CyberEdit is a powerful multi-font editor for 8X16 VGA text fonts. All menus are accessed by pressing Alt+highlighted letter. For example, the "File" menu is pulled down by Alt-F. You can also access the menu by pressing F10 or clicking the mouse on the desired menu item.
Topics
Desk top
Menu
Status
line
File t
Load
Save
Change
directory
shell
View
document
About
Exit
Windows v
Tile
Cascade
Close
Resize
Zoom
Next
Previous
Close
Selector
Tool
Options 6
Screen
Colors
Adjust
palette
Default
font
Press [Esc] to put this help screen away.
The desk top contains a menu, background and status
line. All work takes place on the desk top.
The menu is accessed by pressing F10 or Alt+highlighted letter. For example, the File menu is pulled down by Alt+F. Use cursor keys to move and Enter to select. A mouse can be used by clicking on the desired item.
Status line items are accessed by pressing Alt+highlighted letter or function key. For example, to exit press Alt+X. A mouse can be used by clicking on the desired item.
File
(Alt+F)
The File menu includes choices for loading files, saving files, changing directories, shelling to DOS, viewing the document, file version information and exiting the program.
File
Load
The Load menu allows you to load Character Generator Files .CGF (F3) or one bit PC Paintbrush .PCX (Shift+F3) images into font 2 table. o
Configuration .CFG (Ctrl+F3) files contain VGA font tables 0 - 7, screen options, colors and the DAC palette.
File
Save
The Save menu allows you to save Character Generator Files .CGF (F2) or one bit PC Paintbrush .PCX (Shift+F2) images from font 2 table. o
Configuration .CFG (Ctrl+F2) files contain VGA font tables 0 - 7, screen options, colors and the DAC palette.
File
Change dir...
Change dir brings up the Change directory dialog box, in which you can change the current directory.
File
DOS shell
(F9)
With the DOS Shell command, you can leave the program temporarily to perform a DOS command or run another program. 9
To return to this program, type EXIT at the DOS prompt.
File
View doc
Loads CYBER.DOC into a scrolling window for viewing. CYBER.DOC contains information about CyberEdit. See ORDER.DOC or ORDER.TXT for ordering information.
File
About
Displays version, copyright and mode information.
File
Exit
(Alt+X)
Terminates program.
Window
(Alt+W)
The Window menu contains commands to close, move and perform other window-management commands.
Most of the windows in this program have all the standard window elements, including scroll bars, a close box, and zoom icons.
Window
Tile
Choose Window
Tile to tile all file viewers on the desk top. L
Tiled Windows
Window
Cascade
Choose Window
Cascade to stack all file viewers on the desk top. A
Cascaded Windows
Window
Size/Move
(Ctrl+F5)
Choose this command to change the size or position of the active window.
Size
If you press Shift while you use the arrow keys, you can change the size of the active window. Once you've adjusted its size or position, press Enter. Q
If a window has a Resize corner, you can drag that corner to resize the window.
Move
When you choose Window
Size/Move, the active window moves in response to the arrow keys. Once you've moved the window to where you want it, press Enter. F
You can also move a window by dragging its title bar with the mouse.
Window
Zoom
(F5)
Choose Zoom to resize the active window to the maximum size. If the window is already zoomed, you can choose this command to restore it to its previous size. {
You can also double-click anywhere on the window's title bar (except where an icon appears) to zoom or unzoom the window.
Window
Next
(F6)
Choose Next to cycle forwards through the windows on the desk top.
Window
Close
(Alt+F3)
Choose Close to close the active window. O
You can also click the Close box in the upper right corner to close a window.
Window
Selector
(F7)
Selector brings up the Selector window where you can select characters to edit.
Window
Tool bar
(Shift+F7)
Commonly used functions have been grouped together in a graphic tool bar. Tab to move and Enter to select function. You can also click on the icon with a mouse.
Options
(Alt+O)
The Options menu contains commands that let you set screen options, change the colors, adjust the VGA palette and restore the default font.
Options
Screen...
(Alt+S)
Screen brings up the Screen dialog box, where you can customize the appearance of the desk top.
Options
Colors...
Colors brings up the Colors dialog box, where you can customize the colors of the desk top. Make sure you use only the first 8 colors (0 - 7), since the last 8 colors (8 - 15) are reserved for font 2 table. You may have to set font
2 table to the same VGA table as font 1 table to see the color block next to the names. Remember that colors 8 - 15 are for font 2 table, so there is no telling what it contains.
Options
Adjust palette...
Adjust palette brings up the Adjust
palette dialog box, where you adjust the VGA's DAC registers to any of the 262,144 possible colors.
Options
Default font
(F4)
Loads the default font into font 1 table. The default font is the last font in effect prior to saving the configuration.
Selector window
The status line in the window indicates what character the cursor is on in decimal and hexadecimal.
