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HERMES' HERMiT (Version 1.2) Copyright (c) 1988-89 A. G. Kartsatos (Saves/Cycles The Front Screen And Saves The Front Screen's Font) *** Shareware *** (Please See Below Distribution Requirements) NEW: HERMiT will now save the screen faster. Some of the users have already seen this in Version 1.1. It will save the front screen's font. It contains its own font. You do not have to have the TOPAZ 11 font on your disk anymore. Thus, you can run the program from anywhere since it uses no AmigaDos commands from your c directory except RUN of course. It does not use the sound beep anymore. It uses the built in beep function (sunning of the screen). It will save the screen after a user-defined amount of time in seconds. It does not lose any memory. Here is a new version of HERMiT. It will SAVE and CYCLE your FRONT SCREEN by using HOT KEYS. Very useful when you need a copy of a screen of a word processor, a game, a utility, etc. It will cycle IFF pictures which have from 8 to 32 colors. It will save OVERSCAN front screens too. The files are saved sequentially like GRABBiT to a directory/volume path that you specify when the HERMiT requester asks you for it. Just enter a volume/directory where you want your pictures saved. No actual filenames are needed and they will not work. The saving format: HR_3MED.000 = HERMiT, 3 Planes, Medium Resolution, File Number 0. Another example: HR_6LACE.007 = HERMiT, 6 Planes, INTERLACE Mode, 8th File Saved. Whenever HERMiT is run, the numbering of the pictures starts from 000. This means that the user should make sure that he/she does not overwrite older pictures with the same number, resolution and planes as new ones. This version of HERMiT will save your fornt screen in about half the time of the previous version. HERMiT will also SAVE THE FRONT SCREEN FONT. Well, all these Front- Screen saving operations are of course possible only when the running program allows you to do them. When the running program uses the "Disable(), Forbid()" combinations (e.g., in the C Language), you cannot save the FrontScreen. To SAVE THE FONT, just PRESS: CTRL+LALT+F. The program will check first to see if the font is just the TOPAZ one. If it is, the program will notify you accordingly, and it will not save the font. Let us assume that the font has the name HELLO and has size 11. The program will try to see if a directory exists in the assigned HERMiT path (above) with the name fonts. If it exists, HERMiT will try to save the font in there. It will put a file called HELLO.font in that fonts directory, it will then open a directory in there with the name HELLO, and, finally, it will place into the HELLO directory a file with the name "11". If the fonts directory cannot be found in the assigned HERMiT path, HERMiT will create it and continue as above. The program WILL NOT CREATE A FONT IF THE FONT NAME ALREADY EXISTS IN THE HERMiT PATH/FONTS DIRECTORY. This means that if there is a HELLO font already in that fonts directory, HERMiT will not create a font with the name HELLO even if the new font has a different size. If you do want to get that font anyway, just change the names of the three files of the HELLO font that are already there (HELLO.font, HELLO and 11), or delete them. Now, I do not really want to play with your current "fonts" directory. So, when you enter a path into the HERMiT gadget, please avoid entering a volume/directory that contains your valuable "fonts" directory. This of course applies only when you want to save the screen font. It works from the Workbench or the CLI. To run it from the CLI, Press: RUN HERMiT (not just HERMiT). Just click into its icon when you want it on the Workbench screen. LALT denotes the Left ALT KEY on your keyboard. IN what follows, "BEEP" means "sunning of the screen." COMMANDS: (I) CTRL+LALT+H: Checks whether HERMiT has been activated (BEEP) (II) CTRL+LALT+S: Saves the front screen. (BEEP before and after) (III) CTRL+LALT+Q: Stop HERMiT from running in the background. (BEEP) (IV) CTRL+LALT+1, CTRL+LALT+2, CTRL+LALT+3: will cycle the colors of the front screen at three different speeds, respectively. The only un-cycled color is the color in register 0. It is usually the color outside the picture frame and it does not look good when you include it in the cycling. Press the TAB KEY to stop the cycling. (V) CTRL+LALT+F: Will save the front screen's font. (BEEP before and after) Now, remember that it is still possible that HERMiT can be blocked from operation because another running program may be using some of the above key combinations. So, if you get stuck trying to save a picture with HERMiT, have this fact in mind. You might be able to still save a picture though. HERMiT will save the screen after a user-defined number of seconds. If you want to save the screen of a program 30 seconds after you run HERMiT, just run HERMiT as follows: RUN HERMiT 30. The program will notify you that it is waiting about 30 seconds before it saves the front screen. This will give you plenty of time to get to the desired screen. After it saves the screen, HERMiT will be operating as usual. If you specify any number of seconds less than 20 (and > 0), the program will default to 20 seconds. One of the main reasons for not being able to save certain screens, is that the programs creating those screens block your keyboard and prohibit you from interfering with their respective tasks. This can be done in the C language by using instructions like "Disable(); Forbid();". I have tried to cover a lot of cases of possible ... misuse of the program. However, if you come across any situations at all where HERMiT does not work properly, please let me know. I would appreciate it. I would like to express