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- I d e a F o r m v 1 . 3
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- Written by
- Christoph Bartholme,
- Ettlinger Str. 37
- D-76137 Karlsruhe
- Germany
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- EMail: Christoph_Bartholme@ka2.maus.de
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- Developed using
- ST Pascal Plus (CCD) and assembler (Devpac)
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- A German version is also available.
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- IdeaForm is public domain (Remember: IdeaList is Shareware!).
- It may be copied and used by everyone. The condition is to copy the COMPLETE
- and UNCHANGED contents of the folder IDEAFORM.
-
- These are the files:
- IDEAFORM.PRG
- IDEAFORM.RSC
- IDEAFORM.TXT
- KEY\BAS.KEY
- \C.KEY
- \KBJ.KEY
- \MOD.KEY
- \PAS.KEY
- \S.KEY
- \TEX.KEY
- \IDEAFORM.KEY
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- IdeaForm is a tool in addition to IdeaList, that can be launched as a kind
- of module but also runs as "stand alone".
-
- If launched by IdeaList, IdeaForm starts its work automatically and returns
- to IdeaList after having done it. You can abort the work by klicking the
- window closer button or the selected "Start" button. IdeaForm completely
- works in the background and does not block other processes.
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- IdeaForm formats source code files by inserting text attributes for comments
- and key words. These attributs (bold, light, italic, underlined) are
- compatable to the ones used by Wordplus (But not codes a printer under-
- stands directly!).
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- These languange specific parameters are found in a KEY file. Depending on
- what extension the source file has, IdeaForm selects the corresponding KEY
- file from the folder KEY: For formatting EXAMPLE.C IdeaForm takes C.KEY. If
- no KEY can be matched IdeaForm uses IDEAFORM.KEY by default.
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- Of course IdeaForm dos not overwrite the source file but creates a new one
- for the formatted output. Either a file with the source file's name but the
- extension TXA ("Text with attributs"); or SCRAP.TXT at the system clipboard.
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- The KEY file contains the following entries:
- - Comments inside the KEY file are initialised by a "+".
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- - The first entry names the title of the file and is displayed in IdeaForm's
- info line.
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- - The attributs fot the keywords and the comments are switched separately. A
- "1" Switches on, any other character ("0" is best) switches off.
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- - The string markers cause the text between them not to be formated. There
- are two different markers declarable, following character by character.
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- - A maximum of 255 keywords may be defined, every word up to fourty
- characters long. There is no difference if a character is upcased or not.
- Characters between "A" and "Z" are as possible as the digits "0" to "9" and
- underscores inside a keyword. It is not allowed to begin a keyword by a
- digits or a underscore. There is no need to sort the keywords.
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