This file describes how to install LEDIT.DLL V2.01
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LEdit DLL is a large edit control that may edit texts
more than 64K and also has a lot of interesting features.

The best way to install it is to place LEDIT.DLL into your
windows' system directory, usually \WINDOWS\SYSTEM. If you
decide to do this, make sure that your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM
directory doesn't contain other version of LEDIT.DLL.
If so, don't replace it, because the DLL from shareware
package may destroy the functionality of applications that
brought LEDIT.DLL into your system directory.

If you don't place LEDIT.DLL into your system directory, then
you need make it available to all the program that involve it
by placing it in the same directory as these programs.

If you're using C/C++ you may want to copy LEDIT.H into
your /INCLUDE directory and LEDIT.LIB into your /LIB directory.

LEDIT.DLL exports only two procedures. One of them - LVer()
returns its version (201). After any of them is called you
receive new Windows class "LEdit", which you may use in any
way standard Windows' Edit may be used.

You may see how to do it by looking at sample programs, which
are in files LEDIT_x.*. They show how to make LEdit to be
main window (LEDIT_1.*), MDI child (LEDIT_2.*), Dialog control
(LEDIT_3.*), Window control (LEDIT_4.*). You can also find out
how to manage LEdit text (LEDIT_3.*), how to make color highlighting
(LEDIT_4.*) or background drawing (LEDIT_5.*) and many other 
interesting thinks. You can even see LEdit inside WinHelp (LEDIT_6.*)
by starting LEDIT_6.HLP.

The documentation may be found in LEDIT.H file, which is at a time
C/C++ header file. 

The better way is to register LEdit package and receive nice
WinHelp file.

LEDIT.DLL comes with many accompaniyng files, which are
recommended to be installed in a separate directories by
expanding original zip file with PKUNZIP -d

Here's the list of essential files:

- LEDIT.DLL - LEdit V2.01 lives here
- LEDIT.TXT - This file simply refer to the file you're reading
- LEDIT.H   - C/C++ header file. DOCUMENTATION is here.
- LEDIT.DCU - Delphi header file (BIN)
- LEDIT.TPW - Borland Pascal header file (BIN)
- LEDIT.LIB - Import library for LEDIT.DLL
- LEDIT__I.TXT - This file
- LEDIT__S.INC - C/C++/Pascal include file used in examples.
- LEDIT__U.TXT - Record of changes from V1.00

- LEDIT_x.* where x stands for DIGIT 1-6 - Examples.
  
All examples contain *.exe files, so you don't need to build them.
Each example contains sourses files for both Borland C/C++ version 
(*.CPP,*.H and *.RC) and Borland Pascal version (*.PAS,*.INC and *.RES).
You may modify these files as you want.

All examples refer to LEDIT__S.INC, that may be changed to change
default functionality of controls in all examples.

The files above give you access to LEdit from raw Windows API programming
level. If you're going to use object-oriented languages you need to
look at other subdirectories and see which wrappers are appropriate
to you. Here's the list:
 
 SubDir   System
 -------  ----------------
  LEDLP - Borland Delphi
  LEMFC - MSVC++
  LEOCX - OLE 2 Control - many systems
  LEOWL - Borland C++
  LEVBX - VBX for MS VB and others

Thanks for using LEdit.
