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- F12Shell is a Visual Basic 3.0 program that demonstrates a variety of
- programming techniques. It has 3 D buttons, stay on top, and a built in
- date and time display. While the stay on top is some fairly common code,
- 3 D solution for the buttons is exclusively mine. By simulating depth
- using lines instead of multiple bitmaps I managed to reduce the file size
- by over 6 K, it did involve more coding to control the lines, but I think
- the size savings were worth it.
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- Like any VB 3.0 program this can be invoked from the dos command line, thus
- starting Windows, or used as a shell if its pathname is placed in the
- Shell= line of System.ini. F12SHELL is freely distributable in the zipped
- form which includes F12SHELL.MAK, F12SHELL.FRM, F12SHELL.EXE, and
- README.F12. In this form F12SHELL is considered freeware. Customizations
- are available for a small fee. Programmers who wish do add to the program
- are invited to do so, but must retain the copyright and source information
- for Force 12 which display under About and More About. Just add another
- About style box for your own code and mods. I did not include the ICO
- files with the program because those actually belong to Microsoft, I just
- inverted the colors.
-