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WELCOME TO THE DIALOG DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM! VERSION 1.02!
The dialog development system is the ultimate tool for developing dialogs
for your own programs. It features:
- A complete set of full power drawing tools
- Complete aresenal of all Fusion dialog elements
- Element and object ordering capabilities
- A lightning fast, intelligent, optimizing code generator
- A Z-Ordering capability
- A customization control panel that remembers setting between sessions
- An easy to use interface
- Complete support for help, groups, and hotkeys
- And more ...
Source code for the DDS is available in the DDS directory in the Fusion
conference on our BBS.
Questions? Comments?
Please contact us on CIS or through our BBS
Help System?
The first shipping version of the DDS does not have a help system. A future
version will provide a help system as well as a collection of other new
features.
Test Dialog?
All numerics are referred to as longs -- in order to eliminate
the need to link in floating points and BCDs. As a result, decimals
should not be entered into the tester, since they will not be supported.
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Changes in 1.01:
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- A minor bug was fixed in the code generator.
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Changes in 1.02:
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- A bug was fixed in the code generator where a numerical element was
being generated improperly.
- A few minor performance enhancements have been scattered throughout the
entire software package.
- The dialog saving and loading options have been enhanced. Strings are now
saved at their actual length. As a result, .DDS files will be about 30 to
60% smaller than in previous DDS versions. All old DDS files are still
compatible with the new file format.
To get an idea of the size compression available, check out this
comparision. These are files that we are using in the development of
our own software packages:
File Size in Bytes
File Version 1.01 Version 1.02 % Smaller
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ACT4.DDS 54895 21200 61%
ACT.DDS 15553 7489 52%
ACTIVITY.DDS 6715 4193 36%
ADD.DDS 5217 2817 46%
CALENDAR.DDS 17257 6597 62%
FILEID.DDS 2337 1507 36%
HIT.DDS 4106 2425 41%
INVENT.DDS 9971 5203 48%
PROD.DDS 17165 6617 62%
REPORTS.DDS 7701 3959 49%
Try it on your files! Just load in your old .DDS files and save them and
you will quickly see the reduced size! We are working on another enhancement
that will reduce the size even more by compressing the Blaze text to about
50% of its size.
If you are piling up a load of .DDS files, then this release will really
benefit you.