
Welcome to the QBSCR Screen Routines!

First of all, I'm sure you'd like to know how to use
this text viewing box (created using the QBSCR ViewList
routine).  Here's what you can do and how to do it:

  Function...                       ...How to do it
  -------------------------------------------------
  Move up one line . . . . . . . . . . . . Up Arrow
  Move down one line . . . . . . . . . . Down Arrow
  Move up one page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PgUp
  Move down one page . . . . . . . . . . . . . PgDn
  Move to the beginning  . . . . . . . . . . . Home
  Move to the end  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  End
  Quit reading this drivel and get
    to the fun stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Esc

Now that that's over, here's what's in store for you.
The QBSCR Screen Routines provide a great deal of
functionality, including windows, menus, buttons and
boxes, lists and screens, text mode fonts (with VGA
or EGA) as well as mouse support.

But equally important is the fact that the QBSCR Screen
Routines can serve as an excellent teaching aid and
tutorial.  Many registered users have written to me
saying that they have learned more from these routines
in a week than they did from several books in six
months!  If you are looking for learning tools about
QuickBASIC, you've found one of the best (and least
expensive) on the market.

This demo will show you most of QBSCR's capabilities.
Some have been ommitted to keep the program compilable,
but you can discover more by glancing at the code or
at the documentation.  For example, the disk-oriented
routines have been omitted, but some are used behind the
scenes.

This demo makes use of some higher-grade hardware that
you may not have.  It runs best with a faster machine.
On an 8 Mhz 8086 XT clone, it was pretty slow in some
areas, but acceptable in most.  Any faster machine will
provide better performance.  QuickBASIC simply isn't as
fast as high-performance languages like C.  Also, there
is a lot of mouse activity here.  If you don't have a
mouse attached to your computer, some of the demos will
not be available to you.  The EGA/VGA Fonts demo in the
"Other" menu will not be available to you if you do not
have an EGA or VGA card and monitor.  And finally, the  
EGA/VGA extended colors demo will not be available to 
CGA or monochrome users.  Sorry about these inconven-,
iences, but there so many fun things to do with better
hardware!

If you're done reading this, you can hit ESC or click
the right mouse button.


