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┌────────────────────────────────────────╖
│ SHOW_PIC.TXT ║
│ ║
│ Tue 02-15-1994 16:15:02 ║
│ ║
╘════════════════════════════════════════╝
The genius behind SHOW_PIC.COM (as usual) is not me. It is the
FreeWare program PICEM.EXE. PICEM.EXE will display an astonishing
array of graphic programs to your screen. All you have to do is
type:
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
PICEM {Enter}
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
to see the compatible ones listed. Highlight one and it displays...
but very briefly.
Then you have to read the PICEM.DOC file to figure out how to make
a batch file that will display one graphic file for....Oh... five
seconds or so. Then figure out how to suppress the author's display
screen, and lastly how to display graphic files in other
directories.
PICEM.EXE supports *.GIF, *.PCX, and *.PIC files. Since *.PCX are
the most common, this program will display -all- the *.PCX files it
finds in the directory if you type:
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
SHOW_PIC {Enter}
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
If you want to see the help screen then type:
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
SHOW_PIC/? {Enter}
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
If you want to display one file named "YOUR.PCX" for ten (10) seconds
then type:
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
SHOW_PIC/t:10/f:YOUR.PCX
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
There are only three (3) "switches" to use with SHOW_PIC.COM:
1. /? <---- Displays the HELP Screen
2. /t: <---- Sets in SECONDS the picture time display
3. /f: <---- Sets the DRIVE, DIRECTORY, & FILENAME(s)
If you want to display another acceptable graphic file like a *.GIF
file then enter that name. If you want to see all the *.PCX graphic
files in another drive and directory then type:
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
SHOW_PIC/f:E:\GRAPHICS\*.PCX
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
┌───────────────────────────────┐
│SOME POSSIBLY BORING BACKGROUND│
└───────────────────────────────┘
There is a file on Microsoft Knowledge Base that explains in
convoluted and painful detail how to use PICEM.EXE to make a series
of QuickBASIC files (of total size -larger- than the original *.PCX
file) that can be loaded as a graphic file by QuickBASIC.
If you find that sentence confusing.... you are not alone and but
it reflects the logic of that Knowledge Base Article.
Being the "Master of the Simple" I looked at PICEM.EXE and figured
out how to something similar.... verrrry simply with a true-blue
QuickBASIC 4.5 program.
If you are a fellow nerd, I have included all the QuickBASIC 4.5
files that you will need to run SHOW_PIC.BAS in the QuickBASIC
Environment. You -MUST- load SHOW_PIC.BAS as a =PROGRAM= not a
=File= as most of the SUBS and FUNCTIONS are in another file called
(what else?) JOHN_SUB.BAS.
Keep in touch....
John De Palma on CompuServe 76076,571