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Tele Scroll 1
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If you have 'Tele Title 2' or 'Tele Title 2 Lowres' then read the Tele Scroll
1 Quick Information and exit.

If you're a Newcomer then read the Tele Scroll 1 Info and then come back and
read the Tele Scroll 1 Quick Information, then exit.

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Tele Scroll 1 - Quick Information.
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=================
 Introduction...
=================

Tele Scroll 1 is roughly the same as the T-T-2 programs, but it Scrolls your
Items instead of Fading them in, etc.

Because of the scroll methods I've taken out the Screen routine. I could of
left the screen in, but I opted for more scroll routines instead. Most of the
screen routines use a Split screen effect, but I have put a word scroller in
the program aswell. Although there are 12 screen methods I haven't set them.
This is so that you can have different combinations. I,ve split the screen
methods into 2 areas. One is Cast Methods and the other is Title Methods.

The methods are shown as directions and not numbers. I.e. D-L means that the
bottom half of the screen (which always scrolls first) will scroll Down and
the top half will scroll Left. D-U  means Down, Up. It's as simple as that.
The bottom half always scrolls off the screen first so that the Main Title
stays on screen abit longer.


==============
 Functions...
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The following Functions apply to the whole of T.S.1...

T-Method - Choose a screen Method for your Main Titles.

C-Method - Choose a screen Method for your Cast.

 Colours - Choose the number of Colours for your screen.

Scroll Speed - The speed of the scroll.


The following Functions and Information applies to the Word Scroller only...

Word-Scroll Pos - Choose the Position where you want the word scroller to go.

Margin - Set the amount of space between each word. Note: If you have a Cast
         the program will automatically add a space margin to the last name
         in your cast, so that when your Main Titles appear they won't look
         too close to the last name in your cast.

Note: If the scroll speed function is more than 12 and you pick screen method
      'Wd1' (Word Scroller 1) then scroll speed will automatically go down to
      12. This is because the Word Scroller gets out of step if the scroll
      speed is more than 13. I used 12 as a safety measure.

Note: Your Letters and Characters can only be upto 45 pixels wide and upto 45
      pixels in height. I did this so that you can have upto 32 colours in
      your Letters and Characters. However, you may not be able to have 32
      colours. I.e. the more detail on your Letters, etc the more the program
      has to shift (scroll) around. This may cause the scroll routine to slow
      down abit and jerk.


==========
 Offer...
==========

If you pay the requested Shareware fee for T.S.1 or T-T-2 Lowres then send me
a Blank Disk and I'll put the other program on your disk Free of charge. I.e.
Pay the requested Shareware fee for 'T-T-2 Lowres' and I'll put T.S.1 on your
Blank Disk. Pay the requested Shareware fee for 'T.S.1' and I'll put T-T-2
Lowres on your Blank Disk. The above offer starts today (17.6.93) and ends in
3 months time (17.9.93).


============
 Finally...
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I think thats all I need to say. By the way, I need a Amos (Not Easy-Amos)
Manual. So if you're selling one or can Lend me one, I would be grateful.

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Tele Scroll 1  - Info.
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THIS IS A COMPILED (Low-Resolution) 'Auto-Load' VERSION DISK.


=================
 Introduction...
=================

Tele Scroll 1 is a Video Titling program. It was written with Easy-AMOS
(V1.1) on a A600 with 2Mb. It was written with the Camcorder User in mind and
will be of best use to them, although I'm sure you could use it for other
things.

In these instructions (and the program) I've used the following terms as
follows...


 Set Titles - These are the titles defined by me that you can change in the
              'Entry Scroll' program. I.e. Editor, Producer, Director, etc.

Main Titles - These are what you choose to go with your Names. I.e. You may
              choose 'Editor' as a Main Title.

      Names - These are the Names to go with your Main Titles. I.e. You may
              put the Name 'John White' to go with your 'Editor' Main Title.

 Cast Title - This is simply the Cast Title you choose. I.e. You may choose
              the Cast Title 'Starring' to go with your Cast Names.

 Cast Names - These are the names to go with your Cast Title. I.e. You may
              have the Cast Name 'John White' to go with your 'Starring'
              Cast Title.

      Items - I've used this word to mean any/all of the above.


