Filename = FoxCircHelp.txt
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CONTENTS:

I.   What is FoxCircle?
II.  How To Draw A Fox
III. How To Draw A Circle
IV.  Where Can I Read More About "Rubber Band Objects"?
V.   Tools Used to Make Fox Circle 
VI.  What Is the FoxCircle Copyright?


I. What is FoxCircle?
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FoxCircle is a Liberty BASIC program which I wrote to demonstrate how to make "rubber band objects".  

Most of us know what "rubber band lines" are.  But if you don't, try the following:

1.  Open Microsoft Paint
2.  Select the Line Tool
3.  Left-click anywhere within the drawing area, and hold the left click down.
4.  Drag the mouse pointer around the drawing area.

If you perform steps 1 through 4 above, you will produce a line which is anchored at one point, and stretches around the screen as you move the mouse.  It behaves like a rubber band, and is therefore often called a "rubber band line".

Similarly, a "rubber band object" is an object that scales itself while it is being drawn between a fixed point and a moveable point.  For a reference to a more detailed discussion about rubber band objects, go to section IV.


II. How To Draw A Fox
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To draw a fox, left-click the radiobutton that provides an image of the fox.  Then, move the mouse to any location within the drawing box.  Left-click the mouse to set an "anchor" at one corner of the fox's face.  Move the mouse to another location within the drawing box.  The image of the fox will stretch and scale itself as you move the pointer around.  Left-click the mouse again to complete the drawing of the fox's face.


III. How To Draw A Circle
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Drawing a circle is identical to drawing a fox.  Left-click the radio button with an image of the circle in order to enable circl-drawing.  Then, left-click anwhere in the drawing area.  Next, move the mouse pointer around the drawing area to watch the circle instantly scale itself to the location of the pointer.   Then, left-click the mouse again to complete the circle.


IV. Where Can I Read More About "Rubber Band Objects"?
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To read more about rubber band objects, read the Liberty BASIC Newsletter, Issue 110, which can be found online at 

http://babek.info/libertybasicfiles/lbnews/nl110/index.htm

Look for the article called "Creating 'Rubber Band' Graphic Objects".


V. Tools Were Used to Make FoxCircle
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Here is what I used to make FoxCircle:

+  Liberty BASIC, by Carl Gundel, http://www.libertybasic.com

+  Liberty BASIC Workshop, by Alyce Watson, http://alycesrestaurant.com

+  Microsoft Paint, by Microsoft, http://www.microsoft.com


VI. The FoxCircle Copyright
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FoxCircle is copyright Tomas J. Nally, June 2003.  My email address is Steelweaver52@aol.com.

FoxCircle is released as open source.  You may modify it and adapt it as you wish for your own purposes, with the following three conditions:

1.  You must leave this text file, FoxCircHelp.txt, in any distribution;

2.  You must leave the credits in the source code of the program; and

3.  You may not copyright any of the code of this program if used in your projects.


