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Thurman Utilities ... Hue v1.00
(c) 1992, Thomas Thurman
Hue is a little utility to change the screen colours using ANSI.SYS. It
has a very simple invocation syntax- you specify the colours you want in
their natural order. For example:
HUE bright white on blue
will change the colours to bright white on blue. Type HUE with no parameters
for more information.
HUE ?
will give you a list of possible colours for your monitor. This adjusts itself
according to whether you have a mono or colour monitor.
The following keywords work on any monitor:
BRIGHT/BOLD/HIGH/LIGHT gives the high-intensity version of a colour.
BLINK/FLASH causes the colour to flash.
Options for colour montors only are as follows:
BLACK, RED, GREEN, BROWN, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, WHITE will give you those
colours (pretty obviously.)
The first colour you give is the foreground colour, the next is the
background colour.
PINK is short for LIGHT MAGENTA.
YELLOW is short for LIGHT BROWN.
Options for mono monitors only are these:
UNDERLINE/UNDERSCORE gives underlined text, and
INVERSE gives inverse text (ie white on black.)
Any of these may be combined with any others, EXCEPT for the fact that the
background colour may not be flashing or bright. If you ask for a flashing
or bright background colour you'll get a flashing or bright foreground colour
instead.
Type HUE /H for extra usage information.
Here's the most unusual feature of this utility: it can create .COM files
to change the screen colours! For example, suppose you wanted to have the
screen colours set to bright-white-on-blue every time you booted your
computer. First, you'd type
HUE bright white on blue /cbwob
This will create a file called BWOB.COM. Then you'd put a line saying
bwob
in your autoexec.bat (in the root directory of your boot disk), and it
would set the colours for you! This is also useful if there are several
people who use the same computer, and who each like different screen colours.
For example, my little brother Andrew likes light magenta on red, but I
prefer bright white on blue. You could create files named ANDREW.COM and
THOMAS.COM, and save yourself a lot of typing.
So there it is. Ideas for improvements and so on would be welcome...
Ebby: SEND your message to Thomas Thurman.
CompuServe: send to Mike Thurman, number 100021,3441.
SSBBS: send to Thomas Thurman.
(SSBBS is on Amersham (0494) 431861.)
Or you can contact the Thorsoft support area on Paradise City, which is on
Reading (0734) 786408. It should be working by the end of August 1992.
Other programs by Thorsoft:
Avaricius: a graphical adventure game set in Pompeii (*)
Spellchick: an arcade game (*)
Frisk: a file-finder
(*) = requires EGA.
Have fun!
Thomas Thurman
July 1992.