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                    PC-KEY-DRAW


       A KEYBOARD TO SCREEN GRAPHICS PROGRAM
           FOR THE IBM PC and COMPATIBLES


                   Version 3.50+














                Edward H. Kidera IV
                      OEDWARE
                    P.O. Box 595
              Columbia, MD 21045-0595
                   [phone]




            (C)Copyright OED, 1984-1988

               Portions copyright IBM
         Portions copyright Microsoft, Inc.


























                                   COPYRIGHT
                ──────────────────────────────────────────

   (C)  Copyright  1984,  1985,  1986,  1987,  1988 by OED. All rights
   reserved.  Copying of PC-KEY-DRAW is allowed  for  the  purpose  of
   backup  and  to  allow  others to try out and evaluate the program.
   Unregistered USE past the trial stage is  prohibited.  This  manual
   may  not  be  reproduced,  transmitted,  transcribed,  stored  in a
   retrieval system or translated into any language or  computer  lan-
   guage,  in  any  form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, mag-
   netic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without  the  prior
   written  consent  of OEDWARE, P.O. Box 595, Columbia, MD 21045-0595
   except that the partial manual supplied on the disk may  be  dumped
   to  a  printer  for the purpose of creating a single copy to aid in
   the evaluation of the program before registering.


                          DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
                ──────────────────────────────────────────

    This software and manual are sold "AS IS" and without warranties as
    to  performance  of merchantability or any other warranties whether
    expressed of implied. Because of the various hardware and  software
    environments  into  which  this  program may be put, no warranty of
    fitness for a particular purpose is offered.

    Good data processing procedure dictates that any  program  be  tho-
    roughly  tested  with  non-critical  data before relying on it. The
    user must assume the entire risk of using the program.  Any liabil-
    ity  of  the seller will be limited exclusively to product replace-
    ment.


                                 TRADEMARKS
                 ──────────────────────────────────────────

    IBM PC, XT are trademarks of International Business Machines, EPSON
    is  a trademark of Epson America, Inc., Plug'N Play and Okidata are
    the trademarks of Okidata. JRAM is the trademark of Tall Tree  Sys-
    tems.  HP  LaserJet  is the trademark of Hewlett-Packard.  INSET is
    the tradmark of INSET Systems, Inc.

























                 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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     INTRODUCTION...........................1-1


     HISTORY................................2-1

         What's in a Name?..................2-6
         Other OEDWARE Programs.............2-7


     OPERATION THEORY.......................3-1

         Keyboard Operation.................3-2
         Cursor Movement....................3-4
         Basics.............................3-4
         Help...............................3-6
         Mouse Operation....................3-7
         General Operation..................3-8
         CAD vs. Paint.....................3-10
         Summary of Operation..............3-12


     COMMAND SUMMARY........................4-1

         SHORT FORM.........................4-2
           Cursor Mode......................4-2
           F1  Drawing Modifications........4-6
           F2  Boxes and Figures............4-8
           F3  Curve Drawing................4-9
           F4  Spray painting & Shading....4-10
           F5  Paint & Pattern.............4-11
           F6  Draw & Text.................4-13
           F7  Copy, Erase, & Move.........4-15
           F8  Files & Exit................4-17

         LONG FORM.........................4-18
           Cursor Mode.....................4-20
           F1  Drawing Modifications.......4-35
           F2  Boxes and Figures...........4-46
           F3  Curve Drawing...............4-50
























        F4  Spray painting & Shading....4-56
        F5  Paint & Pattern.............4-60
        F6  Draw & Text.................4-65
        F7  Copy, Erase, & Move.........4-72
        F8  Files & Exit................4-80
            Zoom printing...............4-85
        F9  Speed.......................4-88
        F10 Color.......................4-89


  DRAWING EXAMPLES.......................5-1

      Draw box...........................5-2
      Draw circle........................5-2
      Draw line..........................5-3
      Built in Objects...................5-3
      Erase area.........................5-4
      Creating 3-D spheres...............5-5
      Creating patterns..................5-5
      3-D oblique drawings...............5-6
      Schematics.........................5-6
      Special Effects....................5-7
      16 colors..........................5-8
      Macros.............................5-9

