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- HELP FOR KEYBOARD AND MOUSE NAVIGATION
- (C) 1991-1993 Copyright by Mark E Cowan
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- ■ Moving and selecting a menu or an object in a dialog box
-
- Keyboard Use the Arrow keys or the Tab key to move from one
- menu or object in a dialog box to another
-
- Use the Down arrow key or Enter key to pull down a
- menu
-
- Use the Enter key to execute an objects function
-
- Use the Enter key to select an item in a List Box
-
- Use the Ecape key exit a dialog box and the program
-
- Mouse Move the cursor to the desired menu or object in a
- dialog box and press the left mouse button to move from
- one object in a dialog box to another
-
- Double click on an object to execute that objects
- function (push buttons)
-
- Double click an item in a list box to select that item
-
-
- ■ Entering text in 'Edit' boxes
-
- Use the standard editing keys for moving the cursor to the desired
- position and enter the desired text
-
- Pressing the INSERT key toggles between insert and over write mode
-
- FILE MENU
-
- ■ Play Files
-
- This will display a dialog box which will enable you to select and
- play Create Labs Voice files (.voc) and CMF music files (.cmf)
-
- When playing voice files, a dialog box will be displayed allowing
- the file to be paused, continued, or stopped.
-
- When playing music files, a dialog box will be displayed allowing
- the file to be paused, continued, or stopped.
-
- Also, there is a Clear button displayed. After pressing this
- button, the current voice or music file being played is discontiued
- and the file queue is cleared. This button is neccessary while
- playing files in Loop mode to discontinue file playing from the
- queue. You may obtain further help on playing files by selecting
- the Help button or by pressing F1 key while the Play file dialog
- is shown on the screen
-
- ■ Record Files
-
- This will display a dialog box which will enable you to record
- voice files (.voc)
-
- ■ Dos Gateway
-
- This will bring you to the Dos Prompt, allowing you to run Dos
- commands and programs. Type 'exit' to return to this program
-
- ■ About
-
- A message box will display compile date information important when
- reporting bugs
-
- UTIL MENU
-
- ■ Card Status
-
- A message box will display the Sound Blaster Card address found,
- interrupt setting, and Voice Driver Version
-
- HELP MENU
-
- ■ Help
-
- Type F1 to quickly access help
-
- ■ Register
-
- Select this to obtain information required to register this
- program, and how to contact the author
-
- ■ Volume Controls
-
- For Sound Blaster Pro and Sound Blaster 16 card owners, there
- are volume controls for all channels. You can click on the up
- or down arrows for raising or lowering the volume of each
- channel. You can select a volume setting from 1 to 10.
-
- You can also activate the desired arrow by using the Tab key,
- and then press Enter to activate that control.
-
- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
-
- Before running VBLASTER.EXE, make sure your environment
- variables are setup. There are two variables, one points to
- the directory of your main Sound Blaster programs, the other
- sets up the port address, interrupt, DMA number, and the Sound
- Blaster card type. VBLASTER uses the card type to determine
- which voice driver to load if it cannot find the driver in the
- directory specified by SOUND. Here is a description:
-
- SOUND=C:\SBPRO
-
- This specifies C:\SBPRO as main directory, then the directory
- search for the CTVDSK.DRV is C:\SBPRO\DRV as dictated by
- Creative Labs. Make sure this is set by your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- file. You can type: SET at the Dos prompt to see all
- environment variables.
-
- The second environment variable specifies the I/O configuration
- and card type. Here is an example:
-
- BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2
-
- where: A - specifies the base I/O port used
- I - specifies the interrupt request line
- D - specifies the DMA channel
- T - specifies the card type:
- 1 for SB 1.5
- 2 for SB Pro
- 3 for SB 2.0
- 4 for SB Pro 2.0
- 6 for SB 16
-
- Make sure this is setup correctly for your card. It probably
- is if you have a SB Pro or higher. If you have a SB 1.5 or SB
- 2.0, you will need to set this up in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file so
- that you will not get the warning message at the beginning of
- the VBLASTER screen every time. Use the above BLASTER=...
- example, changine only the 220 for port address, 7 for the
- interrupt, 1 for the DMA channel, and 2 for your card type.
- Refer to your SB card manual to find out which card type you
- have. You probably can use the above example changing only the
- 2 for the correct card type for your card. Here are some
- examples, exactly as they should appear in AUTOEXEC.BAT
-
- EXAMPLE CODE DESCRIPTION (do not include)
- ===================== ============================
- BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2 (for SB Pro)
- BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T1 (for SB 1.5)
- BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T3 (for SB 2.0)
-
- The VBLASTER program uses the above environment variables to
- first locate the CTVDSK.DRV voice driver. If the driver
- cannot be located in the directory as dictated by the SOUND
- environment variable (ie: (SOUND)\DRV), then VBLASTER will
- load the appropriete VBLASTER.D?? for your sound card as
- dictated by T? component of the BLASTER environment variable.
-
- ************************* NOTE *****************************
- * NOTE: A bug was found in the CTVDSK.DRV driver that was
- shipped with SB 16 cards. The included driver VBLASTER.D16
- has this bug fixed. Generally, you may assume that your
- CTVDSK.DRV driver is OK if it has a later date than 10/25/93.
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