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- SHADOW BOXES
- the Donohue&Co. Windowing package
- Installation into TurboC
- ver 0.0 11/19/87
-
- Copyright (c) 1987 John G. Donohue
- Donohue&Co. Computer Services
- PO Box 255
- Hannibal, NY 13074
- (315) 564-6213
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- How to use "SHADOW BOXES", the Donohue&Co. Windowing package, with Turbo C
-
- (1) set up your TurboC according to instructions in the TurboC manuals.
- Normally, they are as follows:
- C:\TURBOC
- C:\TURBOC\INCLUDE
- C:\TURBOC\LIB
- (2) Make a new directory:
- C:\TURBOC\SHADOBOX
- (3) Copy (or un-arc, if you have SHADOBOX.ARC) the files into that new
- directory.
- Try the WDEMO command, just to see what the demo looks like.
- It is strictly a color demo.
- The WATCHME demo is a continuous-running demo Donohue&Co. uses at
- trade shows. It cannot be stopped except by rebooting.
- MENUDEMO is a brief demonstration of how you can construct Lotus-style,
- bar, pull-down, or shadowed menus, if you send for the Menu package.
- (4) Move TCCWDEMO.BAT into \TURBOC.
- (5) If you're not using Drive C:, then:
- (a) Edit TCCWDEMO.BAT to refer to the drive you used, not C:.
- (b) When you first invoke TCCWDEMO, go to the Project and Options menus,
- and change all references to drive C: to whatever drive you are
- using. Then S)ave the new WDEMO.TC from the Options/Environment menu.
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- Directory of \TURBOC
- TCCWDEMO BAT Batch file to compile WDEMO.C
-
- Directory of \TURBOC\SHADOBOX
- TCREADME DOC This file
- SHADOBOX DOC About 14 pages of documentation of functions, etc.
- WDEMO EXE Windowing demo for which source is given
- MENUDEMO EXE Minimal menu demo
- WATCHME EXE Continuous Donohue&Co. trade show demo using windows
- WDEMO TC Turbo-C configuration file
- WDEMO PRJ Turbo-C "Project-make" file
- WDEMO C Source code of demo
- Modify and recompile this file to test the package.
- DEFINES H Standard defines
- WDEF H Window macro defines (colors, borders, etc.),
- and structures definitions
- WERR H Error code names
- WINDOW OBJ The four
- WERR OBJ object files (TC suffix means TurboC version)
- CATOSCTC OBJ linked into your application
- WHWTC OBJ by WDEMO.PRJ
-
- You may want to begin by listing the following files (in order of helpfulness):
-
- TCREADME DOC (This file)
- WDEMO C
- WDEF H
- SHADOBOX DOC
- WDEMO PRJ
- DEFINES H
- WERR H
-
- The Project file WDEMO.PRJ looks like this:
-
- shadobox\wdemo (shadobox\defines.h shadobox\wdef.h)
- shadobox\window.obj
- shadobox\werr.obj
- shadobox\catosctc.obj
- shadobox\whwtc.obj
-
- The batch file TCCWDEMO.BAT should be in \TURBOC, and compiles WDEMO.C:
-
- c:
- cd \turboc
- tc /cshadobox\wdemo.tc shadobox\wdemo.c
-
- To compile, make \TURBOC your current directory, and invoke the compiler:
- c: (or whatever drive you're using)
- cd \turboc
- tccwdemo
- (Note that the configuration file WDEMO.TC sets up paths, etc.)
- Then hit Alt-C to compile, or Alt-R to compile and Run.
-
- As the demo runs, look at the listing of WDEMO.C, making reference to
- DEFINES.H and WDEF.H, to see how certain borders, shadows, etc., were
- achieved.