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From: byock@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Bill Yock,,,)
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Subject: Re: Paradox PAL canvas
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Date: 24 Sep 90 19:26:35 GMT
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From article <1990Sep21.234857.3861@csusac.csus.edu>, by orrissd@csusac.csus.edu (David Orriss):
> Hi!
> 
>   Can anyone tell me what the 'PAL canvas' is all about in Paradox?
> Is there a particular part of the documentation that will describe
> it to me?  Thanks!
> 

The canvas is where you "paint" prompts for user input or display messages to
the user.  The canvas is lifted and dropped in front of the Paradox workspace
which is where table and query images are displayed and worked on.  The canvas
hides the workspace unless you explicitly tell it not to with the ECHO command.
Page 150 of the PAL User's Guide explains the canvas in detail.  

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Bill Yock, Weeg Computing Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
byock@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu