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- ~Click Here And Press View
-
- ~A quick introduction to the Cheet Sheets User Interface
- By Neil Gorin
-
- ~SELECTING AN ARTICLE
-
- Articles in Cheet Sheets are categorised under four headings,
- each shown as a tab on the main menu dialogue box. To select a
- category, click on a tab - the articles in the list will change
- accordingly. To select an article, click on it (this will
- highlight the article) and press the View button. More articles
- may be found by scrolling the list using the arrows at the right
- of the list box.
-
- ~VIEWING AN ARTICLE
-
- The viewing window (which you're looking at now) can be scrolled
- up and down using the mouse cursor on the scroll bar to the
- right. Alternatively, you can use the cursor keys and
- Page-Up/Page-Down keys to move around. Note that if you haven't
- got a mouse, the cursor keys are used to move the mouse pointer,
- so you should use CTRL-PAGEUP and CTRL-PAGEDOWN to scroll the
- document.
-
- NOTE: Some computers can't handle the single line scrolling
- used in Cheet Sheets, due to a Video BIOS limitation. These are
- detected automatically, and page up/page down scrolling used
- instead.
-
- GO BACK: Returns you to the main menu.
-
- PRINT: Clicking on the print button will send the text of the
- article to the printer on LPT1.
-
- PLAY: Activates "Noise Suppression" feature! If you're listening
- to the music through the PC Speaker, you'll hear a lot of hiss
- while the magazine processes mouse and button handling - clicking
- on this button disables everything but the page-up and page-down
- keys to give vastly better sound quality! Just press any other
- key to return to normal.
-
- VIEW SCREEN SHOTS: Some documents have accompanying screen shots
- (reviews for instance). Clicking on View Screen Shots allows you
- to see these - click once to progress to the next picture, the
- magazine will return when you've finished.
-
- ~THE MUSIC INTERFACE
-
- If you've got a SoundBlaster or compatible, you'll hear great
- music all the while you're running Cheet Sheets. If you've not
- got one, you'll hear the same music sent through your PC Speaker
- - which sometimes sounds good, but on many PCs is a bit crap.
- The main CHEET.EXE program accepts the following music command
- lines, should you want to force Cheet Sheets to use a different
- setting:
-
- Force SoundBlaster mode if not detected: CHEET /SB
- Force Internal Speaker: CHEET /SP
- No music: CHEET /SILENT
-
- When using the main menu, you can access the features of the
- sound system at the base of the screen. Buttons are provided for
- searching forwards and backwards in a song, playing and stopping
- the music and for advancing to the next track (which is done
- automatically at the end of any song).
-
- The three buttons to the right, confuse many people. These
- control the quality of the music coming through your
- SoundBlaster or Speaker - initially, this is set to the lowest
- quality (the left hand side setting) which is Ok for all PCs.
- However, if you have a fast 386 or 486 and a SoundBlaster, try
- the middle setting for much better sound quality. Similarly,
- with a high power machine (like a 486DX-50+) setting the highest
- setting may increase quality further still. If you don't have a
- sound blaster, selecting the highest setting will give much
- better quality music - even on a relatively slow PC.
-