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- ColorJust release 2.0 11/91
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- Written by Chris Howe
- Dept. of CS & EE
- University of Vermont
- Burlington, VT 05405
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- *** This Program is Copyright (c) 1991 by Chris Howe. ***
- *** Version 2.0 of this program is released to the public domain. ***
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- INTRODUTION:
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- ColorJust provides an easy and fun to use interface to three of
- your VGA's color registers -- those which determine the default text
- foreground, background and border colors. By manipulating the color
- registers directly, a vast range of color adjustment is possible.
- Each color register can hold 64 levels of each of the primary colors:
- Red, Green and Blue. This gives a total number of possible combinations
- equal to 64 to the third power, or 262,144.
- This sounds like a lot, but in practice some of the combinations
- are not perceptibly different (at least not to my eyes!). However,
- you still have far greater flexibility than you did with some of the
- old color customization programs that only let you choose between the
- 16 default EGA colors.
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- USE:
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- The ColorJust interface was designed to be as self-explanatory as
- possible. When you type CJ (or whatever you rename the program to) at
- the DOS prompt, a control panel box will pop up. This is dominated by
- 9 horizontal color-coded bar graph indicators, which reflect the current
- state of the text colors.
- The color levels may be adjusted by clicking the left button of the
- mouse on the arrows to the left of the bar graphs. Holding the button
- down on an arrow will cause an auto-repeat action to occur after a short
- delay. Any changes will immediately affect the screen behind the control
- panel box.
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- A particular color combination may saved in a file. To do so,
- click on the "Save" button, and enter the file name at the prompt.
- The Save box is small, but it scrolls horizontally to accommodate
- long paths.
- A load button is not present in this version, because it seemed
- unnecessary for only three sets of numbers.
- However, files may be used to set the screen colors from the
- command line. This allows you to set your favorite colors in the
- autoexec.bat file. An example of the syntax is:
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- CJ -f coolblue.ice
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- The "About" button doesn't really do anything; don't bother
- clicking on it. (A little reverse psychology)
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- Click on the "Exit" button to return to DOS.
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- NOTES:
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- Some applications programs, especially those that use graphics
- mode, alter the color registers directly and do not restore them
- to their original values when they terminate. If this happens, you
- will have to reload your color file.
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