┌────┤ TITLE BUILDER HELP FILE ├───────────────────────────┤ Page 1 of 4 ├─────┐│ ┌────────────────────┐ ││ │ OVERVIEW │ ││ └────────────────────┘ ││This program is designed to build screen titles for QuickBASIC programs. The ││font files contain letters [ and characters ] for building different size and ││style titles. Titles which are created are stored on disk in an ASCII file so││that code may be merged into a QuickBASIC program. ││ ││These so called [ FONTS ] were created using the IBM extended character set. ││The Bold Font is the largest of the font sets; it includes alpha and numeric ││characters, and some common symbols on the Key Board (= + * &, etc). OutLine ││font set includes letters and numbers. The other font sets normally include ││only letters A - Z and [Space]. Different versions of program may contain ││different fonts and you may want to experiment with various options to find ││if a particular set contains a number or symbol you need. ││ ││╚═════<C>reate The Title File(s) ││The MENU shows fonts available, giving approximate size in lines and spaces ││[ie 6 x 8]. The selected font style is loaded from disk file and then prompts ││at the Input Screen indicate maximum number of characters that can be included││for that particular style. With some fonts, the shift 2 [@] key produces a ││quote mark [CHR$(34)]. Create a separate file for each title line. │├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤└─────┤Press <Esc> to EXIT├────────────────┤ <PgUp[]> ├─────┤ <PgDn[]> ├─────┘┌────┤ TITLE BUILDER HELP FILE ├───────────────────────────┤ Page 2 of 4 ├─────┐│ ││╚═════<S>toring Title Line ││After you enter title, the computer asks for file name for storing the title. ││Be careful in naming these temporary files; this program overwrites any file ││with the same name. Suggest you use [.bas] extension to make it easier to ││merge into QuickBASIC programs. For multiple line titles you might want to ││use filenames [first.bas], [second.bas], [third,bas], etc. ││ ││╚═════<M>erging Title into Scource Code: ││The ASCII File containing title line includes code for centering the title on ││screen. This code uses format [x% = x% + 1: LOCATE x%, n%]. Declare first ││value of x% for proper placement of your title(s). Raise and lower title(s) ││by changing the first value of x%. Your code will contain a number for value ││of n%. You can subsitute n% for this number if you want to move title left to ││right by changing value of n%, etc. ││ ││╚═════<B>uilding The Screen: ││Using your Box Drawing routines, build box for your Log On, Menu Screens, etc.││Next merge title into the appropriate part of your program. The SUB [Frame] ││included with this program gives me a choice of three boxes (frames) with an ││option of centering, off-setting, and shadowing. ││ │├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤└─────┤Press <Esc> to EXIT├────────────────┤ <PgUp[]> ├─────┤ <PgDn[]> ├─────┘┌────┤ TITLE BUILDER HELP FILE ├───────────────────────────┤ Page 3 of 4 ├─────┐│ ││There are some twenty five (25) fonts available. [EXAMPLES ARE] ││ ││ C O M P U T E R A R C A D I A ││ ▐▀▀▀█ ▐▀▀▀█ █▄ ▄█ █▀▀▀█ ▄─▄ ▄─▄ ▄─▄ ▄─▄ ▄─▄ ▄ ▄─▄ ││ ▐ ▐ █ ██▄██ ██ █ █ █ █_█ █ █ █ █ █ ▐▌ █ █ █ ││ ▐ ▐█ █ █ █ █ █▀▀▀▀ █─█ █< █ █─█ █ ▐▌ █ █─█ ││ ▐█ ▐█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ▐▌ █ █ █ ││ ▐█▄▄█ ▐█▄▄█ █▌ █ █▌ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀─▀ ▀ ▀ ▀─▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ││ ╔═══╗╔═══╗╔═══╗╔═══╗╔═══╗ ││ ▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ║╥─╖║║╓─╖║║╖ ╓║║╓─╖║║╥─╖║ ││ █ █▄▄▄▄▄█ ▀▀█▄█▀▀ █ █ █▄▄▄▄▄▄ ║╟─╢║║║ ║║║ ║ ║║╟─ ║║║ ║║ ││ █▄▄▄▄▄▄ █▄▄▄▄▄▄ █▀▀ ▀▀█ █▄▄▄▄▄█ ▄▄▄▄▄▄█ ║╨─╜║║╙─╜║║╜ ╙║║╙─╜║║╨─╜║ ││ ╚═══╝╚═══╝╚═══╝╚═══╝╚═══╝ ││ J E O P A R D Y ╔═══════╗ ╔═══════╗ ││ ██ █████ █████ █████ █████ ║ ╔═══╗ ║ ║ ╔═══╗ ║ GIANT.FNT ││ ██ █▀▀██ █████ █████ █████ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╚═╝ ││ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ║ ╚═══╝ ║ ║ ║ ││ ██ ███ █ █ █▄▄▄█ █████ ║ ╔═════╝ ║ ║ O M P U T E R ││ █ ██ █ █ █ █▀▀▀▀ █ █ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╔═╗ ││ █████ █▄▄▄█ █████ █ █ █ ║ ║ E R S O N A L║ ╚═══╝ ║ ││ ╚═╝ ╚═══════╝ │├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤└─────┤Press <Esc> to EXIT├────────────────┤ <PgUp[]> ├─────┤ <PgDn[]> ├─────┘┌────┤ TITLE BUILDER HELP FILE ├───────────────────────────┤ Page 4 of 4 ├─────┐│ ││╚═════<G>W Basic and Qbasic code ││Title(s) can be adapted to GW-BASIC by adding line numbers to the code in ││in the ASCII files. Existing Format should work for new Qbasic (MS/DOS 5.0). ││ ││╚════<A>bout the Registration and Suggested Contributions: ││I have been through some of the best two room schools in Georgia... and know ││that most of us don't bother to register or send contributions. The last line ││on this screen page fully spells out my long standing policy on contributions ││for any of my programs.....However; I would be a better programmer if someone ││took the time to offer suggestions and comments. ││ ││Each time some one uses our program(s) and tell us about a problem, we have an││opportunity to try to improve that program. ╔═╦═╗ ││ ║M║A║ ││ ╔═════╣ <C>omments and suggestions would be appreciated ╠════╗ ╠═╬═╣ ││ Contact George Jones, 1712 Maplecrest Drive ║G║J║ ││ Louisville, TN 37777-9419, (615) 982 - 2009 ╚═╩═╝ ││ ││ Leave message at DATA COMP (615) 970-7418 or DATA WORLD (615) 966-3574 ││ ││ ╚═╣ Please Do Not Send Contributions - We do not need the Money ╠═╝ │├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤└─────┤Press <Esc> to EXIT├────────────────┤ <PgUp[]> ├─────┤ <PgDn[]> ├─────┘
