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- !ShowText- Instructions for Use.
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- Introduction:
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- One of the most annoying things I find about
- Public Domain software is that programs'
- instructions are stored as text files. This
- is irritating if you want too look up how to
- do something with the program whilst it is
- still running and without having to load !Edit
- first.
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- !ShowText is designed to eliminate that
- problem. As you can see it displays a text file
- in a window and can quite easily be added to a
- part of a program as an On Line Help facility.
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- Using !ShowText:
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- The first thing we need to do is to tell
- !ShowText how many lines of text there will be
- in your text file. This is done by setting the
- variable Text$Lines in the !RunFile.
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- Next, copy your file to !ShowText's folder
- and rename it as TextFile.
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- For really long text files you may need to
- increase the workarea of the main window with
- !FormEd otherwise the text may disappear of the
- page!
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- © Andrew Heckford
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