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Notes

This Section is a mixture of Tutorial and User Guide. It starts off predominantly tutorial and tapers off into user guide as (hopefully) your understanding increases. Sub-sections which include hands on tutorial activities have a ** in their heading line - and are also shown in the Contents list in the same way.

The tutorials use some support files and pre-made templates files. They can be found inside the Tutorials folder. The tutorial template files contain standard windows like Info and Save windows. Feel free to use these in your programs. There are no conditions attached to them.

The Tutorials folder contains copies of the tutorial !RunImage listings as they should appear at various stages. These listings, referenced in the text, are called RI_01 to RI_11 and, for convenience, they are split among three sub-directories Tutor1, Tutor2 and Tutor3 to reflect the fact that - over the whole tutorial - there are three fresh starts from the ‘blank’ !MyApp listing.
There are also several window templates files and other items and, where appropriate, these too are split among the three sub-directories so that they appear where they are used.


If you are a newcomer to Dr Wimp (even if you are very familiar with Basic) it is highly recommended that you start by working through the tutorial step by step at the keyboard - at least as far as Section 2.5. Before you start, make a copy of the ‘blank’ master application !MyApp to work on. Put it in a new hard disc directory.

We would highly recommend using !WinEd for editing/creating template files. It is easy to use and it is included with DrWimp. Full instructions can be found in Manual inside the !WinEd directory. However you can use any template editor you wish. (!TempEd is also included in the Dr Wimp package.)


If you get stuck or come across a problem then please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Your information could benefit other users.

Most learning is done through experimenting. In most of the tutorials, you will be invited to fiddle and generally ‘muck about’ with the !RunImage code (not the DrWimp library code!). The worst that can happen through doing this is that your application crashes and is quitted by the Task Manager.

To help you to understand further how to use DrWimp, some example applications are supplied with the DrWimp package, in the ‘Examples’ directory. They have fully commented !RunImage files so you can study them. A short list of what each demonstrates is given in the “!!ReadMe!!” file of each.

(Note that these Example applications will nearly always be using the latest version of Dr Wimp. But, if not, this does not detract from their usefulness as learning aids.)










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