=========
 Bobs...
=========

Tele Scroll 1 (T.S.1) uses Bobs instead of Fonts. It's main feature is it's
ability to read Letter Width Sizes. For example, if you had the letter 'i'
with a width of 15 pixels and the letter `s` with a width of 65 pixels then
T.S.1 would read the different width sizes and print the letters in a font
manner. I.e. print 'is' rather than 'i' - gap - 's'. This means that you can
have Lower Cased letters aswell as CAPITAL letters.

The Bob Bank lay-out is as follows...

Bobs 1-26 = A to Z (capital letters for your names). Bob 27 = Space   28 = -
29 = .   30 = '   31 = !   32 = &   Bobs 33-58 = a to z (lower cased letters
for your names). Bobs 59-84 = A to Z (capital letters for your titles). Bob
85 = Space   86 = -   87 = .   88 = '   89 = !   90 = &   Bobs 91-116 = a to
z (lower cased letters for your titles). Bobs 117-124 belong to the program
and should NEVER be changed.

As you can see from the above I have left out the main characters. I did put
them into Tele Title 1 and 2, but I decided to leave them out of this program
Anyway, if you come to think about it, T.V program Credits hardly, if ever,
use a $ or a * symbol, etc, in their Titles.


================
 The program...
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When the program opens you will see the Main Menu with nine Icons at the
bottom of the screen and in the middle of the screen are some of the Main
Titles.

You simply select a Main Title and enter upto 3 names for it. You can have
upto 25 characters for each name - if your Letter Width Sizes will allow
you to. (Letter Width Size is explained later)

I've only allowed upto 25 characters per name because I've based this program
around the medium to large letters only. However, you can have small letters
if you wish.

The Cast Titles are part of the program and can not be saved or loaded.

T.S.1 allows you to have upto 72 Main Titles with upto 3 names per Main Title
in your Title Sequence, aswell as upto 50 Cast Names.


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 Typing in your Names...
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When you enter your names you will see a character function. If the name you
last typed in won't fit the width of the screen then this will tell you the
offending Character Number of your name. For example, if you typed in a name
with 15 characters in it and only 10 characters will fit on the screen then
this function will tell you that character 11, onwards, will not fit on the
screen. The program clears your name off the screen so make sure you know
what name you last typed in. I cleared your name because I assumed you would
be working from a list or know what you're typing in. I.e. I didn't assume
you would be typing in names from the top of your head.


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 The Icons...
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Icon 1:  Left Key - You have a Cast or Party in your film.

        Right Key - You do not have a Cast or Party in your film. Perhaps
                    your film is a Documentary.

Icon 2:  Left Key - You have chosen the Cast Title 'Starring'.

        Right Key - You have chosen the Cast Title 'Starred'.

3rd Key/Both Keys - You have chosen the Cast Title 'Party Goer's'.

Note: If you don't have a Third key on your mouse then just press both keys
      to give you the Cast Title 'Party Goer's' and with both keys still held
      down simply drag the mouse away from the Icon. The edge of each Icon is
      safe because the mouse won't operate on these areas. This is to avoid
      accidentally Quiting the program, Selecting the wrong function, etc.

Icon 3:  Left Key - Enter your Cast's Names, if needed.

Icon 4:  Left Key - Quit the program.

Icon 5:  Left Key - The Edit menu.

Icon 6:  Left Key - A reminder of the Keys and Mouse Keys. Go to this menu
                    first.

Icon 7:  Left Key - Test and Play. This will test for errors and then play
                    your sequence if no errors were detected.

Icon 8:  Left Key - My Address, etc.

Icon 9:  Left Key - The Post-Production menu.


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 The Edit Menu...
==================

This menu simply allows you change things like the position of your Titles
and Names, etc (Up and Down positions only). You can also change the Screen
Pause, etc. Positions are set in pixels and not character squares. You will
have to change the edit menu settings because I've left them at my debugging
values.

Note: There are Gap Keys in this menu. For example, if you wanted to change a
      title position from 200 to 400 then you would simply set the Gap to 100
      and press the title position button twice to reach 400, rather than
      pressing it 200 times to reach 400.


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 The Post-Production menu...
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This menu allows you to Load and Save your sequence. You can Load or Save
certain parts of your sequence. For example, you could load in your Wedding
Titles and then load in different names for those titles. Or, you could load
in some Names and then load in different titles for those names.

You must load in the same number of items. For example, you cannot load in 6
Main Titles and then load in 10 Names. The program won't let you quit this
menu until the items are equal. Also, when you first select the above option
you must load in a set of Main Titles and a set of Names. You cannot load in
a set of Main Titles for example and then carry on. If you try to do this the
program won't let you quit this menu until you've loaded in some Names. Once
you've loaded your first set of (equal) Main Titles and Names you can simply
load your Main Titles and Names seperately, as long as they're equal to the
last item you loaded.

