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- ColorBox (C)1989 MimSys,
- All rights reserved.
- ColorBox is NOT free software.
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- Distributed in North America by
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- NEOCOM Microspecialists, Inc.
- P.O. Box 1157
- Bassett, VA 24055
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- Print ORDER.FRM and send it to
- NEOCOM with $24.95 plus $5.00
- for postage and handling to
- register your copy of ColorBox.
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- After registering your copy of
- ColorBox you will recieve printed
- documentation and the latest
- version. As well as free phone
- tech support.
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- Registration entitles you to to
- the programmer's toolboxes in
- Borland's Turbo Pascal and C. These
- toolboxes allow you to change the
- palette in your programs using
- palettes created in ColorBox.
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- SOURCE CODE INCLUDED.
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- ColorBox is a great utility to
- allow you to change the colors to
- the way you like for virtually
- any application that you have.
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- ColorBox is also a fantastic
- development tool! You can create
- unique looking programs woo and
- wow end users!
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- ColorBox lets you turn the screen
- colors to any desired shade out
- of the full VGA 256K palette!
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- Use cursor keys Left/Right to
- adjust the colors, and Up/Down
- to change menu item.
- Press <Enter> to choose menu
- items below color adjustment.
- Press <Esc> to leave ColorBox.
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- Color
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- Lets you choose which color to
- adjust. The colors are numbered
- from 0 to 15. Be careful with
- adjusting colors 0 and 7, which
- are the normal forground/back-
- ground colors.
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- Use cursor keys Left/Right.
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- Hue
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- The Hue of a color is shown in
- degrees of the color circle.
- Red is at around 0, Yellow at 60,
- Green at 120 and Blue at 210.
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- Use cursor keys Left/Right.
- Press Shift - Left/Right to move
- around the circle in steps of 30
- degrees.
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- Lightness/Saturation
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- The Lightness and Saturation of
- a color is shown in percentage.
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- Use cursor keys Left/Right.
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- Press Shift - Left/Right to move
- in steps of 10%.
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- Color Display
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- Press <Enter> to change between
- single color/all colors display.
- In single color mode only the
- current color to adjust is shown.
- In all colors view all 16 colors
- are shown simultaneously, and the
- Color Blend function becomes
- available. The points mark the
- foreground/background text color.
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- Color System
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- Press <Enter> to change between
- HLS/RGB color system.
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- With HLS you work with the colors
- in the "natural" terms of Hue,
- Lightness and Saturation.
- With RGB you work with the colors
- in terms of Red, Green and Blue
- values, each between 0 and 63.
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- Arrows
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- Use Left/Right cursor keys to
- move the ColorBox window to a
- new position on the screen.
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- Color Blend
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- Blend the colors 1-6 or 8-15.
- Set the beginning and end color
- (1/6 or 8/15) and press <Enter>.
- The colors will be blended on the
- side where the color cursor is.
- If in HLS-mode, the colors will
- mix along the color circle.
- If in RGB-mode, the colors will
- mix like when mixing paint.
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- Load Palette
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- Browse through available palette
- files on disk by pressing Up/Down
- keys.
- Press <Enter> to choose palette.
- Press <Esc> to exit without load-
- ing.
- Note: Colorbox will look for the
- palette files in the directory
- from where ColorBox was loaded.
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- Save Palette
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- Save the current palette.
- Write palette-file name, up to 8
- letters long, and press <Enter>.
- Press <Esc> to exit.
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- Note: The palette-file is auto-
- matically given the subfix 'cbp',
- and saved to the directory from
- where ColorBox was loaded.
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