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- Interactive Graphics Mouse Editor (IGME)
- Version 1.0
- by Lindsay Feuling
- 16 April, 1991
-
- I. Introduction
-
- IGME (pronounced "ig mee") is an interactive graphics mouse editor. It
- provides to any programmer, who uses a mouse in their applications, to
- interactively edit the mouse cursor graphics shape, and save it for later use.
- This program was written with the intention of being distributed as free-ware,
- with the disclaimer that no one shall modify the executable code in any way.
-
- II. Hardware Requirements
-
- IGME was designed to work on any PC-AT compatible system running
- MS-DOS (2.0 or later). An EGA monitor is required, as well as a mouse with
- the appropriate installed driver. IGME recognizes the left and right mouse
- buttons, for those of you who only have two mouse buttons.
-
- III. Usage
-
- Once IGME is executed, the graphics are drawn with several options
- available. These options are to be selected by moving the mouse pointer to
- the option box and pressing the left mouse button. A description of the
- options follows:
-
- Quit - Exit IGME. This may also be done by pressing the Esc key,
- which is the only keyboard option recognized.
-
- Output - Generate currently edited mouse cursor into a C syntax array
- to output file. The output file may be specified by the
- "/o <file>" command line option. The default filename is
- called "IGME.COD".
-
- Set - Set mouse cursor to the currently edited mouse screen and
- cursor mask arrays with hot spot. The user may then move the
- mouse around as before, but the only option that will be
- possible to select is the "Unset" option.
-
- Unset - Unset mouse of currently edited mouse screen and cursor mask
- array values, ie. goes back to normal pointer.
-
- Clear - Clear the mouse screen and cursor mask array values.
- NOTE: The "Set" option will not be implemented when all of
- the cursor mask array values are cleared.
-
- Default - Set mouse screen and cursor mask array values to the
- mouse driver default setting.
-
- Command line options (as seen by the command "IGME /h"):
- /h show help message
- /i <file> initialize mouse cursor from <file>
- /o <file> output written to <file>
-
- IV. Miscellaneous
-
- This program was written using the Microsoft QuickC Compiler (version
- 2.?) on an IBM PC-AT with a Logitech Mouse. The mouse calls are standard, so
- any mouse will work, and the graphics mode is set to 640x350x16 (EGA) for now
- (a future version will support any graphics mode).
-
- Please send any suggestions/comments to me at this email address:
-
- INTERNET: feuling%astroatc.uucp@cs.wisc.edu
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