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- TechView 2.1 Technical Reference Manual
- (C) Copyright 1992-3 Technalysis Limited. All rights reserved.
- Last Revised: 1 Feb 1993
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- Hardware requirements
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- IBM Compatible PC (min 286; 386 or better preferred)
- Memory used: 47K
- Video: Super VGA Card with 640x400x256 mode
- OS: DOS 3.30 or later
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- _______________________________________________________________________
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- NAME
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- TECHVIEW - Links pictures into documents/databases/spreadsheets
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- SYNOPSIS
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- TECHVIEW [-h] [-U] [-d] [-b color] [-p position] [-r row] [-c col]
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- DESCRIPTION
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- TechView is TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program which can be
- activated by the hot key Alt-LeftShift from any application program
- which operates in 80x25 text mode. The hot key will cause TechView
- to search the display screen for picture file names with the extention
- ".GIF" . Use the arrow keys to select a highlighted file name and press
- the Enter key to display the picture.
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- To select another picture type ESC and use the arrow keys again.
- Type ESC a SECOND time to return to your application program.
-
- The position of the picture can be specified by using either -p or
- -r and -c options. -p gives a course description of position (see
- "OPTIONS" below), while -r and -c specify row and column of the top
- left corner of the picture.
-
- The professional version of TechView also permits pictures to be
- resized.
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- OPTIONS
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- -h Display summary of options.
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- -U Unload TechView from memory.
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- -d Don't display the background text with the picture.
- Useful with large pictures. Displays picture faster.
-
- -b color Places a border around the picture in a given color.
- Colors codes are :-
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- 0 = BLACK 8 = DARKGRAY
- 1 = BLUE 9 = LIGHTBLUE
- 2 = GREEN 10 = LIGHTGREEN
- 3 = CYAN 11 = LIGHTCYAN
- 4 = RED 12 = LIGHTRED
- 5 = MAGENTA 13 = LIGHTMAGENTA
- 6 = BROWN 14 = YELLOW
- 7 = LIGHTGRAY 15 = WHITE
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- -p position
- "position" is a number from 1-9 which indictates a coarse
- position on the screen to place the picture.
-
- ------- ------- -------
- | Top | Top | Top |
- | 1 | 2 | 3 |
- | Left | Middle| Right |
- -------+-------+-------
- |Centre | Centre|Centre |
- | 4 | 5 | 6 |
- | Left | | Right |
- -------+-------+-------
- |Bottom |Bottom |Bottom |
- | 7 | 8 | 9 |
- | Left | Middle| Right |
- ------- ------- -------
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- e.g. -p4 will centre the picture on the left side of the
- screen. The default position is -p5, centre of screen.
-
- -r row
- -c col Position top left corner of picture to a row and column
- of the background text. "row" must be in the range 0 - 24,
- and "col" in the range 0 - 79. Both must be specified to
- override a -p option or the default of -p5 .
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- EXAMPLES
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- techview -b15 -p7
- Display pictures in bottom left corner with background text.
- Surround pictures with a white border.
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- techview -d -p5
- Display pictures in the centre of the screen with no background
- text. Pictures have no border.
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- DEFAULT OPTIONS
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- techview -p5
- No Border. Background text. Picture is centre screen.
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