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Agilent VEE - Practical Graphical Programming xi
Contents
Preface ii
The VEE Pro 8 Fundamentals 1
The Mouse as Used in VEE Pro 2
Overview 3
Exercise 1.1 - The Development Screen and Its Bars 4
Opening the VEE Pro 8 program 4
Examining the title and status bars 4
Examining Menu Bar titles 5
Viewing the screen-control buttons 5
Opening the Properties Box and Program Explorer 6
Verifying the display of the Tool Bar and Status Bar 7
Viewing the Tool Bar icons 7
Examining three types of Note Pads 8
Connecting Objects in a VEE Pro 8 program 10
Running and saving a program 10
Using the Undo and Redo operations 11
Saving a program to a personal disk 12
Exercise 1.2 - Note Pads, Error Codes, and Object Views 13
Selecting and moving a Note Pad object 13
Preparing the Note Pad for entering text 13
Sizing the Note Pad and all other objects 14
Examining the use of the Note Pad via the Help menu 15
Examining error codes 15
Stopping and correcting a program 17
Changing between Open View and Iconic View 17