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- ACHART 1.2: Ascii Character Table for Windows 3.0
- Copyright 1991 by Dave Lord
-
- This program may be freely used and copied but
- may not be sold except for a nominal copying
- charge not to exceed US $10. This file should
- be included with all copies of ACHART 1.2. The
- author reserves the right to charge for future
- versions.
-
-
- Changes for version 1.2
- -----------------------
- Added Help.
-
- Added keyboard commands to operate scroll bars.
-
- Added ability to copy a character to the clipboard. Now you can
- effortlessly paste special characters into other applications.
-
- Added Character Info message box which pops up when you double
- click on a character. Shows value in Hex, Decimal, and Binary.
-
- Put the "Shades" cursor back in the About Box.
-
-
- Changes for version 1.1
- -----------------------
- Added Default Palette selection in Charset menu.
-
- Added EBCDIC character chart.
-
- Made some minor tweeks in appearance.
-
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- Description of program
- ----------------------
- ACHART is a Windows 3.0 program which displays a character
- chart in the form of a 16x16 table. The following variations may
- be displayed:
-
- IBM PC character set. Smiley faces and all.
-
- ANSI character set using names (NUL, SOH, STX, etc.) for
- the control characters.
-
- ANSI character set using (^A, ^B, ^C, etc) for the control
- characters.
-
- EBCDIC character set. Everytime I see this I can't help
- but wonder what drugs they were using that would make
- breaking up the alphabetic characters seem like a good
- idea. A really remarkable encoding that everyone should
- be familiar with.
-
- Default Palette selection in Charset menu. OK, this isn't a
- Charset. Too bad. The default palette is what you get if you
- specify colors in a Windows program using PALETTEINDEX(num)
- without first having created a logical palette. As far as I
- know there are never more than 20 entries so it may seem
- strange that I display them in a 256 entry table. Well, maybe
- someday there will be more. Besides, I already had code to
- display a 256 entry table.
-
-
- Pointless Rambling
- ------------------
- You may be wondering why I wrote this program. Practice mostly.
- I've been playing with Windows and wanted to write something that
- was at least somewhat useful. Then too, I'm always looking for
- an ascii chart and I prefer the table format over the typical
- list format because it allows me to see all the characters at
- once. That makes it easier to find the value for all those special
- characters than if I had to scroll through 256 lines.
-
- So why aren't I asking for a donation? Yeah, right.
- Like I really believe anyone is going to send me money.
- I doubt it would really be worth the trouble of
- having to mess around with a handful of $5 checks anyway.
- Face it, all I really want is the glory. That and of course
- women throwing themselves at my feet. Everybody knows that
- Windows programmers get all the girls. At least that's
- what Bill Gates keeps telling me, though the folks over at
- IBM keep whispering "OS/2, OS/2," in my ears as I sleep at night.
- So don't send me money unless you really happen to have a
- lot of it. If you want to send me glory, expensive presents,
- fabulous job offers, or if you're a woman who wants to throw
- herself at my feet, you can write to me at the following address.
- By the way, I apologize if this sounds sexist, but I'm really
- not much interested in having any of you guys throwing yourselves
- at my feet.
-
- Dave Lord
- 3307 Lincoln Av.
- San Diego, CA 92104
-
-
- Disclaimer
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- ****** NOTICE: The author provides no guarantees for this ******
- ****** program and assumes no liability for any dammages ******
- ****** resulting from its use. ******
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