~Click Here And Press View

~A quick introduction to the Cheet Sheets User Interface
By Neil Gorin

~SELECTING AN ARTICLE

Articles in Cheet Sheets are categorised under four headings,
each shown as a tab on the main menu dialogue box. To select a
category, click on a tab - the articles in the list will change
accordingly. To select an article, click on it (this will
highlight the article) and press the View button. More articles
may be found by scrolling the list using the arrows at the right
of the list box.

~VIEWING AN ARTICLE

The viewing window (which you're looking at now) can be scrolled
up and down using the mouse cursor on the scroll bar to the
right. Alternatively, you can use the cursor keys and
Page-Up/Page-Down keys to move around. Note that if you haven't
got a mouse, the cursor keys are used to move the mouse pointer,
so you should use CTRL-PAGEUP and CTRL-PAGEDOWN to scroll the
document.

NOTE: Some computers can't handle the single line scrolling
used in Cheet Sheets, due to a Video BIOS limitation. These are
detected automatically, and page up/page down scrolling used
instead.

GO BACK: Returns you to the main menu.

PRINT: Clicking on the print button will send the text of the
article to the printer on LPT1.

PLAY: Activates "Noise Suppression" feature!  If you're listening
to the music through the PC Speaker, you'll hear a lot of hiss 
while the magazine processes mouse and button handling - clicking
on this button disables everything but the page-up and page-down
keys to give vastly better sound quality!  Just press any other
key to return to normal.

VIEW SCREEN SHOTS: Some documents have accompanying screen shots
(reviews for instance). Clicking on View Screen Shots allows you
to see these - click once to progress to the next picture, the
magazine will return when you've finished.

~THE MUSIC INTERFACE

If you've got a SoundBlaster or compatible, you'll hear great
music all the while you're running Cheet Sheets. If you've not
got one, you'll hear the same music sent through your PC Speaker
- which sometimes sounds good, but on many PCs is a bit crap.
The main CHEET.EXE program accepts the following music command
lines, should you want to force Cheet Sheets to use a different
setting:

Force SoundBlaster mode if not detected: CHEET /SB
Force Internal Speaker: CHEET /SP
No music: CHEET /SILENT

When using the main menu, you can access the features of the
sound system at the base of the screen. Buttons are provided for
searching forwards and backwards in a song, playing and stopping
the music and for advancing to the next track (which is done
automatically at the end of any song).

The three buttons to the right, confuse many people. These
control the quality of the music coming through your
SoundBlaster or Speaker - initially, this is set to the lowest
quality (the left hand side setting) which is Ok for all PCs.
However, if you have a fast 386 or 486 and a SoundBlaster, try
the middle setting for much better sound quality. Similarly,
with a high power machine (like a 486DX-50+) setting the highest
setting may increase quality further still. If you don't have a
sound blaster, selecting the highest setting will give much
better quality music - even on a relatively slow PC.
