Simpletext

ð 2 TECHNOTE: The Compleat Guide To SimpleText 2 By Bryan Stearns (DTS Emeritus) Revised by Mark Cookson MCOOKSON@applelink.apple.com Apple Developer Technical Support (DTS) This Technote explains how to use SimpleText to create Release notes and ReadMe files, complete with pictures and sound, even QuickTime movies. The primary purpose of this Technote is to show you how to create read-only Release notes. This Note also showcases some of the new features that have been added to SimpleText 1.3. This Note assumes familiarity with ResEdit. About SimpleText 2 SimpleText was created to integrate the many different versions of TeachText that were created by different groups within Apple. As such, it has a number of features that are not fully fleshed out – SimpleText is not an integrated package, nor is it meant to be. ■ Although Simple Text runs QuickTime movies, you can’t put them in a document or edit them, you can’t even copy a frame out. ■ It is a word processor, but it still only lets you work on documents that are 32K, or less, in length. About SimpleText 1 of 12 Technote 1005 - Release 1.0  Apple Computer, Inc. 10/23/95 T E C H N O T E : The Compleat Guide To SimpleText ■ It records sounds, but you can only have one per document, and it can only record sounds up to 24 seconds in length. ■ SimpleText can do QuickDraw 3D, but it only has the minimum support required. SimpleText is the utility knife of software. It’s not too complicated, and it won’t let you down if you don’t ask for too much. Apple ships it with every Macintosh. It is a simple text-editing tool with support for the standard editing primitives, saving and printing, even with non-Roman languages and with QuickDraw GX. SimpleText supports Drag & Drop, which simplifies the creation of documents by allowing passages to be moved around visually instead of the old copy and paste method. SimpleText’s possibly greatest feature is that it allows developers to create Read-only Release notes that include text, pictures, and sound. SimpleText checks the file type of text documents to determine if they are modifiable or if they should be opened as read-only, allowing the user to scroll through the document or print its contents, bu…