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                         Designer Widgets (TM)

                    Custom Controls for Visual Basic

                             Version 1.00
                            April 15, 1994

          (C) Copyright 1994 by Sheridan Software Systems, Inc.
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This document contains release notes for Designer Widgets Custom Controls.
Information in this document is more current than that in the manuals or
online Help.

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Contents
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Part    Description
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 1	About Designer Widgets

 2	Sample Program Listing

 3	Revision History

 4	Documentation Notes

 5      Notes on Running the Sample Programs
 
 
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Part 1 - About Designer Widgets
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Designer Widgets consists of three custom controls to provide state-of-the-art 
interfaces much like the interfaces found in most of today's hottest commercial
Windows applications.  The custom controls are:

	1.	SSToolbar - The Dockable Toolbar Control
		
		This control is a toolbar that can be docked at the top, left, 
		bottom, or right of an MDI application or detached from a docking 
		area to become a free floating toolbar.  The control can also
		be used on a regular form to provide a stationary toolbar.

	2.	SSIndexTab - The Index Tab Control

		The Index Tab control lets you provide the same state-of-the art
		interface that many of todays commercial applications provide. 
		This interface is based on a metaphor that is familiar to all 
		users, that of a series of index cards.

	3.	SSFormFX - The FormFX Control

		The FormFX control allows customizing of the caption and client 
		areas of a non MDI form. In addition, FormFX allows you to control 
		the behavior of the form at runtime by restricting size and movement.  


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Part 2 - Sample Program Listing
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Below is a list of all the directories that contain sample projects included with 
Designer Widgets and a brief description of what they contain.  All of these
directories can be found under the SAMPLES directory in your main Designer Widgets 
directory.


TBARCONF - This subdirectory contains a project that shows how to allow the user
	   to select buttons from a dialog box at runtime and position then buttons
	   on a toolbar in an MDI application.

TBARDYNA - The project in this directory shows how to configure a toolbar at runtime
	   using individual bitmaps for each button and button state.

TBARSAVE - This sample project contains routines to save the properties of your toolbars
	   in a Windows INI file so that you can configure them at start-up to appear as
	   the user left them.

CHAPTER5 - These are the sample projects described in chapter 5 of the manual.

CHAPTER6 - These are the sample projects described in chapter 6 of the manual.

CHAPTER7 - These are the sample projects described in chapter 7 of the manual.


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Part 3 - Revision History
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Version 1.0:
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	Original 1.0 release.  No revisions.



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Part 4 - Documentation Notes
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Since printing of the manual, there have been some changes to the Designer Widgets 
controls which do not appear in the manual or are incorrectly documented:

-	The standard Left, Top, Width, and Height properties onlye apply to stationary
	toolbars (non-floating/non-dockable).  If you want to get the dimensions of a 
	floating or docked toolbar, you need to call the Windows API GetWindowRect.  See
	the Windows SDK Reference for a complete description of this API function.

-	The WordWrap property has been added to the Index Tab control.  This property
	causes text on each tab to automatically wrap to the next line if the tab is 
	not wide enough to fit it.  

-	The ClientLeft and ClientTop properties have been added to the Index Tab control.
	See the online help for a complete explanation of these properties.

-	The ClientHeight and ClientWidth properties have been added to the Index Tab control.
	See the online help for a complete explanation of these properties.



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Part 5 - Notes on Running the Sample Programs
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The samples programs are setup so that they refer to VBX files in the Designer 
Widgets install directories.  In order to load the project files correctly, your
"working directory" must be the directory that contains the sample programs.  For
example, if you want to load the project in the samples directory called
\SSDESWDG\SAMPLES\CHAPTER5, the working directory must be \SSDESWDG\SAMPLES\CHAPTER5.

To ensure the working directory is correct, you can either load the sample project
by double clicking on the project MAK file in File Manager, or set the working
directory in the Properties dialog in Program Manager for your Visual Basic icon.
For more information on setting the working directory, see your Windows documentation.


