The Menu Generator writes a TAS multi-window menu for you without any programming. It also saves the menu definition, allowing you to make changes to an existing definition and regenerate the modified menu in a few seconds.

If you have better things to do than spend hours fiddling with array assignments and the infernally fussy menu(...) function, but would like your applications to have the professional polish which a multi-window point-and-shoot menu confers, you need the Menu Generator.

Features

• Generates .EDT or .SRC source code
• Up to 5 windows plust "Exit"
• "Exit" to MSDOS or another TAS program. You choose.
• Allow "chained" menus
• 10 options per window
• 40 characters per prompt
• Windows automatically sized and positioned
• Menu definitions are saved, allowing quick and easy edits to existing menus
• Change, add or delete an option or a window and regenerate in seconds
• Attach help lines to each window
• System date automatically programmed on line 24
• Context-sensitive online help throughout, plus ASCII graphics guide screen
• Written in TAS
• Supplied with source code, so you can further customise it

TAS-Plus and TAS-Professional are trademarks of Business Tools Inc.

The Window Generator writes TAS code for a window without requiring you to do any programming. It saves a definition of the window, allowing you to edit an existing definition and regenerate the source code in a few seconds.

If you have better things to do than spend hours fiddling with pmsg(...) and window(...) parameters, but would like precisely-positioned windowed prompts or multi-layered help screens to add pizazz to your applications, you need the Window Generator.

You need only type the text to be windowed. the Window Generator calculates box parameters to fit, displays the window and lets you push it around with cursor keys, optionally underlaying the relevant Standard Screen from your application sources so that you can see what the result will look like. When you are satissfied, press a key and the Window Generator writes a TAS code fragment (.EDT or .SRC) which you can haul into your application code.

Program features:

• Generates a labelled TAS subroutine code fragment (.EDT or .SRC source code)
• Saves a named definition, which can be edited and regenerated
• Context is optionally shown: see where the window will go
• Intelligent ruler line can be turned on and off
• Cursor keys move the winodw over the underlying screen context
• Single keystroke operations to:
  • center a line within a window
  • center the window, horizontally or vertically
  • corner the window, top, bottom, left or right
• Move window borders independently of text
• Context-sensitive online help throughout
• Written in TAS
• Supplied with source code, so you can further customise it

TAS-Plus and TAS-Professional are trademarks of Business Tools Inc.

TED II is a full replacement for the source code editor (TASEDPRG.RUN), supplied with TAS-Professional 3.xx. It is also much, much more! Developed from Ted-Professional - Roger Mathew's superfast syntax-assisted SRC code editor - TED II is a fully integrated TAS development system. Now, you can compile and test your TAS programs without leaving TED II, run TAS under TED II to maitain and edit the Data Dictionary, shell to DOS and run utilities like EDT2SRC, or even another instance of TED II.

TED II is even faster than TED-Prof, and can still accommodate over 3000 lines of TAS source code. TED II generates plain ASCII-style TAS source code (.SRC files), preferred by most professional programmers.

The user interface has all the same code menus and syntax assistance as TASEDPRG, applied to ASCII style TAS source code. TED II has all the features of TED-Prof plus menu-driven file, field and label name selection, user-configurable colour options and more intelligent scrolling and block movements.

Automatic field placements in the screen painter now work horizontally as well as vertically.

Program features:

• Familiar TASEDPRG menu-driven syntax-assisted code generation
• Writes ASCII-style TAS source: over 3000 line capacity
• Menu-selected file, field and label names prevent mistyping and syntax errors
• Automatic indentation
• Brace matching and checking
• Compile and run programs without leaving TED II
• Reports compilation errors and directs editing to the offending line(s)
• Over 20 user-definable colour and functionality options
• Reloads last file on startup and positions cursor at last edit point
• Much-enhanced screen painter:
  • Allows mixed box styles
  • Intelligent box intersections - even for mixed-style boxes
  • Box-delimited text insertion and deletion preserves boxes while typing text
  • Horizontal, vertical or mixed automatic field placements - all menu-selected
  • Menu-selected colour and PAINT mode for colouring screens easily
  • Colour-fill boxes with a single keystroke
  • Move edit fields without disturbing text
  • Array field cloning places next-indexed field with a single keystroke

TAS-Plus and TAS-Professional are trademarks of Business Tools Inc.

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