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***************** VICON *****************
* * * * * * * * * *
* * * <Version 1.9> * * *
* * * * * * * *
* * Programmed by * *
* * * * * *
*Khai-Wei CHOONG*
* * * *
* * *
* *
*
******** FEATURES ********
VICON is a powerful fully-fledged icon editor/designer
in a friendly graphical user interface. It also comes
conveniently with File Manager and Directory Manager.
You are encouraged to make use of VICON and become a
registered user.
The major features in VICON are summarized as follows :-
1) Draw solid or framed lines, rectangles, circles and
ellipses.
2) Draw rotatable, solid or framed triangles and diamonds.
3) Each shape has its own variable color, stroke size,
undo and redo, paint-over and paint-around operations.
4) Remapable colors, including changing only one or all
color(s) in a user-defined region ( circular, rectangular,
triangular, etc ) to a specified color within the icon.
5) Flood fill and border fill, with undo.
6) Kaleidoscopic patterns for all shapes and paintbrushes.
7) Four paintbrushes: Toggle, Graffiti, Potpourri and Eraser.
8) Speed control for continuous strokes.
9) Resizable and scalable icon, up to 64 X 64 pixels in size.
10) A grid over the drawing area with coordinate indicator
for accuracy and fine-tuning.
11) Snap or Free roaming mode to ease cursor movement in grid.
12) Protected mode can be used as a safety net so that any
drawn portion cannot be overwritten.
13) Global undo.
14) Edit two icons at once by easy swapping between them.
15) Utilize expanded memory if available.
16) Video emulation (VGA, EGA, CGA and Mono) and Gray Scale
with adjustable gradients.
17) Print icons in different sizes and resolutions, using
gray scales or colors on:
* Epson-compatible Dot Matrix Printer
* Hewlett-Packard LaserJet / DeskJet / InkJet Printer
or any printer that implements the HP PCL Level III
printer language
* Hewlett-Packard Color Plotter or any plotter that
supports HPGL commands
Printing options include
* Landscape or Portrait Orientation,
* Parallel and COM Port Selection
* Color Inversion
18) Palette editor and rotator for color control and
customization.
19) Program customization and configuration.
20) Printer Control: Fonts, Margins, Ports, Line Feeds, etc...
for printing text in windows
21) Automatic Screen Save.
22) Commands can be performed in multiple ways ( using mouse
and/or keyboard ) via the interactive graphical elements:-
- Hotkeys
- Pulldown menus
- Popup menus
- Icons
- Scroll bars
- Sliders
- Buttons
- Rubberbanding
23) Printable on-line help.
24) Powerful DOS shell offering two options
* Swap VICON to disk or EMS.
Only a stub of 1616 bytes remains in memory.
* Use only available memory in VICON.
25) File Manager is integrated seamlessly into VICON to let you:
* Preview and retrieve an icon stored on disk
* Manage directories and files:
Copy, Move, Erase, Rename, Sort, Print,
Date & Time, Attribute, View, Info,
Volume Label, Wildcards, Directory Tree
* Execute any program with optional parameter(s)
++++++++++ Version 1.2 Updates ++++++++++
* Improvements in the File Manager :-
> Ability to create or copy/move files to a
non-existent directory (and subdirectories).
For example: if c:\vicon does not exist and you specify
c:\vicon\doc\vic
then VICON will create these (sub)directories:
c:\vicon
c:\vicon\doc
c:\vicon\doc\vic
* Autodetect and use numeric coprocessor
++++++++++ Version 1.3 Updates ++++++++++
* More available memory in DOS shell
Swap VICON to hard disk or EMS memory
* A configurable 16 Gray Scales palette
* Improved File Manager
* Enhanced Global Undo for the continuous strokes
* Customizable screen saver
Select 1 of 6 fancy bouncing figures
* Speed up retrieving icons from disk
++++++++++ Version 1.4 Updates ++++++++++
* Version 1.3 insists on using EMS memory, hanging
any machine that does not support EMS
Version 1.4 is able to run on machines without EMS
memory and should also run happily under 4DOS
* Fix a minor bug in Palette Editor
* Minor revision to the file VICON.DOC
++++++++++ Version 1.5 Updates ++++++++++
* Version 1.4's buggy Save features have been removed and
hereby apologize for any inconvenience.
