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- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 09:31:13 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Rick Flashman <rflashma@mhc.mtholyoke.edu>
- Subject: Re: ST-Guide (was Geneva Help)
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- In-Reply-To: <memo.705270@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- On Wed, 20 Jul 1994, Ofir Gal wrote:
-
- > And ST-Guide fits the bill. What is the commercial status of your Geneva
- > Help and does it work like ST-Guide?
-
- As I mentioned before, if people are interested, we would consider
- writing a non-Geneva specific ACC/PRG version of our help system. It
- would not take much, as it is already done. It supports multiple fonts
- (no separate font loader needed), hypertext jumps, compressed help files,
- Atari Clipboard, etc. Anyone with access to Geneva should be pretty
- familiar with this.
-
- Currently in-house we have two versions of it:
-
- 1. Window based, PRG version that is used in Geneva. Program running under
- the Geneva environment does not bother to launch a help system, just
- passes its help file to the Geneva Help system.
-
- 2. Window based, PRG non-Geneva version. This is built into NeoDesk 4 and
- is executed when the user calls for help inside another multitasking
- environment or when they are using dialogs in a window.
-
- 2.1 This non-Geneva version can also execute in a dialog (without a
- window) for when the user calls for help from a static dialog box. This
- is especially important in non-multitasking systems. It looks the same,
- but the execution is different.
-
- It would be very easy to compile the non-Geneva version to also work as an
- ACC and document its pipeline documentation. Developers would first check
- to see if it is already installed (either because the user is running
- Geneva, because it is already running in memory, or as an ACC) before
- launching an additional copy of it. Obviously, if it is already running
- in memory, they just pass it the help file.
-
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- Rick Flashman, Gribnif Software Tel 413.247.5620
- P.O. Box 779, Northampton, MA 01061-0779 Fax 413.247.5622
- For customer support/information please email "gribnif@genie.geis.com".
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