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- I N S T R U C T I O N S
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- Intuition Ed Version 1.00
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- Contents :
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- 1 - What's Intuition Ed ?
- 2 - Description of Intuition Ed
- 3 - Edit :
- Screens
- Windows
- Gadgets
- Text
- Borders
- 4 - Quit Intuition Ed
- 5 - Distribution
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- 1 - What's Intuition Ed ?
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- Intuition Ed is a source-code utility that transfers user inputs to source
- code in C. The main job of the program is to check, to arrange, to write
- and to link created structures.
- It can also write the required functions to open and close them.
- To check your edited structures, Intuition Ed can write a main program
- that opens all elements and closes them after 20 seconds.
- The resulting C program can be compiled with Manx and Lattice compilers.
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- Another feature is the possibility to open the same structure twice
- by simply giving two structures the same name when you edit them.
- (For example you can use the same borders for different gadgets.)
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- 2 - Program description
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- At first the program looks at your screen size. If it's 200 or 400
- pixels high it opens an interlace screen.
- In the first program window of Intuition Ed you just have to enter the
- file name of your C program and choose include files that will appear in
- the source code. In the two spare gadgets you can add your own include files.
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- You can enter comments, defines and macros in the gadgets on the right
- side. There is room for 25 lines which will appear unchanged in the
- source code. They can be scrolled with the arrow gadgets.
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- You can also leave the program immediately by pressing the 'Exit' gadget,
- or you can save the inputs with the 'End' gadget.
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- By pressing the 'Screen' or 'Window' gadget you can edit structures.
- Their order is important :
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- Structures containing others must be edited first.
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- TEXT / BORDER TEXT / BORDER
- ^ ^
- SCREEN -» WINDOW -» GADGET
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- If you edit a window before you do the screen, the C program opens the
- window on the Workbench and afterwards opens the screen.
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- A structure is saved after you pressed the 'OK' gadget. It then can
- only be changed in the source code later.
- So its useful to know what you want to create and to have it on
- a piece of paper.
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- Before the structure is saved, it's checked. If it's senseless, a requester
- appears and you can change it (Stop) or you can save it nevertheless
- (continue).
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- To avoid errors the structures should not have the same name as functions
- and shouldn't begin with a number.
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- To write identical structures only once in the source code you
- merely give them the same name.
- That doesn't work with gadgets.
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- It's important to know that only the last structure with the same name
- is saved ( independent of the others ).
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- EXAMPLE:
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- You can edit two identical windows containing different gadgets.
- In the first window menue you enter the name of both structures
- in 'Window Name' and press 'OK'. Then you can create the gadgets
- for this window. You return to the window menue and enter the
- same window name again. Then you edit the windows, press
- 'OK' again and edit it's gadgets.
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- Two journal-files, which simulate user inputs show an example
- of how to use Intuition Ed.
- They ONLY work on the non-interlaced Intuition Ed screen!
- Some of the few comments are in German.
- Both create a file called 'Demo.c' in device 'RAM:'
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- Intuition Ed must already run and it's screen must be behind the Workbench
- when you start a demo.
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- Demo1:
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- run IntuitionEd
- IntuitionEd/playback IntuitionEd/Demo1
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- The demo creates a screen containing two windows with either a text
- or a border on them.
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- Demo2:
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- run IntuitionEd
- IntuitionEd/playback IntuitionEd/Demo2
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- This demo shows how to write structures which are opend several times.
- It creates two identical screens containing two identical windows
- with different textes on them.
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- 3 - Structures
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- Screens
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- To edit a screen structure, you just enter the structure-values in the
- gadgets.
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- You can chose a default font for your screen with the gadgets
- 'Topaz 60' and 'Topaz 80'.
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- Windows
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- The gadgets to edit gadgets, borders and text are aktiv after you
- created a window on which they can be displayed.
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- Gadgets
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- Since you haven't yet the complete version of Intuition Ed, a description
- does not make much sense.
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- Text
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- Beside the IntuiText structure you can create a TextAttr structure in the
- text menu. You MUST activate the 'ON' gadget to save a TextAttr
- structure !!!
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- You can create a DiskFont in the TextAttr structure with Intuition Ed
- but it's not automatically opend by the compiled C program.
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- There is a program in the Intuition Ed directory (DiskFont.c) which shows
- how to handle DiskFonts.
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- As in the IntuiText structure, the LeftEdge and TopEdge values are relative
- to the gadget position if it's a gadgettext.
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- Borders
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- When you enter the edges of a border you have to put a value for every
- edge you want to have.
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- If you edit a gadgetborder (with the entire version)
- the edges contain default values to surround the gadget.
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- The LeftEdge and TopEdge values are relative to the gadget position.
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- 4 - Quit Intuition Ed
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- You get to the Save menu by pressing the 'End' Gadget in any other menu.
- By pressing the 'Cancel' gadget you can return to this menu again.
- You can also quit the program without saving anything ('Exit').
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- When the 'Open_All() & Close_All()' gadget is activated Intuition Ed
- writes functions which open and close all intuition elements.
- It can also write a main function which calls them with 20 seconds delay.
- Intuition Ed can also write comments on all structures and headlines to
- seperate and describe functions in the source code.
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- 5 - Distribution
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- Please feel free to copy and spread this version of Intuition Ed and the
- files which go with it. It's public domain !
- The public domain version of Intuition Ed is not complete!
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- To get the entire program (which can also save gadgets) and
- to support further developments please send me 20$ or something equal
- in any currency and you get the latest copy of Intuition Ed and
- similar PD tools and program examples which are on the same disk.
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- This program is originally German (thats why I got to take the interlace
- mode to fit on your screen) but you can also get the German version with
- a much more detailed description of the intuition structures !
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- That's it.
- If you have any questions, comments, bug reports, money sent it to
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- Niels Thorwirth
- Ulmenweg 3
- 3370 Seesen
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- GERMANY
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