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- #TProgramming Object Oriented Arcade Games In Turbo C
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- ~Y~IAs you can see, this book has been published as in interactive tutorial.
- Hopefully you will find it easy to use. There are, however, a few things
- you should know before you start to work through the text.
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- First of all, this tutorial supports both the keyboard and a mouse. How
- well your mouse is supported depends on how compatible with a Microsoft
- mouse it is.
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- Also, the tutorial will periodically stop and wait for input. If nothing
- seems to be happening, press enter or click the left mouse button. Try it
- now.
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- Throughout the text, you will see things that look like |this|. Any time
- you see black text on a grey background, you are looking at a button. To
- press a particular button, you must put your red cursor onto it. You do
- that by using the arrow keys or moving your mouse. Try moving the red
- cursor onto the word "this". Once "this" is red, press the enter key or
- the left mouse button.
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- Hypertext buttons become unavailable once you pass the paragraph that they
- are embedded in. To show you what I mean, try pressing this |button|.
- After you see the contents of the hypertext box, move your cursor to the
- "Continue" button on the bottom of the screen.
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- Now try accessing the button above. You can't. Your cursor won't go there
- anymore because the paragraph in which the button is embedded has been
- passed.
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- Most menus in this system are arranged vertically. That is, the choices
- in the menu follow an order like that listed below.
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- Choice 1
- Choice 2
- Choice 3
- Choice 4
- Choice 5
- Choice 6
- Choice 7
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- However some menus are arranged like this:
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- Choice 1 Choice 2
- Choice 3 Choice 4
- Choice 5 Choice 6
- Choice 7
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- This is usually only the case if there are too many choices to fit into a
- vertical menu. Whenever you see a menu arranged like this, the easiest way
- to get the correct choice is to always use the right arrow for cursor
- movement.
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- That's really all there is to using this tutorial.
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