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- 1. Copyright and licence agreement
-
- ■ The only guarantee I give is that this program consumes some (maybe
- valuable) space on your Harddisk or Floppydisk.
-
- ■ The author takes no responsibilities for damages caused by this program.
- If you just follow the instructions nothing strange will happen, so it's
- your own responsibility fooling around with this program.
-
- ■ No files may be added to the TIMCOLOR-package or deleted from it.
- The only file which may be added to the TIMCOLOR-package is a BBS-advertisement.
-
- ■ timEd is copyright by Gerard van Essen
-
- ■ This program is freeware! For details see part 7.
-
-
- 2. New releases.
-
- ■ New releases if they appear, can be requested at 2:282/531, 50:100/507
- or 111:311/1 or just contact the BBS on phonenumber +31-50-264840.
- It can be reached 21 hours a day from 7.30 AM to 4.30 AM CET.
- You can use the magical name TIMCOLOR to request TIMCOLOR.
-
-
- 3. Contacting the author.
-
- ■ If you find any bugs in the program or have any other suggestions for
- further development of this tiny program, you can contact the author at
-
- FidoNet: 2:282/531
- GroNet: 50:100/507
- TechNet: 111:311/1
- Tatort BBS: +31-50-264840
- Speeds: 1200-28800 bps
-
-
- 4. Contents of the package.
-
- ■ The package was originally released as a self-extracting archive named
- TIMC_113.EXE. To be sure you have an original archive, you should see
- the following after entering TIMC_113.EXE (in case you have a self-
- extracting archive) and having seen an informationscreen after which
- you can choose to continue unpacking or exit:
-
-
- Verifying authenticity information ... Ok
-
- After the unpacking the following information should appear:
-
- Archive TIMC_113.EXE
- created at 15:mm:ss 22 July 1995
- by Dick Pluim
-
- If you see this then you can be pretty sure it's an archive created
- by me.
- The mm:ss is not known yet as it will always be changed after making an
- addition of the archive. :-)
-
- ■ This archive should contain the following files:
-
- TIMCOLOR.EXE - TIMCOLOR - executable
- TIMCOLOR.DOC - the file you are just reading
- TIMED.COL - sample color-configurationfile
- FILE_ID.DIZ - short description of TIMCOLOR
-
- ■ If you find less files in the archive, please contact me on one of the
- previous mentioned nodenumbers.
- The only file added to this archive may be a BBS-advertisement.
-
-
- 5. What is TIMCOLOR?
-
- ■ TIMCOLOR is a small program to create a color-configuration which you
- like to use with the message-editor/reader timEd by Gerard van Essen.
-
- ■ I wrote TIMCOLOR because it is a more convenient way setting up a color-
- configuration when you actually see how everything looks like, then by
- just trying out some colors in the configfile.
-
- ■ Not more and not less. ;-)
-
-
- 6. How to use TIMCOLOR.
-
- ■ Well put TIMCOLOR.EXE somewhere on your harddisk, but it may be handy to
- put it in the same directory where your timEd-files are located.
- When firing up TIMCOLOR will look for a file called TIMED.COL in the
- current directory. If it can't be found, TIMCOLOR will use the defaults
- which have been taken from an original TIMED.CFG.
-
- ■ The main menu contains 6 entries:
-
- - M - Here you can define the color-configuration for the message-reader
- (how the screen will look like if you are reading a message).
- It also contains the color-definitions when starting to enter a
- new message or quoting (the entry-field, for which I have
- chosen the subjectfield). This was more convenient than putting it
- in another submenu.
-
- - E - In this submenu you can define the editor-colors, e.g. how your
- screen will look like when you're entering a message (colors of
- blocked text, current line etc.).
-
- - A - In this part you can define the color-configuration of the area-
- selection screen and the listing colors. I have chosen the area-
- selection screen here as example. The last echo-area however
- contains the colors that will show up during a listing when
- the specific entry concerns a personal message. So in this way it
- will never be seen on the screen (personal messages in an area-
- overview is ofcourse impossible ;-) ).
-
- - F - In this part you can define the color-configuration to be used
- in the Find-menu.
-
- - B - The final color-configuration-part deals with the configuration
- of boxes which appear on the screen, f.e. a help-window. The
- background of this screen shows the color-configuration as defined
- in M.
-
- - L - Load an alternative color-configurationfile.
- Handy when you have setup more color-configurationfiles and want to
- use another or just edit it. You can ofcourse also use this when
- you got a nice configuration from a friend and want to look what
- (s)he has got for nice colors.
- A directory will show up with all available *.COL-files. You can
- switch to alternative directories to look for *.COL-files.
- If you press enter the requested file will be loaded. If it
- hasn't the format of a color-configurationfile default colors will
- be used.
-
- - Q - After you have setup a color-configuration which you like, you can
- exit the programming, whether or not saving it.
- When saving the name of the current configurationfile in use will
- show up. Pressing enter will save this file overwriting an existing
- file with the same name (no check is being done on this).
- You can also change the name of the file to save.
- If you want to write a file to a non-existing directory, TIMCOLOR
- will save the given filename in the current directory overwriting
- an existing file with the same filename.
-
- ■ To change foreground-colors use the up and down-arrow key.
- To change background-colors use the left and right-arrow key.
