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A FREEWARE WYSIWYG WCTEXT.DAT COLOR EDITOR
from
Tim Rider
4129 Konya Dr.
Torrance, CA 90503
The Source BBS
(310) 371-3737
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│ Disclaimer - Agreement │
└────────────────────────┘
Users of TXTEDIT must accept this disclaimer of warranty:
"TXTEDIT is supplied as is. The author disclaims all
warranties, expressed or implied, including, without
limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness
for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for
damages, direct or conse-quential, which may result from the
use of TXTEdit."
'TXTEdit' is Freeware, and is NOT Public Domain.
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Limited documentation provided by Chip North, The Source BBS
With that out of the way, a little background, and less in the way of
instruction. This is a utility that never made it to a 'finished' form,
and will not be developed further. Tim wrote this to help me customize,
or rather colorize, the prompts in WCTEXT.DAT. We both found it a royal
PIA to color a line or two of prompts and then load the board to see how
things worked. This utility is a little crude, but it gets the job done!
Tim doesn't plan on taking it any further, and will not be providing any
support for it, nor is he going to respond to requests for enhancements
or improvements. This is it.
It's really quite simple to use. All you need to do is make a copy of
of your WCTEXT.DAT as a 'work' file and move it into a directory along
with TXTEDIT and run the EXE.
You can acyually have several copies, and make several different color
schemes by making multiple copies of the the file with different names.
Once you load the file, you will be presented with a list of the prompts
in a scrollable window. Select the one you wish to work on, and hit the
<ENTER> key. At this point you will see two copies of the prompt. The upper
is the original, and the lower is your 'work' prompt.
This is were my documentation starts to get a little flaky...
Two boxes appear with the @ color coded text in it, and the text
as the user sees it below. In the case of longer truncated lines, you
will have 2 lines of color coded text... at this point choose 1 or 2
to choose the line you wish to work on. You should be able to follow
it from there... play with it for a while.
One really nice liitle feature is that once you have the text in the edit
line, you can move the cursor to any point you wish and hit F1 to pop up
a window with all the color selections. Move the cursor to the desired color
amd hit <enter>, the code is inserted, and you can see the results as you work.
Actually, this is the ONLY place I've found that the F1 key does work. The
HELP function was never completed.
Like I said, the docs are worthless. The program isn't. Spice up your
screens with a lot less effort than using the MKWCTEXT editor.
PLEASE NOTE:
To get an idea of what Tim's work is really like, take a look at his other
programs, WILDCHAT (WCHTxxx.ZIP), a multi-node replacement for the internal
chat feature, and MAKEBull (MBULLxxx.ZIP), a bulletin/newsletter generator
that can save to ANSI as well as the @COLOR@ codes, and was the first of the
@ code colorization programs that provides a library of headers and footers
for your bulletins.
If you find TXTEDIT useful, a postcard and/or a small donation sent to the
address above wouldn't be frowned upon, I'm sure... :)
And, hey, if anyone wants to add any improvement to this 'documentation',
have at it.