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The BBS Express ST! Universal Instant Graphics Item Selector (UIGIS)
Written by Adam Of Evil - SysOp of The MEGA Party Palace ST! BBS
Idea captured from Modem Madness BBS 516-295-3827 12OO/24OO 85 Megz
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Dear BBS Express ST! SysOps,
I was very amazed when I first saw IG on a BBS. I immediately
began to include a script file in my bbs that will allow users to see
these special graphics files that Atari ST users are now privileged
of having. Being that the programs already out there werent working
properly here is a full fledged 100% working copy of an Instant Graphics
option for your BBS Express ST!.
Step By Step Instructions:
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1. Put Gmode.Scr and Graphics.Scr in your MENUS_80 folder (or
equivalent).
2. Edit your Sysdata.Dat file and implement a function to the main
command menu that will switch graphics modes. This function should
activate the file Gmode.Scr (Graphics Mode Script).
3. Go into your MENUS_80 folder and create two new folders.. One called
TXT and one called IG. Copy all your IG menus into the IG folder
and all its .HLP equivalents into the TXT folder. (Example if you
have an Instant Graphics main menu, copy mainmenu.ig into your IG
folder and mainmenu.hlp into your TXT folder)
4. Edit Gmode.Scr and Graphics.Scr and make sure the pathnames are
correct at the beginning where the variables are defined.
5. It is now your option whether you want your menus to zip by or have
the user wait long periods of time while scanning through files.
In other words, compile these two files.
6. To implement the program into a menu, do the following:
This is what my MAINMENU.HLP file looks like:
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script
open 'menus_80\filename.hlp' output
fprinte 'mainmenu'; (notice there is no extension here)
close
execute 'menus_80\graphics.hlp'
====================================
Remember this: DONT COPY ALL OF YOUR HLP FILES into your new TXT folder
because the MENUS that you DONT have IG files for will still be searched
for in the MENUS_80 folder...
Have fun and enjoy these two incredible script files!