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CONGRATULATIONS! You are now part of the exciting world of Multi- media computing. You now have the tools and power of this new medium. It is more flexible than video, more portable than film, more effective than print, and more fun than all of them combined. This new medium lets you put your imagination directly to work. Let's get started. REQUIREMENTS A WORD ABOUT MEMORY AND SUPER VGA If you have a Super VGA board and want to use the high resolution modes of your board, you can use the memory above the standard 640K in your computer, if you have an EMS driver or HIMEM.SYS. You can also use the Super VGA modes if you have only convention- al memory, but you do need 500K of free space on your hard drive. The TEMPRA SHOW system senses the existence of EMS. If it exists, then it is used. If it does not exist, then your hard drive is used for temporary information storage. Be sure to set the TMP environmental variable to insure that the TMP file goes where you want it. The kind of extra memory used by the this software is Expanded Memory. To use this you need a set of memory chips in your PC and a software driver to run those chips. This software driver is called a 4.0 LIM Spec EMS driver. That is the Lotus Intel Microsoft Specification version 4.0. You should get this software at the same place you buy the chips for your computer. If you do NOT have this extra memory, your shows using Super VGA resolutions run slowly. TALK TO YOUR COMPUTER DEALER OR RESIDENT EXPERT ABOUT THIS. SOFTWARE - TEXT TEMPRA SHOW allows you to display Text files in your Sequences. You can invoke your text editor from TEMPRA SHOW by pressing [F2], if you have SET your editor environmental variable. To do this you must do this: run the following line before entering TEMPRA SHOW: SET EDITOR=___. Enter your editor's name where we've put ___. For example SET EDITOR=EDIT. USE OF A TEXT EDITOR (WORD PROCESSOR) To create a Text file, you must use a text editor. Your word processor is a text editor. Operate it in non-document (ASCII) mode. The format of the text you make is not modified by TEMPRA SHOW. Save the files with the *.TXT suffix into the directory you have as the TEMPRA Text directory. This way the text files can be selected in the File field while you are making a Text Event. If you have no other, you we have included TEXTEDIT, a small word processor you can use to make your text files. DUPLICATION OF THE SHOW PROGRAM We grant you the license to use and copy TSHOWRUN only from the PC you used to create the sequence, and as long as you make no effort to modify the TSHOWRUN program or to hide our copyright notice. Duplication of the TSHOWRUN program by professional duplication services is strictly forbidden without express written permission. COMPATIBILITY TEMPRA SHOW should run with any system compatible with the IBM VGA, EGA, or CGA board. If you decide to use one of the optional audio boards, be sure the board you choose is compatible with the PC you are using. SET THE ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES Set the environment for TEMPRA SHOW to run in, and get the most from your system's resources. You must be sure to set these variables before you start TEMPRA SHOW. Users add the Set commands to a batch file they use to start TEMPRA SHOW. ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES The DOS SET command is used to customize the com- puter's working environment. The /E entry in your DOS Shell command allows you to have many entries in your Environment. (Please refer to a DOS manual for details on the SHELL Command.) The program that is running refers to the environment to check for conditions that affect the operation of the program. The TEMPRA SHOW system checks the following environ- mental variables: BEEP (SET BEEP = 100 100) determines the frequency and duration of the beep you hear if you ever make a selection the system cannot accept. If you want to set this, and it is optional, you MUST have both entries. SET BEEP=100 100 sets the beep at frequen- cy 100 for 100 thousandths of a second. If you only set one number after BEEP the system will hang up. BLAST_BUF (SET BLAST_BUF = ##) Valid entries are between 2 and 32, and signify the size of the buffer in Kilo- bytes. When using the Sound Blaster audio card you need to create an area in memory (buffer) for the audio to load into from the hard drive. This area is the Blast_Buf. The size of this area determines how often TEMPRA SHOW has to go to disk to load in more sound. A larger Blast_buf results in fewer loads and better performance. If you have a large Blast_Buf, you may not have room in memory for certain video modes. Also, the system uses the disk memory manager. This slows down execution. Be careful to strike a good balance between sound loading and screen size. EDITOR (SET EDITOR = Editor Name) determines what pro- gram is executed when you select Text Editor from the Main Menu, or WP from the GUI. The format for this is: SET EDITOR=EDIT to set the text editor to DOS EDIT. If the editor is not set, you will have access to the editor we included with TEMPRA SHOW. TMP (SET TMP= Drive\Directory name) determines in which directory on your disk memory resident information is stored when you go to the SHELL. This TMP file is also where the screen information is saved for the Super VGA modes. This has to be stored in a file with a unique file name that TEMPRA SHOW makes and saves temporarily on the hard disk when you have only 640K in the PC. To put this in the TEMPRA SHOW directory: SET TMP=C:\TSHOW. VVLINES (SET VVLINES=##) determines how many lines are in the TEMPRA SHOW Sequence. Valid numbers are between 50 and 500. We give you the ability to set the number of lines so you can adjust TEMPRA SHOW to suit your comput- er's memory. Be careful that you always use the same number when setting this and running your Sequences. If the numbers of lines in a sequence is more than the number of lines allowed with this setting, the extra lines are cut off at the end of the Sequence. VVMODE (SET VVMODE=Mode) determines the starting graphics mode for TEMPRA SHOW. The format for this is: SET VVMODE=VGA_13 to set the 320x200 256 color graphics mode. TEMPRA SHOW selects a mode for you if you do not set one. Set the start up video mode with "SET VVMODE= your mode". [ENTER]. You can choose "your mode" from the entry under Adapter on the following list: Adapter pixel colors resolution CGA_04 320x200 4 CGA_05 640x200 2 EGA_0D 320x200 16 EGA_0E 640x200 16 EGA_0F 640x350 2 EGA_10 640x350 16 VGA_11 640x480 2 VGA_12 640x480 16 VGA_13 320x200 256 SGA_29 800x600 16 SGA_2D 640x350 256 SGA_2E 640x480 256 SGA_30 800x600 256 SGA_58 800x600 16 SGA_59 800x600 2 SGA_5E 640x400 256 SGA_5F 640x480 256 SGA_62 800x600 16 SGA_66 640x400 256 SGA_67 640x480 256 SGA_69 800x600 256 ATI_54 800x600 16 ATI_61 640x400 256 ATI_62 648x480 256 ATI_63 800x600 256 EVX_15 512x480 256 EVX_14 640x400 256 EVX_30 640x480 256 EVX_02 800x600 2 EVX_31 800x600 256 TRI_5C 640x400 256 TRI_5D 640x480 256 TRI_5E 800x600 256 TL4_13 320X200 32768 TL4_2D 640X350 32768 TL4_2F 640X400 32768 TL4_2E 640X480 32768 TL4_30 800X600 32768 VESA100 640x400 256 VESA101 640X480 256 VESA102 800X600 16 VESA103 800X600 256 VESA104 1024X768 16 VESA105 1024x768 256 SGA_37 1024x768 16 SGA_38 1024x768 256 SGA = Extended VGA (Beyond IBM Standard) _## = mode number. ATI = Extended VGA modes found on the ATI Wonder- board EVX = Extended VGA modes found on the Everex board. TRI = Extended VGA modes found on the boards made with Trident Chips. TL4 = Extended VGA modes found on 16 bit VGA boards with Tseng Labs 4000 chips and Sierra HiColor DACs VESA = VESA standard modes available when the VESA driver is loaded. VVMTBAUD (SET VVMTBAUD=####) Valid numbers are 9600 and 4800. These numbers set the baud rate for the MicroTouch Touch Screen's serial communications. TSPAINT (SET TSPAINT=Program name) determines what Paint program is executed when you select the "Paint" item on the Main Menu, and what kinds of files are used as Sprites. The format for this is TSPAINT=TEMPRA. If you do not set this, you are not be able to run anything from the "Paint" selection on your Main Menu. If you enter the name of a batch file in this Environmental variable line, then that batch file is executed when you make the "Paint" selection from the Main Menu. VVSPRITE_BUF (SET VVSPRITE_BUF=#####) Valid numbers are between 2048 and 64,000. If you have EMS you do not need to bother with this. This environmental variable sets the size of the memory area for Sprites, or picture clips. You can vary this to accommodate memory constraints in your PC. A large VVSprite_Buf allows you to show large image clips, but this large buffer may preclude you from using a number of VGA modes in conventional memory. Adjust your VVSprite_Buf variable before you start TEMPRA SHOW. You may want to add all the lines for the Environ- mental Variables to your Autoexec.bat so they are SET when you start up your computer. Once this is done, go to your TEMPRA SHOW directory. STARTING TEMPRA SHOW At the C: prompt start TEMPRA SHOW by typing TSHOW and then press [ENTER]. Next you see the Welcoming Screen. You can load in a sequence at start up time by typing "TSHOW {Sequence name}" on the DOS command line then pressing [ENTER]. You can start TEMPRA SHOW with a number of options: /B for BIOS. To speed up screen display of the Workform we do not use BIOS. If there is a problem with going around BIOS in your system, start TEMPRA SHOW with the /B option and TEMPRA SHOW uses BIOS for text display in the 80 column mode. /C for control C [^C] When you run the run-time program you can add this to the command line to allow the interruption of the Sequence with [Ctrl- C]. /H or /? to display these flags. If you want a little help with what options are available at start up, use this option. /L for file name of the error log file. If you enter nothing here the file is called TSHOW.ERR. For example: TSHOW THIS -L THAT.ERR puts the errors found in running THIS.SEQ into the file THAT.ERR /S to disable sound, even though you may have it installed. If you have installed sound, but you do not want it to play, start with this option. It also works with the SHOW program. /T to calibrate the touch screen. When this option is used the calibration occurs before TEMPRA SHOW runs. The calibration parameters are saved in a file called TOUCH.CFG /V for verbose. If you are having trouble running TEMPRA SHOW in your computer, start the program with this option. Then you see initialization information displayed on the screen as it occurs in the comput- er. This is the same information you can see in the TSHOW.ERR file. /W for Workform. To start TEMPRA SHOW using the Workform, you can do this by entering this command line parameter while starting TEMPRA SHOW. If you do not use this, TEMPRA SHOW starts with the GUI. Start: TSHOW {options} {Sequence name}. USER INTERFACE - GRAPHIC The author should use a mouse to get the most satisfying results with the new GUI. CONTROLS Using the top menu bar, you can load and save se- quences, run a paint program, run a word processor (text editor), get help, or switch over to the Workform for full screen editing of the script. With the icons the author can make a new Event, or edit an old one, run an Event, run a series of Events, insert an Event, or delete an Event. There is also a scroll control that is used to move through the script in either direction. FIELDS In addition to the icons and the top menu bar the GUI also shows the content of the Event in fields. These fields are within the squares and the content of these fields is made as you create the Event. LABEL A Label is a name of your choosing that is used to identify a line. Labels are used as targets for branches, so every Event line that you are going to be Branching to MUST have a label. TYPE Type identifies the kind of Event that occurs when the line is executed. As we've said, the Events are Screen, Sprite, Title, Text, BColor, Chain, etc. FILE File contains the name of the files that the Events use. METHOD Method is the way the Event performs its work. SP/DP contains two options: SPEED controls the velocity at which certain Events appear. DISPLAY refers to what happens to an Event in relation to Events that follow. It may be Perma- nent, Temporary or Erase after Displaying. In Text Events Display is used to set the first line of text to display from your chosen file. PARAMETERS contains information governing place- ment, color, etc., used by many Events. WAIT FOR designates whether or not the computer should wait before proceeding to the next Event. You can wait for any key-press, a timeout, or not at all. If you decide not to wait there is no entry on the form because this is the default. NEXT is a Label name of your choosing that tells the computer which Label to look for to use as the NEXT Event. If there is no entry, execution de- faults to the following line. We call it "Next" because the entry you place inside indicates the Next line to be executed. USER INTERFACE - TEXT We have kept the text based interface because we have found that many people like to see more than one Event at a time. The text interface also allows users to use editing features that span individual lines. These features include search and replace, the block operations, and keyboard editing of many lines, among others. Select the WORK button to move to the text interface. OPERATING TEMPRA SHOW - TEXT INTERFACE When you Create a New Sequence, start with the highlight cursor in the left-most column and press [Enter]. TEMPRA SHOW automatically prompts you across your Workform as you make choices from the menus. As you select options from "pop-up" menus and directories that are superimposed on the screen, your selections are then transferred to specific Fields on the Workform. When you wish to Edit a Sequence, position your cursor in the field you wish, and type to change the information. If you prefer you can press Enter to start the prompting for the entry. Help can be called any time [F1] is present on the status line. Topics can be selected via the Help Menu. Help is also available as an option from many menus. POWER USER HINTS There are many people who find that always choosing from menus slows the process down, and these power users can utilize the advanced features of TEMPRA SHOW. You can access the control menus from the Workform without going through the menu system with [Ctrl] key features. You can mark a column or set of columns to be copied or moved. You can edit entries in character mode or with the mouse in field mode. STARTING ON THE WORKFORM Type TSHOW followed by the /W option to start on the Workform. Press [ENTER] at the copyright screen, and the Workform fills the screen. Note the status line at the bottom of your Workform. The word "Line:" tells you on what line you're working. The word "Sequence:" is followed by "untitled". When you Name a Sequence, the name appears next to the "Sequence:". You can see [F1] - Help and [F5] - Preview Line. This means that by pressing Function Key 1 you can get help from the on-line help system. By pressing Function Key 5 you can Preview the line on which your cursor sits. When the Workform is active, there is a large cursor that fills a whole field on the form. This large cursor is the field cursor, because it fills a whole field. Many other keys are also active, please check the your manuals. ** USER NOTE ** If you don't like the colors you see on the Work- form you can change them with CONFIGURE option from the Main Menu. You can run CONFIGTS from DOS, or if you like, you can use a word processor in non-docu- ment mode. Look at the highlight bar on the Main Menu. When you want to make a selection from this or any menu, use the Up and Down Arrows to highlight the option of your choice, then press [ENTER]. If you are using a mouse, move the mouse so the bar goes up and down, and press the LEFT mouse button to enter your choice. Remember that [Esc] is always active. If something appears that you don't want to deal with press [Esc]. With this you are returned to the previous menu. If you were on an uncompleted task it is returned to its previous state. For mouse users, the RIGHT button functions as the [Esc] key. KEYS While in Create/Edit mode the listed keys are used to move the cursor. If you are in the Field mode the cursor fills the field, or in Character mode with the cursor is size of one character. Home - Beginning of line End - End of line Arrow Left - Move left Right - Move right Up - Move up Dn - Move down PgUp - Go up a page PgDn - Go down a page Ctrl-PgUp - Go to top of form Ctrl-PgDn - Go to bottom of form Ctrl-Arrow Right Word or field right (goes to character editing mode) Ctrl-Arrow Left - Word or field left (goes to char ter editing mode) Esc - Escape current choice. Enter - Enter current choice. EDITING KEYS: These special keys have the following functions when you are Editing or Creating Sequences. F1 - Help F2 - Invoke your editor F3 - Edit field F4 - Search/Replace F5 - Preview line F6 - Preview from line F7 - Mark block begin F8 - Mark block end Alt-D - Delete block Alt-C - Copy block Alt-E - Enter file name in Directory menu Alt-G - Go to line by line number Alt-H - Hide Help info Alt-I - Information on system state Alt-K - Kill text to right of character cursor Alt-L - Load block, Sequence Alt-M - Move block Alt-S - Sort Directory (when directory shows) Alt-S - Save block (when cursor shows) Alt-T - Toggle touch screen & mouse button Alt-U - Unmark block Alt-X - Toggle to and from Output Screen BkSp - Delete field * Ctrl-BkSp - Blank line Del - Delete line *** Enter - Accept Esc - Exit, Back out Ins - Insert line** * Locate your cursor in the field, BkSp erases the field ** Insert adds a line at the cursor *** Delete removes the line at the cursor CONTROL KEYS - These Control features are available while you are using the Workform. They give you instant access to the menus that control the hard- ware and software system. Ctrl-A - Audio Menu Ctrl-D - Disk/Print Menu Ctrl-G - Toggle between GUI and Workform Ctrl-L - Load a Sequence Ctrl-N - Start New Sequence Ctrl-P - Path Menu Ctrl-Q - Quit Ctrl-S - Save a Sequence Ctrl-Z - DOS Shell HOT KEYS Keys that users can operate while the sequence is running: F1 - Immediate branch to any line named [F1] F9 - Back Up F10 - Skip Ahead HELP KEYS Keys that operate the Help file from the text interface: F1 - Help Index PgUp - Read previous page PgDn - Read next page Up - Move up Dn - Move down Esc - Escape from the Help system Alt-H - Hide Help THE FILE NAMES We have told you that Screen, Sprite, Text, and Chain Events in your Sequence use files stored on the hard drive. Prior to a typical work session with TEMPRA SHOW you should have made: Screens and Sprites with your Paint program, Text files with a text editor. Other sequences to be Chained to are created in TEMPRA SHOW. When you create or edit a Sequence, you'll want to be able to select any of these files to add to it. Each of the following MUST HAVE these specific suffixes in order for TEMPRA SHOW to recognize them. They must be in the correct directory. Audio -- .VOC, .SPC, .AUD,... Audio Dir Blocks -- .VBK In TSHOW Directory KST Fonts -- .KST In Font Directory Movies -- *.FLI, *.FLC In Screen Dir Music -- .MUS In Audio Directory Screens -- .PCX In Screen Dir Sequences -- .SEQ In Sequence Dir Sprite -- .PCC In Sprite Dir Text -- .TXT In Text Directory Text to Speech - .TXT In Audio Directory VV Fonts -- .DAT In Font Directory Messages - Message.VV In TSHOW Directory Message.VV is a file that gives you error messages while you run the program. If things are not work- ing this tells you where the problem lies. When you get errors, TEMPRA SHOW creates a file for your inspection called TSHOW.ERR. GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE The author should use a mouse to get the most satisfying results with the GUI. This GUI removes the barrier between author and output that is inher- ent in systems which make the author focus on learn- ing a scripting language. This is accomplished by presenting the author with menus as Events are created. After the Event is created it happens. The author makes the next Event and the next and so on. The Events they are recorded and this record becomes the script. In addition to being a what-you- see-is-what-you-get system, this is a what-you-do-is-what-you-see system. CONTROLS Using the top menu bar the author can load and save Sequences, run a paint program, run a word processor (text editor), get help, or switch over to the Workform for full screen editing of the script. With the icons the author can make a new Event, or edit an old one, run an Event, run a series of Events, insert an Event, or delete an Event. There is also a scroll control that is used to move through the script in either direction. FIELDS In addition to the icons and the top menu bar, the GUI also shows the content of the Event in fields. These fields are displayed in the Event Controller at Since TEMPRA SHOW automatically advances to the next Event, you need to back up to see the content of the fields for the Event you just made. Back up with the left pointing arrow on the scroll bar. RECOMMENDED APPROACH MAKING NEW EVENTS When you start TEMPRA SHOW using the GUI to make a Sequence all the fields are blank. Select the Label or Type display box and you are guided at each step of the way to builds the Event. By selecting the Label or Type display box, you begin to make an Event whenever you see that all the fields are empty. When you make an Event this way the Event is automatically executed for you after you are finished making it. EDITING EXISTING EVENTS When you see information in the field boxes under the icon bar, you know that as you make changes you are editing. While editing you change ONLY what you need to change. This saves you from stepping through all the menus you needed while creating the Event. You can edit by clicking on one of the fields. If you click on a field you are presented with an appropriate menu for the choices you have according to the contents of the other fields. If you really want to change the whole Event, clear the line by using the delete icon, then the insert icon. An alternative method for editing the fields is to position the cursor over the field you what to change, and then pressing the [F3] key to use the keyboard to enter information directly into the field. AUTOMATIC EXECUTION You notice that Events are automatically executed after you Create them. This is the only time this happens. Automatic execution does NOT occur when you are editing an Event, so when you edit an Event you must press the Run Event icon to run it and see the results of what you have done. KEYBOARD INPUT Position the cursor over a field you want to edit and start typing. The standard keyboard features are operational while you are in the GUI. Check the KEYS section for more information. POSITION CONTROL You can move the Event Controller down the screen to reveal more of the output by clicking on the Menu Size button. This hides some of the field informa- tion, but all the features work. You will find the position that is best for your working style. SCROLL BAR Point to and click on the arrows on either end of the scroll bar to move through the Sequence. The right arrow advances to the end of the Sequence, the left arrow takes you closer to the start of the Sequence. If you position the cursor over the indicator area and click, you are immediately taken to that place in the Sequence. TEXT USER INTERFACE Power users will like the text based interface because we have found that many people like to see more than one Event at a time. The text interface also allows users to use editing features that span individual lines. These features include search and replace, the block operations, and keyboard editing of many lines, among others. THE MAIN MENU AND CONTROL MENUS The Main menu and the sub-menus from the Main menu appear on the left side of the screen when you are on the Workform and press [Esc]. These menus are used to control TEMPRA SHOW's access to your files, to control the recording of audio, to control disk activities, to control the configuration, and to control access to DOS and running DOS programs like your word processor and paint program. OPERATING THE WORKFORM When you Create a New Sequence, start with the highlight cursor in the left-most column and press [Enter]. TEMPRA SHOW automatically prompts you across your Workform as you make choices from the menus. As you select options from "pop-up" menus and directories that are superimposed on the screen, your selections are then transferred to specific Fields on the Workform. When you wish to Edit a Sequence, position your cursor in the field you wish, and type to change information. If you prefer, you can press Enter to start the prompting for that entry. Help can be called any time [F1] is present on the status line. Topics can be selected via the Help menu. Help is also available as an option from many menus. THE WORKFORM When you look at the Sequence Workform, you'll see it's composed of lines and columns. Each column contains a specific FIELD. There are 8 Fields in the Workform. These are the same fields you see on the GUI, just arranged a bit differently. Remember, most of what you need to create and edit Sequences with TEMPRA SHOW can be selected from a menu, except for the few things that have to be typed in: the Name of a New Sequence, Labels, Next, and any Titles that you want. Complete Sequences can actually be made with the only keyboard entry being the New Sequence Name. MENU ENTRY CREATE FROM THE MENUS It is possible to Create and Edit Sequences by using the menus and entering no more than the Se- quence name from the keyboard. You must start in the Label field or the Type field for the automatic prompting to continue across the Workform. If you don't want to fill in a response to the Label or Next requester window, just press [ENTER]. EDIT FROM THE MENUS. Move the field cursor over any of the fields and press [ENTER], or the left mouse button. You see the menu and/or prompt originally used to create that field entry. Some fields have information that is developed through responses to a series of menus or prompts. When this is the case and you want to change one step in the series, press the [Esc] key in response to the menus/prompts whose entries you want to keep the same. This way you can change the end position and keep the start the same for Sprite movement, and so on. Some Events have special editing menus that allow you to change only one aspect of the Event, so pressing [Esc] is unneces- sary. KEYBOARD ENTRY It is possible to Create and Edit Sequences without most of the menus. If you are familiar with the system you can type Event types, file names, parame- ters, etc. directly from the keyboard. CREATE FROM THE KEYBOARD If the field is empty, position the cursor over the field and start typing. Press [ENTER] when the field is finished, and you get the field cursor back. Once you are editing, you can go on right to the next field. You can go up lines and down. When you press [ENTER], you return to the field mode where you can use the mouse and menus. EDIT FROM THE KEYBOARD If there is information in a field, you may want to modify the field without changing everything in it. In this case press [F3]. Now use the right and left arrow keys to move the small text cursor under the things you want to change, and your keyboard entries are put into the Workform. The Home key positions the cursor at the first character of the field. The End key positions the cursor at the end of the field. Any keyboard entry Editing you do is in Overwrite Mode until you press the [Ins] key. This yields a larger cursor and puts you in the Insert mode. By pressing the [Ctrl] key and the right arrow, you can go right word by word, then field by field. By pressing the [Ctrl] key and the left arrow you can go left word by word, then field by field. USING BLOCKS OF EVENTS Using Blocks allows you to insert, copy, move or delete lines of Events as you see fit while you are on the Workform. As you become more familiar with TEMPRA SHOW, this is something that will be a time saver for you. OPERATIONS ACCESS TO CONTROL MENUS When you are editing, or creating a Sequence, and you want to stop momentarily to perform other tasks with the control menus, you can use the [Esc] key to escape to the Main menu for those other tasks. Then press [Esc] again to get back to the Edit menu and select Edit to return to your Sequence. You can use the control keys to access the control menus direct- ly. (See Key codes.) DIRECTORY MENUS Directory menus from the control menus appear on the right side of the screen. The directory menus that appear while you are creating Events appear near the field cursor. They always give you a list of the appropriate files for the Event type. They operate the same way as the other menus, and they are used enter file names into the Sequence. You can find every entry on a directory menu that starts with a letter by pressing that letter on the key- board. Available keys are [Esc], [ENTER], [PgUp] [PgDn], [Ctrl-PgUp], [Ctrl-PgDn], [Alt-E], and Up and Dn Arrows. Press [Alt-S] to sort the directory. ( See key codes.) REQUESTER WINDOWS Requester windows appear in the center of your Screen for system requests. While you are editing the requester windows follow the cursor, so they are always nearby. They are for entering text informa- tion like Titles, Labels, Next destinations, and sometimes file names. Available keys are [Esc], [ENTER], [BkSp], [Home], [End], [Ins], [Ctrl-BkSp], [Del], Lft and Rt Arrows, all Alphanumeric keys, and [Alt-K]. (See key codes.) HELP The HELP window is accessible as a menu option or by pressing [F1]. Help options are selected with Up and Dn Arrows and [ENTER]. In the Help window you can use the [Esc], [PgUp], [PgDn], [ENTER], and the Up and Dn Arrows. [Alt-H] stands for Hide Help. (See key codes.) UNDO [Esc]. If you enter information that you realize is wrong or undesirable, hit [Esc] before moving out of a field or pressing [ENTER], and your original work returns. You cannot restore a line that has been Deleted! BLANK LINES Blank lines added to a Sequence do not have any effect on the way your Sequence performs, except to slow it down. CLEAR A FIELD [BkSp] If you Press [BkSp] while the field cursor is on any field, the whole field entry disappears. You can then type in anything you need, or Press [ENTER] to call up prompts and menus and edit that way. CLEAR A LINE [Ctrl-BkSp] You can clear a whole line by holding the [Ctrl] key down and pressing the [BkSp] key. ** USER NOTE ** When you Edit a line from an Event already dis- played on your video screen, the video screen does not change until you go back and select a Preview option to view the changes. ** USER NOTE ** You can type comments or notes to yourself into the Parameters field on blank lines. Nothing happens to the execution of the line. FIND ANY ENTRY [F4] To find entries in a Sequence you are working on, move the cursor into the field of the entry and press [F4]. Fill in the requester window with the entry you are seeking. You are asked if case sensitivity is important to you. Case sensitivity is a matter of capital letters. This choice allows you to use "BIG" to search for "bIG" or "big", if case sensitivity is not important. If it is then only an exact match will do. If you choose not to Search and Replace the system searches that column for your entry. SEARCH AND REPLACE After you say Yes to Search and Replace and a match has been found, you are asked if you want to Replace the current occurrence, one occurrence, all occur- rences without option, or to Stop. If there is no match you are told. Replace ? No Does not replace this occurrence. Yes Does replace this occurrence. One Replaces just this occurrence All Replaces all occurrences Stop Stops the search and replace activity. SYSTEM INFORMATION You should use the [Alt-I] key combination to find out current system information. When you do, you see the VGA board type and memory data. TEMPRA SHOW is a menu driven system. There are levels to the menu structure. The format used in this manual to display this hierarchy is: MAIN MENU SUB-MENU SUB-SUB MENU for example: MAIN MENU EDIT MENU EDIT SEQUENCE This menu gives you access to the main elements of the system. You have file access with Disk/Print and Path. You have access to the Sequence editor with the Edit menu. You have the DOS shell at your command with Shell, and Subprogram. You can use your text editor (word processor) and you can modify your system with the configure selection. MAIN MENU EDIT Select this option when you want to edit a Sequence that has already been loaded or created. Also we use this selection to create new Sequences. You may also press [Esc] from the Main menu to take you to the Workform. MAIN MENU DISK/PRINT [Ctrl-D] This menu gives you access to disk functions and the printing of Sequences. MAIN MENU PATH [Ctrl-P] This feature allows you to have a different set of directories for each Sequence. The Path for the Sequence is automatically loaded in when the Se- quence is loaded in ONLY if the path has the same name as the Sequence. MAIN MENU HELP This feature is included to assist the user in finding answers to questions on the TEMPRA SHOW system. The HELP menu comes up at any time you press [F1]. You make selections from the Help menu as you do with other menus by using the cursor keys and the [ENTER] key. When you do this, the topic you select is displayed in a text window. At that time you can browse the Help file with the "Pg Up" and "Pg Dn" keys on the numeric key pad, or the arrow keys. You can continue to page through the Help file to the end if you like. When you have found what you need, you can leave the Help window on the screen and go back to the Workform by press- ing the [Esc] key. You can clear the Help window off the Workform by pressing [Alt-H]. This gives you the large work space again. We suggest using Help from the Workform. It may be hard to read from the GUI. MAIN MENU QUIT [Ctrl-Q] Select this option from the Main menu when you are finished working with TEMPRA SHOW. If you haven't saved your current Sequence, you are asked if you want to. Then you are asked if you want to be returned to DOS; answer yes and leave TEMPRA SHOW. MAIN MENU TEXT EDITOR [F2] This option allows you to invoke your Text Editor (word processor) without leaving TEMPRA SHOW. Be sure you have SET EDITOR = [EDITOR NAME] in a batch file you use to start TEMPRA SHOW. If Editor is not set TEMPRA SHOW uses TEXTEDIT an included utility. MAIN MENU CONFIGURE This option allows you to define the Workform colors you want to look at, and set the software so it works properly with the optional hardware you have. DO NOT RESET YOUR AUDIO FROM WITHIN TEMPRA SHOW. EXIT TO DOS AND RUN CONFIGTS. When you select this option you TEMPRA SHOW goes to the DOS shell and executes a program called CON- FIGTS. MAIN MENU SUBPROGRAM This option allows you to run programs that are in the TSHOW directory. Select the type of program you want to run: Batch - *.BAT, Command - *.COM or Executable - *.EXE. You run the program by choosing it from the menu that pops up on the right side of the screen, putting the highlight bar over the name on the directory menu, and pressing [ENTER]. MAIN MENU DOS SHELL [Ctrl-Z] This option allows you to go to DOS without leaving TEMPRA SHOW. The color of the DOS screen is the color set in the status line color. You have full range of the computer with DOS. The only limiting factor is the size of memory you have. You can discover this by running CHKDSK. MAIN MENU TEMPRA This option allows you to run your paint program without restarting TEMPRA SHOW. Be sure you have your TSPAINT environmental variable, and DOS path commands all set properly before using this. MAIN MENU GUI [Ctrl-G] This option allows you to switch to the Graphic User Interface (GUI) from the Main menu. If you want to switch from the Workform use the key combi- nation [Ctrl-G]. This key combination switches from the GUI back to the Workform. MAIN MENU AUDIO [Ctrl-A] This menu allows you to record and play back sound files so that you can put them into your Sequences. Set the Audio with Configure from the Main menu to insure that TEMPRA SHOW expects your Audio hard- ware. