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- │ Screen Editor 2.0 │
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- Drawing a text screen using the routines in the SCREEN unit
- can sometimes be tedious, with numerous calls Box, Fill,
- WriteStr, and all the others. It would sometimes be easier
- if you could get the screen image from file, or save a screen
- to file.
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- In the SCREEN unit, there are two routines, LoadScreenFromFile
- and SaveScreenToFile, designed to do this. As the names imply,
- these are used to store and retrieve the contents of the text
- screen.
-
- And to help making the images, here is the Screen Editor, which
- can be used to draw a 25x80 character color text screen.
-
- The program will start with a blank screen, with only the
- cursor showing in reverse attribute. The commands to use in
- the program are:
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- F1 - Bring up a small help window
- F2 - Save a screen image to file. The program will prompt
- for a file name.
- F3 - Load a screen image from file. The program will provide
- you with a scrollable list of files with the extension
- .SCR.
- Space - Write the currently active character at the cursor
- position with the currently active attribute.
- AltA - Change the currently active Attribute. The program
- will display a window with attributes to choose from.
- AltB - Draw a box, with the currently active Attribute and
- Box type.
- AltC - Change the currently active Character. The program
- will display a window with characters to choose from.
- AltP - Display the cursor Position in the top right corner.
- AltF1 - Fill an area of the screen with a selected Attribute
- without changing the characters underneath.
- AltF2 - Fill an area of the screen with a selected Character
- without changing the attributes underneath.
- AltF3 - Select Box type.
- AltX - Quit the program (beware, pressing Escape will only
- draw a left arrow).
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- Move the cursor with the arrow keys, or with Home, End, PgUp,
- or PgDn. If you press a text key, the program will write that
- character in the current attribute and move the cursor one
- position to the right. However, this does not work for the
- space key. To write a space, press AltC and select Space
- (character # 32) from the character chart (or to get the same
- effect, press any key that generates a null-character, like
- one of the function key F4 - F10). You can also enter the ASCII
- value for Space (32) by holding down the Alt-key and writing
- 32 on the numeric key-pad at the same time. This will also work
- for any other ASCII-defined key.
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