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** MCMaster **
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© 1992 by Michael Watzl
Konradstr. 11
8850 Donauwörth
GERMANY
MCMaster is copyrighted software but freely distributable as long
as no profit is made with this program.
OS >2.04 only!
1. What MCMaster does
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MCMaster is a program designed for printing covers for music cassettes. I know,
there are a lot for such programs in the FD but none could satisfy me. So I
wrote my own MC-cover-printing-program.
The MCMaster is completely written with DICE (thanks Mat).
The maximal number of MCs depends only on the amount of memory you have. One MC
can carry 13 songnames per side plus the name of the interpret and the album
name. The noise reduction and the source can also be specified via cycle
gadgets.
2. Starting MCMaster
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a) Starting form Workbench
MCMaster currenty supports the following tooltypes:
DISPLAYID= e.g. 0x00008000 -> HIRES
0x00008004 -> HIRES-LACE
Must be 10 chars long!
For more info look at wbstartup/Mode_Names!
DATABASE= there a filename (with path) can be given. This Datafile
will be loaded at the start of the session.
COLORS= You can set the screen colors in the following fromat:
rgbrgbrgbrgb
r stans for red, g for green and b means blue
r,g and b can be from 0 to F (0 - 15 dez)
example: Colors=89A002FFFEB2
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1 2 3 4
MAXCASS= There you set the maximal number of music cassettes which
may be edited during this session. If you don't have enough
memory, MCMaster will quit.
Default is 60.
OSCAN= TEXT -> Text overscan
STANDARD-> Standard overscan
MAX -> Maximal oscan
VIDEO ...
NONE (or anything else) -> No oscan
Read your manual for more info about oscan...
b) Starting from the cli/shell
Template: MCMaster -d/K,-f/K,-c/K,-m/K,-o/K
-d DisplayID: see above
-f DataBase: Path/Name of Datafile to be loaded at once
default is none
-c Colors: give 12 hexchars in the form rgbrgbrgbrgb
(red, green, blue)
e.g. 89A002FFFEB2 (see above)
-m MaxCass: number of maximal needed MCs, default is 60
-o OverScan: TEXT, STANDARD, MAX or VIDEO, default is no overscan
Note that you can't save the colors of your screen (palette requester)
when you started MCMaster from the cli/shell because there is no icon
where MCMaster can save this information to!
3. MenuFunktions
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a) The Project menu:
Load: Load new data file. This will delete the currently
existing data.
If the file contains more mcs than the MaxCass value
allows, the rest will be ignored.
Save: This will save all the mcs to the specified file.
Info: This item gives some global information, like
available memory, selected printer ...
About: Who's done this...
Delete last MC: Will ask you for deleting the last MC in memory.
Print: A big requester comes up asking you from which to
which MC you want to print and which quality and so on.
Before the printer starts working you will be asked
again.
Quit: Quits. When some data has been edited, you will be asked
before quitting.
b) The Search Menu:
You may search for the names of the interprets, the names of their
albums, the song names or anything.
In the search text gadget you can type in the name you want to search
for. MCMaster will search non-case-sensitive.
You can also use the standard dos wildcards like #?, ...
(I used MatchPatternNoCase() )
You can start from MC 1, or search beginning from the current MC.
If anything that matches was found, this MC will be displayed.
c) The List Data Menu:
Like above you can choose what shall be listed: interprets,albums or
songs.
At first, the list will not be sorted. It is simply created MC by MC.
Pressing sort will activate a quicksort-algorithm, which is really fast.
You can click on any entry to jump to exit the list window and jump to
this MC.
d) The Special Menu:
Edit Owners Name: The owners name will be printed on the back of
each MC-cover and may be three lines long.
Edit MC: Simply activates the first string gadget.
This is for a faster handling if you do not
want to have on hand at the mouse all the time.
Color Palette: Pretty self-explaining.
Attention: You may only save the colors when you
started MCMaster from WB because MCMaster will
save the colors as ToolType.
4. Special Keys
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a) Main Window
cursor left/right backward/forward one MC
with shift: 5 MCs
with alt : 10 MCs
b) Print Window
cursor left/right: backward/forward one MC (from)
with shift pressed: backward/forward one MC (to)
5. Printing
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The MCMaster should work with any printer which allows 10 and 15 cpi
because I used only the printer.device to say the printer what to do.
I tested this with an Epson LX-800 and a HP Deskjet 500.
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If you find this program useful, be happy. If you don't, throw it
away. If you find any bugs or if you have any suggestions for the
next version please let me know.
Michael Watzl
Konradstr. 11
W-8850 Donauwörth
Germany
Tel.: (Germany) 0906 / 5834
(sorry, no modem)
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