++++++++++ Version 1.6 Updates ++++++++++
* Improved Save features
* Add keyboard manoeuvre for the keyboard user to operate the
three scroll bars in the Palette Editor.
Press 'R', 'G', 'B' to increase or 'r', 'g', 'b' to decrease
the intensities of color components.
* Add keyboard manoeuvre for the keyboard user to operate the
single scroll bar in the Palette Rotator.
Press '+' to increase or '-' to decrease the rotator speed.
Alternatively, use the arrows to move the cursor until the
thumb inside the scroll bar "captures" the cursor. Then use
the left or right arrow to move the thumb.
++++++++++ Version 1.7 Updates ++++++++++
* Improved File Manager
- Execute any program with optional parameter(s)
- Edit volume label
- Directory Tree Display is used to
> Copy files
> Move files
> View files in a different directory
++++++++++ Version 1.8 Updates ++++++++++
* Increased the efficiency and ease of use of the File Manager
* Overall improvement in the user interface
++++++++++ Version 1.9 Updates ++++++++++
* Fix a minor bug in the File Manager
++++++++++ Version 1.9a Updates ++++++++++
* Support chracter mode printing of Hewlett-Packard
compatible printers
++++++++++ Future Versions ++++++++++
* Version 1.9 (and 1.X in later releases) supports Borland
Graphical Interface (BGI) format for Turbo C, C++ and Pascal.
* Future versions (2.0 or later) will also support Microsoft
Windows' Icon and Cursor as well as DOS Graphic Cursor.
( These files will either have .ICO or .CUR extension. )
* VICON's proprietary icon format ( *.VIC ) will be compatible
with future versions.
* Registered users can upgrade to future versions at a discount.
++++++++++ Copyright ++++++++++
VICON version 1.9a is not copy-protected. However, the
copyright of VICON is strictly enforced. You may not
charge a fee for this program. You may not alter the
program or supporting items in any manner other than
those icon files ------- failing to follow this rule
may cause VICON to refuse to execute.
++++++++++ Important Notice ++++++++++
(1) Type VICON at the DOS command line to run the program.
(2) Do not rename or modify VICON.EXE in anyway or it will
refuse to run.
(3) VICON uses some low level interrupt routines and may
conflict with some memory resident programs.
(4) VICON can be launched within Microsoft Windows as a
standard DOS application.
++++++++++ Using VICON effectively ++++++++++
(1) Read through the Help in VICON.
(2) The number of available commands may be misleading
since there are only ten buttons at the left side of
the screen. These buttons or icons have multiple
functions. Different function is evoked by clicking
the object concerned with the appropriate mouse
button(s) or a function key (F1, F2 or F3 etc).
The function name is displayed at the right end of
the horizontal menu.
(3) Press F2 to toggle between the icon previewer and
the file manager. Alternatively, activate the Window
button with the mouse to achieve this.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Please read Register.DOC, Licence.DOC, BGIuser.DOC, VICON.Doc +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
VICON comes with over 40 files on a 360K disk:-
VICON.EXE Executable Program file
*.DOC VICON Document files
*.CFG VICON Configuration files
*.PAL VICON Palette files
*.BGI Video Support files
*.VIC Icons in VICON format
*.IMG Icons in BGI format
You need not keep all the .BGI files but the one appropriate to
your video graphics. Moreover, the .BGI files need not reside
in the same directory with VICON.EXE as long as that directory
is included in the PATH command within your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
I have made a decision not to link the BGI files into VICON.EXE
in order to keep its size small.