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║ PCGRA ║
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PCGRA was written by and is Copyright Nigel Salt 1991.
It is not freeware. It is shareware. If you do decide to keep
it you should send £10 ($25 outside UK) to me at the address
shown at the end of this document. Please do consider this as I
am desperately in need of a replacement computer. You have no
idea how long PCGRA takes to compile on the one I currently
have.
Until you register all the fonts that you save will have
"Copyright Nigel Salt" in the last 32 characters. When you
register I will send you a version without this "feature".
PCGRA is a font editor. It can be used to edit any 8 by 16 bit
font which includes the EGA text fonts and the VGA (640x480)
graphic mode fonts. It runs ONLY on machines that support
640x480 16 colour mode.
When you load PCGRA you see a bit map grid on the left and two
text boxes on the right. Above the text boxes is the dialogue
box. The lower text box contains the font to be edited. The
upper text box initially contains a copy of the same font.
If you look at the dialogue box it has the EDIT TEXT BOX HELP
in it. As you can see your options are save the current font,
load a new one, exit or move around the box. Try moving around
a bit then hit Enter and you will see the bit map of the
characters that are currently under the cursor appear in the
left hand grid. You can try loading a new font now if you like.
The ones supplied are "gothic.fnt", "normal.fnt", and
"blank.fnt". If you choose to save the current font then it
is written to disc in the order necessary to reload the EGA
font table ie Characters in ASCII sequence and 16 bytes for
each character starting at the top.
If you press Tab a blue cursor will appear in the top text box.
You can load a different font in this box and copy any 9
characters to the bottom box at the current cursor position.
If you press Tab again you will see a small flashing cursor at
the top right of the grid. If you press Ins then the bit under
the cursor is set and, if you look very carefully, you will see
that the corresponding bit in the lower text box is also set.
Pressing Del resets the bit under the cursor. Tab takes you
back to the lower text box so that you can select some new
characters for editing.
If you press F3 the cursor colour changes to green. When you
move it expands to enclose a block and the help text changes to
tell you about block options. There are many different options
and I suggest that you try them out. Note that you can only
rotate a square block.
If you press the copy or move keys then the cursor will change
colour again. You can enlarge or shrink copies of the original
block as described in the dialogue box. Press Enter to make the
copy.
Finally you can save a block. Blocks can be saved to disc in
binary or text format. Text with leading 0xs or trailing hs can
be specified. You can save the block in two ways. Firstly the
Microsoft C "image" format which can be reloaded using the
Microsoft C _getimage() function. Secondly as a pixel by pixel
image. In this case the left boundary of the object is treated
as a byte boundary and trailing 0s are used to pad out the last
byte on each line if necessary. Bytes are saved left to right
and top to bottom
I have provided two other programs, "settfont fontname" loads a
font in EGA / VGA text mode, "setgfont fontname" loads a font
in VGA 640x480 graphics mode. If you mess up your fonts and
cannot see what is going on on the screen then just type blind
"mode co80" and press Enter.
Well that's the lot - have fun!
Send registration / comments to
Nigel Salt
25 Lower Station Road
Crayford
Kent
DA1 3PY
England.