WELCOME TO THE DIALOG DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM!  VERSION 1.02!

The dialog development system is the ultimate tool for developing dialogs
for your own programs.  It features:

  - A complete set of full power drawing tools
  - Complete aresenal of all Fusion dialog elements
  - Element and object ordering capabilities
  - A lightning fast, intelligent, optimizing code generator
  - A Z-Ordering capability
  - A customization control panel that remembers setting between sessions
  - An easy to use interface
  - Complete support for help, groups, and hotkeys
  - And more ...

Source code for the DDS is available in the DDS directory in the Fusion
conference on our BBS.

Questions? Comments?

Please contact us on CIS or through our BBS

Help System?

The first shipping version of the DDS does not have a help system.  A future
version will provide a help system as well as a collection of other new
features.

Test Dialog?

All numerics are referred to as longs -- in order to eliminate
the need to link in floating points and BCDs.  As a result, decimals
should not be entered into the tester, since they will not be supported.

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Changes in 1.01:
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- A minor bug was fixed in the code generator.

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Changes in 1.02:
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- A bug was fixed in the code generator where a numerical element was
  being generated improperly.

- A few minor performance enhancements have been scattered throughout the
  entire software package.

- The dialog saving and loading options have been enhanced.  Strings are now
  saved at their actual length.  As a result, .DDS files will be about 30 to
  60% smaller than in previous DDS versions.  All old DDS files are still
  compatible with the new file format.

  To get an idea of the size compression available, check out this
  comparision.  These are files that we are using in the development of
  our own software packages:

                                     File Size in Bytes
  File                          Version 1.01    Version 1.02       % Smaller
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  ACT4.DDS                      54895           21200              61%
  ACT.DDS                       15553           7489               52%
  ACTIVITY.DDS                  6715            4193               36%
  ADD.DDS                       5217            2817               46%
  CALENDAR.DDS                  17257           6597               62%
  FILEID.DDS                    2337            1507               36%
  HIT.DDS                       4106            2425               41%
  INVENT.DDS                    9971            5203               48%
  PROD.DDS                      17165           6617               62%
  REPORTS.DDS                   7701            3959               49%

  Try it on your files!  Just load in your old .DDS files and save them and
  you will quickly see the reduced size!  We are working on another enhancement
  that will reduce the size even more by compressing the Blaze text to about
  50% of its size.

  If you are piling up a load of .DDS files, then this release will really
  benefit you.