You can erase the memory banks that your Main Titles, Names, Cast Names and
Letter Width Sizes use, but they can only be erased after your sequence has
been shown - This is because the program may still need to use these memory
banks before your sequence is shown.

You can load and save your Letter Width Sizes aswell. The Letter Width Size
function makes sure your words are printed in the middle of the screen, by
calculating each letter's width and then the whole word's length including
spaces. So if you load in some letters then you will need to load in their
letter width sizes, unless it uses the letter width sizes already in memory.

The Directory function on this menu simply allows you to check what's on your
disk. This is only to remind you what's on your disk. It doesn't erase files,
make new drawers, etc.

The Load Bob-Amos function allows you to load Bank number 1. This is where
your letters, characters and the program's icons are stored.

If you use the Erase Memory function to erase the memory banks that your
Names, etc use then don't worry about losing your Names, etc because they are
stored in variables. You will only be erasing the memory, not the Names, etc
themselves. However, You should save your Names, etc (if you need to) before
erasing the memory. I only set up the memory banks because I couldn't
directly save or load the variables.

Many of the program messages, etc, have been cut short, I.e  Size instead of
Letter Width Size - Pos instead of Position, simply because there wasn't
enough room on the screen.

If you Load some Main Titles and Names (whilst still on the Main Menu part of
the program) you can go to the Main Menu and add other Main Titles and Names
to the END of those you've just loaded in. Don't type in your Main Titles and
Names first and then Load in some Main Titles and Names because you will
overwrite all the Main Titles and Names you've just typed in. The above only
applies to your Main Titles and Names, you cannot add Cast Names to loaded in
Cast Names.


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 Testing the program...
========================

1. Load Titles & Names - Filename is 'Test'

   Load a Cast - Filename is 'Test'

2. Hit the 'Test/Play' Icon with your Left Mouse Key and follow the prompts.

When the sequence has finished you will be presented with a small menu. This
gives you the following choices...

Re-Run the sequence - Do I need to say more!

The Edit menu - calls back the edit menu allowing you to re-edit ya sequence

The Post-Production menu - calls back the post-production menu allowing you
                           to load/save new names, titles, etc.

Go back to the main menu - This goes back to the main menu and resets every-
                           thing. You can type in new names, pick another
                           Cast title, etc.

So, as you can see, the first part of the program is really for things like
typing in your names, picking your cast title, etc. Whereas the second part
(after your sequence has been shown) is for the editing side of things. You
can edit your sequence before of course, if you already know your positions,
etc, but on the whole it's best to edit afterwards just in case you've made a
typing error!


=====================
 The Letters, etc...
=====================

To change the letters in the program to your own simply do the following...

1. Get your favourite clip art letters, fonts or whatever and print or paste
   them onto a blank Dpaint (or other art package) screen. Once you have
   pasted or printed them onto the blank screen, save the screen.

2. Now load the Easy-AMOS 'Bob-Editor' program. Now insert the T.S.1 disk and
   load the 'Bob-Banker_Scroll' file from the 'progs' drawer. You should now
   have my letters, characters and the program's Icons in the bank.

3. Now select the grab-pic Icon from the Bob-Editor program. Load your clip-
   art, fonts or whatever screen into the program.

4.  Now simply grab your letter 'A' and paste it over my letter 'A' by using
    Bob-Editor's overwrite Icon.

5.  keep following step 4 until you've overwritten all my letters and all my
    characters only. Do not overwrite Bobs 117 to 124. These belong to the
    program and should NEVER be changed. When you have all your letters and
    Characters in the bank simply save the bank under any name you choose.

You will have to count the number of pixels that each letter's width has so
that you can put their width sizes into the 'Entry_Scroll' program.


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 Please take note of the following...
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T.S.1 has no reset button for the Main Titles & Names and Cast Names
so if you make a mistake you have two choices...

1. Quit the program and start again.

2. Run your mistake sequence. When its finished just press F2 to go back to
   the Main Menu where everything will be reset. Now start again.

If you make a mistake when entering your Cast Names do the following...

When you've finished typing in your mistake Cast Names just start again by
re-entering the Cast Names Menu. Everything will be reset in this menu.

