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- String Studio Add-In for Visual Basic 4.0
- Version 1.0 - Shareware
- Copyright (C) 1996, Samuel J. Prosser.
- All Rights Reserved.
-
- Contact Samuel Prosser via Internet email at: samuel_p@msn.com
-
-
- String Studio brings the power of C-like String Tables to Visual Basic,
- and the ease of use of visual String, MsgBox, and InputBox editors, with
- absolutely no manual coding required. Visually create, edit, browse,
- and organize every String, MsgBox, and InputBox in your project from
- one location, or from your source code with the click of a button.
-
- STRING STUDIO'S FEATURES:
- -------------------------
-
- - Create, edit, browse, and manage all of your project's String
- Constants, MsgBoxes, and InputBoxes from one central interface. You
- no longer have to search through your source code to find these items!
-
- - Organize your project's String Constants, MsgBoxes, and InputBoxes
- together into Groups of related types to aid in locating and managing
- those items. You can create, remove, and rename Groups. You can
- also import Groups from other projects, instead of recreating all of those
- common Strings, MsgBoxes, and InputBoxes in every new project.
-
- - PowerEdit! Use PowerEdit to "automagically" insert the necessary
- code into your code window. Or, click the name of any item tracked by
- String Studio right in your source code window, such as a MsgBox, and
- then click the PowerEdit button-and bingo! A visual MsgBox editor
- opens with the contents of your MsgBox displayed and ready to Preview.
- Make your changes, click OK, and bingo! Your changes have been
- saved.
-
- - Encapsulates complicated MsgBox and InputBox calls so that your
- source code does not show all those messy arguments and parameters.
- Simplify your source code!
-
- - Easily Duplicates and Converts items. You can convert, for example, a
- MsgBox into an InputBox, or an InputBox into a standard String
- Constant, or whatever combination you desire.
-
- - Flexible "Pipe Codes" allow you to easily insert any variable text into
- your Strings, MsgBoxes, and InputBoxes so that variable information can
- be displayed at run-time.
-
- DISTRIBUTION NOTES:
- -------------------
-
- Please distribute the original ZIP archive of String Studio only, which
- should be called "SSTUDIO.ZIP".
-
- Your archive should contain the following files:
-
- FILE_ID.DIZ
- - Description file for System Administrators, SysOps, etc.
-
- README.TXT (Or "Read Me!.txt")
- - This file
-
- SSTUDIO.DOC (Or "String Studio Manual.doc")
- - Manual viewable from Microsoft Word and WordPad.
-
- SUPPORT.EXE (Or "Support Studio.exe")
- - Application support tool. Use this for support, bug reports, etc.
-
- SSTUDIO.EXE
- - String Studio
-
- Please read this file for installation instructions.
-
- REQUIREMENTS:
- -------------
-
- String Studio requires an installed 32-bit version of Visual Basic 4.0.
- Basically, if you're running a 32-bit version of Visual Basic, you have
- everything you need.
-
- String Studio runs best in resolutions higher than 640x480, such as
- 800x600 and 1024x768.
-
- INSTALLATION:
- -------------
-
- After unzipping the String Studio archive into a directory on your
- hardrive or to diskette, run the Setup application (SETUP.EXE) to install
- it and follow the on-screen instructions. Setup will install String Studio
- into the directory of your choice and add shortcuts to your Start Menu for
- its documentation and Support Studio.
-
- String Studio will add itself to Visual Basic's list of available Add-Ins,
- after which it will be available from Visual Basic's Add-In Manager.
- Enabling it from Visual Basic's Add-In manager will add String Studio to
- Visual Basic's Add-In menu itself.
-
- If for some reason String Studio is removed from your list of available
- Add-Ins, simply run String Studio itself (SSTUDIO.EXE) from Explorer,
- the Run command-line, or from a DOS window, and it will add itself to
- Visual Basic's list of available Add-Ins again.
-
- You may UNINSTALL String Studio via the Add/Remove Control Panel.
-
- INTERNATIONAL USERS:
- --------------------
-
- String Studio was not officially tested on non-English or non-North
- American versions of Windows, so no assessment can be made of its
- fitness on these platforms. There may be problems with code pages and
- ASCII codes.
-
- KNOWN ISSUES:
- -------------
-
- - Visual Basic contains a bug that stops it from properly updating
- the currently selected component in the Project Window. Since
- PowerEdit depends on Visual Basic's updating of this data
- structure, you may sometimes get a message asking you to
- open and select a code window before you use PowerEdit when
- you do, in fact, have a code window open and selected. The
- only work around, currently, is to ensure that the proper
- component is selected in your Project Window. This will update
- Visual Basic's internal data structures and pass the correct
- values to String Studio.
-
- - In Group Manager, if you rename the Group that is currently
- open in the main window, that Tab will close. Otherwise, there
- is no known problems with renaming Groups.
-
-