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- A color design program for Clipper and dBASE III
-
- BY
- James D. Moore
- SofA Technologies
- 153 Franklin Street
- Bloomfield, NJ 07003
-
- Voice- (201) 743-1744
-
-
- DISCLAIMER:
-
- This program has been tested on most types of MS DOS
- compatable machines without compatability problems,
- However the authore disclaims any warranty either expressed
- or implied for this product.. Neither will the auther assume
- any liability for damage either from direct use or as a
- consequence of the use of this product.
-
-
- Clipper is a trademark of Nantucket Corporation, dBASE, and
- dBASE III are trademark of Ashton Tate.
-
- This product is offerred on the shareware concept. If you
- use this product on a regular basis, would like the
- source code to modify to fit you own needs, or would like to
- receive information on updates please send a check or money
- order for $9.95 plus $1.75 for shipping to:
-
- James D. Moore
- SofA Technologies
- 153 Franklin Street
- Bloomfield, NJ 07003
-
-
- DESCRIPTION:
-
- Colors is a self contained program that will allow you to see
- color schemes before you decide to use them in your application.
- It creates and uses three files other than color.exe. The most
- important of which is color.txt. COLOR.txt is program code that
- can be imported directly to you current applications. The lines
- contained in that file create memory variables that can be used
- with the 'SET COLOR TO ' command.
-
-
-
-
- USEAGE:
-
- To get started the only file that is required is COLOR.exe.
- This file will, on initial startup create COLOR.dbf and
- COLOR.ntx, after your first color save it will create COLOR.txt.
-
- After the startup screen a menu will prompt you for the
- choice of colors that you will want for your menus. If you are
- a dBASE or Clipper A86 user you can ignore think of the
- designation SELECTED COLOR as ENHANCED COLOR and ignore the
- UNSELECTED COLOR altogether, as these only pertain to Clipper S87.
- To change a color, select the appropriate selection with the
- cursor keys and press ─┘. Increment of decrement the color
- with the + and - keys, and press Esc. when you are satisfied
- with your selection. In order to save a color choose the WRITE
- selection. When you make this choice you will be prompted for a
- name for the color. This is the name of the memory variable
- that will contain the selected color. Case is insignificant,
- and if you choos a duplicate name for a color you have
- previously created it will be overwritten. Once you have
- created all the colors you need just 'QUIT' the program. and it
- just gets easier from here.
-
-
- USING COLOR.txt IN YOUR APPLICATIONS:
-
- FOR SUMMER '87 USERS
-
- The file Color.txt can be incorporated directely without any
- modification. Just use your current editor to read the file
- into your application. Place the color variable were they are
- needed, and whenever you need that color use the following
- command:
-
- SET COLOR TO (<expC>)
-
- Where <expC> is the name of the color variable.
-
-
- FOR dBASE III AND OTHERS
-
- Sorry but with this release you guys have to make one slight
- modification to the txt file. To see what you have to do take a
- look at the following example.
-
- This is what the .txt file looks like:
-
- C_MAIN = " W+/B , B/W ,N , , W/B " && With a comment out here that
- FIRST = " W/N , N/W ,W , , W+/N " && would indicate colors like below
-
- WHITE/BLACK,BLACK/WHITE,WHITE, ,INT WHITE/BLACK
-
-
-
-
- All you have to do to make it useable is remove the part of the
- variable that are in brackets below:
-
- C_MAIN = " W+/B , B/W ,N [, , W/B ]" && With a comment out here that
- FIRST = " W/N , N/W ,W [, , W+/N ]" && would indicate colors like below
-
- Thats all you've got to do, and then you can use the color in
- the same maner as indicated above.
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