HELP HELP HELP! uses the VIEW program to display information to the screen. CLICK on the CLOSE GADGET to QUIT. Use the ARROW KEYS to move up and down one line in the file. Use SHIFT + UP ARROW to page up in the file. Use SHIFT + DOWN ARROW to page down in the file. - OR - USE THE PROPORTIONAL GADGET to move to any desired location----> To view any HELP! file, simply double click on its icon. The view program will be activated, displaying the requested file. When through with the file, click on the close gadget to quit. There are also HELP! files in the drawers in the help drawer. Double click on these drawers to see the HELP! files contained in them. The drawers are organized as follows: PROJECT HELP Help on the PROJECT menu of Haicalc. WORKSHEET HELP Help on the WORKSHEET menu of Haicalc. FONT HELP Help on the FONT menu of Haicalc. SCREEN HELP Help on the SCREEN menu of Haicalc. FUNCTIONS HELP Help on the FUNCTIONS menu of Haicalc. COLORS HELP Help on the COLORS menu of Haicalc. DATA HELP Help on entering DATA. RANGE HELP Help on selecting RANGEs. POSITIONING HELP Help on POSITIONING the cursor. WINDOW HELP Help on the WINDOW layout. GRAPHICS HELP Help on running from the CLI. SUMMARIES Summary information on Haicalc. VIEW INSTRUCTIONS All help files are accessed through the use of VIEW. The information listed below is the general instructions on the use of VIEW, which will show the contents of any text file. If desired, the VIEW tool may be copied to other disks to provide a general file viewer. CONTENTS: 1. Proportional (Prop) Gadgets. 2. Arrow Gadgets. 3. Dragging the Screen. 4. Standard Intuition Window Gadgets. 5. Menus. 6. Compatibility. 7. File Requester. 8. Command Line, Workbench, Wildcards, Flags. 9. Memory Resident. 1. Prop gadgets may be used to change the view of the file. Gadget on the side of the screen changes the line number (y-axis). Gadget on the bottom of the screen changes the initial column in the display (x-axis). Click and drag the knob of the prop gadget with the left mouse button to position in the file, or click in the box above and below the knob to page through the file. 2. Arrow gadgets (above and below the side prop gadget), may be used to move a single line up or down in the file. Click them with the left mouse button. 3. The screen may be 'grabbed' and dragged up or down. To do this, put the pointer over the line to be positioned. Press and hold down the left mouse button while moving the pointer up or down as desired. An outline box will appear, indicating where the line is being moved to. 4. The sizing gadget in the lower right hand corner can be used to size the screen. The screen may also be dragged, moved to front/to back, or closed with the standard intuition gadgets. 5. There are hidden menus. Press the right mouse button to find them. 'Open' will bring up a file requester and allow you to select a file. 'Quit' is the same as selecting the close gadget on the window. 'Numbers ON' will turn on line numbers in the display. This does not change the file, only the display. 'Numbers OFF' removes the line numbers. 'Tab Stops' allows you to select either 4 or 8 for the view tab stops. 'Open Fonts' will get the names of the availiable fonts and put them into the menu. Then you can view in any font you desire. 6. This program will work with Workbench 1.1 and 1.2, using any fonts that are installed. If the screen is interlaced, then the window will expand up to 640 by 400 (or, if you have some fancy Amiga, as big as the workbench screen will allow). The program works in expanded (fast) memory. 7. The file requester. This allows you to open files for read only. The file requester will currently list only the first 200 files in a drawer. There are two methods of listing the files in a drawer. First, you may click on the name of a drawer (labeled "(drawer)" in the list), and the files in the drawer will be listed. Second, you may click on the drawer name gadget to enter the name of a new drawer. The new drawer will be searched when you enter the string and press RETURN. The file name is selected by one of two methods. First, you may click on the name of a file appearing in the requester window. This will place the name into the file gadget string. The file is then used by choosing "ok". Second, you may click on the file name gadget and enter the name of a file. Select the file by choosing "ok". Cancel the entire operation (choose no file), by clicking on "cancel". 8. The command line. View may be called from either the CLI command line, or directly from the workbench screen by double-clicking its icon. Using view from the CLI, the command line allows entry of the names of the files to view. The file names may contain blanks if the name is quoted ("New File" is allowed.) You can enter as many names as you like. for example: view first.c second.c third.c fourth.c Will look at first.c, then second.c, etc. To get to the next file in the command line, simply close the window or select 'Quit' from the menu. Selecting 'Open' from the menu will open another file, but will not advance through the command line. For instance (using the above command line), while viewing first.c, you could open fifth.c. When you close the window, the program would advance to second.c. Then you can either open another file, or just close the window. Closing the window will advance to third.c. Only when fourth.c is closed will the program end. There is no way to skip the rest of the files and stop the program. You must look at all of the selected files. Using view from the Workbench the files may be selected one at a time or in groups. To select a file, click on the file using the left mouse button. Then, holding the shift key down, double click on the view tool. To select multiple files, click on the first file, then (holding down the shift key), click on the rest of the files to be selected. To run view, double click on the view tool while still holding the shift down. Release the shift key after double clicking the tool. If the default tool in the ".info" file of the project is "view" then double click on the project file to view it. This is how the help files are implemented, any help file may be viewed by double clicking on its icon. There is no facility for wildcard specification. You cannot ask to view *.c or even #?.c. 9. There is no problem with having multiple view windows running at the same time, even of the same file. The files are entirely read into memory when opened. However, do not make the program 'resident', as it is not re-entrant.