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- ; Copr. 1992 by Barn Owl Software
- ; "Lecture" program for Windows 3.x
-
- ; SEE BELOW if you want to run an automated slide show.
-
- ; Initialize this lecture.
- MINVERSION 102
- MINVERSION WINDOWS 300
- BEEP SHOW
- ZOOM
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- COMMENT
- MESSAGE This first commented-out message should never appear on the screen
- unless the user has a _DEFAULT.LEC file with an IGNORE COMMENT command.
- UNCOMMENT
-
- IGNORE MESSAGE
- MESSAGE This second commented-out message should never appear on the screen.
- ACCEPT MESSAGE
-
- ; Uncomment the next two lines for an automated slide show.
- ; AUTOSHOW 5
- ; IGNORE MESSAGE ZOOM ICONIZE EXECUTE
-
- RUNFILE TITLSLID.LEC
-
- MASTERTITLE Lecture for Windows
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- TITLE Who can use Lecture?
- POINT Anyone who gives on-call presentations
- SUBPOINT College professors
- SUBPOINT Toastmaster speakers
- SUBPOINT Business professionals
- POINT Anyone who gives "volatile" presentations
- SUBPOINT Election day exit poll updates
- SUBPOINT Middle East day-to-day conflict
- SHOW
-
- TITLE Presentations
- SUBTITLE Creating lecture files
- POINT Program uses NotePad files
- POINT Type a lecture and run it!
- POINT Next slide shows an example...
- SHOW
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- TITLE
- POINT MASTERTITLE Your slide presentation
- POINT TITLE My slide's title
- POINT SUBTITLE A great slide fer shure!
- POINT POINT This is my first point
- POINT SUBPOINT And this is my first subpoint
- POINT POINT This is my second point
- POINT SHOW
- SHOW
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- MESSAGETITLE Sample slide(s)
- MESSAGE The next slide shows what the code on this screen would generate.
- ; Show what the previous example would look like
- MASTERTITLE Your slide presentation
- TITLE My slide's title
- SUBTITLE A great slide fer shure!
- POINT This is my first point
- SUBPOINT And this is my first subpoint
- POINT This is my second point
- SHOW
- MASTERTITLE Lecture for Windows
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- TITLE Presentations
- SUBTITLE Basics of a lecture
- POINT Lectures contain one or more slides
- SUBPOINT Slides contain zero or more points
- SUBSUBPOINT Points have zero or more subpoints
- POINT Lectures can also:
- SUBPOINT Switch colors/fonts/sizes
- SUBPOINT Display messages
- SUBPOINT Launch other programs
- SHOW
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- TITLE Lecture slides
- SUBTITLE Basics of a slide
- POINT Master title (upper right corner)
- POINT Slide title (top center, underlined)
- POINT Slide subtitle (just below title)
- POINT Up to 32 points/subpoints per slide
- SUBPOINT Subpoints...
- SUBSUBPOINT can appear...
- SUBSUBSUBPOINT up to three levels deep
- SHOW
-
- MESSAGE The next set of slides identify each visible field.
- ; Show them a sample slide.
- MASTERTITLE Master title
- TITLE Slide title
- SUBTITLE Slide subtitle
- POINT Presentation point #1
- POINT Presentation point #2
- POINT Presentation point #3
- POINT Presentation point #4
- POINT Presentation point #5
- POINT Presentation point #6
- POINT Presentation point #7
- SHOW
-
- MESSAGE You can reduce the total number of points visible for a single screen, like so...
- TOTALPOINTS 3
- SUBTITLE Slide subtitle
- POINT Presentation point #1
- POINT Presentation point #2
- POINT Presentation point #3
- SHOW
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- MESSAGE You can increase the total number of points visible for a single screen, like so...
