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- VGIX .25 alpha 9-15-92 Copyright (C) Roland De Graaf 1992
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- This is one of the introductory demo releases of VGIX, the graphical front-end
- written specifically for The Virtual BBS/NET ver 5.6x and up.
-
- .25 alpha introduces some new things:
- 1- Dialing Directory with Auto-Login to VBBS Boards
- 2- Simultaneous File Downloading
- 3- Faster, smoother operation
-
- .20 alpha introduces some new things:
- 1- Fast pop up System Info box
- 2- List Box GUI object (mouseable, arrow keys, etc)
- 3- Better VGIX internal menu organization
-
-
- .15 alpha introduces Ctrl E on-the-fly quick-box handling.
- This lets VGIX become much more mousable within VBBS.
- Quick-Boxes can be activated under mouse control.
- also features more icons.
-
- VGIX stands for Virtual Graphic Interactive Executive.
-
- VGIX main task is to receive and execute the VGIX command set,
- as issued by VBBS and other programs, as set forth by the VGIX standard/1
- as outlined by Roland De Graaf.
-
- In addition, VGIX automatically handles standard ANSI codes, and can
- interpret VBBS "heart codes" directly.
-
- VGIX.EXE -- The VGIX Program
- ICONS.VGI -- VGIX Icons
-
- An ICON Editor is available separately.
-
- VGIX requires a VGA or better display, and mouse support is provided.
- (Note: Be sure your mouse driver is loaded!)
-
- VGIX/VBBS provides you with:
- -Free-lance grahics capabilties
- -ICONified menus with mouse support
- -Yes/No Pop-Up Requestors (Space-Bar to temp. hide requestor)
- -Ctrl E Quick-Box Selectors
- -Music and Sound Capabilities
-
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- How to use .25 alpha:
-
- Put the files VGIX.EXE and ICONS.VGI in the directory you intend to execute
- them from. If you have ICONEDIT.EXE, put it there too.
-
- Execute VGIX.EXE.
-
- VGIX .25 alpha only works with VBBS boards running VBBS ver 5.6x or higher!
-
- NOTE: Be sure you set your VBBS account video mode to VGIX!
-
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-
- VGIX .25 alpha command set capabilities:
-
- -Graphics primitives: (as known by their Vscript Commands)
-
-
- CLS
- LINE x y x2 y2 color boxflag
- PAINT x y color bordercolor
- PLOT x y color
- COLOR color
- CIRCLE x y radius color
- PALETTE color,VGAcolor
- DRAW actionstring
-
- x and x2 refer to coordinates from 0 to 639.
- y and y2 refer to coordinates from 0 to 479.
- color refers to a color setting from 0 to 15.
- boxflag: 0 draw a line, 1 draw a box.
- bordercolor refers to the color to at which painting stops.
- radius refers to the radius of a circle.
- actionstring (for DRAW) refers to a string such as the following:
- "U2R2D2L2" = Up 2, Right 2, Down 2, Left 2, etc.
-
- -Sound/Music: (as known by their Vscript Commands)
-
- PLAY musicstring
-
- musicstring refers to a string of text such as:
- "ABCDEFGO4L4" = Notes A thru G, go to Octave 4, note Length 1/4, etc.
-
- -ICONs: (as known by their Vscript Commands)
-
- ICONIFY Resets VGIX ICON "counter"
- ICON iconname x y orflag
- ICON iconname x y orflag key caption
-
- iconname is a 12 character icon name.
- x and y are coordinates.
- orflag: 0 = SET ICON, 1 = OVERLAY ICON (over a background).
- key refers to the keystroke to return if this icon is selected.
- caption refers to the caption to be printed under the icon (centered).
-
- Note: If key and caption are absent, the icon is NOT "counted" and
- is not mouseable. Both key and caption must be present for the icon
- to be mousable.
-
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-
- VGIX -- The future:
-
- Add a standard for handling binary images
- Add Transfer Protocols
- Add SoundBlaster Support
-
- .....and much much more!
-
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