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- ColorSet
- Copyright (c) 1993 Sheldon L. Sobel
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- Color Setting Utility
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- For a variety or reasons you may want to change the color
- displayed on your screen. An application may not reset the
- colors to the original values when it ends. You want to
- "color code" screens as a means of tracking progress of a
- process (i. e. "When we start the screen is green, at the
- conversion step its brown, ... ,when the process is finished
- we see a blue screen. If we observe a red screen with yellow
- characters, an error has occurred. I can monitor from my desk
- across the room, I don't need to read the screen.")
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- ColorSet is designed to allow you to easily change the screen
- color of PC's which have a color video card and color monitor.
- You may execute ColorSet from either within batch file or
- interactively at the DOS command prompt. Two modes of operation
- are available: menu mode and command line mode.
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- I. Menu Mode.
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- Menu mode is selected by typing ColorSet and then pressing the
- Enter key, thus displaying the menu of valid ColorSet options.
- Menu mode accepts numbers for associated color names from which
- selections are chosen. Selections are then displayed so that
- you may evaluate various combinations. Continue to compare
- background and foreground color pairs until a satisfactory
- combination is selected and accepted.
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- II. Command Line Mode.
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- Syntax: COLORSET Background-Color Foreground-Color[*]
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- The brackets around the asterisk indicates that this is an
- optional parameter; the brackets should not be included in the
- command line. The location of the asterisk is not limited to
- the last position as shown in the above syntax but may occur
- anywhere after the initial space separator. The purpose of the
- asterisk is to specify that a high intensity (e.g. "bright")
- foreground color is required.
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- ■ Background-Color is limited to the eight colors defined below.
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- ■ Foreground-Color may be any of the sixteen colors in its list.
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- ■ Either upper case or lower case characters are acceptable.
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- ■ Color names may be abbreviated to their first three characters.
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- Background Color Choices Foreground Color Choices
- ──────────────────────── ────────────────────────
- BLAck BLAck GRAy
- BLUe BLUe *BLUe
- GREen GREen *GREen
- CYAn CYAn *CYAn
- RED RED *RED
- MAGenta MAGenta *MAGenta
- BROwn BROwn YELlow
- WHIte WHIte *WHIte
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- Examples of valid requests:
- ColorSet BLUE White
- ColorSet WHITE mag
- ColorSet MAG YEL
- ColorSet Bro *mag ; bright magenta is indicated
- ColorSet mag blu* ; bright blue is indicated
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- Examples of invalid requests:
- ColorSet White with BLU ; Syntax error
- ColorSet Blue *YELL ; No such color as "bright" Yellow
- ColorSet Meg White ; Nice girl but no color
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- Note: Invalid requests result in ColorSet defaulting to
- menu mode.
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- III. Miscellaneous.
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- ColorSet must be located in a directory in the search path.
-
- Selection of identical Background/Foreground color pairs are
- allowed. When in menu mode and this condition occurs, the
- following message is displayed: "You have selected a combination
- which displays a completely blank screen. Do you want to set this
- color?" This allows an opportunity to cancel the request. In
- command line mode no such verification is provided, the request
- is accepted and executed without question. If you elect to use
- this "blank screen" option, it is recommended that you first set
- your working directory to an empty directory to protect against
- the casual browser typing on what appears to be an inactive system
- possibly modifying and deleting files.
-
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- If you want the same color combination displayed each time you
- start your PC:
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- 1. Run ColorSet in menu mode, rejecting color pairs, until
- you find the desired combination.
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- 2. Determine the equivalent ColorSet line mode command to
- verify syntax and color combination.
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- 3. Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and append to it the command
- string determined in step 2. If you also want a blank
- screen to be displayed at that time, add a second line
- containing the DOS screen clearing command CLS.
-
- Adding a ColorSet command followed by the CLS command to
- any batch command file, obviously, will display the entire
- screen in the new colors. Without the CLS command the
- screen is not cleared, the previous screen restores except
- for the current line and the new color attributes are in
- effect at this time. An example, ColorsEx.Bat, is included
- in this distribution.
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- ColorSho.Exe is also included in this distribution. When
- executed 120 named color combinations are displayed for your
- evaluation. Observe the one which you want displayed and then
- set it with ColorSet. ColorSho does not display the eight screen
- blanking combinations where the foreground and background colors
- are identical.
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- ColorSet is offered "as is". No warranty nor claim of any kind is
- made nor implied.
-
- If you obtained you copy of ColorSet.Exe other than as part of a
- registered WYWA distribution set, a payment of $5.00 is requested.
-
- Suggestions, comments, or any other messages may be directed to
- the author:
-
- Sheldon L. Sobel Tel: (603) 424-2085
- 46 Joppa Road CompuServe ID: 73770,2160
- Merrimack, NH 03054
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