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Interactive Graphics Mouse Editor (IGME)
Version 1.0
by Lindsay Feuling
16 April, 1991
I. Introduction
IGME (pronounced "ig mee") is an interactive graphics mouse editor. It
provides to any programmer, who uses a mouse in their applications, to
interactively edit the mouse cursor graphics shape, and save it for later use.
This program was written with the intention of being distributed as free-ware,
with the disclaimer that no one shall modify the executable code in any way.
II. Hardware Requirements
IGME was designed to work on any PC-AT compatible system running
MS-DOS (2.0 or later). An EGA monitor is required, as well as a mouse with
the appropriate installed driver. IGME recognizes the left and right mouse
buttons, for those of you who only have two mouse buttons.
III. Usage
Once IGME is executed, the graphics are drawn with several options
available. These options are to be selected by moving the mouse pointer to
the option box and pressing the left mouse button. A description of the
options follows:
Quit - Exit IGME. This may also be done by pressing the Esc key,
which is the only keyboard option recognized.
Output - Generate currently edited mouse cursor into a C syntax array
to output file. The output file may be specified by the
"/o <file>" command line option. The default filename is
called "IGME.COD".
Set - Set mouse cursor to the currently edited mouse screen and
cursor mask arrays with hot spot. The user may then move the
mouse around as before, but the only option that will be
possible to select is the "Unset" option.
Unset - Unset mouse of currently edited mouse screen and cursor mask
array values, ie. goes back to normal pointer.
Clear - Clear the mouse screen and cursor mask array values.
NOTE: The "Set" option will not be implemented when all of
the cursor mask array values are cleared.
Default - Set mouse screen and cursor mask array values to the
mouse driver default setting.
Command line options (as seen by the command "IGME /h"):
/h show help message
/i <file> initialize mouse cursor from <file>
/o <file> output written to <file>
IV. Miscellaneous
This program was written using the Microsoft QuickC Compiler (version
2.?) on an IBM PC-AT with a Logitech Mouse. The mouse calls are standard, so
any mouse will work, and the graphics mode is set to 640x350x16 (EGA) for now
(a future version will support any graphics mode).
Please send any suggestions/comments to me at this email address:
INTERNET: feuling%astroatc.uucp@cs.wisc.edu