E-line ELI-PRO3 series Manual do Utilizador

1dBase, LLC 2014 – All rights reserved. dbDOS™ PRO 3 Quick Start Guide

10 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Using the *NEW* EASY DOS Feature One of the exciting new features of dbDOS PRO 3 is the new EASY DOS config

11 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Note: A word about answering No to the question in the wizard. Just because you answer No to the first que

12 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Second, notice that only .exe(s) and .com(s) are being shown. The EASY DOS utility only recognizes those tw

13 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. The last page of the utility will appear: Final Page of the wizard The final page as shown above is straigh

14 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Using dbDOS_Config.exe One of the main features of dbDOS™ PRO 3 is the dbDOS_Config.exe program. This progr

15 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Initial dbDOS PRO 3 – Configuration Manager The updated dbDOS Configuration adds significant features to man

16 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. The Execution Bar – allows you to pick the operation you want to perform inside the dbDOS Config. The Short

17 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Import a configuration: it asks the location of the configuration to be imported Press the Show Backup

18 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. After a Windows® shortcut is created The shortcut created on the Windows® desktop The above shows the out

19 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. This icon represents the Export function, this will now allow you to export out a configuration and share i

2 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. dBase, LLC may have patents and/or pending patent applications covering subject matter in

20 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. New Configuration When you start a new configuration, the first step will always be the Configuration Name a

21 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Wizard Approach to building a dbDOS™ Windows® shortcut: Once the Name and Description of the dbDOS™ configur

22 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Step 1: Mounted Drive Configuration: The next step in the wizard is the Mounted Drive Configuration as show

23 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Or, the other option is to have a shortcut that takes the end-user to a command prompt: Step 2: Create a m

24 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Clicking the Create Mounted Drive button will open the Path to Mount dialog: Clicking the Folder icon wil

25 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. The dbDOS™ configuration now has defined a “C” drive in your dbDOS configuration and it points to the direc

26 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Any additional Mounted drives can be accessed within your dBASE DOS application (running in dbDOS) by using

27 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Now the only programs that will be displayed are the valid ones of .bat, .com, or .exe. Again, if you want

28 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Here is the example of how this would execute using dBASE V for DOS calling the TMemory.prg as a Launch Para

29 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Creating a Command-Line configuration Notice in the above dialog, the icon to the right of the Launch Optio

3 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Contents dbDOS™ PRO 3 ...

30 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Step 3: Regional Settings: One of the advances in dbDOS™ PRO 3 is better support for internationalization.

31 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. will be dictated from that selection. Only the valid Keyboard layouts will be displayed in the dropdown lis

32 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Step 4: Printer Settings: Many advances have been made in the dbDOS™ PRO 3 product around printing. The ne

33 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. that you go to the new enhanced printing. o NOTE: RAW does not support the picking of a default printer.

34 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. The long-term plan is that everybody will move towards the Enhanced approach. Both RAW and Interpreted will

35 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC.  Courier (default) Regular (font style) and 10 (font size)  Times Roman – Regular, (font style) and 10

36 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. The last option is the Save to PDF; this is only available in either Enhanced or the legacy Interpreted prin

37 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Physical Print with PDF generation In the above image, notice that you can select the “Also send to printer

38 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Step 5: Display options: dbDOS™ PRO 3 offers many new optimizations in the Display Options dialog. This di

39 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. In the Additional Options section, it gives you two options if and only if the “Overlay” or the “OpenGL” o

4 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Creating a Command Prompt: ...

40 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. use the advance display options for 43 or 50 lines, then the aspect ratio does change so the resolution pick

41 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Step 6: Launcher & Shortcut Options: These are additional options that can be set with the configuratio

42 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Step 7: Test Configuration: The Test Configuration option is just that, after you have set all the options

43 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Returns to Main page: After the wizard is complete, you will be taken back to the main page. On the main sc

44 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Configuration Wizard Footer-bar explained: The bottom button bar, called the Footer-bar is where you control

45 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Advanced Approach to building a dbDOS™ Windows® shortcut: The dbDOS_Config.exe Advanced interface is a ver

46 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Configuration Manager Advanced As stated above, all of the options are available on this single page. The f

47 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. 2. Configuration options and settings – These options are on a scroll pane so you can set all the needed op

48 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Change Area 2: Mounted Drives Mount Drives – Pick a Mounted Drive Depending on the type of configuration y

49 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Clicking the Folder icon will open the Browser for Folder dialog as shown below: The above dialog s

5 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Welcome to dbDOS™ PRO 3 dbDOS™ PRO 3 is the fastest way for developers and end-users to continue to use MS-DO

50 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. The dbDOS™ configuration now has defined a Mounted “C” drive which points to the directory of C:\dbaseold\.

