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- Fields.Arc J Tal
- Rollins Medical/Dental Systems
- Southfield, MI
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- Field-oriented User Data-entry routines for
- PC and Turbo Pascal v 4
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- Name
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- BOXDEMO.EXE Demo of BoxIt routine in Fields unit
- BOXDEMO.PAS
- FIELDEMO.EXE Demo of using Fields unit
- FIELDEMO.PAS
- FIELDS.PAS Core of Interactive field-oriented screen I/O code
- FIELDS.TPU
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- Fields
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- The fields unit has evolved from IBM's computer that came out just before
- the PC, the IBM System 23/Datamaster. The S/23 was the first desktop size
- computer which supported full-screen editing. The method of handling user
- input for programs is easily transportable on the PC and provides a uniform
- and proven method of interacting with the user.
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- The Fields unit allows a (pascal) program to define strings which describe
- the location, length, visual attributes and characteristics of fields which
- the user can input data into. The implementation is clean and should prove
- to be very functional. The Fields unit was originally an include file
- under Turbo v2 & 3 and is now enhanced as a unit in Turbo Pascal v4.
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- Fieldemo
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- The Fieldemo program provides an elementary idea of what can be done in
- defining input screens. This approach has been used on screens which have
- more than 128 fields for the user to input data on one screen.
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- BoxDemo
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- The BoxDemo program shows how a screen made-up of field titles and
- definitions for input fields is automatically turned into the field definition
- strings required by the Field_In and Field_Out routines. The screen area
- when the boxed/windowed field area is to be written is saved using the
- routines in Pwindow.Arc. The screen area is restored as shown in the
- BoxDemo program.
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