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- There have ben a lot changes made to SANDP in this version and I
- hope a lot of them are for the better. Read on and see if you
- agree:
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- 1) SANDP 2.0 has now been updated to show TNY format pictures.
- SANDP will even show monochrome pics on a color monitor and vice
- versa. The colors may look a little strange, but you can view them
- all now.
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- 2) You no longer have to make up a monochrome AND color version
- of SANDP. The program now figures out which resolution you are in
- and loads in the correct title picture. The SETUP.INF file has
- been changed to contain both picture names, an well as a lot of
- other things.
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- The SETUP.INF file has now been changed to the following format:
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- 2 bytes in GFA Basic Mki$ format to tell SANDP the value of
- color register 0. (You can now install custom colors, too!)
- 2 bytes for color register 1
- 2 bytes for color register 2
- 2 bytes for color register 3
- Window Title Text
- COLOR titlescreen picture name ; Now contains COLOR titlepic
- MONO title screen picture name ; Now contains MONO titlepic
- # of Menu headings you have. (Custom menu headings are now
- available)
- Text for menu heading #1
- # of items in this heading
- menu text
- file name
- menu text
- file name
- .
- .
- .
- .
- Text for heading #2
- # of items in this heading
- etc.
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- A new version of CONFIG.PRG is included to comply with the new
- format. This version is much easier to use and will let you view
- the setup as it will look in SANDP before you save the file.
- Make sure the "CONFIG.RSC file is in the same directory as the
- program and run it. It should be easy to follow, but just in case
- you have trouble, here's how it works:
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- You are presented with a menu with the usual items: Load, Save,
- New, Edit, View, and Quit. Since the old and new setup files are
- incompatible, load will do you no good until you've made up a new
- file and saved it.
- First thing to do is click on "New" You'll be presented with a
- dialog box with all sorts of goodies. Here, you can enter in your
- window title, title picture names, menu headings and files, and
- set the colors you wish to use. Just fill in the blanks with what
- you want. When you finish one heading, click on the "Next" button
- to go to the next heading. You can go back to the previous one by
- clicking on "PREV" . You don't have to fill up each column. Just
- put as many as you need in and the program will take care of it.
- You can use up to a maximum of five headings and the program will
- let you know when you get that far.
- When everything looks good, click on "Okay". You'll be back at
- the main menu. If you want to see how the setup file will look,
- click on "View" in the menu. A SANDP lookalike screen will be
- presented and you'll be able to see just how the colors and menus
- look. When everything is to your satisfaction, "Save" the file as
- "SETUP.INF" and you're all set.
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- 3) In the previous DOC file, two files were referenced which are
- no longer needed. KUDOSCOL.RSC and KUDOSMON.RSC are not needed in
- SANDP. These files were for an earlier version that used Resource
- files for the credits box. Thanks to Tom Hayslett of GFACLASS fame
- for constructing new credits boxes using GFA Constructor.
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- 4) On the Slideshow title screen, the instructions box was not
- aligned right. This is now fixed.
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- 5) When using a mono or DEGAS color title picture, it was not
- displayed for a long enough period of time. SANDP now shows the
- picture for at least four seconds before continuing.
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- 6) Horizontal scroll bars have been added to give a little more
- flexibility to SANDP.
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- These are all the changes I have so far. If and when more bugs
- are reported, I'll jump on them and have them fixed. (Providing
- the shareware concept works out. No sense fixing a program nobody
- is using, is there?)
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