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- The BBS Express ST! Universal Instant Graphics Item Selector (UIGIS)
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- Written by Adam Of Evil - SysOp of The MEGA Party Palace ST! BBS
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- Idea captured from Modem Madness BBS 516-295-3827 12OO/24OO 85 Megz
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- Dear BBS Express ST! SysOps,
-
- I was very amazed when I first saw IG on a BBS. I immediately
- began to include a script file in my bbs that will allow users to see
- these special graphics files that Atari ST users are now privileged
- of having. Being that the programs already out there werent working
- properly here is a full fledged 100% working copy of an Instant Graphics
- option for your BBS Express ST!.
-
- Step By Step Instructions:
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- 1. Put Gmode.Scr and Graphics.Scr in your MENUS_80 folder (or
- equivalent).
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- 2. Edit your Sysdata.Dat file and implement a function to the main
- command menu that will switch graphics modes. This function should
- activate the file Gmode.Scr (Graphics Mode Script).
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- 3. Go into your MENUS_80 folder and create two new folders.. One called
- TXT and one called IG. Copy all your IG menus into the IG folder
- and all its .HLP equivalents into the TXT folder. (Example if you
- have an Instant Graphics main menu, copy mainmenu.ig into your IG
- folder and mainmenu.hlp into your TXT folder)
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- 4. Edit Gmode.Scr and Graphics.Scr and make sure the pathnames are
- correct at the beginning where the variables are defined.
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- 5. It is now your option whether you want your menus to zip by or have
- the user wait long periods of time while scanning through files.
- In other words, compile these two files.
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- 6. To implement the program into a menu, do the following:
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- This is what my MAINMENU.HLP file looks like:
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- script
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- open 'menus_80\filename.hlp' output
- fprinte 'mainmenu'; (notice there is no extension here)
- close
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- execute 'menus_80\graphics.hlp'
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- Remember this: DONT COPY ALL OF YOUR HLP FILES into your new TXT folder
- because the MENUS that you DONT have IG files for will still be searched
- for in the MENUS_80 folder...
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- Have fun and enjoy these two incredible script files!
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