Re: NBWIN

[Michael Norman mn2@xxxxxxxx]

Mary Bernard from the NB list sent me the following information. Those
tinkering with NBWin may find this very useful.


> NB stopped giving programming information in
> the manual with
> version 4. Crazy, but there it is. But there's a perfectly
> wonderful manual written by one of the list gurus, Tony Woozley,
> which covers everything: keyboard customizing, user help files,
> and especially xpl programming. It's about 160 close-packed
> pages, and it's that rare thing, a manual that both beginners and
> advanced XPLers can profit from: clear and comprehensive.
>
> It's written for NB4, not NB5, so some of the things it describes
> don't work in NB5 (OV codes, user help screens); and a few codes
> are different. (E.g., the command to toggle autoreplace is AZ,
> not AR). Almost all the codes still work, though.
>
> It's called the Customization and Programming Guide. I strongly
> urge you to get it - it's at Gerald Schlabach's website -
>
>   
> http://www.bluffton.edu/~schlabachg/nb/; eudora="autourl">http://www.bluffton.edu/~schlabachg/nb/
>
> - in a version which I formatted last year to be printable on
> both A4 and standard American paper.
>
> If you find it useful, could you send a line to Tony saying so?
> His email address:  AWoozley1@xxxxxxxx.
>
> >> a list of function calls for all the things on the pull
> down
> menus. That way we could try them from the command line. <<
>
> Various users have posted lists of NB5 commands; the list I'm
> working on is an amalgamation of them. I'm going to send you the
> lot, so you can see where I got things from, because I've
> stripped some information from the amalg. list to make it less
> unwieldy.
>
> The files are all (minimally) formatted NB4 files. You can open
> them in NB5 with the Open menu. They are:
>
> AS-PRINT           
> This is the amalgamated list. Why I named it thus I forget - may
> be it means `as is'. I'm in the middle of doing things to it - as
> you'll see from the symbols at the ends of lines. Some command
> codes are in italics; that's because I'm doing something or other
> with them; right now I forget what. They're no different from the
> rest of the list.
>
> CODES     MRG      
> NBCMDS    NB       
> Interim lists; they have notes at top of file.
>
> NBWINCO   DES      
> This is a list made by Enrique Lynch back in March, from the NB
> file NB.DLG, which is I think in the NB5 main dir.
>
> NB-DLG    TXT     
> This is a reworked copy of NB.DLG. That file doesn't like being
> displayed in NB4, so I made a copy and changed all the format
> brackets to European quote brackets and the command codes to
> boldface, using a program written by Tony Woozley (I think it's
> in the CPG, along with one that changes text in that format back
> to command codes and format brackets).
>
> I've not yet even looked at the programs in NB.DLG - all I've
> done is extract the codes for my lists.
>
> Another useful-looking file is NB.DFL; you'll find it in the
> USERS DEFAULT subdir. It contains user defaults, and is probably
> tinkerable-with. I've not yet gone over it to see if there are
> any codes that aren't in other lists.
>
> I've zipped all the files into one pkg, NBCODES.ZIP, and xx
> encoded it as NBCODES.XXE for email transit.
>
> Other information:
>
> Rick Penticoff's website has extremely useful tables showing the
> keycode sequence for every key in NB5 (and also the keycodes for
> NB4). He also has a page of user-written NB utilities. The
> addresses are:
>
>  
> http://users.moscow.com/rpenticoff/nb/keyboards.htm; eudora="autourl">http://users.moscow.com/rpenticoff/nb/keyboards.htm
>
>  
> http://users.moscow.com/rpenticoff/nb/utilities.htm; eudora="autourl">http://users.moscow.com/rpenticoff/nb/utilities.htm



Michael Norman