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- HBMsg.bas - A simple BASIC message browser AREXX host
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-
- (c) Copyright 1994 HiSoft.
-
- This is a reasonably complex example showing how a simple message browser
- might be constructed in BASIC. A number of example files for binding TurboText
- (a popular programmers editor) to it are also included. Note that all files
- are still very much an example rather than a complete application;
- considerably more work is required to 'finish' this as a message browser!
-
- The various elements present (which could be cut out and reused) are:
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- Common command and tooltype parsing to allow either a CLI or Workbench style
- start.
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- ARexx host creation, together with standardised command and parameter parsing
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- Mutiple ARexx command invocation
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- Standard Intuition IDCMP message handling
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- Standard scroll bar handling and generation, together with optimised scrolling
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- The example will work on versions of Workbench 2.0 or later (V36 and above)
-