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- MicroHelp VBTools Demonstration Program
-
- MicroHelp's VBTools provides the programmer with a "grab bag" of services:
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- Lots of Custom Controls. Note that this demonstration program does not
- include the custom controls shown below, but they will be in the
- product as well as a later version of the demo program:
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- Playing Cards
- Customizable Pushbuttons
- Guages
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- Pre-written toolbox routines. All of them are included in the
- demo program.
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- Assembly language routines to make your programs faster and smaller.
- You don't need to know anything about assembly language to use them
- because they are invoked just like SubPrograms and Functions. Several
- of these routines are demonstrated.
-
- Key words that Microsoft forgot: MK?, CV? (including the MBF versions),
- PLAY, BLOAD and BSAVE (for arrays other than variable-length string
- arrays). Only the PLAY key word is demonstrated in this demo.
-
- Graphics special effects, which are in the demo.
-
- How to use some of the more useful Windows API routines. Many of these
- are sprinkled throughout the demo.
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- A blackjack game.
-
- A utility program giving you the functionality of $INCLUDE.
-
- The demonstration consists of these files:
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- VBTOOLS.VBX Dynamic Link Library (DLL) with supporting routines
- READ .ME This file
- VBTOOLS.EXE Demonstration program
- SOUND .DRV New and improved sound driver
-
- In order to run this demonstration, you'll need the Visual Basic
- runtime DLL. The name of the file is VBRUN100.DLL. If you don't have
- this file, you can download it from the MSSYS forum on CompuServe (the
- file name is VBRUN.ZIP).
-
- The SOUND.DRV file that comes with Microsoft Windows 3.0 has a bug that
- effects "tempo" in PLAY statements. Microsoft has fixed the bug and the
- included SOUND.DRV file has the fix. In order to hear the music in the
- demo program as it was meant to be heard, you'll need to:
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- 1. COPY SOUND.DRV to your Windows System directory (not the Windows
- directory).
- 2. Make sure that your SYSTEM.INI has the following line:
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- sound.drv=sound.drv
-
- 3. Restart Windows
-
- The actual product contains numerous demonstration applications,
- each of which shows you how to use one or more features from the
- product. This demonstration consists mainly of several of the
- example applications.
-
- Please note that VBTOOLS.VBX must be in your PATH when you execute
- VBTOOLS.EXE. Therefore, after you install the demonstration program,
- you will need to do one of two things:
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- 1. COPY VBTOOLS.VBX to a directory that is in your PATH, or
- 2. Adjust your PATH so that it includes the directory where you install
- VBTOOLS.VBX.
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- If you have any problems installing or running the demonstration program,
- please call MicroHelp at 1-800-922-3383 or (404) 594-1185.
-