- TOTALPOINTS 32
- SUBTITLE Slide subtitle
- POINT Presentation point #1
- POINT Presentation point #2
- POINT Presentation point #3
- POINT Presentation point #4
- POINT Presentation point #5
- POINT Presentation point #6
- POINT Presentation point #7
- POINT Presentation point #8
- POINT Presentation point #9
- POINT Presentation point #10
- POINT Presentation point #11
- POINT Presentation point #12
- POINT Presentation point #13
- POINT Presentation point #14
- POINT Presentation point #15
- POINT Presentation point #16
- POINT Presentation point #17
- POINT Presentation point #18
- POINT Presentation point #19
- POINT Presentation point #20
- POINT Presentation point #21
- POINT Presentation point #22
- POINT Presentation point #23
- POINT Presentation point #24
- POINT Presentation point #25
- POINT Presentation point #26
- POINT Presentation point #27
- POINT Presentation point #28
- POINT Presentation point #29
- POINT Presentation point #30
- POINT Presentation point #31
- POINT Presentation point #32
- SHOW
- TOTALPOINTS 7
- MASTERTITLE Lecture for Windows
-
- TITLE Flipping slides
- POINT Manually go to next slide
- SUBPOINT Use right mouse button
- SUBPOINT Press spacebar or ENTER or Ctrl+N
- SUBPOINT Choose "Slide/Next" from menu
- POINT Automatically go to next slide
- SUBPOINT Use "AUTOSHOW nn" for entire lecture
- SUBPOINT Use "SHOW nn" for individual slides
- SHOW
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- TITLE Colors and Fonts
- SUBTITLE Changing colors
- POINT You can change colors, like so...
- SHOWANDSAVE 2
- COLORBACKGROUND 96,96,96
- COLORMASTERTITLE 255,0,0
- COLORTITLE 0,255,0
- COLORSUBTITLE 0,0,0
- COLORPOINT 0,0,255
- SHOWANDSAVE 4
- COLORBACKGROUND Default
- COLORMASTERTITLE Blue
- COLORTITLE Red
- COLORSUBTITLE Red
- COLORPOINT Black
- SHOW
-
- SUBTITLE Changing fonts
- POINT You can change fonts, like so...
- SHOWANDSAVE 2
- FONTMASTERTITLE Courier New
- FONTTITLE Courier New
- FONTSUBTITLE Courier New
- FONTPOINT Courier New
- SHOWANDSAVE 4
- FONTMASTERTITLE Arial
- FONTTITLE Times
- FONTSUBTITLE Arial
- FONTPOINT Arial
- SHOW
-
- TITLE Special effects
- SUBTITLE "ShowAndSave" command
- SHOWANDSAVE 2
- POINT Lets you show a point, then wait...
- SHOWANDSAVE 2
- POINT Then show another point, and wait...
- SHOWANDSAVE 2
- POINT Resulting in a timed-display slide
- SHOW
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- SUBTITLE Zoom and Iconize
- POINT Force window to normal size, like so...
- SHOWANDSAVE 3
- UNZOOM
- WAIT 3
- SAMEPOINT Or force it to full screen, like so...
- SHOWANDSAVE 3
- ZOOM
- WAIT 3
- SAMEPOINT Or reduce it to an icon, like so...
- SHOWANDSAVE 3
- ICONIZE
- WAIT 3
- UNICONIZE
- WAIT 1
- ZOOM
- SAMEPOINT And then return to a full screen!
- SHOW
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- TITLE Messages
- SUBTITLE Getting the word out
- POINT Message appears over the slide
- POINT Can have its own special title
- SHOW
- MESSAGETITLE Special notice for Denise
- MESSAGE Will you marry me? (Jeff, show her the ring.) Love, Rob
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- TITLE Execute command
- SUBTITLE Launching other programs
- POINT Run a program as part of script
- SUBPOINT Accepts .BAT and .PIF files too
- POINT Program runs in its own window
- SHOW
- MESSAGETITLE Sample program execution
- MESSAGE The next command launches Microsoft PaintBrush (assuming it resides in the \WINDOWS directory as PBRUSH.EXE)...
- EXECUTE \WINDOWS\PBRUSH.EXE
- WAIT 5
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- TITLE Summary
- POINT Text-based presentation software
- POINT Uses simple files generated by NotePad
- POINT Only $29.00 with a 30-day return guarantee
- POINT Call 800-242-4775 and order a copy!
- SUBPOINT (Canada/overseas, call 713-524-6394)
- SUBPOINT (For FAX orders, call 713-524-6398)
- SHOW
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- TITLE Runtime licenses
- SUBTITLE (Promote yourself with Lecture)
- POINT Want to distribute your own lecture files?
- POINT Only $50 more for a Lecture runtime license
- SUBPOINT lets you include runtime .EXE with files
- SUBPOINT a royalty-free license (of course)
- POINT Call 618-632-7345 for full details
- SHOW
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- TITLE The End
- SHOW 1
- MESSAGETITLE Please applaud
- MESSAGE Th-th-that's all, folks!
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