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Corrections & Additions
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This documentation file chronicles corrections or additions to
the printed documentation. Make sure you look at other .DOC files
in the \TP\DOC directory, especially TVISION.DOC. Note that the
\TP\DOCDEMOS directory contains complete, correct versions of all
the examples in the Turbo Vision Guide and in Chapter 4 of the
User's Guide.
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Table of Contents
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1. User's Guide
2. Programmer's Guide
3. Library Reference
4. Turbo Vision Guide
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1. User's Guide
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P-1 Far and near directives
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Far and near directives can be placed after a procedure or
function declaration:
procedure MyProc; far;
function MyFunc: Boolean; near;
If MyProc and MyFunc are declared in the implementaton section of
a unit or in the body of the main program, they will be far and
near (respectively) regardless of the enabled or disabled state of
the {$F} compiler directive.
P-197 Stepping into conditional breakpoints
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An anomaly exists when the execution bar is above a conditional
breakpoint you've set and the condition is false. If you press F8
in this situation, the debugger will execute the statement with
the false conditional breakpoint without stopping. To have the
debugger stop before executing that statement, it is not necessary
to delete the conditional breakpoint. Instead, just position the
cursor on the line with the false conditional berakpoint and press
F4 (Run|Go to cursor).
2. Programmer's Guide
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P-153 Incorrect demo program name
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The correct name for the BGI demo program that shows how to link
font and driver files into an EXE is called BGILINK.PAS.
P-215 Free list
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The second paragraph incorrectly implies that the free list starts
at the top of memory and grows downwards. The remaining text in
that chapter correctly explains that the free list is maintained
by using the first 8 bytes of each freed block.
P-328 Allows PUBLIC without external
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Error message #51 will no longer occur if you link with an .OBJ
file that defines a PUBLIC for which there is no corresponding
external Pascal procedure. When the linker encounters an unmatched
PUBLIC in an .OBJ file, it simply creates a corresponding entry in
the symbol table that can be referenced by EXTERNs in other .OBJ
files.
3. Library Reference
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P-115 Incorrect demo program name
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The correct name for the BGI demo program that shows how to
link font and driver files into an EXE is called BGILINK.PAS.
2. Turbo Vision Guide
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P-29 Missing parameters
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The first line of the bottom two examples should be just like
the topmost example on the page:
MenuBar := New(PMenuBar, Init(R, NewMenu(
...
P-54 Missing parameters
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The example in the middle of the page is missing parameters in
the call to Assign. The correct syntax is:
R.Assign(22, 3, 34, 6);
P-157 Stream registration made easy
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Turbo Vision defines stream registration records for all its
objects. In addition, each Turbo Vision unit defines a
RegisterXXXX procedure that automatically registers all of the
unit's objects. Finally, to register all Turbo Vision objects,
just call TApplication.RegisterTypes. Note that this will link
in ALL Turbo Vision objects, regardless of whether you're using
them or not (that's why it's not done automatically). See
TVISION.DOC for more information about additional registration
procedures.
P-166 Incorrect method call
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The Append call in the IF statement should be a call to Insert
as follows:
...
Insert(Desktop);
...
P-224 Wrong order
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The TCollection.Free method descriptions has the calls in
reverse order. The correct order is:
Delete(Item);
FreeItem(Item);