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29.January.1998

This directory contains LISP code.

Condition Handling:
   Condition.lsp
   Authors: Leo Ureel & Tamar Gutman
   Description: A collection of classes, functions, and macros provides a framework 
 		for specializing and handling conditions in QRG applications. 
Database:
   ODBC: This directory contains two implementations of LISP ODBC database interfaces.
	Franz
 	Author: Leo Ureel
	Description: QRG implementation relying on Franz ODBC database code.

        Welch-Richards
	Authors: John Welch & Jonathon Richards
	Description: ILS implementation of ODBC database code.

Formatted Output Code:
   Spreadsheet.lsp 
   Authors: Leo Ureel & Tamar Gutman
   Description: Methods that take a string, pathname, or stream and write to a file 
		in spreadsheet format.
			   
GUI:
   Macros:
	message-window.lsp 
	Author: Leo Ureel
	Description: Displays a message in a window while some forms are executing.
				      
	preserve-graphics-context.lsp 
	Author: Leo C. Ureel II
	Description: Allows temporary changes to the grafx environment.

   Widgets:
	multi-line-list-widget.lsp
	Author: Tamar Gutman
	Description:  Widget designed to look like the single item list widget, 
		      but behave in a more flexible manner.  
	
	up-down-control.lsp
	Author: Leo C. Ureel II
	Description:  up-down-control that allows real increments. 

   Windows:
	Grafx-Dialog
	Author: Leo C. Ureel II
	Description:  Type of dialog that behaves like a bitmap window too. 
	
	Mixins:
	   winmenu.lsp
	   Author: Ron Ferguson
	   Description: Registers your window with window menu.

	   window-shade.lsp
	   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
	   Description: For those of us that like Window Shades on the Mac!  The Window 
            Shade Effect occurs when a user double-right-clicks on the 
          window caption.  This causes the window to "roll-up" into the 
           title bar or to be "pulled-down" to the :normal state.

	   minimum-size.lsp
	   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
           Description: A mixin restricting the smallness a user can resize a window to.

   box.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Define new operations performed on boxes.	

   dirty.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Mark windows as dirty or clean.  

   find-window.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Searches the scope window for a child.

   pixelmap-rotation.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Rotate Pixelmaps.

   syscolor.lsp
   Authors: Tamar Gutman & Leo Ureel
   Description: Searches the scope window for a child.
	
   find-menu-item.lsp
   Date: 02-02-98
   Authors: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Searches the scope menu for a menu-item whose name can be a string.
	
Interprocess Communications:
   DDE:
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Allows interprocess communication using Microsoft's dynamic data exchange.

   MCI:
	quicktime.lsp
   	Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   	Description: Allows playback of quicktime video.

   Sockets:
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: QRG sockets code and examples.

   SourceSafe:
	SSRemote:
	Author: Leo C. Ureel II
	Description: SSRemote is a server program allowing users to remotely 
                     access SourceSafe via telnet.

QRG Patches to ACL:
   ask-user-for-choice-from-list.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Prevents values from being concatenated with each successive call.

   box.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Prevents creation of non-canonical boxes.

   dde.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Fixes for DDE Problems; needed only if we want the server to
     		report what strings clients are passing to it which the
   		server itself has not defined.

   Logpath.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Allows Microsoft network pathnames.

   restore-window.lsp
   Author: John Everett
   Description: Fixes bug that occurs when restoring a window from the Windows 
    		taskbar.

   select-window.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Defines SELECT-WINDOW for *SCREEN*. 

   show-window.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Changes SHOW-WINDOW into a method so we can side-effect it.

   shrink-window.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Prevents the window from being shrunk behind a scroll-bar.

   toolbar.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Enlarges the toolbar by default.

   tooltips.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Allows background color to be changed on tooltips.

   upside-down-image.lsp
   Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   Description: Allows loading of 3.0.1 fasl images in 3.0.2.
		**But breaks loading of 3.0.2 images.

TEMPLATES: put templates and code fragments here.
   Create_Runtime_Image:
   Author: Leo Ureel & Tamar Gutman
   Description: Template used to create runtime images.

   Defsys:
	defsys.lsp
   	Author: John Everett
   	Description: Skeletal defsys.lsp to be used as a guide.

	Leo-Defsys
   	Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   	Description: Modular defsys/defmod structure that minimizes globals,
                     Encapsulates loading, customization, and removal.

   Startup:
	Leo-Startup
	Date: 02-02-98
   	Author: Leo C. Ureel II
   	Description: ACL STARTUP.LSP template used in both 
                     Developer and Runtime Environments.

keyword.lsp
Author: Leo C. Ureel II
Description: Removes keyword and value from a list.

length.lsp
Author: Leo C. Ureel II
Description: Performs comparison operations on the length of a sequence.