SubSystem : Documentation
File : SW200A.TXT
Author : Eric NICOLAS
Overview : Informations and installation of SWORD package
UpDate : Nov 20, 1995
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1. What is S�W�O�R�D ?
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SWORD means System of Windows for the ORganisation of the Desktop.
It is a Graphic User Interface (GUI) made with C++ objects, and
it is accessible with Turbo C++ and GNU C++ (djgpp).
It provides to the programmer all objects that are necessary to
implement a nice and intuitive GUI. With Sword, all your programs will
look as nice as NeXT interface. Thanks to object oriented programming,
this interface is very easy to program.
The basic concepts behind the objects in SWORD are :
-> Linked lists (or in fact linked trees)
-> Events mecanism
-> Efficient way of managing overlapping windows
2. Installation
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You must have the files :
SW200A_1.ZIP
SW200A_2.ZIP
SW200A.TXT
and the PKUNZIP (or equivalent) unarchiver.
Create a directory for SWORD on your hard disk (let say C: for
example), and keep the archive files on two floppy disks :
MKDIR C:\SWORD
Extract all the files from archive n�1 :
PKUNZIP -d A:\SW200A_1.ZIP C:\SWORD
Change floppy disk, and extract all the files from archive n�2 :
PKUNZIP -d A:\SW200A_2.ZIP C:\SWORD
Read the C:\SWORD\DOCS\README.1ST file for more informations.
