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- Welcome to !Resistor version 2.23 (15th April 1992)
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- !Resistor was written by James Hunter (Jelly of SJPD) and is PUBLIC DOMAIN
- which means that you can give someone else a copy of this proggy without
- been at risk of being done for copyright. Having said that you MUST keep
- this file unaltered in the !Resistor directory along with all the other
- files.
-
- Note to PD librarys - You may distribute this proggy as long as ALL the
- following file are contained with in the directory and NO OTHERS...
-
- !Boot, !Help, !HelpImage, !Run, !RunImage, !Sprites, HelpTemps, ReadMe,
- Templates.
-
-
-
- How to use !Resistor
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- This file has been diveded up into sections which each contain one of the
- functions of !Resistor. However I can only give brief details or this file
- would be too big! If you dont understand something orfind a bug contact us
- at the address in the Info window on the menu's.
-
-
-
- Opening the windows
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you click with 'menu' (middle mouse button) over the !Resistor icon the
- menu will apear. Clicking on 'Colour-Value' or 'Value-Colour' will open the
- various windows. If you go to the menu again you will see a tick next to the
- option for the window (as it is open), clicking on a ticked option will
- close the window (tick goes off). As a short cut you can click on the icon
- with 'select' (left mouse button) which will open both windows or on the
- icon with 'adjust' (right mouse button) to close both windows..
-
-
-
- Resistor Value-Colour
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Type in the value of your resistor into the 'Value of resistor' box (in
- Ohms) and then type in the tolerance (5%, 10% or 20%) into the 'Tolerance of
- resistor' box. The icons below (in the grey boxes) will automaticly update
- to show the right colours and the tolerance band (the colour that is).
- You may have noticed that this program only uses the more common 3/4 band
- resistor not the strange 5 colour band type but this may be included in a
- later version.
-
- Example
- +----------+
- Value of resistor:| 220 | ⇦Type in value of resistor in ohms
- +----------+
- +----+
- Tolerance of resistor:| 10 | % ⇦Type in tolerance of resistor in %
- +----+
-
- Colour 1: Red
- Colour 2: Red Tolerance: ⇦All this automaticaly updates to show the four
- Colour 3: Brown Silver colours (Red, Red, Brown, Silver)
-
-
-
- Resistor Colour-Value
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- This is the easy part! Simply click on the coloured bands on the resistor
- and you will notice that the writting in the boxes above will change so to
- will the coloured bands. Clicking with select goes forwards (in order)
- through the colours and clicking with adust goes backwards through them
- (the colours are shown on the right of the window so you know what comes
- next). Once you have set all the colours correctly in the window look at the
- information in the grey box at the bottom which again will automaticaly
- update every time you change a colour.
-
-
-
- !Resistor - form the very start
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Version 0.10 (15 Mar 89) Released onto the BBC micros as a cheep and
- nasty program with very few facilities.
-
- Version 1.00 (05 Jan 90) First Archimedes release (oh help!). Runs
- from the desktop otherwise few improvments
- on version 0.10.
-
- Version 1.10 (29 Jan 91) This time mouse functions were added but
- still ran in nasty Obey/Basic file window so
- looked horrible. Col-val, val-col and colour
- codes list avalible.
-
- Version 1.11 (02 Feb 91) Same as above but with OS_Confirm mouse
- request quit function.
-
- Version 2.00 (09 Feb 92) Over a year later- compleatly re-written
- fully multitasking desktop application. Nice
- windows made and tolerance functions added.
-
- Version 2.20 (26 Feb 92) Mainly as above but now shows the colours
- graphically by changing the coloured bands
- on the resistor, error system updated.
-
- Version 2.21 (04 Apr 92) As above but a few minor bugs removed, new
- info box about SJPD added. Massive resistor
- in templates removed and three icons added
- to relpace it. Nice 'Resistor' text added in
- the info box, a few more bugs corrected and
- a new error loop.
-
- Version 2.23 (15 Apr 92) As above but this time I activated the new
- error routine instead of just typing it in
- (oops!). All now works although I don't know
- how to get an error so can't test that
- function!
-
-
-
- New versions
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- At the moment I have no plans to change !Resistor in any great way. If you
- have any ideas then contact me at the address in the SJPD info box (click on
- more info on SJPD from the info box on the icon menu).
-
-
-
- Improvments comming to another version near you!
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- - Compatable with five band resistors.
-
- - More tolerance ratings as new ones are released.
-
- - Nicer icon (!Resistor icon).
-
-
-
- Copyright notice
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- !Resistor and all the files contained within are copyright James Hunter and
- are distributable as public domain but under no circumstances may !Resistor
- be sold for a profit or any part contained within be altered in any way or
- used a part of another program etc. Anyone who abuses these rules is liable
- to the laws of copyright.
-
- No responcibility for lost data misscalculations or other problems
- associated with this program can be acepted by James Hunter or SJPD.
-
- Address
- ~~~~~~~
- Incase you didn't find my address (Jelly) in the Info On SJPD window here it
- comes...
-
- James Hunter
- 3 Westfield Lane
- Wigginton
- York YO3 3FZ
- ENGLAND
-
- or you can contact Sid on...
-
- Simon Hatliff
- 4 Elmlands Grove
- Stockton Lane
- York YO3 OEE
- ENGLAND