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(C) 1991 Vision Software, All Rights Reserved.
Address any correspondance to:
Vision Software
3408 Lansdown Drive
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
L7M-1V1
In addition, I may be reach through the following electronic
networks:
GEnie: P.CALVIN
UseNet: phil.calvin@rose.uucp
This document is intended to give a brief outline of
how to USE an application developed using the ADL. It is
meant for programmers who are developing software using this
library. As such, the documentation would NOT be suitable
for the END-users.
A simple way to learn about the applications library is
to play with the STATS.EXE program that has been provided.
PULLDOWN MENUS
Access the menus by holding down ALT and pressing the
highlighted letter of the desired menu. Once activated, The
cursor keys (left/right) may be used to travel throughout
the menu system.
ALL POPUPS
The cursor keys will move the selection cursor up and
down. For all scroll boxes, attempting to cursor past the
end of the window will cause it to scroll (if possible).
Also pressing the highlighted key will SELECT that option.
For menus that are linked, a character similar to >>
will appear on the right hand side. Selecting this entry
will produce another popup just to the right of the
previous.
BATCH USER EDITS
Cursor Left/Right: Moves cursor left/right
Cursor Up/Down: Selects next/previous edit field.
Field will not change if it fails the
validation.
Delete: Deletes current record, system will ask
user to confirm delete.
Insert: Forces library to create a new record.
Similar to typing a unique key, this
allows the user to create duplicate
keys.
PgUp/Dn: Moves record forward one/backward one.
Will ask to save the current record if
there has been changes.
Home/End: Moves to first/last record. Will also
ask to save current field if necessary.
Also, typing a new key into the currently active index
key will cause the library to search for a match. If found,
we may edit that record. If not found, a new record is
created with that key.
In general, pressing ESC will terminate the current
action. In some cases (i.e Edits) the system will ask for a
confirmation. In other cases (i.e Popups) the system will
simply terminate.