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- MicroHelp VBTools Demonstration Program
-
- MicroHelp's VBTools provides the programmer with a "grab bag" of services:
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- Lots of Custom Controls.
-
- Pre-written toolbox routines. All of them are included in the
- demo program.
-
- Assembly language routines to make your programs faster and smaller.
- You don't need to know anything about assembly language to use them
- because they are invoked just like SubPrograms and Functions. Several
- of these routines are demonstrated.
-
- Key words that Microsoft forgot: MK?, CV? (including the MBF versions),
- PLAY, BLOAD and BSAVE (for arrays other than variable-length string
- arrays). Only the PLAY key word is demonstrated in this demo.
-
- Graphics special effects, which are in the demo.
-
- How to use some of the more useful Windows API routines. Many of these
- are sprinkled throughout the demo.
-
- A blackjack game.
-
- A utility program giving you the functionality of $INCLUDE.
-
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- The demonstration consists of these files:
-
- READ .ME This file
- VBTOOLS.EXE Demonstration program
- VBTOOLS.VBX Dynamic Link Library (DLL) with supporting routines
- CARDS .DLL Dynamic Link Library containing playing card bitmaps
- SOUND .DRV New and improved sound driver
-
- In order to run this demonstration, you'll need the Visual Basic
- runtime DLL. The name of the file is VBRUN100.DLL. If you received a
- 1.2mb demo disk directly from MicroHelp, you'll find this file in
- the self extracting archive file VBRUN.EXE. Please see INSTALL.BAT
- for instructions on using this file.
-
- If you don't have this file, you can download it from the MSSYS
- forum on CompuServe (the file name is VBRUN.ZIP).
-
- The SOUND.DRV file that comes with Microsoft Windows 3.0 has a bug that
- effects "tempo" in PLAY statements. Microsoft has fixed the bug and the
- included SOUND.DRV file has the fix. In order to hear the music in the
- demo program as it was meant to be heard, you'll need to:
-
- 1. COPY SOUND.DRV to your Windows System directory (not the Windows
- directory).
- 2. Make sure that your SYSTEM.INI has the following line:
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- sound.drv=sound.drv
-
- 3. Restart Windows
-
- IMPORTANT: Be sure that you don't have more than one file named SOUND.DRV
- in your path. If you do, Windows may read the wrong one and the music in
- our demo program may play "slowly".
-
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- The actual product contains numerous demonstration applications,
- each of which shows you how to use one or more features from the
- product. This demonstration consists mainly of several of the
- example applications.
-
- Please note that VBTOOLS.VBX and CARDS.DLL must be in your PATH
- when you execute VBTOOLS.EXE. Therefore, after you install the
- demonstration program, you will need to do one of two things:
-
- 1. COPY VBTOOLS.VBX and CARDS.DLL to a directory that is in your PATH, or
- 2. Adjust your PATH so that it includes the directory where you install
- VBTOOLS.VBX and CARDS.DLL.
-
- If you have any problems installing or running the demonstration program,
- please call MicroHelp at (404) 594-1185.
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- Double Clicking
-
- We have had a report from someone who stated that after running VB and
- one of the VBTools example programs (he didn't know which one), that he
- could no longer double-click in *ANY* Windows application. He traced the
- problem to the following line in the SYSTEM.INI file:
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- device=d:\windows\system\vtd.386
-
- Replacing that line with the default line cured the problem:
-
- device=*.vtd
-
- Unfortunately, the user did have a file VTD.386 dated 4/17/91, but he
- had no idea where it came from!
-
-
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