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU CREATING When you create a New Sequence, you follow the menus and prompts to create the Events of your Sequence. Each Event line describes the action for an element of the Sequence, i.e., Screens, Text, Backgrounds, etc. EDITING: You have the ability to move your field cursor to any field to type in information, or to get the appropriate menus needed to make the changes you want by pressing [ENTER] on that field. This menu gives you access to editing features that are also available with keyboard commands. (See Key codes) MAIN MENU EDIT MENU EDIT SEQUENCE Procedure All files you have already created for your Se- quence should be in the correct TEMPRA SHOW directo- ries. (For other directories, see Path.) You can make complete Sequences by using the [ENTER], [Esc] and cursor keys. The only typing you have to do is to enter the Name for your Sequence. While you are creating a Sequence you have control of the Events. These are the building blocks with which you make your Sequence. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU RUN LINE [F5] Selection of this menu option with the [ENTER] key or a Mouse executes the line where the field cursor sits. Use [F5] from the keyboard for the same effect. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU RUN FROM LINE [F6] Selection of this menu option with the [ENTER] key or a Mouse executes the Sequence starting where the field cursor was. Use [F6] from the keyboard for the same effect. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU SEE OUTPUT [Alt-X] Selection of this menu option allows you to see the current output screen. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU INSERT LINE [Ins] Selection of this menu option with the [ENTER] key or a Mouse puts a blank line between the two lines where the cursor was sitting. Use [Ins] from the keyboard for the same effect. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU DELETE LINE [Del] Selection of this menu option with the [ENTER] key or a Mouse removes the line where the field cursor was sitting. Use [Del] from the keyboard for this effect when the field cursor is visible. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU BLOCK OPERATIONS You can cut and paste part or all of your Sequence to other areas or other Sequences by making Blocks. You can also Save Blocks to files and load them into other Sequences. Blocks are column oriented so you can cut and paste sections of Event lines, or col- umns from many lines. MARKING BLOCKS [F7] - [F8] Use the [F7] key to mark the Start of a Block. Use the [F8] key to mark the End of a Block. To mark the whole line move the cursor to the Label field, press [F7]; then move to the Next Field, press [F8]. ** USER NOTE ** A Block cannot be used as a Se- quence. Blocks are short Sequences you use repeated- ly in different Sequences. Blocks can be moved and copied to different areas of the same Sequence, saved to disk, and loaded into different Sequences, provided the same Seq directory is present form the new Sequence's Path. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU MARK BLOCK START [F7] This menu selection is designed for Mouse users who want to run TEMPRA SHOW without using the Function keys. To designate the beginning of a Block of Event lines choose this option and the Block then starts where the field cursor sits on the form. Use [F7] from the keyboard for the same effect. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU MARK BLOCK END [F8] This menu selection is designed for Mouse users who want to run TEMPRA SHOW without using the Function keys. To designate the ending of a Block of Event lines, choose this option and the Block then ends where the field cursor sits on the form. Use [F8] from the keyboard for the same effect. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU COPY BLOCK [Alt-C] You can Copy Marked Blocks throughout your Se- quence. The block is Copied, starting at the Event line where the Field cursor sits, either inserting its way into the Sequence or overwriting currently existing lines according to your choice. As long as you do not Unmark them, you can keep doing this. Use [Alt-C] or the Edit menu selection to do this. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU MOVE BLOCK [Alt-M] You can Move Marked Blocks anywhere in your Se- quence. Use [Alt-M] or the Edit menu selection to do this. The block Moves, starting at the Event line where the Field cursor sits, either inserting its way into the Sequence or overwriting currently existing fields according to your choice. Once a Block is Moved, it has to be re-Marked if you want to move it again. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU DELETE BLOCK [Alt-D] When you have a Block of Event lines that you want to clear off the Workform, mark them and use the [Alt-D] or the Edit menu selection for this. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU UNMARK BLOCK [Alt-U] Once you have a Block marked you can Unmark it with [Alt-U] or the Edit menu selection. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU LOAD BLOCK [Alt-L] When you have Saved portions of a Sequence as a block, you can load them back in from disk to any Sequence you have. They load in starting where the field cursor sits. Use [Alt-L] or the Edit menu selection. Then choose the block you want from the directory menu. You can also load in other Se- quences. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU SAVE BLOCK [Alt-S] When you have Event lines that you want to store on disk in their own files for safety or for loading into other Sequences, you can do this by saving them with this option. Mark them, then use [Alt-S] or the selection on the Edit menu. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU NEW SEQUENCE [Ctrl-N] To start a new Sequence use the key combination [Ctrl-N]. If you have been working on an existing Sequence you will be asked if you want to save it. Answer this, then name the new Sequence. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU HELP This feature is included to assist the user in finding answers to questions on the TEMPRA SHOW system. The HELP menu comes up at any time you are on the Workform, and you press [F1]. For more information see the HELP under the Main menu. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU HIDE HELP [Alt-H] After you have found the help you need from the help file, you can restore the screen you are work- ing with by pressing the key combination [Alt-H]. MAIN MENU EDIT MENU GUI [Ctrl-G] You can switch between the Graphic User Interface and text interface by using the key combination [Ctrl-G]. You can use this menu selection to switch to the GUI from the Workform. MAIN MENU PATH [Ctrl-P] This feature allows you to have a different set of directories for each Sequence. The Path for the Sequence is automatically loaded in when the Se- quence is loaded in ONLY if the path has the same name as the Sequence. Path files end with the suffix *.PTH. You can change a path using this option from the Main menu, or you can edit the *.PTH file since it is just an ASCII file. DON'T PUT YOUR SCREENS FOR ONE SEQUENCE IN MORE THAN ONE DIRECTORY! MENU DISK/PRINT [Ctrl-D] This menu gives you access to disk functions and the printing of Sequences. MAIN MENU DISK/PRINT MENU NEW SEQUENCE [Ctrl-N] To start making a new Sequence select this entry. You can also Use the key combination [Ctrl-N] to get the same results. When you do this, you are asked if you want to save the current sequence. Answer this before going on to make your new Sequence. MAIN MENU DISK/PRINT MENU SAVE SEQUENCE [Ctrl-S] Once you have made your Sequence, select this option from the Disk menu to Save your Sequence file. You have the option of renaming the current Sequence when you Save it, or Overwriting the old version on the disk with the new one you just made. MAIN MENU DISK/PRINT MENU RENAME SEQUENCE Select this option to rename the Sequence currently in use. Renaming can be done to make backups of Sequences. MAIN MENU DISK/PRINT MENU LOAD SEQUENCE [Ctrl-L] Select this option from the Disk/Print menu to Load a Sequence in from the disk. A directory of your Sequence files appears, based on the current Path. Select the Sequence you want. You see your Sequence on screen with a message that says "Name.seq Loaded". ** USER NOTE ** If you have created a Path especial- ly for a Sequence and given both the same name, the Path Loads (you'll see a status line message) auto- matically when you Load the Sequence. If you don't see what you want in the current Sequence directory, you may have to change the Path to access another directory. (See Path) MAIN MENU DISK/PRINT MENU GET DIRECTORY This feature allows you to explore the contents of any of your disks without leaving TEMPRA SHOW. You can find the contents of any directory on any disk with standard DOS nomenclature. MAIN MENU DISK/PRINT MENU DELETE FILE This selection allows you to Delete a file from any directory on any of your disks. MAIN MENU DISK/PRINT MENU PRINT SEQUENCE Print Sequence gives you a printout of the current Sequence file. You can print the Sequence through parallel port 1 "LPT1", parallel port 2 "LPT2", or to a text file with the name of your Sequence and the *.LST extension. MAIN MENU DISK/PRINT MENU SAVE PICTURE If you are using the Preview option to assemble images on your video screen, you can save whatever is on the preview as a single picture. MAIN MENU DISK/PRINT MENU HELP This feature is included to assist the user in finding answers to questions on the TEMPRA SHOW system. The HELP menu comes up at any time you press [F1]. MAIN MENU DISK/PRINT MENU QUIT [Ctrl-Q] Use this to leave TEMPRA SHOW. If you haven't saved your current Sequence, you are asked if you want to. Then you are asked if you want to be returned to DOS; answer yes and leave TEMPRA SHOW. MAIN MENU AUDIO [Ctrl-A] This menu allows you to record and play back sound files so that you can put them into your Sequences. Set the Audio with Configure from the Main menu to insure that TEMPRA SHOW expects your Audio hardware. MAIN MENU AUDIO PLAY AUDIO Choose this option when you want to listen to a sound file. Select a file and you should hear the sound. (If not, make sure that the sound board and its driver are installed correctly. Check that the output is connected.) MAIN MENU AUDIO RECORD AUDIO This option allows you to record sound on your hard disk. With the Watson board you must specify the length of the sound recording in seconds. With some boards you must specify the BPS rate. (Lower numbers imply lower quality and smaller files.) Press the [ENTER] key when you have finished recording. MAIN MENU AUDIO PLAYASNC AUDIO (If available) This option uses a special feature of some sound boards that allows you to play back a small amount of sound and continue with the Sequence. The amount that can be played back with this option may be dependent of the BPS of the recorded message. MAIN MENU AUDIO PLAYTEXT AUDIO (If available) This option allows you to play text files as audio. You have to make sure you have initialized the TI-Speech board and loaded in the text-to-speech driver before this can work. THE RUN PROGRAM RUN enables you to run Sequences without having to be in the TEMPRA SHOW development system. It exe- cutes the Events the way you have created them while using TEMPRA SHOW. Important Notes! If your Sequence is a Loop, you can use [Ctrl-C] instead of rebooting your computer to stop it. At the DOS prompt, type "TSHOWRUN" [space] your Sequence name [space] "/C". Press [ENTER]. Your Sequence Loops until you press [Ctrl-C]. At that point, you'll be returned to the DOS prompt. Run several Sequences by typing TSHOWRUN then space, then the Sequence name, then space, then the Sequence name, etc. TSHOWRUN SEQ1 SEQ2 SEQ3 SEQ4 /C DUPLICATION OF THE RUN PROGRAM We grant you the license to use and copy TSHOWRUN only from the PC you used to create the Sequence, and as long as you make no effort to modify the TSHOWRUN program, or to hide our copyright notice. Duplication of the TSHOWRUN program by professional duplication services is strictly forbidden without express written permission. 80BUTN 80BUTN LABEL When the field cursor is on the left-most column, press [ENTER] and see the requester window. You can enter a name for this event line right here. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. 80BUTN TYPE A Button Event has been created to allow the user/viewer to move a Text pointer across the text screen, and to use it as a pointer to square areas, 80Butns, on the screen. The system can identify the location of the Text pointer once the [ENTER] key, left mouse button, or fire button on a joy stick has been pressed. If the location of the Text pointer is within the boundary of an 80Butn, a Branch oc- curs. 80BUTN FILE Does not apply here. 80BUTN METHOD When a user/viewer moves the Text pointer across the screen and presses [ENTER], the system notes the X,Y location of the Text pointer and checks to see if it is within any of the 80Butn areas. As a developer you see the field cursor go directly to the Method column. Choose the number of 80Butn areas to be active with this Event. As you use the cursor keys and [ENTER], the form is filled in with your choices. 80BUTN SP/DP Choose a maximum speed at which you want the point- er to travel while you are moving the pointer with the cursor keys. SPEED: If the user/viewer is using a joy stick or the cursor keys to move the pointer and if the user/viewer keeps the pressure on the device, the pointer accelerates to the maximum speed indicated in the Sp/Dp field. DISPLAY: You have the choice of making these Text pointers Permanent, Temporary, or Erasing after the key press. This is a design decision. If you want pointers to build upon the screen, use Permanent. If you want to Erase the pointer and other tempo- rary Events, choose Erase after Displaying. If you like the effect, choose Temporary. Permanent sticks all foreground Events to the back- ground. Temporary stays in the foreground until further notice. Erase After Display removes all foreground Events. 80BUTN PARAMETERS If you are editing a 80Button Event, you probably want to choose overwrite; otherwise choose "Insert Lines". The next thing you see is a text window on your text screen asking you to put the Text pointer at the beginning position. After all, the Text pointer has to show up some place to start off. ** USER NOTE ** You have the option of putting an "R" after this position. This "R" makes the Text pointer position relative, so every time the user/viewer comes back to this Event, the Text pointer is where he left it, not where it started off. Save your Sequence after you set the starting position where you want it, and before you run the Event. The "R" modifies the position as the se- quence runs. Tell the system what Labeled Event you want to, branch to if the user presses the [Esc] key or right mouse button during this Event, by entering that Label in the first Next. You have to describe a Safe Active area. This keeps the user/viewer from flying the Text pointers into outer space, or over a portion of the screen you want to keep them from. Set the lower left limit and then the upper right limit to the invisible box that is the Safe Active area. Now you have to delin- eate the active 80Button areas. This is done by positioning the Text pointer at the lower left corner of an imaginary box that is the active 80Butn area and pressing [ENTER] (or the left mouse button), next move the Text pointer to the upper right hand corner of the same imaginary box and press [ENTER] or the left mouse button. After you have done this you see the requester window for the Next field. Put in the Label of the Event you want to branch to when the text pointer is found in this active area. Repeat this process for each active area. ** USER NOTE ** It may surprise you to see that you suddenly go to the Next column. In the process of defining a 80Butn Event, the field cursor pops between the Parameter and the Next to set up a table. The table is as long as the number of items chosen in the Method field. This table contains: the x,y coordinates for the 80Butns in the parame- ters field, and the Label names of Events in the Next field. These are the Events you want to branch to as a result of selecting an 80Butn. Fill in the requester windows with the Labels of these Events and press [ENTER] to set up the branch table. This is a process of popping between the Parameters field and the Next field until the 80Butn is created. 80BUTN WAIT FOR Does not apply here. 80BUTN NEXT The Nexts are used to define where the TEMPRA SHOW system goes as a result of landing in an active area. The Next parallel to the choice shows which Event Label that is the target of the branching. Enter the Label name of the Event where you want to go as a result of the choice made. The first line of the 80Butn Event with the Event type allows for the added feature of letting the user/viewer to escape from an 80Butn. If the user/viewer presses the [Esc] key, or RIGHT mouse button, while he is on an 80Butn, the system auto- matically branches to the label in the Next field on that first line. If nothing is put in this Next field then control passes from the 80Butn Event and the Event line directly after the 80Butn Event is executed. ** USER NOTE ** Make sure all the labels in the Next fields match with labels within the current se- quence. The system tells you if this is true or not when you Preview the sequence with [F6], or when you go to save the sequence. ** USER NOTE ** If you are using a touch screen, use the Configure option from the Main Menu to set the screen value in the TSHOW.CFG file to the type of screen you have. This makes all the 80Butn commands into touch screen commands. Set the screen areas by touching the screen - starting with the lower left, then the upper right points of the active area. Use [Alt-T] to switch between touch screen and mouse input. 