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- Alpine Dox
-
- •What is alpine?
-
- Alpine is a program that will read in one PICTure and display it to a window.
- When the cursor is inside that window, another window will tell the mouse
- coordinates (local).
-
- •Of what use is this?
-
- Ordinarly, of very little use. This is very handy if you need to know the
- pixel location of objects on a picture; I wrote this program in conjunction
- with a function i wrote called PictureWindow(). It reads a PICT resource
- in, sends it to a window, and waits until the user presses an okay button,
- as defined by the programmer through another picture. What to display
- when the button is pressed is stored as another picture. Where to display
- the depressed button...that is the reason i wrote this. In order to
- use PictureWindow() properly, you need to know where on the picture/window
- the okay button is. With alpine, just drag the picture over the program
- and move your cursor appropriately.
-
- This program should be a godsend to programmers.
-
- •What are some features?
-
- Well, right off, it's my first drop-n-drag application. (I can't believe
- how easy AppleEvents are to write!). It's been throughly tested on a
- Macintosh LC][ running system 7.1. The only option is to open a picture.
- (If you want to open a new picture, use the menu--it will automatically
- close your current picture and open a new one).
-
- •How much does it cost?
-
- Nothing. It's freeware. I wrote this primarily for myself, and i don't
- expect many others will find it useful. (I felt so much like this that
- I didn't even bother finding/making an icon for it!)
-
- All I ask is that if programmers do use Alpine, be sure to give me
- some credit.
-
- •What else have you written?
-
- A lot of junk. Of late, and most noteworthy, is AutoLauncher (automatically
- launches a program at a given time, and/or shuts down the computer at
- a given time) and Cloaker (encodes resources, moves resources, either
- between resources or to/from a data file; this is HEAVEN for a programmer).
- I plan to write a graphic adventure game template called Genesis, and
- with it, an adventure. I expect this to be very big...
-
- •Credits
-
- Well...the only one i can think of thanking is Dave Mark, who wrote some
- excellent learning material...
-
- •Version History
-
- 1.0a: initial release. (not expecting any future releases, either).