Between Heaven & Hell 2/BetweenHeavenHell.cdr/500/484/dri.gth

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.                                DRAW Command

GRAPH program:
   [Draw] Animation Border Diagram Plotter Text Xline Yline
          [DA] Animation: Used to show a sequence of saved pictures with
                       selected delay. With no delay and using RAMDisk, the
                       pictures can be shown at 4 per second. Need 640K RAM.
                       Parameters: first No, No frames, delay and No of loops.
                       All pictures must be named Hnn or Lnn (nn=0 to 99).
          [DB] Border: Cleans up top and bottom lines before printing or saving
                       as a picture file. Optional border can be drawn.
          [DP] Plotter: Loads GRAPH plotter driver.
          [DT] Text:  Free-position text on the screen using cursor keys.
                      Data may also be entered from a text file.
                      (See File Create Text help notes.)
          [DX] Xline: Display a vertical line between base line and selected
                      X value.
          [DY] Yline: Display a horizontal line at any selected Y value.
          [DD] Diagram: Loads the DRAW program:

.                       DRAW  Full screen graphic editor
.                       --------------------------------
a. Screen drawing:
    All of the DRAW sub commands are activated with the first letter.  Further
    instructions or questions will appear in the top one or two lines of the
    screen.   The main menu is: [Draw] A B C D E F G J L M P Q R S T
    To display the full title of each of these commands just press <RTN>.
    (Or the left button on the mouse.)
        To cancel most commands press the Escape (Esc) key.  Some questions are
    cancelled with the Return key <RTN>.
        As you become familiar with the command letters, you may type ahead of
    the menu and prompts, as the keyboard buffers up to 15 characters.
    All prompts in [ ] are defaults and will be entered with <RTN> key.

.  Cursor movement:
   1. Cursor (Arrow) keys: (Default, or select command: A)
        The current cursor position is displayed as a `+' which can be moved
    on the screen with the four arrow keys, and the diagonal keys (Page Up,
    Page Dn, Home and End).   To control the distance moved, the
    increment can be set at any time with the number keys along the top of the
    keyboard. Each number multiplies the increment.
    Thus the 1 key sets an increment of 10; the 2 key sets 20 etc. up to
    9 (90).  The exception is the 0 key which sets an increment of 640 pixels,
    which enables immediate movement of the cursor to any border.
        To set the cursor increment in the range 1 to 9 use the ALT key
    together with a number key.  For example: ALT/3 sets the increment to 3.
        The cursor increment applies to both horizontal and vertical movement.
        The current increment is displayed at the lower left of the screen
    if the status line is being displayed. (Use Function 8)
  2. Joystick:
    Select command: J then Direct or [P]roportional.  The sensitivity of the
    joystick movement can be adjusted with the number keys (along the top).
    To return to the arrow keys, press command: A (or M for mouse).
  3. Mouse:
     The M-S Mouse driver must be loaded before GRAPHTIME-II.
     e.g.   MOUSE/1<RTN> (or it may be added to the GT.BAT file.)
     Select M from the master DRAW menu. Sensitivity of the mouse is controll-
     ed by the top-row number keys (1 - 9).
     Note: Text entry will temporarily revert to arrow key cursor control.

 Hidden command: V for version number and date.

b. Colour selection: (Also used in GRAPH program)
    If you are in low resolution mode (320 x 200), two groups of three colours
    are available for lines, frames, dots, circles, text and painting.
    To select a colour at any time use the ALT key together with the first
    letter of the required colour.  (Hold down the ALT key first then press
    the letter.)
    ALT/R    Red              ALT/G    Green
    ALT/Y    Yellow           ALT/C    Cyan
    ALT/M    Magenta          ALT/W    White
    ALT/B    Black
    The current colour is displayed as a colour block at the start of the
    status line.

    Screen colour:
       To change the background colour of the screen from the default of Black,
     press ALT/S.  Each ALT/S will change the screen to one of the 8 screen
     colours.
    If you are in high resolution mode, using the standard graphics card
    (640 x 200), only one colour is available. (Normally white on black.)
    This colour may be changed by using the ALT/S function.  Each ALT/S will
    select one of 8 colours.

   Note: When finishing with GRAPHTIME-II [QY], all current palette and
         resolution settings are saved to disk.

c. File loading (Fn 9) and saving (Fn 10):
    Files are normally loaded from the GRAPHTIME-II default drive.(use Fn 2 to
    change). If the name displayed in [ ] is correct, just press return. To
    display all files and select with the cursor keys, press an arrow key,
    move the highlight cursor to the required filename and press <RTN>.
    To load from a temporary alternate drive, include the drive
    specifier in the name typed in. e.g. B:PARTS<RTN>

d. GRAPH command: Direct access to other programs such as the GRAPH program,
   Editor (fonts), Plotter driver and Text-editor.

     Update disk ($25) from:  Computer Performance
                              P O Box 37
                              Darlington
                              Western Australia  6070
                              09 2996 153
 (C) October 2, 1986