80MENU 80MENU LABEL When the field cursor is on the left-most column, press [ENTER] and see the requester window. You can enter a name for this event line right here. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line, you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. 80MENU TYPE Select this Event to put a "Pop up" menu on the text screen. This Event gives the user/viewer the ability to take one of the avenues represented by the item he chooses from the list. Choices can be made with the cursor keys on the keyboard, a mouse, or a joy stick. Choices are entered with the [ENTER] key, the left mouse button, or fire button on the joystick. When the field cursor is in the Event TYPE field, and the Event Menu pops up, highlight "80Menu" and Press [ENTER], and your choice appears in the Event field. 80MENU FILE Since the menu is created completely from the Work- form, this does not apply here. 80MENU METHOD The field cursor jumps from the Type field to the Method field. You see a menu offering 2 to 10 items. Choose a number based on the number of choices you want to give the user/viewer. If you want to give him more than 10 choices, you have to go back and edit in the new number later. 80MENU SP/DP 80Menus do not move so the speed issue is moot, but you can choose to make them permanent, temporary or disappearing. The display choice determines what becomes of the menu after the choice is made. Permanent sticks all foreground Events to the back- ground. Temporary stays in the foreground until further notice. Erase After Display removes all foreground Events. 80MENU PARAMETERS CREATE NEW MENUS First tell the system whether you want to insert new lines into the form or overwrite the current lines. If you are editing an 80Menu you probably want to choose overwrite; otherwise choose "Insert Lines". The next thing you see is a requester window asking for the title of the menu. Notice every menu in the TEMPRA SHOW system has a title. This is your place to tell your user/viewer what your menu is about. Now a menu is on the text screen. Use the mouse or cursor keys to size the window around the Menu. Then use the mouse or cursor keys to position that menu where you want it to be seen. When this is done press [ENTER]. Fill in the requester windows and press [ENTER] to set up the branch table. This is a process of popping between the Parameters field and the Next field until the Menu is set up. ** USER NOTE ** In the process of defining an 80Menu Event, the field cursor pops between the Parameter and the Next to set up a table. The table is as long as the number of items in your 80Menu as chosen in the Method field. This table contains: the list of choices you are giving the user/viewer in the Parameters field, and the Label names of the Events you want to branch to in the Next field. 80MENU PARAMETERS EDITING 80MENU WITH PROMPTS You can edit the 80Menu Event by positioning the field cursor in the Parameters Field and pressing [ENTER]. You see a menu that allows you to change one aspect of the menu, or all. ALL You can recreate the menu by choosing to edit all the aspects of the menu. TITLE You can change only the title of the 80Menu by selecting this. MENU ITEMS You can change only the Items listed in the 80Menu by selecting this. WIDTH/HEIGHT You can change the size of the menu by selecting this. POSITION You can change the placement of the menu on the Text screen by selecting this. To change the color of the menu you have to use the Global Event. 80MENU WAIT FOR Does not apply here. 80MENU NEXT The Nexts are used to define where the TEMPRA SHOW control goes as a result of choosing one of the items of the menu list. The Next parallel to the choice shows which Event Label is the target of the branching. Enter the Label name of the Event where you want to go as a result of the choice made. The special line of the Menu Event with the title allows for the added feature of letting the user/viewer to escape from a menu. If the user/viewer presses the [Esc] key, (RIGHT mouse button) while he is on an 80Menu, the system auto- matically branches to the label in the Next field across from the 80Menu Title. If nothing is put in this Next field, control passes from the menu. ** USER NOTE ** Make sure all the labels in the Next fields match with labels within the current se- quence. The system tells you if this is true or not. 80MODE 80MODE LABEL When the field cursor is on the left-most column, press [ENTER] and see the requester window. You can enter a name for this event line right here. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line, you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. 80MODE TYPE This Event is used to switch to and from color graphics mode to 80 column color text mode. 80MODE FILE Does not apply here. 80MODE METHOD The Method field lets you turn the 80 column color text mode On, Off, or Clear. On: Use this to turn the 80 column color text mode on. Off: If you determine you want to turn on the VGA Graphics screen display, then turn this OFF. The Graphics screen will look just the same as it did when you left it. To switch to graphics mode and have a new Screen or BColor, simply select one of those Events. Clear: Use Clear If you want to clear the 80 column text screen. 80MODE SP/DP Does not apply here. 80MODE PARAMETERS Does not apply here 80MODE WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option. If you choose "Don't Wait" notice that no entry goes on the form. "Don't Wait" is the default, so waiting only happens when there is an explicit thing to Wait For. 80MODE NEXT Your choice is entered and your cursor moves to Next. Notice that you see a requester window. This means that Next is a field where you type something rather than select an option. Type a Next and/or Press [ENTER] to move to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. 80TEXT 80TEXT LABEL When the cursor is in the left-most field, press [ENTER] and see the requester window. You can enter a name for this event line right here. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line you NEED a label for it. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. 80TEXT TYPE Use this Event to put ASCII text files on the Screen with the color attributes defined in the last color change in the last Global Event. 80TEXT FILE After you select the 80Text type you are given a directory menu to the right of the cursor. Use this to select the file you want to display. Use the cursor keys to highlight your choice and press [ENTER]. 80TEXT METHOD Does not apply here. 80TEXT SP/DP You have the same display options with the 80Text that you have with Graphic Text Events. You can make them Permanent, Temporary, or Erase after Displaying. Permanent sticks all foreground Events to the background Temporary stays in the foreground until further notice Erase After Display removes all foreground Events. Now choose which line of the text file you wish to start displaying. The text file comes onto the screen. Scroll through the file (using the cursor keys or mouse) until you highlight the line you want to be the first line showing on your display screen. Press [ENTER] and the line number is put into the form. 80TEXT PARAMETERS The parameters field is where you determine: the color of the text, and whether you want a frame around it. If you want a frame, then are you going to give the user the ability to operate the window, and the size and location of the window. When you are creating the Text Event for the first time, you are given all these choices in order. When you are editing, you are presented with a menu asking which of the options you want to modify. POSITION Use your cursor keys to position your Text. Then Press [ENTER]. The Text coordinates appear in the Parameters field. 80Text Events have only one set of coordinates. Notice the X,Y coordinate prompt in the corner of the screen. COLOR This is where you choose the color of the character (foreground color). If áyou choose to pick the color from the color menu select the color you want from the colors in the smaller squares. WIDTH/HEIGHT Once the operation question is answered for framed windows you set the size of the windows. The text from the file is shown on the screen. Use the cursor keys or mouse to stretch the window to fit the text. NOT FRAMED If you want the text to be written over the text screen without a frame, answer NO to the "Framed?" question. FRAMED If you want the text in a framed window, answer YES to the "Framed ?" question. A window frame has the color attributes set with the global values defined with the last Global Event. The Global values for the windows at start up are the same ones for your Workform. OPERATE/FRAME If you choose Framed text, this lets you allow the user to operate the text window, by scrolling through it with the mouse or cursor keys. It also allows the user to pan right and left to see long lines of text that do not fit into the text window. A window that cannot be operated only displays the text you choose. JUSTIFY You have the option of justifying the text on the left or right of the window, or to center the text in the window. 80TEXT WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait", notice that no entry goes on the form. "Don't Wait" is the default, so waiting only happens when there is an explicit thing to Wait For. 80TEXT NEXT You see a requester window. Type a Next and/or Press [ENTER] to move to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. 80WIN 80WIN LABEL When the field cursor is on the left-most column, press [ENTER] . You can enter a name for this event line right here. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. 80WIN TYPE This Event type is useful in displaying text win- dows made with the PWIN Utility. (Run this utility from the Subprogram selection on the Main Menu.) These windows can be made to look like any PC text screen in 80 column mode, so you can reproduce data entry screens for training and mock ups and so on. 80WIN FILE After you select the 80Win type you are given a directory menu to the right of the cursor. Use this to select the file you want to display. 80WIN METHOD Does not apply here. 80WIN SP/DP Speed determines how fast the WND moves across the screen. Display: You can make them Permanent, Temporary, or Erase after Displaying. Permanent sticks all foreground Events to the background. Temporary stays in the foreground until further notice. Erase After Display removes all fore ground Events. 80WIN PARAMETERS Use the cursor keys or mouse to position the 80Win. When it is where you want it, press [ENTER] or the left mouse button. You can choose a second x,y pair if you want to move the text WND file across the screen. If you do not want it to move press [ENTER] again and both x,y pairs are the same and the *.WND file does not move. You can see two x and y coordi- nate pairs in the Parameters field. 80WIN WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait", no entry goes on the form, other choices are written in. "Don't Wait" is the default. 80WIN NEXT You see a requester window, enter a Label name or press [ENTER] to go on. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label match- ing the entry in the Next Field. AUDIO (On-Line DSA-300) AUDIO LABEL You can enter a name for this Event line in the requester window. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line, you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. AUDIO TYPE This event allows you to Record and Play sound files during a Sequence. Select this option to Play or Record sound files. AUDIO FILE PLAY The files in the Audio directory are shown to you. Choose a sound file to Play. Make your selec- tion. RECORD The field cursor jumps back to the File column and you see a requester window asking you to give the new file a name. ** USER NOTE ** This is happening during sequence execution. The file is saved, even if there is a file with this name already on the disk, so be careful. AUDIO METHOD PLAY This Method allows you to Play an audio file during a Sequence. RECORD This Method allows you to Record an audio file during a Sequence. AUDIO SP\DP Does not apply here. AUDIO PARAMETERS RECORD With the RECORD Method, the Parameters field holds the Bits Per Second (BPS) Rate for the recording of files with the On-Line board. PLAY With the PLAY Method, the Parameters field holds the BPS Rate for the playback of files with the On- Line board. AUDIO WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait", no entry goes on the form, other choices are written in. "Don't Wait" is the default. AUDIO NEXT Notice that you see a requester window. Entries are optional. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. AUDIO (Sound Blaster) AUDIO LABEL You can enter a name for this event line in the requester window. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. AUDIO TYPE This event allows you to Record and Play sound files during a Sequence. Press [ENTER] in the Type field, and you see the Menu for the Method field. AUDIO FILE PLAY The files in Audio directory are shown to you. Choose a sound file to Play. Highlight your choice and Press [ENTER]. RECORD The field cursor jumps back to the File column and you see a requester window asking you to give the new file a name. ** USER NOTE ** This is happening during sequence execution. The file is saved, even if there is a file with this name already on the disk, so be careful. AUDIO METHOD PLAY This Method allows you to Play an audio file during a Sequence. RECORD This Method allows you to Record an audio file during a Sequence. PLAYASNC The file directory is shown to you, from which you should choose a sound file to Play while other Events occur. (Set Blast_Buf for smoother audio.) AUDIO SP\DP Does not apply here. AUDIO PARAMETERS RECORD When using the RECORD Method, the Parameters field holds the (Bits Per Second) BPS Rate for the record- ing of files with the Sound Blaster board. AUDIO WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait", no entry goes on the form. Other entries are written in, but Don't Wait is the default. AUDIO NEXT When you see a requester window, enter a label here or press [ENTER] to leave it blank and move on to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. AUDIO (TI-SPEECH) AUDIO LABEL You can enter a name for this event line here. This is optional, but if you expect to Branch to this line you, NEED a label for it. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. AUDIO TYPE Select this option to Play, Record, or PlayAsnc sound file during a sequence. You can also play text files as speech if you have the TI Text-to-Speech driver loaded. AUDIO FILE PLAY The files in the Audio directory are shown to you. Choose a sound file to Play. Highlight your choice and press [ENTER]. RECORD The field cursor jumps back to the File column from Method and you see a requester window asking you to give the new file a name. ** USER NOTE ** This is happening during sequence execution. The file is saved, even if there is a file with this name already on the disk, so be careful. PLAYASNC The file directory is shown to you, from which you should choose a sound file to Play while other Events occur. Highlight your selection and press [ENTER]. PLAYTEXT The file directory is shown to you, from which you should choose a ASCII file to Play. Highlight your selection and Press [ENTER]. AUDIO METHOD PLAY This Method allows you to Play an audio file during a Sequence. RECORD This Method allows you to Record an audio file during a Sequence. PLAYASNC This Method allows you to Play an audio file during a Sequence and continue on to the next Event. This gives you the ability to have sound and graphics at the same time. PLAYTEXT This method allows you to create audio output from ASCII text files stored in your audio directory. AUDIO SP\DP Does not apply here. AUDIO PARAMETERS RECORD With the RECORD Method the Parameters field holds the BPS Rate for the TI-SPEECH board. AUDIO WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait", notice that no entry goes on the form. "Don't Wait" is the default, so waiting only happens when there is an explicit thing to Wait For. AUDIO NEXT When you see a requester window, enter a label here or press [ENTER] to leave it blank and move on to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. AUDIO (MicroKey Audio) AUDIO LABEL Press [ENTER] to see the requester window where you can enter a name for this line. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line, you NEED a label for it. Type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. AUDIO TYPE Select this option to Play, Record, or PlayAsnc sound files during a Sequence. AUDIO FILE PLAY and PLAYASNC The files in the Audio directory are shown to you. Choose a sound file to Play. RECORD The field cursor jumps back to the File column and you see a requester window asking you to give the new file a name. ** USER NOTE ** This is happening during sequence execution. The file is saved, even if there is a file with this name already on the disk, so be careful. AUDIO METHOD PLAY This Method allows you to Play an audio file during a Sequence. RECORD This Method allows you to Record an audio file during a Sequence. PLAYASNC This Method allows you to Play an audio file during a Sequence and continue on to the next Event. This gives you the ability to have sound and graphic at the same time. AUDIO SP\DP Does not apply here. AUDIO PARAMETERS PLAY & PLAYASNC Choose from 8kHz, 16kHz, and 32kHz. One of these choices must be made for the Play Method to work. The number you choose must match the number after the .S__ in the name of the file you chose for the file to play correctly. kHz stands for kilohertz, or thousandths of cycles per second. RECORD Choose from 8kHz, 16kHz, and 32kHz. One of these choices must be made for the Record Method to work. The number you choose creates a file name with a number following the .S__. This number will match your choice. AUDIO WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. AUDIO WAIT FOR Choose a Wait Option and Press [ENTER] AUDIO NEXT When you see a requester window, enter a label here or press [ENTER] to leave it blank and move on to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. BCOLOR BCOLOR LABEL Press [ENTER] to see the requester window where you can enter a name for this line. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line, you NEED a label for it. Type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. BCOLOR TYPE Select this Event to wipe a colored background into your Sequence. BColors are not stored in their own files. They are stored in your Sequence Workform file and created while your sequence runs. This saves space on your hard drive. When you are in the TYPE field, press [ENTER]. The Event Menu pops up. Highlight "BColor" and Press [ENTER]. Your choice is entered into the Event field. Your highlight cursor skips to the Method field and the Wipe Menu appears. BCOLOR FILE Does not apply here. BCOLOR METHOD Wipe name Wipe description ------------------------------ Lft_Rt Left to Right Rt_Lft Right to Left Tp_Bot Top to Bottom Bot_Tp Bottom to Top Vrt_In Vertical In to Center Vrt_Out Vertical Out from Center Hrz_In Horizontal In to Center Hrs_Out Horizontal Out from Center Dissolve Random fill Box_In A box from screen frame In Box_Out A box from screen center Out Diag_UL Diagonal to Upper Left corner Diag_LL Diagonal to Lower Left corner Diag_UR Diagonal to Upper Right corner Diag_LR Diagonal to Lower Right corner Slide_U Slide up from the bottom Slide_D Slide down from the Top Slide_L Slide from the left Slide_R Slide from the right Sand_UP Not Advised Sand_DN Not Advised Drip_UP Not Advised Drip_DN Not Advised Spr_IN Spiral in from frame Spr_OUT Spiral out from center Preload Load a color into memory for immediate display Quick Fastest fill RollUp The whole screen rolls up in standard VGA modes BCOLOR SP/DP The cursor moves to the Sp/Dp field and the Speed Menu appears. Speed increments are in pixels and it is the speed of the wipe. SPEED Choose a Speed and Press [ENTER]. Your choice appears. The Display option is skipped. BColor Events are always Permanent. Your cursor moves to the Parameters field and a Background Menu appears. BCOLOR PARAMETERS Your Background choice appears in the Parameters field. You are asked if you want to choose the color from the screen or not. If you choose to pick a color from the screen, you can see a small cursor with a colored box on your image. As you move the cursor, you see that the colored box changes color. It is showing you the color of the pixel on the screen, under the cursor. It is this color that becomes the background color when you press [ENTER]. If you choose to pick the color from the color menu select the color you want from the colors in the smaller squares. The number above the large square changes as you do so. The numbers run from 0 to N, where N = the maximum number of colors in the current mode. Of course the mode determines how many different colors are available in the palette. When you see a color you like in the center square, Select [Okay]. BColors don't require placement, so you won't see the BColor on your video monitor at this point. Your cursor moves to the Wait For field. BCOLOR WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait", notice that no entry goes on the form. "Don't Wait" is the default, so waiting only happens when there is an explicit thing to Wait For. BCOLOR NEXT Your choice is entered and your cursor moves to Next. Notice that you see a requester window. This means that Next is a field where you type something, rather than select an option. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label match- ing the entry in the Next Field. BUTTON This Event allows user input from a touch screen, mouse, keyboard, or joystick. BUTTON LABEL Press [ENTER] in this field to you see the reques- ter window where you can enter a name for this line. If you ever expect to Branch to this line you NEED a label for it. Type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. BUTTON TYPE Use a Button Event to allow the user/viewer to move a cursor across the graphics screen, and to use it as a pointer to Button areas on the screen. The system can identify the location of the cursor once the [ENTER] key, left mouse button, or fire button on a joy stick has been pressed. If the location of the cursor is within the boundary of a Button, then a Branch occurs. BUTTON FILE Since the Button Event allows the user/viewer to move Sprites as a screen pointer, this field is where the name of the Sprite file is put on the form. See the Appendix for information on how to make a Sprite.(For touch screen users there are no files to pick.) Default cursor: If you leave the File Field blank TEMPRA SHOW sup- plies a cursor for you to use. It is a cross, and you may find it helpful to use the cursor rather than supply a Sprite to act as a cursor. BUTTON METHOD When a user/viewer moves the pointer across the screen and presses [ENTER] the system notes the x,y location of the pointer, and checks to see if it is within any of the Button areas. The field cursor goes directly to the Method col- umn. Here you can pick up to 99 Button areas that you can make active with this Event. Use the cursor keys and [ENTER], and the form is filled in with your choice. BUTTON SP/DP SPEED Choose a speed at which you want the pointer to travel while you are moving it with the cursor keys. DISPLAY You have the choice of making these pointers Perma- nent, Temporary, or Erasing after the key press. If you want things to build up on the screen use Perma- nent. If you want to Erase the cursor and other temporary Events, choose Erase after Displaying. Permanent sticks all foreground Events to the background. Temporary stays in the foreground until further notice. Erase After Display removes all foreground Events. BUTTON PARAMETERS If you are editing a Button Event you probably want to choose overwrite; otherwise, choose "Insert Lines". The next thing you see is a message on your graphics screen asking you to put the pointer at the beginning position. After all, the pointer has to show up some place to start off. ** USER NOTE ** You have the option of putting an "R" after this position. This "R" makes the pointer's position relative, so every time the user/viewer comes back to this Event the Sprite pointer is where he left it, not where it started off. Be sure you save the sequence after you have set the starting position where you want it, and before you run the Event. The "R" modifies the position as the Sequence runs. Tell the system what label you want to branch to if the user/viewer presses the [Esc] key or right mouse button during this Event. It is helpful if you have the correct Screen on the graphics screen at this time. First you have to describe a Safe Active area. This keeps the user/viewer from flying the pointers into outer space, or over a portion of the screen you want to keep them from. Set the lower left limit and then the upper right limit to the invisible box that is the Safe Active area. Now you have to delineate the active Button areas. This is done by positioning the Sprite at the lower left corner of an imaginary box that is the active Button area and pressing [ENTER] (or the left mouse button) then moving the pointer to the upper right hand corner of the same imaginary box and pressing [ENTER] (or the left mouse button.) When you have done this you can see the requester window for the Next field. Put in the Label of the Event you want to branch to when the Button is found in this active area. Repeat this process for each active area. ** USER NOTE ** It may surprise you to see that you suddenly go to the Next column. In the process of defining a Button Event, the field cursor pops between the Parameter and Next fields to set up a table. The table is as long as the number of items chosen in the Method field. This table contains: the x,y coordinates for the active areas in the parameters field and the Label names of the Events in the Next field. Each of these Events Labels are the lines you want to branch to when that Button is selected. Fill in the requester windows and press [ENTER] to set up the branch table. This is a process of pop- ping between the Parameters field and the Next field until the Button is set up. BUTTON WAIT FOR Does not apply here. BUTTON NEXT The Nexts are used to define where the TEMPRA SHOW system goes as a result of landing in an active area. The entry in the Next field on the same line as the Button coordinates tells TEMPRA SHOW which Label is the target of the branching. Enter the Label name of the Event where you want to go as a result of the choice made. The first line of the Button Event has the added feature of letting the user/viewer escape from a Button. If the user/viewer presses the [Esc] key (or RIGHT mouse button) while he is on a Button the system automatically branches lo the Label in the Next field on the first line of the Event. If nothing is put in this Next field and [Esc] is pressed, control passes from the menu to the Event with the Label that matches the first Next in the Button Event. ** USER NOTE ** Make sure all the labels in the Next fields match with Labels within the current Sequence. The system tells you if this is true or not when you go to Preview the Sequence with [F6] or when you go to save the Sequence. ** USER NOTE ** If you are using a touch screen, use the Configure option from the Main Menu to set the screen value in the TSHOW.CFG file to the type of screen you have. This makes all the Button commands Touch screen commands. Set the screen areas by touching the screen starting with the lower left, then the upper right points of the active area. Use [Alt-T] to switch between touch screen and mouse input. CD-ROM CD-ROM LABEL You can enter a name for this event line in the requester window. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. CD-ROM TYPE This event allows you to Play and control audio tracks recorded on a CD-ROM during a sequence. Press [ENTER] in the Type field, and you see the Menu for the Method field. CD-ROM FILE Does not apply here. CD-ROM METHOD PLAY This Method allows you to Play an audio from a CD- ROM during a sequence. The playing commences where the play head is positioned. You should use the Search Method first to position the play head. PLAYRANG This Method allows you to play a range of audio tracks from a CD-ROM during a sequence. CD-ROMS are designed so there are tracks which contain audio, but each track is subdivided into smaller units that are precisely accessible. To get to a place within a track you have to designate that place according to the time from the start of the track in minutes, seconds, and frames. Frames are parts of seconds in the CD-ROM world. SEEK You can position the play head before you choose to play. This is a good idea because some CD-ROM players are not very fast, and by pre-positioning the play head you can get the audio to start with a Play Method just when you want. You have to desig- nate exactly where you want the play head to be positioned. To do this tell TEMPRA SHOW what track number you want and how far into that track you want to be go. PAUSE You can suspend the playback of the audio from the CD-ROM with this Method. Once the Pause Method is executed you can restart the audio playback with Play or Continue. (Use the one that works in your CD-ROM player. They are not all made the same.) CONTINUE Once the playback of the CD-ROM audio has been Paused, you can restart the playback with Continue. The CD-ROM Method allows you to continue playing the audio track from the CD-ROM. STOP Use Stop to make the playback of the CD-ROM audio stop. After you use this Method you need to use Play to restart the playback of audio. Most often you would perform a Stop, then a Seek, then a Play. You might also execute a PlayRang. LOAD Some CD-ROM players support a computer controlled Load command. If yours does this Method gets the disk up and running. All players do not support this. EJECT Use this Method to Eject the CD-ROM. Naturally this causes the playback of audio to stop, and the user can change disks at this point. Eject is the opposite of Load and when used together automates the users changing of CD-ROM's. CD-ROM SP\DP Does not apply here. CD-ROM PARAMETERS PLAYRANG When you are using the PlayRange Method of the CD- ROM Event you have to designate the range you want played. You select the track number, then the place on the track you to start from. These places are described in terms of the time it takes to get to them from the start of the track. For example you can start 2 minutes, 30 seconds into the track. If you need to choose a place that is between the second markers select a frame. There are 75 frames to a second. Since you are playing a range you also have to set the end point for the audio to stop. This end point is also described in terms of tracks, minutes, seconds, and frames. SEEK When you are using the Seek Method of the CD-ROM Event you have to designate the place on the ROM where you want to position the play head. You select the track number, then the place on the track you to be. These places are described in terms of the time it takes to get to them from the start of the track. For example you can start 2 minutes, 30 seconds into the track. If you need to choose a place that is between the second markers select a frame. There are 75 frames to a second. Once the play head is positioned you can use the Play Method and the audio will play from exactly where you have positioned the play head with the Seek Method. CD-ROM WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait", no entry goes on the form. Other entries are written in, but Don't Wait is the default. CD-ROM NEXT When you see a requester window enter a label here or press [ENTER] to leave it blank and move on to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. CHAIN CHAIN LABEL When the field cursor is on the left-most column, press [ENTER] and see the requester window. You can enter a name for this Event line right here. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line, you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. CHAIN TYPE Select this Event to make a Chain of Sequences. Each Sequence can be no more than 500 lines long. This is due to memory constraints. Your Show can be much longer if you Chain a number of Sequences together. When the Chain command is executed, the next Event you see is the first Event in the Se- quence you Chain to. The field cursor is in the Event TYPE field, and the Event Menu pops up. Highlight "Chain" and Press [ENTER], and your choice appears in the Event field. CHAIN FILE You can now see a directory menu on the Workform near the field cursor. This is a menu of Sequences. Choose the one you want to Chain to, and press [ENTER]. Your choice is entered onto the screen and the field cursor goes directly over to the Wait For field. CHAIN METHOD Does not apply here. CHAIN SP/DP Does not apply here. CHAIN PARAMETERS Does not apply here. CHAIN WAIT FOR The three choices: Don't Wait, Wait for Any Key, Wait for Timeout pertains to the wait that you may want to put in BEFORE the Chain is executed. This is different from the other Wait Fors where the waiting occurred after the Event. Here execution of this Event takes program control away from the line, so by the time a post execution Wait For might have been executed, the line is long forgotten because a new sequence is now in memory. This feature is not frequently used. CHAIN NEXT This field is not used because execution of the new Sequence starts at the first line. ** USER NOTE ** When a new Sequence is loaded, TEMPRA SHOW will load the paths associated with that sequence if the paths have been saved with the same name as the Sequence name. Using Chain will allow you to change paths as you run sequences. DRAW DRAW LABEL When the field cursor is on the left-most column, press [ENTER] and see the requester window. You can enter a name for this event line right here. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. DRAW TYPE The Draw Event lets you tell TEMPRA SHOW to execute drawing commands. You can use this to create your own wipes with a background brush, make colored squares, lines and more. This is very useful in saving disk space. It also lets you make very powerful and exciting visual presentations. DRAW FILE Does not apply here. DRAW METHOD This field is used to determine what kind of draw- ing you do. LINE This Draws a line from one x,y position to another. CIRCLE This Draws an empty Ellipse: "a" equaling the horizontal radius and and "b" equalling the vertical radius. FCIRCLE This Draws a Filled Ellipse: "a" for 1/2 the width and "b" for 1/2 the height. BOX This Draws an Empty Rectangle using two corner points. FBOX This Draws a Filled Rectangle using two corner points. SET BRUSH This sets the size, shape, and color of the drawing tool. DRAW SP/DP Speed does not matter, but you have to choose a display type. Permanent sticks all foreground Events to the background. Temporary stays in the foreground until further notice. Erase After Display removes all foreground Events. DRAW PARAMETERS The Parameters you choose are determined by what Drawing Method you are using. LINE You set the beginning position and ending position of the line by following the prompts and using the mouse, or cursor keys, to move the screen cursor. CIRCLE You set the center position by following the prompts and using the mouse, or cursor keys, to move the screen cursor. You size the Circle with the mouse or cursor keys. As you move the mouse, the Ellipse is drawn on the screen so you can see what you are doing. FCIRCLE You set the center position by following the prompts and using the mouse, or cursor keys, to move the screen cursor. You size the Filled Circle with the mouse or cursor keys. As you move the mouse, the Ellipse is drawn on the screen so you can see what you are doing. BOX You set the lower left position, and upper right position by following the prompts and using the mouse, or cursor keys to move the screen cursor. FBOX You set the lower left position and upper right position by following the prompts and using the mouse, or cursor keys, to move the screen cursor. SET BRUSH Use this to set the shape, color, and drawing attributes of the Brush. SET Here you set the color and size of the Brush. To set the color, you are asked if you want to select the color from the graphics screen. If so, you are presented with a cursor that has a square border. The cursor's border color is the selected color. Move the cursor over the color you want to select and press [ENTER]. If you want a color from the color menu say no, and you can see the color menu with the current (default) color in the central box. Use the color menu to select the text color, or press [ENTER] to use the current color. AND And's the chosen color with existing colors on the screen. OR Or's the difference between the chosen color and the colors on the screen. XOR Reverses the existing colors on the screen. BGROUND Draws in whatever you have in the background buff- er. This includes any Preloaded BColor or image and whatever you have under Temporary Events. ** USER NOTE ** And, Or, and Xor are Logical terms with specific meanings in computer science. To use the feature, experiment with the various options until you see the effect you want. DRAW WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait" notice that no entry goes on the form. "Don't Wait" is the default, so waiting only happens when there is an explicit thing to Wait For. DRAW NEXT Your choice is entered and your cursor moves to Next. Notice that you see a requester window. This means you can enter text here or press [ENTER] to leave it blank and move on to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. GLOBAL GLOBAL LABEL You can enter a name for this event line in the requester window. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line, you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. GLOBAL TYPE The Global Event is used to set elements and fea- tures that remain throughout your Sequence, or the system hits another Global Event. GLOBAL FILE The only Global setting that requires a file is the Font setting. Once this is set all Text Events and Menu Events are shown in this font, unless otherwise specified. GLOBAL METHOD ResetAll This will reset all values to their defaults. COLOR Determine all Text display colors: Text, Border, and Highlight. You will see the style of text that is currently active in TEMPRA SHOW while you choose your colors. FONT Determine the font that is used to show all text, unless a new font is picked in the Text Event, or Title Event. The font is also used in subsequent graphics menus. The current Global font becomes the default font. DROPSHAD You can set a drop shadow to appear with all the text. Choose the X and Y offset and color. AUTOSET TEMPRA SHOW automatically adjusts the screen to the right resolution for the chosen image. This setting turns this on. AUTOOFF You can turn the automatic detection of screen resolution, and palette loading off with this selec- tion. DELAY Determine a delay to slow down wipes, Sprite move- ment, or drawing. SCALE ON Set this to insure that all screen images are automatically scaled to the visible screen if they have the right number of colors. SCALE OFF Set this to turn automatic scaling off. QUICK ON Set this to maximize speed of full screen display when you do not have sufficient memory in your computer for the mode you are using. When this is set, TEMPRA SHOW ignores all wipe methods and brings your Screens to the visible screen as fast as possi- ble. If EMS is detected then Quick On is ignored. QUICK OFF Set this to turn off the above Global command. BACK ON Set this to let your users Back Up through the sequence by labels using the [F9] key. This also allows them to skip ahead with the [F10] key. When TEMPRA SHOW starts, this feature is on. It must be turned off if you want to disable it. BACK OFF Set this to turn off the Back On feature. STYLE2D Set this to get a 2 dimensional appearance to the text windows, and menus. STYLE3D Set this to get a 3 dimensional appearance to the text windows and menus. This is how the system is when you start it. STYLETL Set this style to get the look of the TEMPRA SHOW text and menus. PIC_PCX Set this to tell TEMPRA SHOW to look for PCX files in the Screen directory. PIC_CEG Set this to tell TEMPRA SHOW to look for CEG files in the Screen directory. PIC_TGA Set this to tell TEMPRA SHOW to look for 16 BIT (32,000 COLOR) TGA files in the Screen directory. SPR_PCC Set this to tell TEMPRA SHOW to look for PCC files in the Sprite directory. SPR_CLP Set this to tell TEMPRA SHOW to look for CLP files in the Sprite directory. SPR_WIN Set this to tell TEMPRA SHOW to look for 16 BIT (32,000 COLOR) WIN files in the Sprite directory. GLOBAL SP/DP Does not apply here. GLOBAL PARAMETERS COLORS When you go to set the Global Text Parameters you see a Sample. This is also the menu you use to choose what you want to change: the Text, the window Border, or the Highlight that is used on Menus, and text windows the user/viewer can operate. For each text color choice, you have two settings to make: 1) Set the text background color. This setting controls the color of the area behind the text character. 2) Set the text foreground color. This setting controls the color of the text character itself. You can select the color from the graphics screen or a color menu. If you choose to get the color from the screen, you are presented with a cursor that has a square border. The cursor's border color is the selected color. Move the cursor over the color you want to select and press [ENTER]. If you choose to pick the color from the color menu select the color you want from the colors in the smaller squares. DELAY You can set the delay to be from 0 to 999 computer cycles. We have included this to allow you to slow the Drawing, Wipe, and Sprite speeds if you have a very fast computer. Otherwise, this may be of limit- ed use. DROPSHAD You choose the offset of the drop shadow in the X and Y direction, then using the familiar color menu, or the image itself, you select the color for the drop shadow. GLOBAL WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait", notice that no entry goes on the form. "Don't Wait" is the default, so waiting only happens when there is an explicit thing to Wait For. GLOBAL NEXT Your cursor moves to Next. Notice that you see a requester window. This means you can enter text here or press [ENTER] to leave it blank and move on to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. MENU MENU LABEL When the field cursor is on the left-most column, press [ENTER] and see the requester window. You can enter a name for this event line right here. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line, you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. MENU TYPE Select this Event to put a "Pop up" menu on the graphics screen. This Event gives the user/viewer the ability to take one of the choices given by the item list from which he chooses. This Menu can contain as many items as fit on the screen. Choices can be made with the cursor keys on the keyboard, a mouse, or a joy stick. Choices are entered with the [ENTER] key, the left mouse button, or fire button on the joystick. As the field cursor goes to the Event TYPE field, and the Event Menu pops up. Highlight "Menu" and press [ENTER], and your choice appears in the Event field. MENU FILE Does not apply here. MENU METHOD The field cursor jumps from the Type field to the Method field. You see a menu offering 2 to 10 items. Choose a number based on the number of choices you want to give the user/viewer. Press [ENTER] if you want to give him more than 10 choices, you have to go back and edit the new number in later. MENU SP/DP Menus do not move, so the speed issue is moot, but you can choose to make them permanent, temporary or disappearing. The display choice determines what becomes of a menu after a choice is made. Perma- nent sticks all foreground Events to the background. Temporary stays in the foreground until further notice. Erase After Display removes all foreground Events. MENU PARAMETERS CREATE NEW MENUS The first Choice you face in the Parameter field is whether you want to insert new lines into the form or overwrite the current lines. If you are editing a Menu, you probably want to choose overwrite; otherwise, choose "Insert Lines". The next thing you see is a requester window asking for the title of the menu. You may notice every menu in the TEMPRA SHOW system has a title telling you what the choices pertain to. This is your place to tell your user/viewers what your menu is about. Now a menu is on the graphics screen. Use the mouse or cursor keys to size the window around the Menu. Then use the mouse or cursor keys to position that menu where you want it to be seen. When this is done, press [ENTER]. Fill in the requester windows and press [ENTER] to set up the branch table. This is a process of popping between the Parameters field and the Next field until the Menu is set up. ** USER NOTE ** It may surprise you to see that you suddenly go to the Next column. In the process of defining a Menu Event, the field cursor pops between the Parameter and the Next to set up a table. The table is as long as the number of items chosen in the Method field. This table contains the list of choices you are giving the user/viewer in the parameters field and the Label names of the Events you want to branch to as a result of choosing that item in the Next field. EDITING MENUS WITH PROMPTS You can edit the Menu Event by positioning the field cursor in the Parameters Field and pressing [ENTER]. You see a menu that allows you to change one aspect of the menu, or all. ALL You can re-create the menu by choosing to edit all the aspects of the menu. TITLE You can change only the title of the Menu by se- lecting this. MENU ITEMS You can change only the Items listed in the Menu by selecting this. You can also type directly onto the Workform to change these entries. WIDTH/HEIGHT You can change the size of the menu by selecting this. The border of the menu is moved one char- acter at a time. The Menu appears in whatever font you have set in the last Global Event. POSITION You can change the placement of the menu on the graphics screen by selecting this. To change the color of the menu you have to use the Global Event. MENU WAIT FOR Does not apply here. MENU NEXT The Nexts are used to define where the TEMPRA SHOW control goes as a result of choosing one of the items on the menu list. The Next parallel to the choice shows which Event Label is the target of the branching. Enter the Label name of the Event where you want to go as a result of the choice made. The special line of the Menu Event with the title allows for the added feature of letting the user/viewer to escape from a menu. If the user/viewer presses the [Esc] key or RIGHT mouse button, while he is on a Menu, the system automati- cally branches to the Label in the Next field across from the Menu Title. If nothing is put in this Next field, control passes from the menu and the Event line directly after the Menu Event is executed. ** USER NOTE ** Make sure all the labels in the Next fields match with labels within the current Sequence. The system tells you if this is true or not when you preview with [F6] or save the Sequence file. MIDI MIDI LABEL You can enter a name for this event line in the requester window. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. MIDI TYPE This event allows you to play and pause Midi files during a sequence. Press [ENTER] in the Type field, and you see the Menu for the Method field. MIDI FILE PLAY The *.MID files in Audio directory are shown to you. Choose a Midi file to Play. Highlight your choice and Press [ENTER]. Please note you have to make your Midi files with a system other than TEMPRA SHOW, before you try to play them with TEMPRA SHOW. MIDI METHOD PLAY This Method allows you to Play an Midi file during a sequence. STOP This Method allows you to Stop the Midi file from playing back during a sequence. If you have Stopped the Midi playback you can restart it with Continue. CONTINUE This method allows you to restart the playback of a Midi file that has been stopped with the Stop Meth- od. QUIET This method allows you to Quiet the playback of a Midi file. You cannot restart the playback if you have used quite. MIDI SP\DP Does not apply here. MIDI PARAMETERS Does not apply here. MIDI WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait", no entry goes on the form. Other entries are written in, but Don't Wait is the default. MIDI NEXT When you see a requester window enter a label here or press [ENTER] to leave it blank and move on to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. MUSIC MUSIC LABEL You can enter a name for this Event line in the requester window. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line, you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. MUSIC TYPE This Event can be used to play music from the PC speaker. This event can also play music while other Events occur, and do sound effects. The music files are Text files; ASCII text files with a suffix .MUS These files should be located in the Audio directo- ry. When the field cursor is in the Event TYPE field and the Event Menu pops up, highlight "Music" and Press [ENTER]. Your choice in the Event field. MUSIC FILE If the Music Method that you specified requires a filename, you see a list of available Music files. If the Music file you wish is not in the directory, you have to Change the Path to find it, or make it with your text editor. Highlight a file and Press [ENTER]. MUSIC METHOD This field is used to determine what kind of music you play. PLAY Play musical notes using the musical information in the Parameters field. PLAYFILE Play musical notes using the information contained in a text file. The name of the file should be in the File column. This method uses the text file lines specified in the Parameters field. KILL Terminate any musical notes that are being Played in the background, that is, Music being played with the MB command which allows the Music to play while you show other Events. TONE Play a tone with a frequency for the duration given in the Parameters field. TONEFILE Play musical tones using the information contained in a text file. The name of the file should be in the File column. This method uses the text file lines specified in the Parameters field. FREQ Sets the speaker frequency to the frequency given in the Parameters field and durations specified in a text file. At the end of the duration, control reverts to TEMPRA SHOW. * USER NOTE * With Freq and Tone the speaker must be ON or you won't hear anything. FREQFILE Set the speaker frequency to the frequencies for the durations specified a text file. The name of the file should be in the File column. This method uses the text file lines specified in the Parameters field. ** USER NOTE ** The speaker must be ON or you won't hear anything. SPEAKER Turn the speaker ON or OFF as specified in the Parameters column. Use this to play the frequency you have set with the Freq Method. LOOP Set the number of times for the next background music line to repeat. A background music line is a SINGLE Play Parameters field or a SINGLE PlayFile line that contains the "MB" command. MUSIC SP/DP This field does not apply to the Music event. MUSIC PARAMETERS PLAY Play musical notes using the information in the Parameters field. PLAYFILE The Parameters field specifies the start and ending lines of the musical information to be played from the text file. First highlight the text line you want to start playing, then press [ENTER]. Then highlight the text line you want to end playing, and press [ENTER]. KILL The Parameters field does not apply to the Music event with a Kill method. TONE Play a tone with the frequency for the duration given in the Parameters field. TONEFILE The Parameters field specifies the start and ending lines of the information in the text file to be played as tones. First highlight the text line you want to start playing as tones, then press [ENTER]. Then highlight the text line you want to end playing, and press [ENTER]. FREQ Set the speaker frequency to the frequency given in the Parameters field. The duration of the frequency, also in Parameters field, tells the system how long to wait before bringing control back to TEMPRA SHOW. ** USER NOTE ** The speaker must be ON or you won't hear any frequencies. FREQFILE The Parameters field specifies the start and ending lines of the information in the text file to be played as frequencies. First highlight the text line you want to start playing as tones, then press [ENTER]. Then highlight the text line you want to end playing, and press [ENTER]. The text file sets the speaker frequency to various frequencies, each for a specified duration, using the information contained in a text file. The duration pertains to the length of time from the start of the frequency to the time control returns to TEMPRA SHOW. ** USER NOTE ** The speaker must be ON or you won't hear any fre- quencies. SPEAKER ON You must turn the speaker on before you can play Frequencies. When you turn this on, you hear the Frequency that the speaker was set to last. OFF Turn the speaker off to stop the Frequencies. LOOP Set the number of times for the next background music line to repeat. A background music line is a Play parameters field or a PlayFile line that con- tains the "MB" command. MUSIC WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait" notice that no entry goes on the form. "Don't Wait" is the default, so waiting only happens when there is an explicit thing to Wait For. This would not normally be used with music events. MUSIC NEXT Your choice is entered and your cursor moves to Next. Notice the requester window. This means that Next is a field where you type something rather than select an option. It is not required, however, so Type a Next and/or Press [ENTER] to move to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. SCREEN SCREEN LABEL You can enter a name for this event line in the requester window. