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- AHelp5 v1.3 by MicroFox Registration $ 50.00
- MISC FEB91 AHELP CLIPPER LIB HELP DBASE
- FILES: ahelp5.sdn
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- New to SDN
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- Welcome to AHELP! This help system, for use with your
- Clipper applications (Summer '87), provides both
- context-sensitive and generalized help windows. Features of
- AHELP version 1 (be sure to see version 2, p.7):
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- * You control whether help windows have no border, a
- single-line border, or a double-line border.
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- * You control whether the cross-bars drawn inside the help
- windows have no line, a single line, or a double line.
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- * AHELP automatically determines the appropriate
- intersections.
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- * You control what colors AHELP will use for the help window
- border, title, content, and highlight bar in the help index
- window.
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- * You control whether or not the end user has the ability to
- create or modify help windows.
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- * You control whether or not the help windows have drop
- shadows.
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- * AHELP automatically positions the help window immediately
- below the screen position of the input variable (e.g., a GET
- variable) if the window will fit there; otherwise, the window
- appears immediately above the input variable.
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- * AHELP provides a help index; whenever any help window is on
- the screen, the user may press F1 to see the help index. The
- help index is another window with a scrolling alphabetic
- listing of help subjects. The user uses the cursor control
- keys to highlight the subject of interest, and presses Enter
- to see the corresponding help window. The user may also type
- the first letter of the subject to move the highlight bar
- immediately to the first occurrence of that letter.
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- * AHELP is sensitive to the Clipper environment. If the
- cursor is off when help is invoked, it will be off when
- control returns to your application. Conversely, if the
- cursor is on when help is invoked, it will be on when control
- returns to your application. The same principle applies to
- colors, function keys, insert status, work area, and the
- status of SET CONSOLE, DELETED, ESCAPE, and SCOREBOARD.
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- * AHELP does not use any "wait state" commands (READ, WAIT,
- ACCEPT, INPUT, MENU TO), to avoid conflicts with any pending
- GETs. It uses the INKEY() function for all keyboard input,
- with two exceptions: it calls DBEDIT() for the help index
- window and MEMOEDIT() for displaying/editing help text.
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