my thanks to Robert Miles (Excalibur BBS, Dallas) for sharing his knowledge with me on the hunks of executable files. Have fun!!! @@-->>> HERMES Programs By HERMES: ICONLAB2.ARC (The Definitive Work On Icons For The Amiga Computer. It Supports: CUT/SAVE ICONS, ICON->BRUSH, BRUSH->ICON, CUT/SAVE BRUSHES, 8-COLOR ICONS, SPLIT ICONS, JOIN ICONS, MODIFYING OF ICON DATA, CHANGING RESOLUTION ON THE FLY, etc) [This Is The Demo Version Of The Commercial Program ICONLAB Available Now From The Address Below At $30.00] DISKoLAB.ARC (One Of The Greatest Utilities Ever! Among Other Capabilities, It Supports 1200 files. It has A Built In IFF Viewer For All IFF's Including Brushes And Overscans. It Has A Built In Icon Viewer For Icons Of Any Size And Any Colors Up To 16. It Has A Built In Fast File Reader Which Is Also Used By Numerous Other Functions. It Will Find A File Anywhere On The Current Di- rectory/Drive (Including Subdirectories). It Will Compute The Size Of The Current Directory/ Volume. It Will Search Every ASCII File In The Current Di- rectory For A String. It Will Show You All Your Mountlist Data From Memory. It Will Fix An ASCII File That Contains Binary Characters. It Will Extract All ASCII Characters From A Bi- nary File. It Will Highlight All Files Whose Name Contains A given Pattern. It Will Save The Currently Displayed List Into A File. It Will Isolate All The Directories In The Current Directory In Order To Be Able To Perform Four Diffe- rent Functions On Them. It Will Allow You To Display Nicely A File's Information (Protection Bits And Comment), And Change It On The Fly. It Will Allow You To Save The Entire Contents Of A Drive Into A File. This Catalogue Will Contain the Exact Paths Of All The Files On It, The Creation Dates And The Sizes. Hard Disk Drives Are Included.) [This Is The Demo Version Of The Commercial Program DISKoLAB Available Now From The Address Below At $30.00] COLORLAB.ARC (This Is A Nice Update To The PALETTA program. It Allows The User To Identify All Color Shades Of The Amiga Computer, Mix Colors, Get Hex Values For The Colors, and Get Random Colors. It Also Allows The User To Load An IFF Picture And Modify It At Will (If It Is Of 32 Colors Or Less) By Throwing On The Screen A Nice Palette. This IFF Picture Can Also Be Reduced To One In Black & White. This Last Feature Can Be Accomplished In 13 Different Ways. All These Pictures Can Be Saved To A File Or To A Printer) CALCULA.ARC (An Expression Parser And A Function Evaluator. A Really Great Calculator For Your Amiga. It Will Evaluate Millions Of Functions F(x,y,z) (Of Up To Three Vari- ables). Any Depth Of Parentheses!!!) OUTCOMM.ARC (This Little Utility Will Actually Eliminate All Com- ments From Your C Programs. These Are Statements Be- tween /* And */. It Will Also Delete Any Lines That Lie Entirely Within These Comments. I Have Found It Pretty Useful.) LISTA11.ARC (Very Useful Directory Lister. Alpha, Bytes, Patterns, CLI, Refresh. Opens Its Own Window) SCRIPTA.ARC (Online!-PCP Script Maker. Easy Online! Script Files!) FORMULA!.ARC (FORMIDABLE 3D-Grapher In C. It graphs z = f(x,y). Choice Of Colors. 17 Functions Supported. An Artist's Tool) FINANCA.ARC (Mortgage, Compound Interest And Annuity In Color!) CONTOURA.ARC (SPECTACULAR Contour Grapher. Definitely An Artist's Tool. CENTER, ZOOM IN, ZOOM OUT, FLOWING PALETTE, SCALING. An Important Artist's Tool!) ARCHA12.ARC (ARC-PAK-ZOO Utility. It Also Has Another 12 Utility Gadgets And 7 Drive Gadgets. Only 35K, It Can Be Used As An Efficient Directory Utility. CYCLER1.ARC (This Program Will Cycle Your IFF Pictures (<=32 Colors) In Two Different Modes (Straight And Reverse) And Three Different Speeds. Great For Creating Motion Via Cycling!) DUHERM28.ARC (This Is Version 2.8 Of DU-HERMES. This Beautiful dire- ctory Utility Can Afford A Total Of 72 Gadgets, Out Of Which 48 Are User-definable! One Of The Major Utilities For The Amiga Computer. Very Popular And Very Useful.) SIMPLIC1.ARC (The Simplex Method Of Linear Programming. The Complete Program Handles Simplexes Of Up To 30 Un- knowns And Up To 30 Constraints. It Will Also Load And Save Simplexes. The Best Simplex Program For Your Amiga. [This Is The Demo Version Of The Commercial Program SIMPLICA Available From The Address Below At $30.00] TAPRiSKA.ZOO (This Program Allows You To List All The Current Tasks And Their Priorities. It Also Allows You To Change The Priorities On The Fly. Very Useful And Convenient.) This is a SHAREWARE program. If you use this program, please send $15.00 to the address below. FOR SUPPORT, please write to: A. G. Kartsatos (PLink = HERMES) 8524 Caladesi Island Drive Temple Terrace, FL 33637-7310, USA (Telephone 813-985-7624) DISTRIBUTION ============ Feel free to distribute this version of HERMiT, with this doc intact, to any bulletin boards and non-profit establishments in the US and abroad. You are also allowed to upload this version to major electronic boards like BIX, Compuserve, Delphi, GEnie, PLink, etc. The inclusion of HERMiT or any part of it, in any form, in a commercial package, or its use for any commercial purposes, is illegal without the explicit permission of the author. All nationally and internationally sold disks with Amiga software are considered commercial packages by this author. Only The Amiga User Group "Disk Of The Month" disks are excluded. *** If you are planning to use this program commercially, you may call me using the phone number above. *** DISCLAIMER: =========== The usual disclaimers concerning computer software apply to this product. Although this program has been tested extensively for its accuracy and reliability, the author will accept no liability whatsoever for damage resulting from the use, misuse, or excessive use of it.