-- part name: The Survey Editor 2.0 (c) 1990 Pierrot Vachon
-- part 4 (button)
-- low flags: 00
-- high flags: A003
-- rect: left=122 top=297 right=319 bottom=236
-- title width / last selected line: 0
-- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0
-- text alignment: 1
-- font id: 0
-- text size: 12
-- style flags: 0
-- line height: 16
-- part name: Return
----- HyperTalk script -----
on mouseUp
lock screen
go cd 1
unlock screen with iris close
end mouseUp
-- part 5 (button)
-- low flags: 00
-- high flags: A003
-- rect: left=277 top=297 right=319 bottom=391
-- title width / last selected line: 0
-- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0
-- text alignment: 1
-- font id: 0
-- text size: 12
-- style flags: 0
-- line height: 16
-- part name: Instructions
----- HyperTalk script -----
on mouseUp
lock screen
answer "Instructions in what language?" with "En français" or "In English"
if it is "En français" then
set the scroll of cd field "instructions françaises" to 0
set the visible of cd field "instructions françaises" to not the visible of cd field "instructions françaises"
else
set the scroll of cd field "english instructions" to 0
set the visible of cd field "english instructions" to not the visible of cd field "english instructions"
end if
hide me
show cd btn "hide instructions"
end mouseUp
-- part 6 (field)
-- low flags: 81
-- high flags: 2007
-- rect: left=91 top=104 right=286 bottom=420
-- title width / last selected line: 0
-- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0
-- text alignment: 0
-- font id: 3
-- text size: 9
-- style flags: 0
-- line height: 12
-- part name: english instructions
----- HyperTalk script -----
on mouseUp
hide me
show cd btn "instructions"
hide cd btn "hide instructions"
end mouseUp
-- part 12 (field)
-- low flags: 81
-- high flags: 2007
-- rect: left=91 top=105 right=286 bottom=421
-- title width / last selected line: 0
-- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0
-- text alignment: 0
-- font id: 3
-- text size: 9
-- style flags: 0
-- line height: 12
-- part name: instructions françaises
----- HyperTalk script -----
on mouseUp
hide me
show cd btn "instructions"
hide cd btn "hide instructions"
end mouseUp
-- part 13 (button)
-- low flags: 80
-- high flags: A003
-- rect: left=271 top=297 right=319 bottom=396
-- title width / last selected line: 0
-- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0
-- text alignment: 1
-- font id: 0
-- text size: 12
-- style flags: 0
-- line height: 16
-- part name: Hide Instructions
----- HyperTalk script -----
on mouseUp
lock screen
hide cd field "instructions françaises"
hide cd field "english instructions"
hide me
show cd btn "instructions"
end mouseUp
-- part contents for card part 6
----- text -----
DESCRIPTION
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The Survey Editor is a HyperCard stack written to help Sysops create and/or edit survey files for the Red Ryder Host BBS software. Please note that some commands listed in The Survey Editor may require version Red Ryder Host 2.0 or later to work as expected.
This version of The Survey Editor has been released for those of you Sysops who are currently running a Red Ryder Host BBS and who know the hassle of programming a survey file. I hope that with the help of this program your programming nightmares have come to an end. Anyway, if you find The Survey Editor useful, please send me a postcard telling some infos about what you think of this program, and some informations about your bbs.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
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The Survey Editor is a Shareware utility. According to that, you are entitled to copy and use it freely. However, there is ONE restriction: nobody has the right to distribute The Survey Editor as a commercial product. I'm the only person who has legal rights on The Survey Editor program and its included documentation.
INSTRUCTIONS
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Even though The Survey Editor program is a lot easier to work with than the usual way of creating Red Ryder Host survey files, you need to read the chapter about surveys in the Red Ryder Host user's manual. That way you will fully understand every details about survey commands. If you omit to do so, you expose yourself to some problems while using The Survey Editor.
You must use the same linear programmation concept as if you were creating a survey file using the “hard” way. What The Survey Editor does is to facilitate the handling of survey files. Unfortunately, it doesn't do all the job for you (not yet!).
HINTS & TRICKS
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When deleting a line, if you want to bypass the confirmation dialog box, hold the shift key down.
Holding the option key down when clicking on the main window repeats the last action selected.
RESTRICTIONS:
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There is no trouble opening and editing a survey file written by another Sysop but be aware of this: due to the absence of standards in the survey programmation language, some unused lines about some commands may appear a little bit strange on the main window. However, the survey file may be edited without any problems (if the conditions below are respected).
Due to the word wrap of HyperCard fields (it can't be disabled), a line must NOT exceed the width of the main window. So take good care about it. Here is a hint: you can change the font of the main window to Helvetica Condensed or a similar one. Although the text will be harder to read, you'll get more characters per line.
The “Label Above Command” option from the “Commands” menu is very useful when you need to have a clearer overview of your survey file but, when it is selected, you cannot use the other, “Replace”, “Insert”, “Edit”, “Delete”, or “Show Code of a Line” options. This function has been implemented to avoid confusion when converting the TEXT survey file you have created and/or edited to a RRH survey file. However, you can print your survey file by using the “Print” command in the “Editor” menu.
THE FINAL WORD
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Now, it's up to you and to your imagination. Feel free to try lots of things with your copy of The Survey Editor. And, please, don't keep The Survey Editor program and the survey files you create just for yourself. Share them with other Red Ryder Host BBS Sysops that you know of. You'll see, they are good people to know when something happens...
Thanks to all the authors of external commands and functions I uses in The Survey Editor. Without their work I could not have brought The Survey Editor to live. They help many HyperCard programmers when they publicly released “PrintField”,
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