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- Documentation for LBGEN version 1.0
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- LBGEN generates text file input for LITEBAR.BIN (& OBJ) version 4.2 or greater.
- It is a crude program, but demonstrates dome of the abilities of LITEBAR, as
- LITEBAR is the only BIN file used. The version of LITEBAR in LBGEN.ARC is
- 4.2 with one change--it has four screen save/restore areas.
-
- LBGEN needs the following files:
-
- LBCOLSCR.LBS
- LBGENC.LBS -- LBS=LITEBAR SCREENS
- LBOPTS.LBS
-
- LBTMPLAT.DBF -- template DBF file
- LITEBAR.BIN (special version)
-
-
- LBGEN is not perfect--in fact, it ain't close <grin>. It *only* generates
- TEXT INPUT files for use with LITEBAR. In the process, it generates a MEM
- file and a DBF file for each text file (TBT) so that you can then modify the
- file at will. Each time you modify, a totally new text file is generated.
- It is probably a good idea to keep LBGEN in a separate directory so that your
- DBF, MEM, and TXT files won't get distracting. Hopefully, the next version will
- eliminate some of this stuff.
-
- If you want to use memvar input instead of text files, you can do this:
-
- (TEST.LBT looks like this:)
-
- H31T0,0EKV/31,111,
- 1,1,option 1 \1\23,0,help1\
- 2,1,option 2 \2\23,0,help2\
- 3,1,option 3 \3\23,0,help3\
-
- MAKE temp.prg from TEST.TBT:
-
- m1="H31T0,0EKV/31,111,;"
- m2="1,1,option 1 \1\23,0,help1\;"
- m3="2,1,option 2 \2\23,0,help2\;"
- m4="3,1,option 3 \3\23,0,help3\ "
- SAVE ALL LIKE M? TO mem.mem && or whatever
-
- ...or you could use Andrew Schulman's MAKEMEM to do it for you I guess. The
- next version of LBGEN will do mem files and probably deBASE code as well, I just
- wanted to get this one out so that people can use it until a better version
- is done.
-
-
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- This is the demo version of LBGEN. It has been DBCODED.
- If you are using the demo version of LBGEN, you will not be able to define
- more than three options per menu (normally 50). Also, the source code is
- not available unless you register.
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