51 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. If you know the name of the program, you can type it into the Automatically Launch my program edit box. Al

52 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Notice a couple of things about the above changed portion of the dialog. The Automatically Launch my progra

53 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Creating a Command Prompt: If you chose to create a Command-prompt configuration, it is very simple. If you

54 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Change Area 3: Regional Settings: One of the advances in dbDOS™ PRO 3 is better support for internationaliz

55 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. As for this example, normally the end-user would pick US – United States, but in this example, the only opti

56 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Change Area 4: Printer Settings: Many advances have been made in the dbDOS™ PRO 3 product around printing.

57 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC.  Interpreted (legacy) – Output stream from DOS program is generated and sent to a text preview window. Th

58 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. be removed from the option set, thus making the printing options much easier to use and work with. Pre-defi

59 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC.  Courier (default) Regular (font style) and 10 (font size)  Times Roman – Regular, (font style) and 10

6 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. What’s New in dbDOS™ PRO 3?  (NEW) EASY DOS configuration creator  (NEW) Print to PDF  (New) Clean Pri

60 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. The last option is the Save to PDF; this is only available in either Enhanced or the legacy Interpreted prin

61 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Physical Print with PDF generation In the above image, notice that you can select the “Also send to printer

62 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Change Area 5: Display Options: The dbDOS™ PRO 3 offers a new optimization called display options. This op

63 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. configuration to start in full-screen mode. Select the Start in full-screen mode option and when the config

64 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Change Area 6: CPU Options: In dbDOS™ PRO 3 we have added a new option for CPU Options, these allow use to

65 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Change Area 7: Footer-bar The bottom toolbar is the location where you can complete the single interface co

66 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Returns to Main page: After the wizard is complete, the wizard will take you back to the main page. On the

67 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Running dBASE DOS after the dbDOS Configuration Utility (dbDOS_Config.exe) Once the dbDOS™ Configuration Uti

68 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. This icon is used to represent a specific executable program configured to run inside the dbDOS™ VM. This

69 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. New Features for dbDOS™ 3 By clicking the system menu button in the dbDOS PRO 3 VM you get the following men

7 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Installing dbDOS™ PRO 3 Installing dbDOS™ is the same as installing any other Microsoft Windows program and u

70 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Print to dbDOS clipboard (Ctrl-F8). dbDOS™ PRO 3 adds a new capability to copy from the dbDOS™ PRO 3 environ

71 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. This will close the window and clear the clipboard buffer.

72 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Print screen to dbDOS Clipboard (Ctrl-PrnScr) The next feature has been requested since the introduction of

73 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Better Printing with dbDOS PRO 3 dbDOS PRO 3 comes with multiple ways of printing. As stated above this is

74 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. working. If you want to play or test another driver, make a copy of the configuration by exporting it and t

75 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Here is an example of how to use dbDOS Command prompt (configured to use dBASE V DOS) Double-clicking on the

76 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. dBASE V executes as expected. Keep in mind that NO changes have been made to dBASE DOS and all functions t

77 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. the mouse in the window, press the CTRL-F10 and the mouse will be returned to the Windows® operating system.

78 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Quick Keyboard shortcuts dbDOS™ supports a number of different keyboard shortcuts that end-users can use to

79 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Glossary of Terms:  Microsoft DOS® or MS-DOS® This is reference to Microsoft Disk Operating System or DOS

8 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Installation process Press the Finish button and it will start the dbDOS™ PRO 3 Configuration Utility. T

80 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. directory. dbDOS_Config.exe can be used to create this shortcut.  Windows Shortcut to Program Executable

9 dbDOS™ PRO 3 – © 2014 | dBase, LLC. Activating dbDOS™ PRO 3 Once installation is complete, the next step in running dbDOS™ PRO 3 is Activating th