Normally I would have put a reset button in a program like this, just in case
you made a typing error, etc, but I decided that because you have the above 2
options plus Save option(s) (I.e Carefully enter your names, etc, once and
then save them) there was no point. However, saying the above, I may up-date
this version with a reset button inside the menus.

I have not disabled the Break key so if you need to exit the program
you can use the program's Quit option or press CTRL and C.


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 The best uses...
==================

The best use for adding Main Titles and Names to those you've already loaded
in is, if your Mother's calling you (telling you 'ya tea's getting cold') and
you're in the middle of typing in your names, Simply save what you've typed
in so far, have your cold tea, then come back and continue with your list.

If you leave a Main Title blank you could simply type in the Three names as
your Film Title.

============
 Finally...
============

Tele Scroll 1 is a Shareware program. This means you may Copy it and Pass it
around, but if you use it on a regular basis then you should pay the
requested Shareware fee to the author: John White. The requested Shareware
fee for Tele Scroll 1 is £3.50 (Three Pounds and Fifty Pence).

If you pay the requested Shareware fee for T.S.1 or T-T-2 Lowres then send me
a Blank Disk and I'll put the other program on your disk Free of charge. I.e.
Pay the requested Shareware fee for 'T-T-2 Lowres' and I'll put T.S.1 on your
Blank Disk. Pay the requested Shareware fee for 'T.S.1' and I'll put T-T-2
Lowres on your Blank Disk. The above offer starts today (17.6.93) and ends in
3 months time (17.9.93).

If you have any Questions, Comments, Ideas, etc, feel free to write anytime.
You will find my address in the 'ME' Icon.

Note: Because I cannot trap every error, I will not take any responsibility
      for the loss or damage of Titles, Names, Pictures and any other data,
      etc, caused by any of the programs on this disk.

TELE SCROLL 1, Copyright John White, 1993.

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The following Up-Dates were made to Tele Title 2, but they apply to T.S.1
aswell.


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 The Up-Dates...
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 Before:  The program was mainly Keyboard Key based.

Up-Date:  You now have the choice of pressing a Mouse Key or a Keyboard Key
          for almost everything (see the 'Keys' icon in the program).


 Before:  You couldn't move the screen display around.

Up-Date:  You can now move the screen display around in the X and Y positions
          This function doesn't highlight the screen so you will need to know
          what co-ords your Television (or Monitor) uses. My Television uses
          128 X and 40 Y so I've set the default to these values. The co-ord
          ranges are X 112 to 240 and Y 30 to 99.


 Before:  The 'View Directory' routine was completely naff!

Up-Date:  There's a completely New 'View Directory' routine.

          Note: Some people use the word 'Directory' to mean the contents of
          a Disk and the contents of a Drawer. I use the word to mean the
          contents of a Disk and nothing else. I've called this routine
          'View Directory' simply because you have to View the contents of a
          Disk (Directory) before you can View the contents of a Drawer.

          For the Key lay-out Just look at the 'Keys' Icon in the program.

          'Again' means read the directory again. This looks at 'DF0:' so if
          you need to read another disk's directory then simply swap disks
          when you're viewing a Drawer and hit the 'Again' icon.

          'Post' simply means go back to the Post-Production menu.

          The scroll arrows will not scroll the listing if 'Start' or 'End'
          is less or equal to 20.

          View Directory reads upto 60 items (Drawers and/or Files).

          The Mouse has no Scroll Bar when choosing a Drawer to view so you
          will have to watch the Mouse's Tip when you click on a drawer's
          name.


 Before:  You could not turn the Cast off after your sequence. If you turned
          the Cast off before your sequence you would erase the names.

Up-Date:  You can now turn the Cast off/on and keep the names in memory or
          you can turn the cast off and erase the names as before.


 Before:  If you erased the Titles and/or Names, etc, from memory and then
          tried to save them you would just be saving a blank space (I.e. the
          erased memory couldn't be brought back and re-poked with your Names
          etc).


Up-Date:  I haven't re-poked the Names, etc, back into memory (Because a
          routine to do this would have to re-check most of the Post menu's
          Variables and some of the program Variables, etc), but I did fix
          the problem by switching off all the relevant save options when you
          have erased the memory. However, because of this up-date you can
          only use this function once. so if you need to erase the memory and
          you don't need the 'Names' save options, etc, then use this
          function but if you need the 'Names' save options, etc, then leave
          this function alone.


 Before:  There was no way of Loading in your new Set Titles.

