
This is an on-line Help database for users of Christy Gemmell's Assembly-
Language Toolbox for QuickBASIC. It can be used equally well with Toolbox
versions for QuickBASIC 4.5 and for the BASIC 7 Professional Development
System. You can access it in two ways:

1)  If you have the QuickHelp program (QH.EXE) which is supplied
    with most Microsoft language products (but not as yet with QB45),
    then place the unzipped copy of TOOLBOX.HLP into your Help files
    directory and add TOOLBOX.HLP to the list of databases with QH's
    'Open Database' option.
    
2)  The second way does not require QH.EXE and enables you to access
    Toolbox information direct from within the QuickBASIC or Extended
    QuickBASIC environment. You do, however, need to merge TOOLBOX.HLP
    with your existing QuickBASIC Advisor database so it is a good 
    idea to make a backup copy of this first. Just in case anything
    goes wrong. Once you have done this, type:
    
    COPY QB45QCK.HLP /B + TOOLBOX.HLP /B    (for QuickBASIC 4.5)
    
        or

    COPY BAS7QCK.HLP /B + TOOLBOX.HLP /B    (for BASIC 7 PDS)

    Thereafter, to obtain help on any Toolbox routine from QB or QBX,
    all you need to do is place the cursor on the name of the item
    you are interested in and press <F1>. If you have a mouse, you
    can click the right button instead. Doing either of these will
    bring up a full description of the selected routine, together
    with a sample DECLARE statement and, in many cases, some example
    code to paste into your program.
    
The Toolbox on-line Help database contains all the information from the two
instruction manuals TOOLBOX.DOC and MIXED.DOC and is fully indexed and
cross-referenced. It provides you with all you need to know about using the
Assembly-Language Toolbox for QuickBASIC, right from your keyboard.

Christy Gemmell                                                 June 1991

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The ShareWare version of the Assembly-Language Toolbox for QuickBASIC is
provided, free of charge, to any QuickBASIC programmer who can find a use
for it. You are encouraged to copy it, upload it to Electronic Bulletin
Boards or pass it on to friends, provided only that you make no charge for
doing so and that all the files on the disk are preserved intact. You may
freely include Toolbox routines in your own programs, both for private use
and for commercial distribution, without payment to the author.

The Professional version of the Toolbox, available to Registered Users,
comes complete with all the source code, object modules for building your
own custom libraries and many additional features. Registration also
entitles you to a free upgrade to Release 6 of the Toolbox, when it
becomes available, and to subsequent releases at a greatly reduced price.
Full Hotline support is also included, at no extra charge.

Also available is the Mixed-Language Toolbox for QuickBASIC - a collection
of high-level routines which interface with the Assembly-Language Toolbox
to produce a set of sophisticated mini-applications. The BarMenu and
VerMenu modules, for example, can be used to give your programs a full-
featured point-and-shoot menuing system, similar to the one built into the
QuickBASIC programming environment. Once again, the source code for all
mixed-language routines is provided so that you can tailor them to your
exact requirements.

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U.K. and Europe:        £30.00 (including postage and packing)

Christy Gemmell         Singular Software
                        22 Peake Road, Northfields,
                        Leicester LE4 7DN
                        United Kingdom
                        
                Tel:    (044)-0533-767960

U.S.A. and Canada:      $47.50 (Including shipping)

James J. Kreyling       CPC Consulting Company
                        1217 Crescent Dive
                        Smithfield, Va. 23430
                        U.S.A.

                Tel:    (804)-357-7635
                BBS:    (804)-357-0357 (8-N-1)
                FAX:    (804)-357-7635

Note:   When ordering the Toolbox please specify if for QuickBASIC 4.5
        or BASIC 7 PDS and the floppy disk format you require.

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Christy Gemmell, the author of this package, is also major author of the
definitive textbook on QuickBASIC programming, the QuickBASIC BIBLE, which
is published by Microsoft Press, in association with the Waite Group, at
£24.95 ($27.95 US) ISBN 1-55615-262-0. Selected as Computer Book of the
Month by Jerry Pournelle in the March 1991 issue of BYTE, its thousand
pages are packed with information, tips and example programs which you
wont find anywhere else.  Look out for it in your local bookstore.

The Assembly-Language Toolbox for QuickBASIC is used by thousands of
programmers in Great Britain, Europe, the USA and Canada, Australasia and
Japan, to build fast and powerful QuickBASIC programs. It has been shown
at COMDEX and was featured in the November 1990 issue of BYTE magazine.

