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This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
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| Filename: | Apple][e/PD/BOB/ARMBOB/doc/!See/!Help/Write |
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| File size: | 0A01 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
\#��
\ SeeHelp:Write version 0.0 � G.C.Wraith 01/05/96
�B#WRITING SEEFILES#
This file is visible as �AWrite�7 if you click Adjust
on the command �8*Filer_Opendir <See$Dir>.!Help�7.
If you �1#SHIFT-DOUBLECLICK#�0 on this file's icon you will
see its underlying textual source. It is instructive to
compare this with what you see in a See-window.
The first thing to note is the top line, which makes no
appearance in the See-window. This line determines four
things, in order:
1. �AThe comment character
2. �AThe changefont character
3. �AThe foreground colour character
4. �AThe background colour character
The first line of a SeeFile is not displayed.
Subsequently an instance of the comment character and
all text following it, up to, but �1not�0 including
the next newline, if any, is not displayed.
\ Here is a comment!
The changefont character toggles use of the extra font.
It is displayed as a space in the See-window.
\ For this file it is #.
The foreground and background colour characters, if
followed by a single hexadecimal digit, 0-9, A-F cause
that colour to be set up to the next change, or up to the
end of the line. The two characters, colour character and
hexadecimal digit, are not displayed. To see which colours
correspond to which numbers, click Select on the Palette
icon on the iconbar (we are talking Risc OS 3.1 here).
\ For this file foreground colour is changed by �
\ and background colours by �.
It is convenient to take top-bit-set characters for these,
but you do not have to. � and � are convenient because
they are accessible from the keyboard.
\ You can choose these characters how you like.
The width of the window displaying the Seefile is determined
by the maximum width of a line of text, including the
undisplayed comment lines.
For a test card �8*see SeeHelp:Test�7.
You can, of course, use any colour combinations for commands:
�9*Time�0 �C�D*FontList�7�0
It is suggested that you construct �1booklets�0 of SeeFiles
by constructing an application, say a directory called !Booklet.
Choose its appearance by creating a !Sprites file containing
a sprite called !booklet. Put your individual SeeFiles inside
!Booklet. If the initial page is called, say, index, then create
an Obey file called !Run containing the lines
�BSet Booklet$Path <Obey$Dir>.
�BRun Booklet:index
Then you can include commands of the form *See Booklet:xxx in
your SeeFiles to open a SeeFile called xxx.
�8*See SeeHelp:!Run�7 Return to index.
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