Thank you for your interest in custom controls by Bennet-Tec 
Information Systems.  

The VBX's included on this disk will work in RunTime mode (as part of 
a compiled EXE ) only.  You may freely distribute the HT_DEM.ZIP file 
without changes.
	
ALLText is a multiple font custom control text box designed for Visual
Basic programmers by Bennet-Tec Information Systems.  ALLText supports
the simultaneous display of multiple fonts, font characteristics and 
up to 16 colos; paragraph formatting; and even the inclusion of a bit 
mapped background to the control.  Using ALLText, you can include a 
WYSIWYG edit/display textbox as part of your Visual Basic program.  
The ALLText window looks like a text box (no button bars or menus - 
you can design your own interface).

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ALLTEXT 3.0 Features:

   CHARACTER FORMATTING 
	Properties act upon a selected string, 
	or current cursor location.  All formatting properties
	may be written or read.

       FontFamily, FontName, FontSize
           ex: ATX.FntName="Arial"
        Bold, Underline, Italic, StrikeThrough, Sub/Super, etc
           ex: ATX.FntBold=1
        Colors - the 16 QBColor Settings are supported
           ex: ATX.FntColor=QbColor(9)
        Custom Shadowing - a little more complicated
           ex: FntShadow=n% 'n% may be determined by a function we 
				'provide
        Use of font tables and embedded codes
           ex:  SelFText="\f1 \cf3 This text would be fomatted 
                        according to the first entry in a font table
                        which could be Arial Bold Underline 13 pt,
                        and the color pointed to by QBColor(3)."
	   ex:  ATX.FontIndex=3 'sets current text to font 3 in your font table.

   PARAGRAPH FORMATTING 
	Set or read via properties - it's easy.

        Alignment: centered, left, right or left/right justify
           ex: ATX.Alignment=1
        Margins: left, right margins, and first line indents for hanging indents
           ex: ATX.LeftMarg=300 '(measured in twips)
        Vertical spacing (top, bottom, linespacing)
           ex: ATX.Top=400 '(measured in twips) 

   WRITE PROTECT
	ALLText supports several WriteProtect modes, allowing display 
	and programmatic text manipulation, while controlling the 
	degree of access the user has to the document.

	Ex: ATX.WRiteProtect=Protect_Keyboard ' Prevent end-user changes.
	    ATX.WriteProtect=Total ' or don't even let him copy from the screen

   OFF SCREEN TEXT PREPARATION

	ALLText allows you to manipulate text without the end-user seeing
	all the manipulations.  
	Ex:  wp%=ATX.WriteProtect ' save the writeprotect setting
  	     ATX.WriteProtect=ATX_Protect_Screen ' prevent updates to screen
	     .....
	     'do all your selections and content manipulations here
	     '	without the end-user's awareness
	     ....
	     ATX.WriteProtect=wp% 'return to previous mode and update the screen

   BACKGROUND BITMAP
	ALLText supports a unique BitMapped Background. Any bitmapped 
	image can be displayed and positioned BETWEEN the standard 
	background (choice of colors) and the text.  This can be used 
	for special effects such as animation within the text box or 
	sliding windows to hide or reveal colored text.

        ex: ATX.tPicture=LoadPicture("a_bitmap.BMP")
            ATX.tPictureX=300: ATX.tPictureY=500   ' set top left position

   EASY I/O
	ALLText can handle I/O automatically, just set the filetype,
	FineName and tell it to do it's thing

	ex:	ATX.FileName="E:\Funny.ATX"
		ATX.DataType=DataFormat_ATX
		ATX.FileLoad=1 'initiate loading
	Of course you can get at the formatted content via strings
	and handle I/O yourself via VB.  In fact we've got quite a few
	ways to allow you to go about this.

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In addition to the standard edition, we now have our hypertext enhanced
ALLText HT/Pro edition.  ALLText HT/Pro supports all of the above 3.0 features
and then adds:

	1. RTF support (level 1 - no tables, or footers, etc) 
	2. Data Aware (use with data control for easy database manipulations)
	3. Ability to tag a phrase for Hypertext 
		- set or read just like a font property, ATX.HTag=22
	4. Second MousePointer 
		- automatically used when over Tagged region
	5. Triggers Hotspot Enter and Leave Events for mouse and 
		cursor movements
	6. Find_HTag - moves cursor to a given occurance of a tagged phrase
	7. Paragraph Borders 
		- any or all sides, single, double, or shadowed
	8. Aligned Tabs 
		- Left, right, centered (note that centered and 
			right tabs work on a single word, not a set 
			of words.
	9. Embedded OLE 1 objects - look like embedded bitmaps, but
		can actually link to excel, paintbrush, etc.

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		10 Steuben Drive, Jericho, NY 11753
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