Project SùWùOùRùD V2.00A SubSystem : Documentation File : SW200A.TXT Author : Eric NICOLAS Overview : Informations and installation of SWORD package UpDate : Nov 20, 1995 ** Copyright (C) 1993,1995 The SWORD Group ** ** This file is distributed under the terms listed in the document ** "copying.en". A copy of "copying.en" should accompany this file. ** if not, a copy should be available from where this file was obtained. ** This file may not be distributed without a verbatim copy of "copying.en". ** ** This file is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied ** warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 1. What is SùWùOùRùD ? ---------------------- 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 --------------- 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 nø1 : PKUNZIP -d A:\SW200A_1.ZIP C:\SWORD Change floppy disk, and extract all the files from archive nø2 : PKUNZIP -d A:\SW200A_2.ZIP C:\SWORD Read the C:\SWORD\DOCS\README.1ST file for more informations.