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## Using DEScoder

DEScoder provides both dialog and command line interface to provide a maximum flexibility for developers.

Please refer to Command Line switches for all details how to run DEScoder in batch mode.

DEScoder dialog provides 2 main operational modes - the Single File mode offers to encrypt a specified Lisp file;
the Project Mode allows to create and manage AutoCAD VLX compatible projects, to compile a single application file ("container" file).

User Interface

DEScoder dialog is resizable, and will always start with last size and position.
Additionally, all relevant dialog input fields support Drag & Drop.

Tooltips

The dialog shows tooltips to display hints regarding the dialog elements - here, we use an extended tooltip window, which is able to show a normal and (alternatively) a long tooltip text.

| The tooltip window opens with the normal hint text - if there is an extended hint available, a small black triangle is shown at the right edge.
| You can move the mouse pointer into the tooltip window - it will show the extended hint text, if available; moving the mouse pointer outside the tooltip window will switch back to the normal hint text.

The number of tooltips using this extended hint text will be increased by continued development.

Documentation

We provide this documentation in 3 formats :

as compiled HTMLHelp file (*.chm) as standard HTML web page (*.htm) as PDF file (*.pdf)

Remarks regarding CHM help access in Windows 7

Unfortunately, Windows 7 does no longer install the HTMLHelp runtime system (to display CHM files) by default.
In this case, or whenever you encounter a problem to display CHM help file, you can download and install the latest version of HTMLHelp from Microsoft using these download links :

HTMLHelp download #1

HTMLHelp download #2

After download, please run the installer.

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