vxBase 1.04  February 20, 1992

This release features 10 new functions:

     vxBrowsePos    Position and size your browse windows
     vxDateString   Display dates in international formats
     vxDeallocate   Manage memory in design mode
     vxDescend      Build descending indexes and seek
     vxMenuDeclare  Allocate memory for browse window menus
     vxMenuItem     Build your own menus on browse windows
     vxRecord       Use record structures or strings to
                    hold complete records
     vxSetDate      Set international date formats
     vxSetHandles   Increase the number of files open in a task
     vxSetString    Use vxbase with other languages


Corrections and Changes:     
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Corrects vxReplLong, vxBrowse Query Find Next, and
vxBrowse dashes and ampersands in quick keys.

Corrects VB.EXE memory growth problem in design mode. Running a
vxBase app in design mode repeatedly resulted in an ever
increasing VB.EXE until the developer ran out of memory. The
problem has been corrected as follows:

   A new function, vxDeallocate(), has been added. This function
   works ONLY in design mode and must be added to your exit routine.
   For an example of vxDeallocate use, see the QuitButton proc
   in VXFORM0 and the Form_Unload proc in VXFORM1.

Corrects scrolling problems in vxBrowse if the Start record number
was not the first record in the file or the first record in a defined
subset.

Declared joined windows are automatically displayed when a browse
window is created. The user no longer has to select the Join menu item.



Installation
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	vxBase is distributed on a single diskette or on bulletin boards
as two compressed .ZIP files. The first ZIP file is vxbdoc.zip, which
contains the documentation in a Windows Write file. This file is
essential to understanding and using vxBase. If it is missing, contact
the author at the address below.  The documentation is separated from
the rest of vxBase to allow potential users to preview it before
installing and actually using vxBase. This is especially helpful to
potential users who extract vxBase from a bulletin board. They can
evaluate the system from a documentation standpoint before committing to
downloading the larger system.

	Unzip vxbdoc.zip and view or print it. The manual is more than
180 pages long. It was formatted for an Epson 24-pin printer using standard
Roman and Courier fonts. Printed manuals may be obtained for $15.00.
See the end of the documentation for ordering information.

	The second ZIP file (vxbase.zip) contains the sample source code
and Visual Basic project files, vxbase.txt which includes all of the Visual
Basic declarations for the routines in the vxBase DLL and the vxBase DLL
itself.

	If you are going to upload vxBase to a bulletin board, it must be
sent as it was received - in two ZIP files.

	When the system ZIP file is decompressed, it contains this readme.doc
file and 2 more ZIP files. These ZIP files are:

	vxbdll.zip	the vxBase DLL
	vxbtest.zip	sample source code and vxbase.txt

	To install vxBase, first make a subdirectory under your \vb
directory named \vb\vxbtest and copy the vxbtest.zip file there. Unzip it
and delete the vxbtest.zip file from your hard disk. To run the sample
application it is essential that these files be in directory \vb\vxbtest
because this path is hard-coded into the sample code. If you MUST put it
somewhere else, you'll have to modify the file names in the source code to
reflect your location.

	Unzip vxbdll.zip and place the resulting file (VXBASE.DLL) in your
\windows directory.

        To run the sample program, see the Sample Application section in the
manual.

Terry Orletsky
Comsoft Inc.
#200, 10310 - 176 Street
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
T5S 1L3
Phone (403) 489-5994
Fax (403) 486-4335
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