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- COMMAND NAME DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES
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- SAY-SB Sound Board SAY will output VOC say-sb sfx1.voc
- files to your sound board. You can
- have up to 20 VOC files in one
- say-sb command.
-
- SAY Will output speech, music and sound say hello.pc
- effects thru the PC speaker. You can say seeya.pc sfx1.pc
- have up to 20 sound files in one SAY
- command.
-
- *SAY-PC Will output sound board VOC files say-pc thankyou.voc
- thru the pc speaker.
-
- *SAY-PRO Will output stereo VOC files thru say-pc intro.voc
- a stereo sound board.
-
- PLAY-CMF Outputs Creative Music Files play-cmf intro.cmf
- (*.CMF) to the Sound Blaster
- system. use b for background mode. play-cmf intro.cmf b
-
- NOTE: When you are using PLAY-CMF to
- play Creative Music Files in the
- background mode, it is necessary to
- put the letters CMF after each
- show-pcx and clear command.
-
- STOP-CMF Will stop a CMF file that is playing stop-cmf
- in background mode.
-
- SHOW-PCX Will display a graphic image file show-pcx blue.pcx blind
- with a screen effect (blind, crush, show-pcx menu.pcx sand
- diagonal, explode, spiral, split,
- weave, slide, random, sand and drip).
-
- *SHOW-GIF Will display a graphic image file show-gif house1.gif blind
- with a screen effect (blind, crush, show-gif house1.gif sand
- diagonal, explode, spiral, split,
- weave, slide, random, sand and drip).
-
- *SHOW Will display a graphic image file. show blueyes.gif
- Supports pcx, gif, pic, tif or tga. show menu.pcx
- Refer to the Image Processor for
- more show information.
-
- *SHOW-WIN Will display a graphic image file show-win house.pcx
- with a scroll down effect. Supports
- GIF and PCX only.
-
- *SHOW-WIN X Y Will display a graphic image file show-win eye.pcx 76 142
- as an overlay, window or on top of show-win eye.pcx 0 84
- a graphic image.
-
- CLEAR Will clear a PCX graphic image with clear mm1.pcx fade
- a screen effect (fade, blind, crush, clear blue.pcx spiral
- diagonal, explode, spiral, split,
- weave, slide and random).
-
- *CLEARGIF Will clear a GIF graphic image with cleargif house1.gif fade
- a screen effect (fade, blind, crush, cleargif house1.gif spiral
- diagonal, explode, spiral, split,
- weave, slide and random).
-
- PALETTE Will rotate the palette thru all of palette blue.pcx
- the palette colors (pcx only).
-
- *PAL-GIF Will rotate the palette thru all of pal-gif house1.gif esc
- the palette colors (gif only).
-
- *VIEW Will view a pcx of gif file with view house.pcx
- scroll and zoom control.
-
- *VIEWSVGA Will view a pcx of gif SVGA file viewsvga house1.gif
- with scroll and zoom control.
-
- *SCROLL UP Will scroll up the graphic screen. scroll up
-
- *SCROLL DOWN Will scroll down the graphic screen. scroll down
- This is a soft scroll effect.
-
- *ZOOM IN Will zoom in the graphic screen. zoom in
-
- *ZOOM OUT Will zoom out the graphic screen. zoom out
- This is a fast zoom effect.
-
- *ROTATE Will rotate the graphic screen 180. rotate
-
- *ROTATE x Rotates the graphic screen x times. rotate 20
-
- *NEGATIVE Will invert the graphic screen. negative
-
- *NEGATIVE x Inverts the graphic screen x times. negative 10
-
- DELAY Will wait for 1 second. delay
-
- DELAY x Will wait for x seconds. delay 3
- 30 seconds is the maximum.
-
- DELAY-KB xxx Will wait for xxx seconds or wait delay-kb 120
- until the user presses a keyboard
- key. 300 seconds is the maximum.
- Use this to create a self running
- demo.
-
- *MILLI x Will causes a delay measured milli 3
- in tenths of a second before the
- next command is initiated.
-
- KEY Will wait for the user to press key
- any keyboard key.
-
- KEY 123Q Will wait for the user to press key 123456789Q
- a menu key(123 or Q) and returns
- the key pressed. Use this to create key YN
- a menu or ask a question. Refer to
- manual.exe for more information. key ABC
-
- *CHECKKEY Is designed to create a LOOP in checkkey
- your program so that your graphics if errorlevel 1 goto next
- will continue to cycle until a key
- is pressed.
-
- MOUSE-ON Will turn the mouse on so the user mouse-on
- can use the mouse cursor as a
- pointer.
-
- *MOUSE-XY Will check to see if the mouse in mouse-xy 10 10 50 50
- in a area on the screen and return
- the X and Y mouse locations and the
- mouse button status
-
- GTEXT Displays a text line on top of a gtext "JUPITER TAKES ALMOST" 21 20 8 160 260
- graphic image in 3 point sizes gtext "12 YEARS TO REVOLVE" 22 20 8 160 260
- and any color.
-
- Usage: gtext "your text" row column size fcolor bcolor
- size is font size of 8, 14 or 16
- fcolor is font color number 0-255 for VGA
- bcolor is background color number 0-255 for VGA
- A bcolor greater then 255 will appear transparent.
-
- The parameter, "row," must be less than the vertical
- resolution of the video mode divided by the font point
- size. Example: 200 divided by 8 equals 25 rows.
-
- *GTEXT1 script font type
-
- *GTEXT2 gothic font type
-
- *GTEXT3 thin font type
-
- *PRINTSCR Will print the graphic screen to printscr
- a dot matrix printer(high quality).
-
- NAME Will input the users name, address name
- or any data you ask the user. This
- info. will be stored in a text file
- called ANSWERS.TXT.
-
- STORE Will store data in a text file. This store yes
- can be used to create a answer file store no
- that can be used to check the users store 2
- answers to questions. The text file
- is ANSWERS.TXT
-
- *BAT2EXE Will compile your batch file into bat2exe example1.bat
- an EXE file. This will make the
- program run faster and encrypt
- the data.
-
- CLEANUP This has to be the last command cleanup
- in your batch file, this will
- CLEANUP memory, display and temp.
- disk space. * REQUIRED *
-
- * = Only available on the advanced version of Multimedia Maker.
-
-
- OTHER BATCH COMMANDS AVAILABLE THRU DOS
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- ECHO OFF Turns off the commands echo. this echo off
- will not echo the commands to the echo on
- screen.
- ECHO text Will echo text to screen. echo HELLO WELCOME TO MY PROGRAM
-
- CLS Will clear the text screen. cls
-
- CALL Calls one batch file from another call example1.bat
- without ending itself.
-
- GOTO Process commands starting with the goto menu_again
- line after the specified label.
- :menu_again is a label example.
-
- IF Performs a command if a condition if errorlevel 1 goto menu1
- is met. This is used in conjunction if errorlevel 2 goto menu2
- with the KEY command, to ask the
- user a question and read the response.
- Refer to example4.bat for more info..
-
-
- FOR MORE INFORMATION ON BATCH FILES REFER TO YOUR DOS MANUAL.
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