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- © 1992 by Michael Watzl
- Konradstr. 11
- 8850 Donauwörth
- GERMANY
-
- MCMaster is copyrighted software but freely distributable as long
- as no profit is made with this program.
-
- OS >2.04 only!
-
-
-
- 1. What MCMaster does
- ---------------------
-
- MCMaster is a program designed for printing covers for music cassettes. I know,
- there are a lot for such programs in the FD but none could satisfy me. So I
- wrote my own MC-cover-printing-program.
- The MCMaster is completely written with DICE (thanks Mat).
-
- The maximal number of MCs depends only on the amount of memory you have. One MC
- can carry 13 songnames per side plus the name of the interpret and the album
- name. The noise reduction and the source can also be specified via cycle
- gadgets.
-
- 2. Starting MCMaster
- --------------------
-
- a) Starting form Workbench
-
- MCMaster currenty supports the following tooltypes:
-
- DISPLAYID= e.g. 0x00008000 -> HIRES
- 0x00008004 -> HIRES-LACE
- Must be 10 chars long!
- For more info look at wbstartup/Mode_Names!
- DATABASE= there a filename (with path) can be given. This Datafile
- will be loaded at the start of the session.
- COLORS= You can set the screen colors in the following fromat:
- rgbrgbrgbrgb
- r stans for red, g for green and b means blue
- r,g and b can be from 0 to F (0 - 15 dez)
- example: Colors=89A002FFFEB2
- \|/\|/\|/\|/
- 1 2 3 4
- MAXCASS= There you set the maximal number of music cassettes which
- may be edited during this session. If you don't have enough
- memory, MCMaster will quit.
- Default is 60.
- OSCAN= TEXT -> Text overscan
- STANDARD-> Standard overscan
- MAX -> Maximal oscan
- VIDEO ...
- NONE (or anything else) -> No oscan
-
- Read your manual for more info about oscan...
-
- b) Starting from the cli/shell
-
- Template: MCMaster -d/K,-f/K,-c/K,-m/K,-o/K
-
-
- -d DisplayID: see above
-
- -f DataBase: Path/Name of Datafile to be loaded at once
- default is none
-
- -c Colors: give 12 hexchars in the form rgbrgbrgbrgb
- (red, green, blue)
- e.g. 89A002FFFEB2 (see above)
-
- -m MaxCass: number of maximal needed MCs, default is 60
-
- -o OverScan: TEXT, STANDARD, MAX or VIDEO, default is no overscan
-
- Note that you can't save the colors of your screen (palette requester)
- when you started MCMaster from the cli/shell because there is no icon
- where MCMaster can save this information to!
-
-
- 3. MenuFunktions
- ----------------
-
- a) The Project menu:
-
- Load: Load new data file. This will delete the currently
- existing data.
- If the file contains more mcs than the MaxCass value
- allows, the rest will be ignored.
-
- Save: This will save all the mcs to the specified file.
-
- Info: This item gives some global information, like
- available memory, selected printer ...
-
- About: Who's done this...
-
- Delete last MC: Will ask you for deleting the last MC in memory.
-
- Print: A big requester comes up asking you from which to
- which MC you want to print and which quality and so on.
- Before the printer starts working you will be asked
- again.
-
- Quit: Quits. When some data has been edited, you will be asked
- before quitting.
-
-
- b) The Search Menu:
-
- You may search for the names of the interprets, the names of their
- albums, the song names or anything.
-
- In the search text gadget you can type in the name you want to search
- for. MCMaster will search non-case-sensitive.
- You can also use the standard dos wildcards like #?, ...
- (I used MatchPatternNoCase() )
-
- You can start from MC 1, or search beginning from the current MC.
-
- If anything that matches was found, this MC will be displayed.
-
- c) The List Data Menu:
-
- Like above you can choose what shall be listed: interprets,albums or
- songs.
-
- At first, the list will not be sorted. It is simply created MC by MC.
- Pressing sort will activate a quicksort-algorithm, which is really fast.
-
- You can click on any entry to jump to exit the list window and jump to
- this MC.
-
- d) The Special Menu:
-
- Edit Owners Name: The owners name will be printed on the back of
- each MC-cover and may be three lines long.
-
- Edit MC: Simply activates the first string gadget.
- This is for a faster handling if you do not
- want to have on hand at the mouse all the time.
-
- Color Palette: Pretty self-explaining.
- Attention: You may only save the colors when you
- started MCMaster from WB because MCMaster will
- save the colors as ToolType.
-
- 4. Special Keys
- ---------------
-
- a) Main Window
-
- cursor left/right backward/forward one MC
-
- with shift: 5 MCs
- with alt : 10 MCs
-
- b) Print Window
-
- cursor left/right: backward/forward one MC (from)
-
- with shift pressed: backward/forward one MC (to)
-
-
- 5. Printing
- -----------
-
- The MCMaster should work with any printer which allows 10 and 15 cpi
- because I used only the printer.device to say the printer what to do.
-
- I tested this with an Epson LX-800 and a HP Deskjet 500.
-
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-
- If you find this program useful, be happy. If you don't, throw it
- away. If you find any bugs or if you have any suggestions for the
- next version please let me know.
-
- Michael Watzl
- Konradstr. 11
- W-8850 Donauwörth
- Germany
-
- Tel.: (Germany) 0906 / 5834
- (sorry, no modem)
-
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