Contents

The following Help Topics are available:

Features

Main Menu Functions

Button Functions

For Help on Help, Press F1


Features

The RI-Source Code Library offers a convenient way to store and retrieve excerpts of source code. You can easily add new excerpts of topics (up to 32K), copy existing topics to the Windows' clipboard or search the source code library database for a key word or phrase.

The main window of the RI-Source Code Library contains a list of code topics in the source code database.  Highlighting a topic and pressing the edit button (or just double clicking on a topic) will display the topic title and code display them in the code and title areas of the window. All or part of the text in the code area can be copied to the clipboard and pasted into your program.


Main Menu Functions

  Exit - Ends the program

  Print - Prints the text display in the topic area

  Search - Displays the Source Code Search dialog box

  Help

    Contents - Displays the RI-Source Code Library help file contents

    Search for Help on Help - Displays the RI-Source Code Library help file search dialog box

    About - Displays the About box.


Button Functions

  Edit - Loads and displays the highlighted topic in the code topic list box

  New - Enabled and clears the Title and Code fields for new input

  Save - Saves or updated the current code entry to the database

  Delete - Deletes the highlighted topic list entry

  Copy - Copies highlighted text in the code area to the Windows' clip board

  Paste - Paste text from the windows clipboard to the code area

  Select All - highlights all the text in the code area

  Note Pad - calls the Windows' Note Pad program


Source Code Search Dialog Box

The Source Code Search dialog box will allow you to search your database for a key word or phrase.  The search is case insensitive.  Enter the phrase or word you wish to search for into the Search Text field and press the Find Next button or the Enter key. The program will start of the first record in the database and search till a match is found.  To continue the search through the rest of the database press the Find Next button or press F3 or ATL-F.  Once the search routine reaches the bottom of the database it will continue with the first record of the database.