CONTENTS

Introduction

What's Tek Screeble?

Requirements

Installing/Un-installing Tek Screeble

License Agreement

Technical Support

Design Notes

Using Tek Screeble

Starting/Exiting Tek Screeble

Entering Text

Drawing Lines

Clearing Text and Lines

Changing configuration Settings

Matters to Notice


What's Tek Screeble?

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Screeble is a compound of Screen and Scribble. It's a sort of good-for-nothing applications, but it can make you feel you are entering messages or memos directly from the keyboard to the desktop. Simply tap your keyboard to display text and lines with your favorite properties on the desktop.

The latest version provides The Boss Is Comin' function that allows you to instantaneously chage the desktop appearance by pressing the hot key.


Requirements

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Operating System

For Windows 95/98 only. Note that Visual Basic 5.0 fundamental runtime library files (Service Pack 2 or 3) must be installed to run this program.

Fonts

Arial must be at least installed.


License Agreement

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Distribution

Tek Screeble is freeware. However, the Software remains the property of the author. You may distribute or reproduce the Software freely for personal and non-commercial use only, provided you contact the author by E-mail to get the author's consent, preferably prior to, or even after, the distribution or the reproduction. All of the components of the Software should be distributed or reproduced in the original archive form and should not be modified in any way.

License

You accept the following Agreement by receiving and/or using this Software. If you do not intend to honor this Agreement, you must remove this software from your computer right now.

User Agreement

This software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. The author disclaims all warranties, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. The entire risk arising out of the use or performance of the product and documentation remains with recipient. In no event shall the author be liable for any consequential, incidental, direct, indirect, special, punitive, or other damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information, or other pecuniary loss) arising out of this agreement or the use of or inability to use the product, even if the author has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, the author is not forced to alter the Software nor fix any bugs in any case except of the author's own accord.

Copyright Notice

None is allowed to attempt to reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile this software. All parts of this software are copyright protected.

Copyright © 1997-1998 by Tadahiro Iyama. All Rights reserved.


Design Notes

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Haven't you ever been driven by temptation to freely scribble on the desktop? I know some desktop painting applications, but not about those which "makes believe" that I'm entering characters directly from the keyboard to the desktop. I'm using Tek Screeble to leave a message or a warning on the desktop.


Installing/Un-installing Tek Screeble

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Installing Tek Screeble

You must have successfully installed Tek Screeble when you read this Help. See Installing/Un-installing Tek Screeble in Readme.doc included in the distributed files, if necessary.

Un-installing Tek Screeble

Remove all the associated files in the folder where tscreebe.exe exits. No modification is made to the Windows' registry, so Tek Screeble will be completely un-installed from your system by this process. It is recommended to keep Visual Basic 5.0 runtime files in Windows' System folder for future use.


Entering Text

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On starting Tek Screeble you can immediately enter characters to the desktop from the keyboard. Use Up, Down, Left or Right key to move the cursor, Del or Back Space key to delete particular characters.

If you previously drew lines, right-click on the desktop and choose Enter Text from the menu. Text can be entered from the keyboard only in this mode. You can drag it by pressing the mouse left button when the cursor changes to [image].

The text properties can be set in the Properties - Text dialog box. See Changing Configuration Settings.


Changing Configuration Settings

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Right-click on the desktop to show the pop-up menu, where you change the configuration Settings for Tek Screeble as described below:

Preferences - General

Choose General in the Preferences menu to show the Preferences - General dialog box, where you set the hot keys and margin.

- Hot Keys

You fill in or empty the Shift + or Alt + check box, and choose an alphanumeric character (A to Z and 0 to 9) in the drop-down list box to assign the same function to the hot keys as clicking on the Clear All, Clear Lines and Restore Text in the pop-up menu.

- Margin

Enter a number in each box for determining the Top, Left, Bottom and Right margin in pixels (dots) relative to the desktop.

Preferences - Text

Choose Text in the Preferences menu to show the Preferences - Text dialog box, where you set properties for text display. Click on the Text, Shadow or Cursor button to show the color palette to select a color for each. It is recommended to select a true type font greater than 12 points.

You can also set a shadow offset by the horizontal scroll bar. If you set a minus offset and choose a light color for the shadow, it will make a highlight effect on the text. Further, you can choose a cursor style, a vertical (recommended) or lateral bar.

Preferences - Line

Choose Line in the Preferences menu to show the color palette, where you select a line color. You can also set a line width by using the horizontal scroll bar. The maximum line width is 50 pixels.


Matters to Notice

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- Tek Screeble was made mainly for the purpose of entering text to the desktop, so it provides only simple functions for drawing lines, in order to, for instance, underline or encircle text to make it conspicuous. If you need further drawing performances and do not need any character input function, you should try other programs such as Rakugaki-kun by Mr. Sadanori Nara (Japanese-language application).

- It is not recommended to place Tek Screeble's shortcut in the Windows Startup folder.

- Text on the desktop flickers while you draw a line. It's a small defect of this application.

- The author is not liable for whether you can change the screen in time by using The Boss Is Comin' function.


Technical Support

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E-mails for comments, bug reports or requests on this Software are accepted by the author at fwgd0097@mb.infoweb.ne.jp.

This Software is continuously maintained by the author and its latest version is released on the author's home page at http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~tek/index.htm. You may at times visit there to check the version number and/or the time stamp of the released file.


Clearing Text and Lines

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Right-click on the desktop and choose Clear All or Clear Lines from the menu. You can restore the entered text by choosing Restore Text. If you choose Clear Lines, all the lines displayed on the desktop will be cleared. You cannot "erase" a part of the lines. Once you cleared the lines, you cannot restore them.

You can hide the Screeble's screen from the desktop by choosing Hide from the pop-up menu by right-clicking on the desktop. The hidden screen will be instantaneously come back by pressing the hot key assigned in the Preferences - General dialog box (The Boss Is Comin' function).


Drawing Lines

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Right-click on the desktop and choose Draw Lines from the menu. Then the cursor changes to [image]. You can draw lines only in this mode. Click on the desktop where you start drawing a line, hold the button pressed and move the mouse cursor. You cannot start a line within the text area already displayed on the desktop.

The line properties can be set in the Properties - Line dialog box. See Changing Configuration Settings.


Starting/Exiting Tek Screeble

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Starting Tek Screeble

Like ordinary Windows applications you can start Tek Screeble by double-clicking on its icon or choosing the menu item in the Start menu.

Once you start Tek Screeble, you can immediately enter characters from the keyboard to the desktop, but cannot access to the desktop except the margin area which can be set in the Preferences - General dialog box. This feature allows you to prevent your PC from being used by other persons. Also see Changing Configuration Settings.

Exiting Tek Screeble

Right-click on the desktop and choose Exit from the pop-up menu.