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PG-09: Screen Generating & Graphics
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1442 Graphics for Programmers Small Programs Disk
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3D-Plot
Reider, Jim
$?
is a 3d hidden line plot routine.
Animator
is a utility that aids you in drawing animated graphics.
Sprite
is for drawing graphics "sprites".
1442 Screen Design
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ANSI-Animator (ANSIANI)
Leitner, Eric
$?
is a utility for creating screens for programs, batch files, etc, using text,
ASCII graphics and ANSI GRAPHIC4 and GRAPHIC5 files contain graphic libraries
for the Printshop converted from disks of public domain Apple graphics.
ANSI-Draw (ANSIDRA)
is a screen design program that makes it easy to draw screens with the
upper-ASCII line-drawing characters.
Box
Wagner, Robert
$?
will draw a box on the screen in your program using ASCII line-drawing
characters. All you have to do is pop up BOX, mark the corners and hit a key,
then watch it draw the box. This turns any text editor into a screen design
program. res:7k
Boxit
Williams, Philip
$?
is a utility for creating text screens. Creates screens that can be saved.
Does not generate source code.
Dura Screen 3.1 (DS3)
Adkins, J.
$?
is an excellent screen drawing utility for programmers. It generates
screen-creation code in BASIC, C, Pascal, dBase III+, assembler, or ANSI, or
it will generate straight ASCII files that can be TYPEd in DOS.
LinBox 1.0
Sawada, Dr. Masaaki
$5-$10
is a TSR that lets you draw self-connecting single/double bar lines by moving
the cursor in any program, although it is intended primarily for use in word
processors. As a TSR, it uses 3k of RAM.
We almost trashed this because lines were not being drawn properly. But
when we read the documentation more carefully, we saw that it says to draw the
lines s-l-o-w-l-y or errors would occur. Slowly means that you should wait
until until each keystroke results in a line on the screen before pressing the
key again. You should definitely not just hold the cursor keys down. Also,
don't forget to press End before quitting your word processor, or you may have
to reboot to get control of the keyboard back when you are in DOS.
ScrGen
is a screen editor that generates Turbo Pascal source code for screen
displays to be added to your programs. The program features an attribute
selection utility, a box draw utility and a block move utility. Colors can be
defined for use on color monitors, and monochrome attributes, such as normal,
underlined and reverse video can be generated for use on monochrome monitors.
Output can be generated to support either or both of these video modes.
ScrMod
is a Modula-2 library offering an advanced text screen handling for the
IBM-PC and compatibles. It supports windows, RAM screens (to save or prepare
screens in RAM), cursor and bell control.
Screen-Man 1.0LS (SCRN)
Daniel Burke Associates
?
is a screen managment program which allows C language programmers to quickly
and easily display screens and accept input on IBM PC's and compatibles.
ScreenSave (SCRNSAV)
Barlow, Troy
$0
is a MASM routine that demonstrates using DOS from a TSR. It saves a MCGA
256-color palette and screen to disk.
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AnsiGraf
Hinkle, David
$0
#7197/1053
is intended primarily for programmers to use to create screens. In particular,
the program will save the screens in BASIC program code that can be merged
with BASIC programs. We found the program to be of excellent quality and easy
to use.
Borders
#7197/112
are modifiable BASIC and dBase code for creating screen borders.
OSG
Project X Development Group
$?
#7197/1062
lets programmers easily create program screens that can be stored, edited, and
finally converted by OSG for linking into programs with most MS language
compilers, or Turbo-C, or Lattice. Unlike other program screen generators, OSG
lets you link an OSG screen driver interface with your code. The interface
allows faster screen output without any problems such as snow. Another big
plus is that the screens can be easily converted from one language to another
if you change languages. We found the screen drawing to be easy. Lines are
drawn with the cursor keys; corners and intersecting lines are done
automatically.
PC-Input, Screeb Design Aid & Helper
#7197/239
programs to create screens for BASIC programs.
Designer
Young, Jan B.
$20
#113
is a programming tool for BASIC users working with animated graphics. The
BASICA source code is included for those who wish to study and/or modify it.
Included with The Designer is a demonstration program which illustrates one
way to program animation.
Fastgraph/Light
Ted Gruber Software
$49
#7537/3535 [3 disks]
is a graphics library of over 100 highly-optimized routines that can be called
from MSC, TurboC, QuickC, QB, MSFortran and assembly language. Fastgraph has
been used in such retail products as Accolade's Test Drive III, Day of the
Viper, Steel Thunder, Gunboat and many more.
Features include video mode detection and initialization; graphics fundamentals,
including points, solid and dashed lines, polygons, circles, ellipses, solid and
dithered rectangles, region fill, and clipping; character display; physical and
virtual video page management image display facilities, including mode-specific
and mode-independent images, clipped and reversed images, image retrieval, pixel
run maps, and image transfer; animation; and special effects.
Also included are routines for keyboard, mouse, and joystick control and sound
effects and music, both synchronous and asynchronous.
It supports all of the standard text and graphics video modes. It also supports
a commonly used video mode for the Tandy 1000 series computers and the PCjr, two
video modes for the Hercules Graphics Card, and two extended VGA modes. Example
source code is included. Requires a hard disk.
Icon Maker
#116
allows you to create graphics used by other programs and put them into the
programs data area.
Laughing Dog Screen Maker 1.12
Yardbird Software ASP
$35
#4649
is a powerful text-mode screen design tool. The mouse-based interface with
an on-screen toolbar makes designing screens extremely fast and easy.
Screens can be saved in a variety of formats including Binary, BSAVE,
ASCII, WildCat! BBS, ANSI, PCBoard, and executable COM files.
Source code can be generated in BASIC, C, Pascal, or Assembly Language. A
utility is provided for capturing screens from other applications, and you
can also produce manual or automatic slide-show demos. Most dot-matrix and
laser printers are supported, including PostScript compatible printers.
Mach II
#118
offers you the graphics functions of BASICA in a new format. The program
assumes you understand the LINE, CIRCLE, PAINT, GET, and PUT statements in
BASIC.
MuralKit
Green, Bill
$5
#886
lets you create a "mural" of 16 screen pages arranged in four rows of four.
While you can slowly scroll in all four directions (the columns and rows of
pages "wrap" when you reach the ends), pressing the space bar immediately
advances you to the next screen and pressing a number moves you directly to that
page. Seems like it could be handy for medium-size documentation files.
Appears to require ANSI.SYS.
P-Screen
Smetana, Rob W.
$33-$53
#7198/1792
lets you design screens, create screen libraries, then display your screens
from your own programs. Features include library screen compression, an option
to load BSAVE files, the ability to copy sections across screens or to
different locations on one screen, mouse support, pull-down menus, block
centering, Big Font, recolor, QB and PDS7 support, extensive help, and more.
It supports 25, 43 or 50 line screens on Mono, CGA, EGA or VGA.
Scndsign
Enochs, Iddo L.
$25
#7198/1135
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