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- GRANDPA'S HELPFUL HINTS
- by Dave Moorman
-
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- Elmer Orville Moorman, my Grandpa
- on my dad's side, left a ledger book
- filled with useful around the house
- helps and hints. This new feature in
- LOADSTAR will offer you one of those
- hints every now and then.
-
- For this feature, we found a
- picture of Grandpa (not [my] Grandpa,
- but certainly somebody's) and turned
- it into a nice line drawing. With a
- little skooshing around, we added the
- old-fashioned blackboard and Exit
- button.
-
- The text on the blackboard is
- controlled with the mouse. Click on
- the text near the bottom to move down
- one line. Click on the down-arrow on
- the frame of the blackboard to move
- down a page at a time. Exit is
- exactly what you would expect.
-
-
- TECH-NOTES
- ----------
-
- Again, DotBASIC allowed extremely
- fast development of this new feature.
- The only downside was that the only
- keyboard control of scrolling is to
- use the <U> and <D> keys. Not really
- elegant -- which is why we are
- frantically working on DBII, which
- will give more power with less
- prescribed work -- and will save
- precious memory as well.
-
- DMM
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