL] combinations.
-
- [BACKSPACE] : Close all windows
- [SPACE] : Redraw all windows
- [KP-ENTER] : Redraw current window
- [ESC] : Close current window
- [F1] : Show info about the demo
- [TAB] : Cascade windows