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- (C) 1991 Vision Software, All Rights Reserved.
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- Address any correspondance to:
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- Vision Software
- 3408 Lansdown Drive
- Burlington, Ontario, Canada
- L7M-1V1
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- In addition, I may be reach through the following electronic
- networks:
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- GEnie: P.CALVIN
- UseNet: phil.calvin@rose.uucp
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- This document is intended to give a brief outline of
- how to USE an application developed using the ADL. It is
- meant for programmers who are developing software using this
- library. As such, the documentation would NOT be suitable
- for the END-users.
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- A simple way to learn about the applications library is
- to play with the STATS.EXE program that has been provided.
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- PULLDOWN MENUS
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- Access the menus by holding down ALT and pressing the
- highlighted letter of the desired menu. Once activated, The
- cursor keys (left/right) may be used to travel throughout
- the menu system.
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- ALL POPUPS
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- The cursor keys will move the selection cursor up and
- down. For all scroll boxes, attempting to cursor past the
- end of the window will cause it to scroll (if possible).
- Also pressing the highlighted key will SELECT that option.
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- For menus that are linked, a character similar to >>
- will appear on the right hand side. Selecting this entry
- will produce another popup just to the right of the
- previous.
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- BATCH USER EDITS
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- Cursor Left/Right: Moves cursor left/right
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- Cursor Up/Down: Selects next/previous edit field.
- Field will not change if it fails the
- validation.
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- Delete: Deletes current record, system will ask
- user to confirm delete.
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- Insert: Forces library to create a new record.
- Similar to typing a unique key, this
- allows the user to create duplicate
- keys.
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- PgUp/Dn: Moves record forward one/backward one.
- Will ask to save the current record if
- there has been changes.
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- Home/End: Moves to first/last record. Will also
- ask to save current field if necessary.
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- Also, typing a new key into the currently active index
- key will cause the library to search for a match. If found,
- we may edit that record. If not found, a new record is
- created with that key.
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- In general, pressing ESC will terminate the current
- action. In some cases (i.e Edits) the system will ask for a
- confirmation. In other cases (i.e Popups) the system will
- simply terminate.
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