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. SCREEN TYPE Select this to show a full frame graphic or con- verted digitized video image in your Sequence. This is displayed with the current palette and mode. A Screen remains on your video monitor until another Screen or BColor Event replaces it. SCREEN FILE You see a list of available Screens. Be sure to choose a screen that was created in the same video mode you are showing it in. When made, your choice appears in the File field, the highlight goes to the Method field, and the Wipe Menu appears. SCREEN METHOD All Screens are wiped into the active View port ONLY. Wipe name Wipe description ----------------------------- Lft_Rt Left to Right Rt_Lft Right to Left Tp_Bot Top to Bottom Bot_Tp Bottom to Top Vrt_In Vertical In to Center Vrt_Out Vertical Out from Center Hrz_In Horizontal In to Center Hrs_Out Horizontal Out from Center Dissolve Random fill Box_In A box from screen frame In Box_Out A box from screen center Out Diag_UL Diagonal to the Upper Left corner Diag_LL Diagonal to the Lower Left corner Diag_UR Diagonal to the Upper Right corner Diag_LR Diagonal to the Lower Right corner Slide_U Slide up from the bottom Slide_D Slide down from the Top Slide_L Slide from the left Slide_R Slide from the right Sand_UP The image dribbles up the screen from the bottom Sand_DN The image dribbles down the screen from the top Drip_UP The image lines drip up the screen. Drip_DN The image lines drip down the screen Spr_IN Spiral in from frame Spr_OUT Spiral out from center Preload Load a Screen into memory Quick Fastest fill RollUp Whole screen rolls up only in standard VGA modes SCREEN SP/DP Choose a Speed to control the wipe and Press [ENTER]. 1 is the slowest and 99 is the fastest. Your choice appears. The Display option is skipped. Screens are always Permanent Events. SCREEN PARAMETERS The Parameters field is used when you are bringing in a Screen that is to be scaled or positioned. AS IS Bring the image onto the video screen with the selected wipe. No entry appears in this column because this is the default. The image appears with the upper left corner of the image in the upper corner of the visible screen. POSITIONED This selection allows you to select a location for the image you are bringing onto the screen. You choose a location for the placement of the upper left corner of the image by moving the screen cursor and pressing [ENTER]. This feature is intended to be used when the image you are bringing into the visible screen does not fill the screen because it was created in a lower spatial resolution than the current video mode. Naturally, the image you bring in has to have the same number of colors as the current mode. SCALED This selection allows you to bring images onto the visible screen and scale them to the size you like. The image you bring in has to have the same number of colors as the current mode. You choose the area you want to scale the intended image to by moving the screen cursor to the lower left corner of the area, pressing [ENTER] and then moving the cursor to the upper right corner, and pressing [ENTER]. Use your best judgment if you want the scaling to be proportional; This is not done automatically for you. SCREEN WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait", notice that no entry goes on the form. "Don't Wait" is the default, so waiting only happens when there is an explicit thing to Wait For. SCREEN NEXT Your choice is entered and your cursor moves to Next. Notice that you see a requester window. This means you can enter text here or press [ENTER] to leave it blank and move on to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. ** USER NOTE ** Be sure to use images with the same palette when you are wiping from one image to another. If the palettes are different, go to a background color, load the palette and then bring in the image. (See Video LoadPal) SPRITE SPRITE LABEL You can enter a name for this event line in the requester window. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line, you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. SPRITE TYPE Select this Event to bring a movable, graphic or converted digital picture clip into your Sequence. The Sprites can also be static and scaled if you like. SPRITE FILE Highlight a file and Press [ENTER]. Your choice appears in the File field. Be sure the Sprite you choose was created in the same video mode and pal- ette you are using. SPRITE METHOD WIPE When you want to wipe the Sprite onto the screen select a Wipe type. Wipe Menu Lft_Rt Left to Right Rt_Lft Right to Left Tp_Bot Top to Bottom Bot_Tp Bottom to Top Vrt_In Vertical In to Center Vrt_Out Vertical Out from Center Hrz_In Horizontal In to Center Hrs_Out Horizontal Out from Center Dissolve Random fill Box_In A box from screen frame In Box_Out A box from screen center Out Diag_UL Diagonal to Upper Left corner Diag_LL Diagonal to Lower Left corner Diag_UR Diagonal to Upper Right corner Diag_LR Diagonal to Lower Right corner Slide_U *Slide up from the bottom Slide_D *Slide down from the Top Slide_L *Slide from the left Slide_R *Slide from the right Sand_UP *The image dribbles up the screen from the bottom Sand_DN *The image dribbles down the screen from the top Drip_UP *Image appears line by line to drip up the screen. Drip_DN *Image appears line by line to drip down the screen Spr_IN Spiral in from frame Spr_IN Spiral in from frame Spr_OUT Spiral out from center Preload No Effect on Sprite Quick Fastest fill * May modify the area behind the Sprite. SPRITE METHOD SIMPLE To get the Sprite to just appear, select Simple. SCALE Use this to scale the Sprite before you show it on the screen. This Method allows you to make a sprite any size your Sprite buffer can hold. The size of the sprite buffer varies according to systems re- sources, if you have not set it with the Sprite_Buf environmental variable. After you choose the Scale Method you see the chosen Sprite and the screen instruction. As you move the screen cursor, notice the two indicators on the bottom of the screen. You can see the percentage of the scaling and the size of the Sprite in bytes. If you try to scale the sprite to a size that the system cannot accommodate, you are informed. When you press [ENTER], the percentage of the scaling is entered into the Method column. This scaling is always proportional. SPRITE SP/DP SPEED The Speed controls the number of pixels your window moves at a time from its beginning to ending posi- tion. Choose a Speed. (1 is slowest and 99 is fastest.) DISPLAY Choose a Display type. Permanent sticks all foreground Events to the background. Temporary stays in the foreground until further notice. Erase After Display removes all foreground Events. Your Display type appears alongside your Speed choice and the highlight cursor moves to the Parame- ters field. SPRITE PARAMETERS On your video screen, the Sprite you selected now sits in the lower left corner. On your computer, a prompt asks you to "Use your cursor keys to move the Sprite to its beginning position. Then Press [ENTER]". If you do not see the Sprite it may be out of the active Viewport. Press the Space Bar to see the active Viewport as a square and to reveal the Sprite. Notice the x and y coordinate prompts on the status line. They change as you move your Sprite. Use the cursor keys to position the Sprite at its beginning position. (Holding the Shift key down moves the Sprite more slowly.) Then Press [ENTER]. A second prompt now asks you to "Use your cursor keys to move the Sprite to its ending position. Then Press [ENTER]". As you move your Sprite, the x and y coordinate prompts on the status line change. The Sprite remains on your video monitor at the end position. Your beginning (bx,by) and ending (ex,ey) coordinates now appear in the Parameters field. Your cursor moves to the Wait For field and the Wait Menu pops up. SPRITE WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait", notice that no entry goes on the form. "Don't Wait" is the default, so waiting only happens when there is an explicit thing to Wait For. SPRITE NEXT Type a Next and/or Press [ENTER] to move to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. ** USER NOTE ** We have approached Sprites from a Create with prompts standpoint. When you become familiar with the options and know file names, you can go in and type them instead of dealing with prompts. (See Edit) When you are editing Sprite events with the Menu/Prompt, mode you should know that the Sprite is placed on the screen in the same first position as the one currently on the form. You can press [Esc] to keep that position, but you can move the Sprite to the ending position if you want to change that. SPRITES AND TEMPRA The Sprites are currently in the PCX format that is called PCC for 256 color modes and .WIN for 32,000 color modes. Your Sprites must be constructed so that they do not leave "garbage" or "trails" on your graphics screen when they move. This requires you to have a border around the Sprite object that is as wide as the fastest Speed you choose to move the window. Remember the speeds are calculated by the number of pixels moved in a cycle. The border whould be black (RGB 0,0,0) To create a Sprite with TEMPRA, save a clipping of the sprite image with a black border (RGB 0,0,0). If your version of TEMPRA PRO or TEMPRA GIF does not have the .PCC file type, you may rename a .PCX image to .PCC to create a sprite. SYSTEM SYSTEM LABEL When the field cursor is on the left-most column, press [ENTER] and see the requester window. You can enter a name for this event line right here. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line, you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. SYSTEM TYPE Select this Event to execute programs stored on your hard drive or to call DOS functions. The field cursor goes in the Event TYPE field, and the Event Menu pops up. Highlight "System" and Press [ENTER], and your choice appears in the Event field. SYSTEM FILE Does not apply here. SYSTEM METHOD Choose the amount of memory you need in the shell: ALL, 100K, 200K, 300K, or 400K. SYSTEM SP/DP Does not apply here. SYSTEM PARAMETERS After you have chosen the System Type, you see a requester window near the field cursor asking you to "Input DOS Parameters". The entry you make is executed by the computer as if you had entered it from the system prompt. After the program you named in the Parameter field runs, control passes to the Sequence once again. SYSTEM WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait" notice that no entry goes on the form. "Don't Wait" is the default so waiting only happens when there is an explicit thing to Wait For. SYSTEM NEXT Your choice is entered and your cursor moves to Next. Notice that you see a requester window. This means that Next is a field where you type something rather than select an option. Type a Next and/or Press [ENTER] to move to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. TEXT TEXT LABEL When the cursor is in the left-most field, Press [ENTER] and see the requester window. You can enter a name for an Event line right here. This is op- tional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line, you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. TEXT TYPE This Event can be used to place a Text file over a graphic or image during your Sequence, while you are in graphics mode. You can put the text in a window box or overlay text files on the screen in any of the fonts provided. Text files are ASCII text files with a suffix .TXT. (See User Notes on creating Text files with a text editor.) The field cursor goes in the Event TYPE field, and The Event Menu pops up. Highlight "Text" and Press [ENTER], and your choice appears in the Event field. TEXT FILE You see a list of available Text files based on your Path file (See Path). If the Text file you wish is not in the directory, you have to Change the Path to find it, or make it with your text editor. Select a file. TEXT METHOD Choose font (the method for text display): the default, VV fonts or KST fonts. When you choose VV or KST fonts, you see a list of Fonts. Choose one and proceed to the Display Menu. Choosing the Default font lets yo u show the font set with the Global Event. TEXT SP/DP There are no speed options, but 2 display option types: 1) Choose one of the three choices. Permanent sticks all foreground Events to the background. Temporary stays in the foreground until urther notice. Erase After Display removes all fore ground Events. 2) Choose the line in the Text file to start the display. Use the cursor keys to scroll through the file and find the line you want. TEXT PARAMETERS The Parameters field is where you determine the color of the text and whether you want a frame around it. If you want a frame, then you are able to give the user the ability to operate the window. You set the size and location of the window. When you are creating the Text Event for the first time, you are given all the set up choices in order. When you are editing, you are presented with a menu asking which of the options you want to modify. COLOR You are asked if you want to select the color from the graphics screen. If so, you are presented with a cursor that has a square border. The cursor's border color is the selected color. Move the cursor over the color you want to select and press [ENTER]. If you want a color from the color menu, say no, and then you see the color menu. Select the color you want from the colors in the smaller squares. NOT FRAMED If you want the text to be written over the image without a frame, but written directly over the image, then answer NO to the "Framed?" question. FRAMED If you want the text in a framed window answer YES to the "Framed ?" question. A framed window has the color attributes set with the Global Event. The Global values for the windows at start up are the same used by the Workform. Answer NO and the text is placed directly over the image. OPERATE/FRAME If you choose Framed text, this lets you allow the user to operate the text window, by scrolling through it with the mouse or cursor keys. It also allows the user to pan right and left to see long lines of text that do not fit into the text window. Framed text that cannot be operated only displays the text you choose. WIDTH/HEIGHT Once the operation question is answered for framed windows, you must set the size of the windows. The text from the file is shown on the screen. Use the cursor keys or mouse to stretch the frame until it is large enough for your text. JUSTIFY You have the ability to see the text with Left or Right justification, or centered. Use this choice to set this. Remember that TEMPRA SHOW thinks spaces are characters, so if you have spaces on the end of your text lines the centering will not look the way you want. If this is the case go back in to the text file with your text editor and delete the spaces at the end of the lines. POSITION Now that the text display options have been set, it is time to place the text on the screen. The Text is seen ONLY when it is within the active Viewport. If you cannot see the Text to position it, press the Space bar to reveal the Viewport as a square, and to show your text. Your computer screen prompts you to "Use your cursor keys to position your Text. Then Press [ENTER]." Notice the x,y coordinate prompt in the corner of the screen. Use your cursor keys to position your Text and Press [ENTER]. The Text coordinates appear in the Parameters field. Your highlight cursor moves to the Wait For field and the Wait Menu pops up. TEXT WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait" notice that no entry goes on the form. "Don't Wait" is the default, so waiting only happens when there is an explicit thing to Wait For. TEXT NEXT Your choice is entered and your cursor moves to Next. Notice the requester window. This means that Next is a field where you type something rather than select an option. It is not required, however, so Type a Next and/or Press [ENTER] to move to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. ** USER NOTE ** We have approached Text from a Create with prompts standpoint. When you become familiar with the options and know the names of the files you use for any Event, you can go in and type them instead of dealing with prompts. You can also change the x and y positions with the Keyboard editing features. Creating Text Files With a Text Editor Text files can be created and edited prior to or while running TEMPRA SHOW by any editor that can operate in non- document (ASCII) mode. Be sure to save your Text file (suffix .TXT) to the proper directory. TITLE TITLE LABEL You can enter a name for this event line in the requester window. This is optional, but if you ever expect to Branch to this line, you NEED a label for it. Either type in a unique name and press [ENTER] to create a label for the line, or just press [ENTER] to leave this label blank. