This part of the book introduces you to the fundamentals of PWB. Chapter 2, “Quick Start,” shows you how to use the PWB editor and build a simple single-module program from PWB. Chapter 3, “Managing Multimodule Programs,” expands upon the information you learned in Chapter 2. It teaches you how to build a more complicated program that consists of several modules. You should be able to work through these two chapters in less than three hours.
As you work through these chapters, you may want to refer to Chapter 4, “User Interface Details,” which explains options for starting PWB, briefly describes all of the menu commands, and summarizes how menus and dialog boxes work. The user interface information is presented in one chapter for easy access.
Chapter 5, “Advanced PWB Techniques,” shows how to use the PWB search facilities (including searching with regular expressions), how to use the Source Browser, how to execute functions and macros, and how to write PWB macros.
Chapter 6, “Customizing PWB,” describes how to redefine key assignments, change PWB settings, add commands to the PWB menu, and use the TOOLS.INI initialization file to store startup and configuration information for PWB.
Chapter 7, “PWB Reference,” contains an alphabetical reference to PWB menus, keys, functions, predefined macros, and switches. It contains the essential information you need to know to take the greatest advantage of PWB's richly customizable environment.
Chapters 4 and 5 are not as tutorial as Chapters 2 and 3. Chapters 6 and 7 describe advanced features that you probably don't need to learn right away. You may want to come back to these chapters after you are comfortable with PWB.