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- ABOUT SHOWTEXT.EXE
-
- SHOWTEXT.EXE is a program from the kit, PIECES, by Another
- Company. With PIECES, you can create just about anything for
- IBM-compatible computing. No programming skill is necessary.
- See end of this file for more information about PIECES.
-
- What It Does
-
- SHOWTEXT.EXE will display text within a graphics picture
- from any standard ASCII file in the standard font.
-
- How To Use It
-
- Type SHOWTEXT.EXE in a script file, followed by an integer
- representing the horizontal position for the left edge of the
- text, followed by an integer for the top position for the
- text, followed by an integer representing color for the text,
- followed by the name of the file containing the text you want
- to display. Each of these items is separated by a space.
- This works only in graphics modes.
-
- The left edge of the screen is 0 and the right hand edge is
- typically 639, depending on the current graphics mode. The
- top of the screen is 0, and the bottom is 199, or greater,
- depending on the graphics mode.
-
- CGA 2-color : right is 639, bottom is 199
- CGA 4-color : right is 319, bottom is 199
- Hercules : right is 719, bottom is 347
- EGA Low resolution : right is 639, bottom is 199
- EGA High resolution : right is 639, bottom is 349
- VGA 16-color : right is 639, bottom is 479
- VGA 256-color : right is 319, bottom is 199
- Super-VGA : right could be 639, 799 or 1023,
- bottom could be 239,399,479,599,767
-
- After the location numbers, type an integer representing the
- color for the title. The first 16 colors of 16 and 256 color
- modes usually correspond to the chart below, but may be
- changed by .PCX or .GIF files that take control of the color
- palette:
-
- 0 : black
- 1 : royal blue
- 2 : forest green
- 3 : cyan
- 4 : red
- 5 : purple
- 6 : brown
- 7 : light gray
- 8 : dark gray
- 9 : electric blue
- 10 : light green
- 11 : sky blue
- 12 : light red
- 13 : magenta
- 14 : yellow
- 15 : white
-
- Create a text file for SHOWTEXT.EXE to use with any word
- processing program which works in standard ASCII mode.
- Microsoft Windows comes with NOTEPAD, a good program for this
- use. The lines of text in the file must not be longer than
- what will fit on the screen (79 characters wide for most
- video modes, 39 for CGA 4-color and VGA 256-color) and the
- file cannot contain more lines than will fit on the screen,
- typically around 18 or 20.
-
- So, assuming you have created a file called INTRO.TXT, which
- contains these lines:
-
- HELLO, Welcome to the ACME Computer-
- based ART LESSONS tutorial. Press
- any key to begin an adventure in art
- creation which will never end!
-
- You could type the following in a script or batch file:
-
- PGIF.EXE ARTINTRO.GIF
- SHOWTEXT.EXE 120 9 14 INTRO.TXT
-
- and this is what would happen: First PGIF.EXE is called to
- present a .GIF image file you have created called
- ARTINTRO.GIF. Then SHOWTEXT.EXE will present the text you
- have put in the file, INTRO.TXT over your ARTINTRO.GIF
- picture. The text will start 120 pixels from the left edge of
- the screen, and 9 pixels from the top. It will be in color
- #14, which is usually yellow.
-
- Additional Information
-
- SHOWTEXT.EXE requires a graphics mode, meaning a picture must
- be on the screen before SHOWTEXT.EXE is called.
-
- About Pieces
-
- PIECES is a shareware disk containing several small programs
- that can be combined to do a variety of tasks with
- a super-professional look and feel. No programming experience
- is needed. PIECES can be expanded to incorporate your
- favorite programs as well, so it's possibilities for making
- and enhancing pictures shows, text presentations, multimedia,
- electronic catalogs, teaching materials, executable software,
- games, shareware and more are limitless!
- You can register as many or as few PIECES as you wish.
- Registered users are licensed to copy and distribute the
- PIECES along with their finished products. Unregistered
- users may copy and distribute the complete unmodified PIECES
- package, but may not use only portions of it until purchase
- of registration. Use of PIECES beyond 30 days requires
- registration.
- Most shareware PIECES programs have a "unregistered"
- notice which pops up randomly, approximately every 200 times.
- This is removed from the registered versions, and also saves
- as much as 3,000 bytes disk space per program.
-
- This software is copyrighted by Jeff Napier of Another
- Company, and distributed by Gary Smith of OEC Systems.
-
- The shareware or registered versions of PIECES may be
- purchased from Gary Smith at OEC Systems:
-
- Gary Smith
- c/o OEC Systems
- 4646 North Shallowford Road
- Atlanta, GA 30338-6304
-
- phone: 404-394-1000
- orders only: 800-444-2424
- fax: 404-394-1006
- BBS: 404-804-7889
-
- MasterCard and VISA accepted
-
- Neither Another Company nor Gary Smith/OEC Systems assume
- any responsibility for your use of this product or any
- Another Company product.
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