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. TITLE TYPE Select this Event to place a Title with a font and color of your choice in your Sequence. Titles are not stored in their own files. They are part of your Sequence Workform file. This saves space on your hard drive. TITLE FILE This field is not used with the TITLE event. TITLE METHOD The cursor moves to the Method field and the Title Font Menu pops up. Choose the default (set with the globals), VV font or a KST font. You see a sub menu if you did not select the default. Highlight a Font and Press [ENTER], and your choice appears in the Method field and the cursor moves to Sp/Dp. TITLE SP/DP Note that Titles don't use a Speed, so you only see the Display menu. Highlight a Display type and Press [ENTER]. Permanent sticks all foreground Events to the background. Temporary stays in the foreground until further notice. Erase After Display removes all foreground Events. TITLE PARAMETERS CREATE NEW TITLES The cursor moves to the Parameters field and the prompt "Input Title" appears. Titles may be up to 10 alphanumeric characters in length. (See User Notes for information on longer Titles.) Type a Title and Press [ENTER]. You are asked if you want to choose the color from the screen or not. If you choose to pick a color from the screen, you see a small cursor with a colored box on top of your image. As you move the cursor, you see that the colored box changes color. It is showing you the color of the pixel on the screen, under the cursor. It is this color that is the background color when you press [ENTER]. If you choose not to pick the color from the menu then your graphics screen is replaced with another. In the center of this new screen sits a large col- ored square, with a row of smaller colored squares running underneath. Select the color you want from the small squares and then select OKAY. TEMPRA SHOW now restores the previous screen. The Title, with the options you've specified, appears in the lower left corner. The Title only shows up in the active Viewport. If you can not see the Title it may be because the Title is outside the active Viewport. Press the Space bar to reveal the active Viewport as a square, and to show your Title. Your computer screen prompts: "Use your cursor keys to position your Title. Then Press [ENTER]". Titles only have one set of coordinates. Notice the x,y coordinate prompt on the graphics screen status line near the Viewport status notice. Use your cursor keys to position your Title and Press [ENTER]. Holding the keys down moves them faster. The x,y coordinate prompt will change as your Title moves. The Title coordinates and color number (followed by a small letter c) appear in the Parameters field. EDITING TITLE EVENTS When you position the field cursor over the Parame- ters field of a Title Event and press [ENTER] you can see a menu giving you choices to edit a single attribute of the Title Event or all of them. ALL Selecting this Title Editing option recreates the process of making the Title as if you were doing it for the first time. Please refer to the material directly above this for that explanation. TITLE Selecting this option allows you to edit only the title itself. The prompt "Input Title" appears. Titles may be up to 10 alphanumeric characters in length. POSITION Your computer screen prompts: "Use your cursor keys to position your Title. Then Press [ENTER]". Titles only have one set of coordinates. Notice the x,y coordinate prompt on the Workform status line near the Viewport status notice. Position your Title and Press [ENTER]. COLOR Selecting this option lets you change only the color of the title. You are asked if you want to choose the color from the screen or not. If you choose to pick a color from the screen, you see a small cursor with a colored box on top of your image. As you move the cursor, you see that the colored box changes color. It is showing you the color of the pixel on the screen, under the cursor. It is this color that becomes the background color when you press [ENTER]. If you choose not to pick the color from the menu then your graphics screen is replaced with another. In the center of this new screen sits a large, colored square, with a row of smaller, colored squares running underneath. A message atop the screen gives you a number for the color value in the large square. Select the color you want from the small squares, then select OKAY. TEMPRA SHOW now restores the previous screen, and the Title, with the options you've specified, appears in the lower left corner. The Title only shows up in the active Viewport. If you cannot see the Title, it may be because the Title is outside the active Viewport. Press the Space bar to reveal the active Viewport as a square, and to show your Title. ** USER NOTE ** You can create Titles as long as you wish by creating subsequent Title Events and positioning them accordingly. If you are thinking of making a long title, you might want to consider using a Text Event. TITLE WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait", you may notice that no entry goes on the form. "Don't Wait" is the default, so waiting only happens when there is an explicit thing to Wait For. TITLE NEXT Your choice is entered and your cursor moves to Next. Notice the requester window. This means that Next is a field where you type something rather than select an option. It is not required, however, so type a Next and/or Press [ENTER] to go to the fol- lowing line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field. VIDEO VIDEO LABEL You can enter a name for this event line here. This is optional, but if you expect to Branch to this line you, NEED a label for it. EVERY LABEL MUST BE UNIQUE. VIDEO TYPE Select this Event to load a new palette, cycle the colors, fade to or from black, set a new video mode, or save what is on the graphics screen at run-time. The field cursor goes in the Event field, and the Event Menu pops up. Select "Video" from the Event menu, press [ENTER] and "Video" is entered onto your Workform. VIDEO FILE This option is used in conjunction with the SAVE PICTURE, LOAD PALETTE, FADE, and AAPLAY options. You are brought back to it after you have chosen one of those options. For Save Picture use the reques- ter window to enter a file name for the image that is saved at execution time. VIDEO METHOD LOADPAL This Method allows you to load in individual pal- ettes that have been created to optimize the quality of the VGA image. The palettes are part of the images so you must select from the image directory. After you select this Method, the field cursor goes to the File column. Select the file you want from the directory menu on the screen. CYCLECOL This Method allows you to have a range of colors in the palette shifted in round robin style. This Event can be used to create interesting visual effects. SETMODE This Method allows you to use choose the video mode and use any resolution that is available in your video board. SAVE PICTURE This Method allows you to save all or part of what you currently have on the VGA Graphics screen during run-time. It goes to a file in the screen direc- tory. After you select this, the field cursor goes to the File column. You see a requester window near the field cursor. Use this to enter a file name for the image to be saved when the Event is executed. FADE IN This Method allows you to Fade an image in from black. The image that is brought in is designated in the File field. (This feature may not work on all VGA cards.) In order to use this the image you want to fade in has to already be loaded in with a Screen Event. This Event only affects the palette of the image. FADE OUT This Method allows you to Fade an image Out to black. The image that is faded out is designated in the File field, and it should be the current image on the graphics screen. This Event only affects the palette of the image.(This feature may not work on all VGA cards.) VIEWPORT VIEWOFF This method allows you to create an "active zone" in your visible graphics screen. This hole becomes the only active area on the screen. You can move Sprites past it, wipe images into it, etc. Every- thing that shows on the graphics screen shows up ONLY if it is within the active Viewport. You MUST reset the Viewport to include other areas of the screen if you want to use other parts of the screen after you have used the Viewport once. You can turn it off with Viewoff. ** USER NOTE ** In the 16 color modes you may see that some Sprites have a change in screen location when used with a Viewport. This is due to a byte boundary constraint that causes the bytes in the pixels to realign themselves at run-time. Please adjust your Viewport to accommodate this. This method is used to restore the whole graphics screen as the active screen. It sets the Viewport off. INFOWIND This method is used with a variety of Parameters to control the output of an IBM Infowindow. You can use it to show graphics according to the mode you are in. (There is no VGA in the Infowindow) You can use it to show video coming through the Infowindow. AAPLAY This method is used to play *.FLI and *.FLC files made with Autodesk's Animator and Animator Pro. The Animator programs are used to create little movies called flicks. Once they have been made you can show them with TEMPRA SHOW. We give you the abili- ty to pause and restart the flicks while they are running. You can do this just by pressing the [Space Bar]. To restart the flick, all you have to do is press the [ENTER] key. After you select this video method, the field cursor hops back on the Workform and lands in the file field. Select your *.FLI or *.FLC file from this directory menu. Running a *.FLI or *.FLC file will change the current palette to the one used in the *.FLI or *.FLC file, even after the flick has finished playing. RESET PAL This method is used to reset the palette to the TEMPRA SHOW default palette. SCROLLUP This method is used to scroll a text file up the video screen in a framed or unframed colored box. Text is scrolled in the Global font. You can set the location and size of the window, and the color and justification of the text. TICKER This method is used to move text in a horizontal bar on the screen. This is a Ticker tape effect, called a crawl by video people. The bar can be any place on the screen, have any length, and the text can be any color in the palette. The font is set with the Global Font method. CEG MODE This method is used to activate the Edsun CEG/DAC Continuous Edge Graphics chip. The various modes are set in the Parameters field. You must make sure the mode you set is consistent with the CEG image you are showing. This setting is automatically turned off if you make any subsequent Events that change the palette. These include color cycling, loading or resetting palettes, and playing FLI files. VIDEO SP/DP CYCLE COLOR When this field is used in the CycleCol method, it is used to determine how quickly you want the colors to cycle. AAPLAY - SPEED When this field is used as part of a AaPlay Video Event, it is used to govern the speed of the Flick file playback. 1 is very slow and 99 is as fast as possible. Use speed 0 to play the *.FLI or *.FLC at the speed you set in the Animator program. AAPLAY - DISPLAY Flick files can be made Permanent, Temporary, or Erasing. This setting has an effect on your current palette, since FLI and FLC files have their own palettes. If you make this a Permanent or Temporary Event, the palette changes and you have to reload a new palette or use the palette from the FLI or FLC file. If you choose Erasing then the old palette is restored before the previous screen is displayed on the visible screen. SCROLLUP - SPEED The Speed setting here is used to determine how fast the text scrolls up the screen. SCROLLUP - DISPLAY Scrolling text can be made Permanent, Temporary, or Erasing. TICKER - SPEED The Speed setting here is used to determine how fast the text crawls across the screen. TICKER - DISPLAY Ticker text can be made Permanent, Temporary, or Erasing. VIDEO PARAMETERS SETMODE You can choose from the following video modes. You get the results you expect if you have: the memory to support the mode you select, the hardware to support the mode you select, and an image to display that is compatible with the mode you select. If you do not have EMS you may get VERY SLOW DIS- PLAY OR other unexpected results from using video modes above the IBM standard VGA modes. VIDEO PARAMETERS COLOR CYCLING This field is used to determine the beginning and ending colors and for the cycling. Color cycling is accomplished by changing the color palette. Color Cycling is availbale on display modes with 16 or 256 colors only. When the Cycle Color menu screen is first dis- played, you select the color to be the beginning color in the cycle by moving your cursor control device right and left. When you see the color you want, press [ENTER]. Repeat the process to choose the ending color. Now choose the number of color shifts you want. If you have a range of colors to cycle that is 15b 25e, it takes 10 color shifts for the colors to return to the starting place. You can proceed to the next Event after shifting any number of times. We have supplied you with the option of entering a "0" if you want a complete cycle. ** USER NOTE ** The color palette is rearranged by the LoadPal and CycleCol Events. If you load in a new palette when there is a VGA Graphic on the screen the new palette changes the appearance of the VGA Graphic before the next screen can be loaded. If you don't do a com- plete cycle, the colors in later Events may not appear as you expect. VIDEO for Infowindow Select this Parameter to make the IBM Infowindow display show Video from the external source it is connected to. If there is no video coming into the Infowindow display, executing this event blanks the screen. GRAPHICS for Infowindow Select this Parameter to make the IBM Infowindow display show graphics from the PC. You can show CGA and EGA graphics with an Infowindow, but you cannot show VGA. This is a limitation of the Infowindow graphics hardware. Be sure you have selected the correct video mode. OVERLAY for Infowindow Select this Parameter to mix computer output with video coming in from an external source on the IBM Infowindow display. You can show 80 column text, CGA, and EGA graphics with an Infowindow, but you cannot show VGA. This is a limitation of the Info- window graphics hardware. Be sure you have selected the correct video mode. Black (color 0) is the invisible color so every pixel that is black becomes transparent. RESET for Infowindow Select this Parameter Resets the Infowindow to a default condition. The default condition results in: Auxiliary output enabled, Transparency disabled, normal palette, normal graphics and video, composite input 1 enabled, interlace disabled. Please refer to your Infowindow documentation for more information on reset. SCROLL UP This field is used to set up the scrolling text. There is a series of parameters to set in this Video Method. When you enter the Parameters field as you first make the Event, you go through all the choices. When you edit the Parameters field, you have the choice of which part of the series you want to change. POSITION Use the mouse or cursor keys to locate the text on the visible screen. Be sure to keep all of the text on the screen in the active Viewport. COLOR Select the color for the text from the image you have on the visible screen. To do this, move the cursor until the cross is over the color you want. When you see that the square border around the cursor is the color you desire, press [ENTER]. You can select the color from a color menu that repre- sents all the colors in the palette. WIDTH/HEIGHT Set the Width and Height with the mouse or cursor keys by stretching the box around the text on the screen. While you size the box with the mouse or cursor keys, notice that it moves in character based increments. This allows sizing by number of charac- ters wide and number of lines high. FRAME You can choose to have the scrolling text appear inside a border or not. Scrolling text appears in a rectangle of the color set in the Global Event under text background. JUSTIFY You can choose to have the lines of text in your scrolling text window justified to the Right, Left, or Center of the window. Please keep in mind that TEMPRA SHOW thinks spaces are characters, so if the justification does not look as you expected, check the end of the lines of text to see that there are not trailing spaces in the file. TICKER This field is used to move text across the screen like a ticker tape. There is a series of parameters to set in this Video Method. When you enter the Parameters field as you first make the Event, you go through all the choices. When you edit the Parame- ters field you have the choice of which part of the series you want to change. POSITION Use the mouse or cursor keys to locate the Ticker on the visible screen. Be sure to keep all of the text on the screen in the active Viewport. COLOR Select the color for the text from the image you have on the visible screen. To do this, move the cursor until the cross is over the color you want. When you see that the square border around the cursor is the color you desire, press [ENTER]. Or you can select the color from a color bar that represents all the colors in the palette. To do this, move the cursor under the color bar until the square in the center of the screen is the color you like, then press [ENTER]. The color selection sets the color for the text characters. The background for the characters is set with the Global Event. WIDTH Set the Width with the mouse or cursor keys by stretching the box around the text on the screen. While you size the box with the mouse or cursor keys, notice that it moves in character-based incre- ments. This allows sizing by number of characters wide. If you change fonts, you should change the width of the box. FRAME You can choose to have the ticker tape appear inside a border, or not. The text appears in a rectangle of the color set in the Global Event under text background. VIDEO PARAMETERS CEG MODE This field is used to set which CEG mode you want to activate. This mode setting must work in combi- nation with the Video mode you have set and the method you used to create the images. For more information on CEG modes and images please refer to the Edsun Documentation and data sheets. The table for the modes follows: CEG MODE CEG method EDP Pixel Replication Mode 5 Basic 8 Mode 6 Basic 8 Yes Mode 9 Advanced 4 Mode 10 Advanced 4 Yes Mode 11 Advanced 4 Yes Mode 13 Advanced 8 Mode 14 Advanced 8 Yes Mode 15 Advanced 8 Yes ** USER NOTE ** CEG Encoding methods with 8's in the name are for 256 color VGA Video modes, and those with 4's in them are for 16 color modes. AAPLAY The Parameters field holds the location you choose to show the FLI and FLC files. When you go to position one of these files you will see a ghost box. Where ever you place this box is where you will see the FLI of FLC play. VIDEO WAIT FOR Choose a Wait option and Press [ENTER]. If you choose "Don't Wait" notice that no entry goes on the form. "Don't Wait" is the default, so waiting only happens when there is an explicit thing to Wait For. VIDEO NEXT Your choice is entered and your cursor moves to Next. Notice that you see a requester window. This means you can enter text here or press [ENTER] to leave it blank and move on to the following line. Any entry causes the program to jump to the line that has a Label matching the entry in the Next Field.