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File contents
BASIC Help V1.16 (18-Nov-1993)
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by Peter Reeves-Hall
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About this application
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BASIC Help is designed to allow a quick and easy lookup of BASIC keywords while working on the desktop. It was written with people using a desktop editor in mind. For this reason it uses a thin horizontal display so it can easily be position at the top or bottom of the screen for reference.
Using BASIC Help
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BASIC help will load in the usual way and appear on the icon bar. the main window will also open on loading so you can get down to business! The icon bar and window menu allow you to quit the application. If the window has been closed it can be reopened by selecting the icon on the icon bar. When first opened the window will contain the reference to the @ Keyword. In the top left of the window the current keyword is displayed. The main bottom part of the window contains the keyword's description. There will only be a brief one line display on using BASIC help for the first time, select the window's toggle size icon to receive full information on all entries. Use the video style controls at the middle/top of the window to move around the data base. The double arrows move backward and forward (respectively from left to right) 10 entries at a time. the single arrows jump to the adjacent records one at a time.
If you have a better idea of what you are looking for you can enter a full or partial string in the writable icon where the present keyword is displayed, press Return to begin the search. The program will scan all the keywords a compile a list of those matched or containing the search string.
eg.
entering 'PRINT' will only generate one match - 'PRINT'
entering 'PR' will give 'endPRoc' , 'PRoc' and 'PRint'
The matched keywords will be displayed in a menu appearing to the right of the writable icon. If no matches are found then the menu will contain one reference to the currently viewed keyword. To the right of the writable icon is a 'Pop-Up menu icon' clicking with select or menu on this will give the full list of keywords to chose from.
Finally if you position the 'caret' in a desktop text editor's window and select the Caret icon next to the 'video control' icons then the currently viewed keyword will be inserted at that Caret position. This is of great use to people programming on the desktop as it saves time copying out the keyword.
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This is| 00000980 20 6f 66 20 67 72 65 61 74 20 75 73 65 20 74 6f | of great use to| 00000990 20 70 65 6f 70 6c 65 20 70 72 6f 67 72 61 6d 6d | people programm| 000009a0 69 6e 67 20 6f 6e 20 74 68 65 20 64 65 73 6b 74 |ing on the deskt| 000009b0 6f 70 20 61 73 20 69 74 20 73 61 76 65 73 20 74 |op as it saves t| 000009c0 69 6d 65 20 63 6f 70 79 69 6e 67 20 6f 75 74 20 |ime copying out | 000009d0 74 68 65 20 6b 65 79 77 6f 72 64 2e 0a |the keyword..| 000009dd
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