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DarkView 2.00
Program Documentation
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( This program was the lit viewer in the first pack, in case this
"whatsnew" file confuses you )
OOoooo... A major rewrite, folks! Let's start with the whatsnew crud:
■ NEWS FLASH!!!! At 2:00AM the night the pack was going out, we
decided to scrap the old ANSi viewer and use my text viewer engine
instead. This means that the ANSi support is PRETTY DAMN cruddy.
File display is accomplished through the ANSI.SYS driver, and there's
no support for scrollback. This is due to time contraints, I don't
like releasing code that's this lame. Keep in mind that this doesn't
reflect on my coding skills -- the true function of this viewer shows
when you view *.LIT files. The next revision will definitely have
the ANSi engine in full working order.
■ MOD support! Full credit goes to Mark J Cox for MOD-OBJ. I have
neither the ability nor the desire to code a tracker when there are
programs of this quality in the public domain.
■ There's now a K-R/┤D status line at the bottom of the text viewing
display. The nifty status bar should keep the TV generation
interested while they read.
■ The file selection screen looks almost completely different (thank
God!) The interface is improved and looks pretty damn good if you
ask me. Thanks to Vital Substance for doing that "DÆRK" logo for me,
although the finished product looks nothing like what he gave me!
■ F1 now pops up a help screen. You know, for those people too lazy to
read the status line. Besides, it outlines the previously
undocumented (though still present, even in version 1.00) feature of
multiple file tagging and sequential display.
■ F2 now lets you change the filespec to whatever you want. Of course,
only DÆRK lit work will include the artist name and only files of the
extension "*.lit", "*.doc", "*.asc", and "*.drk" will have a meaningful
comment. This feature always existed, but the default file
extensions were hard-coded into the program cause I didn't have time
to code the "dialog box" routine.
■ F3 now toggles between 80x25, 80x28, and 80x50 viewing modes. This
is a feature that was stripped from v1.00 to help quash any potential
bugs. I had to rewrite all the display routines by hand for it, but
it's in there!
■ F10 now displays the credits. This was more to satisfy the people
who contributed to the viewer than to satisfy my own ego.
■ When viewing a bunch of tagged files in order, you can now press the
left arrow key to go back to a previously viewed file, or ESC to
return to the menu.
■ F1 will pop up a help screen while viewing a text file.
■ Added a neat-o-mosquit-o smooth scroll when you quit the viewer.
■ Fixed a problem in the beta release which caused choosing "No Sound"
to crash your computer. You can blame Mark for this one.
■ Increased the maximum text file size to 1000 lines. Lines above this
limit will not be viewable. After all, how much lit is over 1000
lines?!? Also cleaned up these routines to be more tolerant to long
files.
You may remember my lame lit viewer in the first DÆRK pack, the one
written at 4:00AM in a matter of minutes. Well, here's the second
revision. Hopefully this one looks a little more professional.
Oh, and...
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