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SCREENPAINT v1.2 by Kai Laurinolli Registration $ 25.00
GRAP OCT91 ASCII SCREEN PAINT DESIGN ANSI DRAW
FILES: scrpnt12.sdn
New Release
ScreenPaint is a ASCII screen editor with color capabilities,
WordPerfect-like line drawing features, and color
manipulation tools. Screens can be "painted" on screen and
modified with a wealth of tools in a full-screen editing
environment, complete with pull-down menus, dialog boxes,
help screens, and ten screen pages. Drawing tools include
freehand drawing, lines, boxes, multiple line styles, color
altering, and block cutting and pasting.
ScreenPaint was developed to allow the design of lightning-
fast, batch file based hard- disk menus, help facilities,
pop-up windows, and prototype screens for applications
programs. Once a menu screen is painted and saved to disk,
the stand-alone ScreenShow program can be used to display the
image from a batch file and wait for user input, thus
applications can be run with a single keystroke. Help screens
can be displayed over the menu and the background will be
restored upon closing. Programmers can experiment with
application displays and color combinations when designing
programs.
Completed screens can then be displayed from a DOS batch file
and "popped" directly to the video display, rather than
scrolled using the extremely slow DOS ECHO command. The
program can wait for user input once a menu has been
displayed and return the key code as an ERRORLEVEL value
which can be tested from within a batch file.
Unlike other menu creation systems, the user has complete
control over the style of menu displays since the menu
screens are independent of the user input batch file. This
allows the user the flexibility to use any batch language
from DOS to batch extenders like Beyond.Bat, Command Plus,
and Extended Batch Language. Since the user is not
constrained by the menu managment program, he/she is free to
include company logos, special instructions for users, and
help files in the menu. The program can also handle function
key selections as well as Control and Alt key combinations.
The screen design editor has a familiar Quick-language style
interface for ease of use, but most functions have short-cut
keyboard alternatives for experienced users. The program
provides ten screen pages among which the user can move
blocks of text as well as save all ten pages in a packed
format to disk or only text in the clipboard. Screens can be
saved or loaded in three formats directly from the program,
without the need for a conversion utility, including BASIC
BLOAD compatible format and ASCII text for integration into
word processing documents.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
ScreenPaint requires an DOS computer running MS-DOS or PC-DOS
version 2.0 or higher and at least 128K of memory.
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(SDA format (c)Copyright 1991 The SDN Project - SDNet/Works!)
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