- To change a field use the space-key.
- To toggle between 'normal' and 'blinking colors' press the 'B'-key
- Pressing F1 in all submenu's (except loading and saving) will pop-up
- a help-screen with this information.
-
- ■ The boxes which pop-up (help-screen, saving and loading) show the
- actual colors of the boxes to use in timEd.
- The entryfield when entering a filename is also the same as the entry-
- field in timEd.
-
- ■ To use a created colorconfigurationfile you'll have to put
-
- INCLUDE FILENAME.EXT
-
- in TIMED.CFG where FILENAME.EXT is the name of your TIMED-
- configuration.
- Maybe I'll use TIMED.CFG in the future for writing the info.
-
- ■ Note: the shown message in the program has been written by me and contains
- by no means any information of anyone else. Names and nodenumbers
- are existing ones.
-
- ■ That's all there is... Easy, isn't it?
-
-
- 7. Freeware.
-
- ■ This program is freeware, which means that usage is totally free.
-
- But if you enjoy using TIMCOLOR you may show your appreciation by
- sending me a nice postcard of your city/village.
-
- You can send this postcard to:
- Dick Pluim
- Davidstraat 95
- 9725 BZ Groningen
- Netherlands
-
- ■ People who have sent their postcard showing their appreciation:
-
- - Jelle Boot - 2:500/133.204 - Netherlands
- - Sjaak Paridaens - 2:281/609.8 - Netherlands
- - Andrej Kirm - 2:380/141 - Slovenia
- - Brian Spencer - 1:252/503.2 - Canada
- - Herman Verbrugge - 2:281/207 - Netherlands
- - Jason Waghorn - 2:256/5042 - Great Britain
- - Andrew Chen - 22:40/106 - Taiwan
- - Rob Hoozemans - 2:280/130.6 - Netherlands
- - Rance Linger - 6:750/910 - Taiwan
- - did I forgot someone?
- - you?
-
-
- 8. History
-
- [+] addition
- [*] changes
- [!] bugfix
-
-
- ■ v1.00 - 31 Jan 94 First initial release
-
- ■ v1.01 - 1 Feb 94 [!] Seems that 1.00 could read an alternative color-
- config but not used it. In the 1.00beta's it worked,
- but probably due to some code-changes I moved a
- proecedure to the wrong place. ;-)
-
- [*] TIMCOLOR now uses 25 rows instead of 24.
-
- ■ v1.02 - 6 Feb 94 [!] The editscreen didn't show the timEd-editscreen-
- status-line at the bottom (not really important or
- annoying ;-) ).
- Pos: and Line: show randomly numbers.
- And try pressing the Ins-key. ;-)
-
- [*] Changed the message-reader-statusline to the
- statusline used in timEd-g1.
-
- ■ v1.03 - 14 Mar 94 [*] Made the screen-writing lots faster and optimized
- the source-code (40% smaller than 1.02!).
-
- [*] Date shown in message on screen won't be the same
- anymore all the time. ;-)
-
- [!] For German users (or just generally people) with
- a German keyboard (QWRTZ) the 'save changes'-
- prompt would cause them to press the Z instead of
- the Y. Now it should also work with pressing the Y.
-
- [+] Now a directory-listing will show up when loading
- an alternative configuration. So you don't have
- to enter a filename anymore.
-
- [*] Built in an extra check when saving files.
-
- ■ v1.10 - 16 Mar 94 [!] The extra check when saving files didn't work
- quote well... Fixed!
-
- [*] Added support for blinking colors!
-
- [!] When pressing F1 during one of the screens for
- editing colors would result in not ever showing
- the main screen anymore (this was due to some
- SaveScreen-problems). This has been fixed!
-
- ■ v1.11 - 9 Jul 94 [!] If you toggled between blinking and non-blinking
- for frame-colors the color-number could show a
- number higher than 255 (only if you started with
- a colorcode smaller than 16). This has been fixed!
-
- [+] Added 'Find menu'-color-configuration. You will
- only need this part if you use timEd 1.01 and up
- (if they appear... ;-) ).
-
- ■ v1.12 - 18 Aug 94 [!] Fixed color of the last line of the Find screen.
- This would be in the wrong color...
- This line also didn't get updated if you changed
- the Find-text-color.
- Fixed!
-
- [*] Also updated the find-screen to that in timEd
- 1.01g1.
-
- ■ v1.13 - 22 Jul 95 [+] Added new color_-commands for use with timEd 1.10g1.
-
-
- 9. A final word.
-
- ■ Thanx to Gerard van Essen for writing timEd. At the time of writing
- the latest official release is version 1.01. Beta-testers can make usage
- of a 1.10.beta... And for registered users there is a timEd 1.10.g1
- available.
-
- ■ Only new releases will appear if Gerard adds some more color-codes to
- be configured (hope he doesn't that too often ;-) ).
-
- ■ As English is not my native language, there may be some errors in the
- text above.
-
- ■ There is another TIMCOLOR-program around by Mike Wynne. It has exactly
- the same name but looks much different and is about 20 KB larger...
-
- ■ Well, that's it. Enjoy this nice program. If you have any suggestions,
- comments, etc. you can drop them at my BBS or send it to me via Netmail.
-
-
- Dick Pluim, July 22nd, 1995
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