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- Enclosure: dwmenu.pkg
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- Updated March 4, 1992
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- There's a fourth command in the menu -- Compile DocServer Outline.
-
- This is useful if you're writing DocServer documentation and want to use
- Frontier's built-in outliner to compose the docs. It has its advantages and
- disadvantages, but I like it... (I suppose this is not too surprising!)
-
- Included in the package is a small outline with five verb docs in it. Load it
- into Frontier's object database by clicking on the "Sample Outline" file. Make
- sure it's the frontmost window, and select the Compile Docserver Outline
- command from the menu. It will prompt you for a file to save the text to. You
- can then load the text into DocServer using the Load a Text File command in its
- File menu. Hope you like it!
-
- DW
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- About DWmenu
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-
- I had this lying around in my Frontier.root, and I wasn't sure how to
- distribute it, but it has some very useful stuff in it, especially if you're
- distributing Frontier scripts, tables, objects, etc.
-
- It's a menubar object. To use the commands in the menu, type:
-
- menu.install (@scratchpad.DWmenu)
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- into the Quick Script window.
-
- It has three commands in it:
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- 1. Window Formatter: Pretties-up windows, based on the type of the frontmost
- window. If it's anything but a table window, it resizes the window so it will
- fit on a 640-by-480 Macintosh screen, and centers it on the desktop (roughly,
- it allows for the menu bar). If it's a table window, we operate on the cursor
- object. If it's a table, we recursively visit all sub-windows, and
- sub-sub-windows, etc.
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- 2. Center Window: Much simpler than Window Formatter. It just operates on the
- frontmost window, regardless of its type. Resizes and centers it to look good
- on a 640-by-480 screen.
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- 3. Fix Table Cursors: Put the table cursor on a table you want to clean up. It
- recursively goes thru all the sub-tables and moves the cursor up to the first
- line in the table.
-
- As you've probably already guessed, these scripts were used in prettying-up
- Frontier.root for the version 1.0 shipment in January 1992. From now on, I'm
- going to use these scripts before uploading any suites and scripts, to be sure
- everything is in order the first time you look at stuff. You can use these
- scripts too...
-
- Note -- if you want to have these commands available to you all the time, add
- the menu.install line to your customStartup script in your people table.
-
- Dave Winer, UserLand Software, 2/16/92
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- Author: EL.GRANDE
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