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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.
!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.
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.
Next, copy your file to !ShowText's folder
and rename it as TextFile.
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!
© Andrew Heckford