Text Transmogrifier - coded by Pan of Anthrox in May/June 1996.
This program is Hit Ware. Please Hit my web site if you use it:
http://www.anthrox.com
No purchase or registration necessary so at least visit my web site and
stop mooching :) I want my hit counter going up Up UP!
Email me at paninaro@tnp.com
Installation:
Click on the Setup icon. It'll guide you along!
Yes this program is written in Visual Basic 4.0 for 32 bit Windows only!
Ok here we go. What the heck is a transmogrifier? I didn't know either.
What do I know?! But I'm a big fan of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip
and Calvin has many weird "toys". Out of the many artifacts such as
dinosaurs, cars, wagon, his tiger doll Hobbes, is a cardboard box.
With his imagination (and some engineering I suppose) he can step into
the box and turn into something else, such as a bug, a dinosaur or whatever.
Simply put, to TRANSMOGRIFY is to change an appearance into something
strange, weird, or grotesque.
Perfect! What a name for a program!
So what does Text Transmogrifier do? It'll change the appearance of plain
text into colored text, capitalized letters, and make first letters larger.
This is a tool for Web Page Designing. It will allow you to enter text, select colors, and choose your 3 options. You can then save the transmogrified text to a file or to the clipboard.
Please examine the file "atx.htm" with an HTML 3.0 browser to see some of the effects you can create!
To use the program is a cinch! First, though, you need to be an HTML
coder and you should write code with a text editor. I use Windows 95 and
Wordpad to edit my text. I have use of long filenames and can edit large ascii files. If you don't know how to write HTML code then pick up a book on
it. It's NOT hard at all! It's not even real programming! :) :)
After you double click on the Text Transmogrifier icon the program will
load up. You'll see boxes with red shades, Red, Green, and Blue bar sliders,
3 options, and text box on the bottom.
What to do? Well lets say you want to edit the colors you would like to use.
Click on the color box you want to edit. Now change the Red, Green, Blue
sliders to change the color. Select a different color box and change it's color to something else. Now click on the SPREAD button, then click on
the original color box you modified. The colors between the two boxes will
fade evenly into each other.
If you need to copy a color from one box to another you just need to use the COPY button.
First click on the color you want to copy. Then click on the COPY button. Now click on the destination. The color will be copied.
END? What's End? There are 64 color boxes, but what if you only want to use 15? You start from the Top Left where it says S. This is your Starting Point. All colors must start from there. The program will colorize the text with colors beginning with the Starting Point color to the Ending Point color you specify. To select the last color of your palette click on the END button and click on the last color in your palette. An E will appear in that color box. This signifies that it is the Ending Point color.
What are my options in Text Transmogrifier?
You can select Colorize, CAPS LOCK ON, First Letter Larger.
Colorize will add the HTML tag <font color="xxxxxx"> to every letter that you've typed in the text box. The colors come from the palette you created
in the color boxes.
CAPS LOCK ON will just make every letter in CAPITALS. (This is best used with First Letter Larger)
First Letter Larger uses the HTML tags <font size=+1> and <font size=-1>
to make the first letter of each word or first character of each group larger than the rest. This creates a nice uniform text when used with the
CAPS LOCK ON option. Without the CAPS LOCK ON option your text will look
wacky since lowercase letters will appear larger than the rest of the word.
When using the First Letter Larger option you must use the HTML tag
<basefont size = #> where # is you put a number for the font size.
An example HTML code:
<basefont size = 4>
<fontsize=+1>H<fontsize=-1>i!
The output of the above code would appear as Hi! with the letter "H" being bigger than the characters "i!". You can change the size of the entire text by change the value in the tag <basefont size = #>. The larger the number the larger the size.
Ok so how do I manage to get any text into my HTML code?
After you selected your options and edited your colors you can write
the text you want transmogrified in the text box at the bottom.
You may use the CTRL-V option to paste text into the box if you want.
When you're done typing your text go to the File menu and select either
Save To File or Save To Clipboard.
I use Save To Clipboard and paste the text from the clipboard right into my HTML code in Wordpad. If I don't like the output that I see in my browser I can just delete the text from Wordpad and retry it with different colors and options then resave it to the Clipboard.
Please visit the Help menu in the program for online help and tips!
You can mail me at paninaro@tnp.com
If you use this program then you must visit my web site at
http://www.anthrox.com
That's your only requirement (don't worry, I just want my hit counter to go up!)