Home
moves to left most character
End
moves to right most character
Arrow keys
move around window
Enter
select character to edit
Delete
clear character
Space
invert character
Ctrl-Left
shift character 1 pixel left
Ctrl-Right
shift character 1 pixel right
Ctrl-Pg Up
shift character 1 pixel up
Ctrl-Pg Dn
shift character 1 pixel down
Ctrl-Ins
copies character to paste buffer
Shift-Ins
paste character from paste buffer
You can also hold a mouse button down and move around the window. Double click to select character.
The character editor allows you to modify the character you selected. The font table and character code are displayed at the top of the editor.
Home
moves to left most character
End
moves to right most character
Arrow keys
move around window
Enter
copies editor to font table
Space
toggle pixels
Holding down the left mouse button draws and the right button erases.
Adjust palette dialog box
Select color to adjust. The color names are arbitrary and can be made any color. You may have to set font
2 table to the same VGA table as font 1 table to see the color block next to the names. Remember that colors 8 - 15 are for graphics, so there is no telling what is in font 2 table.
Color
Black
Gray
Blue
Light Blue
Green
Light Green
Cyan
Light Cyan
Red
Light Red
Magenta
Light Magenta
Brown
Yellow
Light Gray
White
The Red, Green and Blue sliders allow you the change the RGB levels of the current color. The [Cancel] or [Default] buttons restores the VGA palette to the colors in effect prior to adjustments.
Red
Green
Blue
Screen dialog box
The Screen dialog allows you to set various screen modes and select which VGA font tables to use. Windows 3.x and other OSs that allow task switching may corrupt VGA font tables 2 - 7 during task switches. Only the two BIOS supported tables 0 and 1 are restored correctly under Windows 3.1 with some VGA drivers. You can save your current configuration prior to task switching and later load it if needed. W
Use 640 X 400 to eliminate one pixel gaps caused by standard 720 X 400 VGA text mode.
Paging causes VGA screen page 0 to be copied between pages 1 and 2. This help smooth movement and eliminate flicker. If the desk top becomes too sluggish then you may want to turn off Paging.
8 color mode masks off the high bit of all attribute nibbles forcing colors 8 - 15 the be the same as 0 - 7. If 8 color mode is turned off then all 16 colors can be used.
Screen Mode
640 X 400
Paging
8 Colors
Select which VGA font table to use for the desk top. Make sure that a font resides in the desired VGA table or the screen may turn to garbage. If this happens just restore the default font.
Font 1 table
Select which VGA font table to use for editing fonts. If font 2 table is set the same as font 1 table when you load a PCX file then the screen will turn to garbage. If this happens just restore the default font.
Font 2 table
When saving fonts as .CGF files you can specify the first and last character to save. %
First char
Last char
File dialog box
The File dialog box contains an input box, a file list, a file information panel and a history list that's attached to the Name input box. p
Name
The Name input box is where you enter the name of the file to load, or the file-name mask to use as a filter for the Files list box (for example, *.*).
Files
FONT1.CGF
FONT9.CGF
FONT2.CGF
FONT10.CGF
FONT3.CGF
FONT11.CGF
FONT4.CGF
FONT12.CGF
FONT5.CGF
..
FONT6.CGF
\BOLDFNTS
FONT7.CGF
\ITLFONTS
FONT8.CGF
\GAMEFNTS
The Files list box lists the names of files in the current directory that match the file-name mask in the Name input box, plus the parent directory and all subdirectories.
C:\CYEDIT\BOLDFNTS\*.CGF
BOLDFNT1.CGF 1664 Mar 31, 1994 12:00am
The File information panel shows the path name, file name, date, time, and size of the selected file. =
None of the items on this information panel are selectable.
Change dir dialog box
The Change directory dialog box consists of an input box, a list box, OK, Chdir and Revert buttons. |
Directory Name
The Directory Name input box is where you type in the path of the new directory.
Directory Tree
Drives
C:\
CYEDIT
BOLDFNTS
The Directory Tree list box enables you to navigate directories by using the selecting bar and pressing Enter.
If you're using the keyboard, press Enter to make the selected directory be the current directory, then choose OK or press Esc to exit the dialog box. %
Chdir
The Chdir button changes the current directory once you've selected or typed in a directory name. %
Revert
The Revert button goes back to the previous directory, as long as you haven't yet exited the dialog box.
Colors dialog box
This dialog box is where you can change the colors of different parts of this program.
Group
Desktop
Menus
Help
Gray Windows
Blue Windows
Cyan Windows
The Group list box contains the names of the different regions of the program that you can customize. L
Item
Color
When you select a group from the Group list, the Item list box displays the names of the different views in that region.
Foreground
Background
Text Text Text
Text Text Text
The display text shows the current color or attribute settings. a
Changes do not take effect on the desktop until you close the Colors dialog box by choosing OK.
Window
Close all
Choose Close all to remove all windows from the desk top.
Window
Previous
(Shift+F6)
Choose Previous to cycle backwards through the windows on the desk top.
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