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The Silicon Frog, Inc. │
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John Hancock 3.0 │
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The JH3CFG Program │
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Version 1.0 │
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(c) 1992 The Silicon Frog, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Table of Contents
Introduction...............................................1
Starting JH3CFG............................................1
The Main Menu Screen.......................................2
Left-Handed Mouse Users....................................2
Mouse Button Naming & Use Standards........................2
Back to the Main Menu......................................3
The Logo Option............................................4
Confirmation Prompts.......................................4
The PreFlight Checklist....................................4
Navigating the PreFlight CheckList.....................5
Keyboard use...........................................5
Mouse use..............................................5
FECP Switch Settings...................................5
Sound F/X..........................................5
Window Wrap........................................5
Wild Gambler.......................................6
JH2 Mode...........................................6
JH.TAG Autoload....................................6
Stash Detect.......................................7
Alpha Loc..........................................7
WordSearch.........................................7
TurboHyperZapper...................................8
Butt-O-Matic.......................................8
The Great Wurlitzer................................8
The Beg Screen.....................................9
The Crayola Box (tm).......................................9
ColorSets.............................................10
Navigation / Element customization....................11
The Gallery...........................................11
The Great JH3 Color Gallery Contest...............12
The Palette Screen....................................13
Color Theory .....................................13
Customizing Colors....................................14
DisneyLand................................................15
Mouse ON/OFF..........................................16
The Horizontal & Vertical Sensitivity Dials...........16
The DoubleClick Delay Dial and Grand Prix Test Track..17
The Warp Factor.......................................18
Ballistic Acceleration Drivers....................18
Video Adapter Override....................................18
The End, and Some Good Advice.............................19
JH3CFG Page 1
Introduction
The JH30.CFG file contains all the pointers, directories,
color, and mouse parameters required by the various JH3
programs.
JH3CFG is a state-of-the-art tool used to customize your JH3
configuration file (JH30.CFG). In addition to JH30.CFG,
JH3CFG requires the following files, in the same directory
as the JH30.CFG file:
- JH3CFG.SCR, which contains JH3CFG option screens
- JH3CFG.LGO, which contains JH3CFG logo screens
Starting JH3CFG
Start JH3CFG by typing the program name at the DOS prompt;
no command-line parameters are required for normal
operation. If the screens are difficult to read on a
monochrome display attached to an EGA or VGA adapter, see
the "Video Adapter Override" section at the end of this
document.
JH30.CFG contains a number of cosmetic parameters and other
program options whose default values can be used. The only
configuration variable which *must* be customized is the
location of your tagfiles, which is defined in JH3CFG's
PreFlight CheckList screen. If you do not tell JH3 and
JH3MAINT where the tagfiles are, these programs will issue
critical error messages such as:
"Yo! Bozo! Where did you put my tagfiles?"
And will unceremoniously return you to DOS or wherever you
came from.
If you have a mouse and you are left-handed, you may also
want to take advantage of JH3's SouthPaw feature, described
within the next few paragraphs.
JH3 produces sounds and plays moosik. Depending on where
and at what time you do your BBS mail (e.g., at night in my
bedroom while my [wife|husband|mate|dog|parents] is|are
asleep), you may wish to disable these features to force JH3
to operate in "quiet" mode.
JH3CFG Page 2
The Main Menu Screen
JH3CFG uses a Lotus-style "LightBar" main menu. To select
an option, cursor to it and press <Enter>, or click the
mouse on the desired option. To NOT select an option, do
nothing.
Left-Handed Mouse Users
JH3 does not pick on southpaws. No Sir|Ma'am, not with a
vocal left-handed-rights activist attorney beta tester. As a
result, and also because I am a nice and considerate fellow,
JH3 fully supports left-handed operation. To activate this
feature, select the "Disneyland (tm)" menu option, and click
the LEFT mouse button on the "ON" position of the SouthPaw
switch. The switchplate will flash red a few times and a
message will be displayed at the bottom of the screen
telling you that the mouse has switched to left-hand mode.
Mouse Button Naming & Use Standards
In order to eliminate confusion, and to promote kinder,
gentler communications with left-handed, right-handed, and
ambidextrous rodent users, JH3 designates the mouse buttons
as "Inside" and "Outside" rather than "Left" and "Right".
The inside button is the one nearest you -- the one you
press with your index finger. In all JH3 programs, the
inside button is used to select something or perform some
action. The outside button is consistently used as an exit
or escape key; in almost all cases, clicking the outside
button yields the same result as pressing the <Esc> key or
selecting the "Quit" option.
To simplify things even further, the process of locating the
mouse cursor over an area of the screen is always implied,
and the INSIDE button is always ass