July 2007's The Developer News
	Introduction From the CEO: Welcome to the July Newsletter...   Dev/Product Updates from the VP: Exploring CMac Code - Part 2 a Series on CMac   CMac Code Contest: Deadline looms for new entries	This Month's Product Opportunity: mobileMETM Discounted purchase available also, visit Programmer's Paradise   Multi-Edit Partners: AZET Programming Tools and Programmer's Paradise
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	Introduction from the CEO Welcome again to another edition of The Developer News! - Chad W. Williams Hello and welcome to the July edition of The Developer News! Our CMac Submit Your Code Contest is coming ever closer to the deadline, have you completed and submitted your entry? Be sure to review our Submit Your Code contest article below: click here for complete contest information, deadline for submissions, prizes and more. Time is Running Out! Be sure to get you macro submitted today to be eligible to win one of 3 fantastic prizes being offered! All valid entries will receive a $10.00 Amazon gift certificate. Remember if you submit a valid entry "You Will Win!" ----------- Did you know that by purchasing your license of mobileMETM you not only have the completely PORTABLE version of Multi-Edit 2006TM, but your mobileMETM license will also work with the full Multi-Edit 2006 release? What does this mean to you? You will receive 'more for your buck' so to speak. With each purchase of mobileME you are issued a Multi-Edit 2006 license, which can be used, not only with your mobileME, but also with a full version Multi-Edit 2006 giving you the best of both worlds. This allows you to install a 'permanent' installation of ME2006 and still have your mobileME to take with you to any workstation, customer site or wherever needed. ----------- Take full advantage of the mobileME discounts from Programmer's Paradise and purchase your two for one Multi-Edit today!!! Order your mobileMETM from Programmers Paradise for a limited time discount: http://www.programmers.com/ppi_us/Product.aspx?sku=A30%2008101A01 ----------- Dan Hughes is continuing his article on his Exploring Macro Code series. Take a moment to read this article on "The Editing Dialog"(2nd Installment from our VP) to get the most of your CMac macros as well as fine-tuning your macro for our contest! Find out how powerful CMac is and begin creating your time saving macros today! Don't forget, Multi-Edit's web forums are a valuable resource not only for support, but also for developer collaboration. Have a question on configuring Multi-Edit, writing a custom macro or just wanting to get directional thoughts and opinions on your code project? Drop into the MESI support forums (http://www.multieditsoftware.com/forums/index.php) and post your comments and questions today!   Chad Williams, CEO Multi Edit Software, Inc. Chad Williams: chadw@multieditsoftware.com
	Development/Product Updates from the VP Exploring CMac Code - Part 2 - L. Dan Hughes In Part 1 of our Exploring CMac Series, we covered some supporting macros for the Delimited String Editing Dialog we are developing. In Part 2, we will be working on creating the dialog itself. There will be more articles to follow that will continue where the previous article left off. So keep reading and when we are done, we should have a nice set of macros that can be used in your own macros. Now, on to the article... We have a good start on our set of library type macros but to this point we don't have anything that we can actually see. It is now time to start working on the editing dialog. I find it a good practice when beginning any dialog to draw out a rough sketch of how I want it to appear on paper. Next, since we don't currently have a dialog designer, we will write code to create the dialog. During my process, I like to see things as quickly as possible, so I usually write some code, compile it, and then run it to see what I get. I repeat these steps many times until I have the dialog showing they way I like it. The basic dialog we want will have a list box. This list box will contain the list of strings, a text edit field to allow entering a string, a couple of buttons to move a string up/down in the list box and a few more buttons to replace/add/delete a string in the list box. Also, there will be an OK, Cancel and Help button for the main dialog. At this time we will be adding all of the macros to the same file used in Part 1. Doing this will make it easier to develop for in the future we might move some of the macros into another macro file. We will call the main edit dialog macro "EditDelimitStrDlg." It will need to pass the "delimited string" and the delimiter character and then it will need to be returned to the edited string. For testing purposes you will want to run this macro from the "Macro Run" dialog so we will add Parse_Str function calls to the definition. These will more than likely be removed in the final version of the macro. Thus the prototype for this macro is: str EditDelimitStrDlg( str InputStr = Parse_Str( "/S=", MParm_Str ), str Delimiter = Parse_Str( "/D=", MParm_Str )); Enter the above code into the StrTools.s file and start adding the supporting code to it. Knowing that we will need to create a window to hold the list of string, we add code to create a window. Since we are also going to be switching between windows, we want to save the id of the current Window and the Refresh system variable so that we can restore it back to the value it was before we entered our macro. Then we can enter code to set Refresh to False. I then compile the code to see that it compiles and runs. The next step is to create the dialog and test that it works. I start by creating a simple dialog that contains a Cancel button so that I can test that the dialog can be shown and cleanly closed. To use the dialog macro we need to #include Dialog.sh, which we insert toward the top of the file. We will #include a number of other *.sh files to get access to the other macros we need to use. Once the basic dialog code is written I compile it and test to see that the dialog is shown and the Cancel button closes the dialog. We continue to add controls such as the list box, the other buttons etc. Compile and test the macro after each control is added. This allows us to fine tune the placement of each control as it is placed in the dialog. At this point, we should have a dialog that appears as below but doesn't do much else.   Below is a link where you can download the updated code to show the dialog. http://www.multieditsoftware.com/TheDev/article-files/CMacCODE-part02.zip In the next article installment we will add more functionality to the dialog. Possibilities are limited only to your imagination and development needs! Until the next Newsletter... Happy Coding! L. Dan Hughes, VP/CTO Multi Edit Software, Inc. danh@multieditsoftware.com Input Your Suggestions in the Forum: http://www.multiedit.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=7   **Please note that you can review/search through all forum topics, but to submit a post you must create a login identity.
	Time is Running Out! Entries accepted through August 31st, 2007, ONLY   Submit Your Code Contest The rules are permanently on display here: http://www.multieditsoftware.com/CMacContest-2007.htm You can begin referencing our CMac articles here: http://www.multieditsoftware.com/techart.php Submit Your Code Contest Rules and Regulations BRIEF Contest Details: To participate in the "Submit Your Code Contest," you must be at least 18 years old and a registered user of Multi-Edit 9.xTM or newer. Code submissions may be included in future Multi-EditTM releases and will note full recognition to the author of the code. Entries will be accepted from May 30th, 2007 through August 31st, 2007 and winners will be announced and prizes awarded in the September 2007 "The Developer News" newsletter and on www.multieditsoftware.com. Entries will be accepted from May 30th, 2007 through August 31st 2007 and winners will be announced and prizes awarded on September 7th, 2007. REMEMBER: the rules are permanently on display here: http://www.multieditsoftware.com/CMacContest-2007.htm Awarded Prizes will be: 1st Prize:   Bose Wave Music System with iPod Connect Kit 2nd Prize:   iPod 80 GB 3rd Prize:   10.2" Digital Photo Frame Entry Prize:   $10.00 gift certificate to Amazon.com (All valid entries will receive this prize)
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