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Album 1.4
Album is a ToolBook application that lets you create
collections of ToolBook objects and bitmapped graphics. It provides for
indexed retrieval and lets you print paper copies of your Albums. It
operates under either runtime ToolBook or full ToolBook.
Copyright Notice
Album is a copyrighted work of Doug Overmyer. You are granted a
license to use it so long as you make no changes to the copyright notice
or program operation, and include this documentation if passed on to others.
You use the program entirely at your own risk.
Installation:
Copy the ALBM14.TBK model to your favorite ToolBook directory. You should
copy the tbkopen.dll file (included) to the same directory your ToolBook
".exe" file is in. Also check that this directory is in the "DOS Path" or
ToolBook will have a hard time finding its libraries. Bring up ToolBook,
and open the ALBM14.TBK book. You may wish to save it to a new name of
your choice.
Using Album:
Album has most of the explanations needed to run it on
pages 2 and 3. Basically there are four steps to adding objects
to your Album:
a. copy the object you wish to store to the Windows
clipboard
b. create a new page in your Album using the NEW button
c. PASTE the object into your Album
d. position the object by click/drag
Remember to save your Album with the changes.
To get objects out of an Album, just doubleclick on the object, and
it is copied to the Windows clipboard.
Maintaining Albums
First you select the object(s) using one of the methods below,
then use the buttons at the upper right of the screen to manipulate them.
a. Selecting objects - you can click on successive
objects to create a group (please note, ONLY the objects
you click are actually selected, regardless of the marquee's
appearance). As an alternative, you can 'draw' a marquee by
clicking on the page outside of any object and moving the
pointer to "draw out" the marquee. When you release the
mouse button, the objects completely within the marquee
will be selected, and the marquee redrawn to box them in.
b. Moving objects - select the object(s) as in a. above.
Click and hold on one of the objects, and drag the group in the
direction you wish to move it. You will need some patience for the
objects to catch up with your mouse.
c. CUT - this cuts the object(s) on the current page out of your
Album (and copies it to the clipboard). You can paste it
back in if you act right away.
d. PASTE - this pastes the object on the clipboard into the
Album page currently displayed. There is a limit on the size of
bitmaps you can paste onto a page - Album will tell you if the
image is too large to fit. If this happens, try creating a new, empty
page and repeating the paste operation. If it still fails, the image
is just too large for ToolBook.
e. NEW - creates a new scrapbook page after the current
page.
f. DEL - deletes the current page (this is unrecoverable!)
The horizontal bookmark at the upper left of Album page
lets you enter a description for the object.
Additional Features:
a. If you click on the end of the horizontal bookmark, the
search dialog box appears which lets you search for text in the
name field. If Album finds the text, the page will be
displayed.
b. The FIRST and LAST bookmarks take you directly to the
first and last data pages of the current Album.
c. The HELP bookmark goes to the help page.
d. If you click the page number field on the upper right
corner of the book, a dialog box appears that lets you go directly
to any page in the book.
e. The index bookmark takes you to an index of the pages.
You can click on one of the entries to go directly to that page.
If you make changes to your Album, click the (U) button on
the index list box, and the index will be rebuilt.
Menu Items:
The utilities menu on the menu bar has 3 items unique to Album:'
a. Change Caption: this option lets you change the caption of
the titlebar for your Album.
b. Import Album: this item lets you import a range of pages
from another Album. First, go to the page where you wish the import
to begin (not pages 1 to 4). Select "Import", and you are asked for the
beginning and ending page number, and the full name of the book which
you can select from a typical Windows dialog box. If all is well the
target pages will be copied to your Album via DDE.
c. Erase Album: - well, this does just what it says. It
erases all data pages 5 and up! (It is best not to delete page 4, so
please leave it intact). This is an easy way to create a new Album-
just save an existing one to a new name, use the Utilities/Erase option,
and save Album again to yet another name. The last save is
needed if you wish to compact your Album and recover the space of
the deleted pages.
Printing Pages:
You can print thumbnail collections of your Album using the File/Print/Pages
command from the File menu. You will be asked to select a layout (2 across
by 8 down, for example) and can use a preview mode to figure out what will
work best for you. This provides a handy access to your Album, especially
after you've forgotten just exactly what it has.
Hints:
Try out the second help page (page3) by clicking on each object.
A help message for each one will appear.
If you delete pages from your Album, save it to a new name -
ToolBook will compact the book and recover the unused space.
This will not happen if you just save the changes to the same
name.
There is a limit on the size of bitmapped image that ToolBook
will store on a page - it is something over screen size, but
less than half page at 300 dpi. Of course, color images require
more space than b&w. If an image is too large to display on the
page, it appears chopped off on the right and bottom sides -
don't worry, it's there. If ToolBook refuses to paste it in,
however, it's too big.
Regretably, the mouse handling routines for moving and selecting
objects are none too responsive. Since this functionality does not
normally exist at the reader (ie runtime) level, it had to be programmed
in Openscript, the ToolBook programming language.
Warning:I've tried to make this program as reliable as possible,
but you use it entirely at your own risk. Please backup your Albums
frequently. Since an Album is self-modifying (this is nature of ToolBook
applications), it is subject to damage like any other data file.
I hope you find it useful.
Author:
Doug Overmyer
CIS 71021,2535
2/6/91 release 1.4