Up-Date:  You can now Load in the new Set Titles.


 Before:  You couldn't set the space between each letter.

Up-Date:  You can now set the space between each letter with a value from
          1 to 9. I could have made the range bigger, but I thought the
          standard space is usually 8 or less so I didn't bother. Besides,
          a space of more than 9 pixels between each letter would only limit
          the amount of letters you can have on the screen even further.

          There's a condition to 'Space' and thats that you have to alter the
          space setting before loading or entering any Main Titles and Names,
          Cast Names, The Cast Title and/or Set Titles. This is because the
          program checks the above items against the 'Space' setting to make
          sure they will fit on the screen.

          I've left the check routine in the program, but taken out it's
          messages. So if a Title, etc won't fit onto the screen the program
          will QUIT. Don't panic because the same routines are in the 'Entry-
          Scroll' program together with messages, so if a Title, etc won't
          fit then you can correct it until it does fit. This means that
          almost every Title, etc you load into T.S.1 will fit. I say almost
          because you may have the basic version which means mistakes can
          happen. By the way, I'm not giving out the Basic version so please
          don't ask...Thank you.

          The default setting for 'Space' is 6. This belongs to T.S.1's Set
          Titles, so if you want to change the space setting for these Set
          Titles you must first save the Set Titles to Disk, then change the
          'Space' setting and re-load the Set Titles. I would have put these
          Set Titles on this disk, but I wasn't sure about the disk space and
          free memory, etc.

          If you alter the 'Space' setting lower or higher than your items
          normal value then your items may not be in the center of the screen
          This is because your Cast Title, Cast Names and Names are always
          checked to see if they fit onto the screen, but your Set Titles are
          only checked when you load them in - This is because checking them
          all the time would slow the program down and because they only need
          checking once to see they fit onto the screen.


Apart from the above Up-Dates I've also up-dated the error messages so that
they're much easier to understand. The error checking routines have been
up-dated aswell.


Filenames...

I've only given you ten characters for your filename because it's a bit naff
for example, having to type in a filename of 20 characters everytime you need
to load something...isn't it?!!

I advice you to set your filename something like the following...

 72Wed9John

Where 72 is the number of Titles, etc in your sequence - Wed means your film
is a Wedding - 9 is the 'Space' setting and 'John' is the name of your
filename or the name of your Wedding Video person, etc.

You could use things like - Doc for Documentary or We for Wedding or Do for
Documentary, etc.


Notes...

The cast on/off option is in the Post-Production menu. To toggle the Cast
on/off just enter your cast names as normal and leave icon 1 set to cast on.
If you toggle the cast on/off with icon 1 then you will have to enter your
cast names again because toggling icon 1 tells the error routine you don't
need a cast, thus, reseting the option variable.

I haven't put a message on the screen to tell you the Names save options,
etc, have been switched off when you erase the memory. This is because it
would add too much memory to the program just to check for each key press
and print the message.

'View Directory' will only except Drawer/File-names of 29 characters or less.
This is because of Easy_AMOS and not myself. This isn't a problem for use
with T.S.1, but if you're using it for anything else then please note: Any
Drawer/File-names with more than 29 characters in them will be read as 29
characters and do not exist.

I've put Scr.X and Scr.Y (The screen display function) inside the Edit menu.

Click on a yellow box when using the mouse option in the Edit/Post menu.

If you need to load some new Set Titles then you must load them in before
loading or entering any items. Remember to set the 'Space' function (if you
need to) before loading in your new Set Titles. Also, Load in your 'Letter
Width Sizes' (if you need to) before loading or entering any items. If you
Load in some Set Titles then don't adjust the 'Space' setting afterwards.

If you have any versions of T-T-2 and/or T-T-2 Lowres then do not use the
data from them in T.S.1.

Always wait for the end messages before pressing any more keys. I.e. If you
are loading in some Set Titles wait for the message "Your Set Titles are now
in memory". Most things will only take a few seconds, but in the case of Set
Titles it will take a little longer because it has a check routine behind it
aswell as the normal entering of titles routine.

To make a new disk up just put 7 Drawers on your new disk and name them the
same as mine. I.e. Progs, Titles, etc. You can call the Disk whatever you
like because T.S.1 always looks at 'DF0:'. So you could call it 'Weddings' or
'Birthdays' etc.

I think I covered everything you need to know. If you have any Questions, etc
then feel free to write anytime...Bye

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