  KEY MACRO..............................6-1

      Saving Entire Drawings.............6-1
      Slide Shows........................6-2
      Saving Commonly Used Routines......6-4
      Repetitive Operations..............6-5
      Configuration......................6-5
      Editing Macros.....................6-6
      DOS and Macros.....................6-9
      Run Time Mode.....................6-10
      Hot Keys..........................6-11
      Make Hot Library..................6-12
      Supplied Macros...................6-14
      Sample Demo.......................6-14
      Slide Show Demo...................6-15
      Drawing Demo......................6-15
      Routines..........................6-16
























     PAGES AND LAYERS.......................7-1

         Screens............................7-2
         Pages..............................7-3
         Layers.............................7-5
         Saving Pages/Layers................7-6
         Compressed Saves...................7-7


     LIBRARIES..............................8-1

         Vector Saves.......................8-1
         Picture Saves......................8-2
         Font Saves.........................8-2
         Screen Saves.......................8-3
         Patterns Saves.....................8-3
         Macro Saves........................8-3
         BASICA Saves.......................8-4
         Creating Libraries.................8-4
         Library Disks......................8-5


     PRINTING...............................9-1
        Screen Dump.........................9-1
        Zoom Printing.......................9-3
        HP LaserJet.........................9-4
        Alternate Printing..................9-4


     DEFINITIONS...........................10-1

         Active Layer......................10-1
         ASCII.............................10-1
         Animate...........................10-1
         Angle.............................10-2
         Arc...............................10-3
         Area..............................10-3
         Arrows............................10-4
         B-spline..........................10-4
         Background........................10-4
         BAS...............................10-5
         BASIC.............................10-5
























      Box...............................10-5
      CAMERA............................10-5
      Center Animated Area..............10-6
      Center of Area....................10-6
      Center of Circle..................10-6
      Circle............................10-6
      Circle Center line................10-7
      Color.............................10-7
      Configure.........................10-7
      Coordinates.......................10-8
      Copy..............................10-8
      Cursor............................10-9
      Cursor Mode.......................10-9
      Cursor Types......................10-9
      Cursor Wrap.......................10-9
      Customizing......................10-10
      DAT..............................10-10
      Date.............................10-10
      Delete File......................10-10
      Delete Line......................10-10
      Direct Coordinate Entry..........10-10
      Directory........................10-11
      Disable Workspace................10-11
      Display..........................10-11
      Dot..............................10-12
      Down.............................10-12
      Edge Detection...................10-12
      Ellipse..........................10-12
      End..............................10-12
      Erase............................10-12
      Exit.............................10-12
      Extensions.......................10-13
      Fade.............................10-13
      Fatbits..........................10-13
      FIG..............................10-14
      Fill.............................10-14
      Fillet...........................10-14
      Flip.............................10-14
      FNT..............................10-14
      Fonts............................10-15
      Freehand Drawing.................10-16
      GRAPHICS.........................10-16
























         GRAFTABL.........................10-16
         Grid.............................10-17
         Grid Jump........................10-17
         Help.............................10-17
         Hot Key..........................10-18
         Image Processing.................10-19
         Insert Line......................10-19
         Isometric Drawing................10-19
         Joystick.........................10-20
         Jump.............................10-20
         KD-TRANS.EXE.....................10-20
         Keep.............................10-21
         Key Macro........................10-21
         Kill.............................10-22
         Layers...........................10-22
         Lines............................10-22
         Macros...........................10-23
         MAKHOTLIB.EXE....................10-23
         Mass.............................10-23
         MCR..............................10-23
         Measure..........................10-23
         Menu.............................10-24
         Merge............................10-24
         Mirror...........................10-25
         Mode.............................10-25
         Modify...........................10-26
         Mouse Mode.......................10-26
         Move.............................10-27
         Music............................10-27
         Old..............................10-27
         Origin...........................10-28
         Outline..........................10-28
         Page.............................10-29
         Paint............................10-29
         Paintbrush.......................10-30
         Pan..............................10-30
         Parallel Lines...................10-30
         PATH.............................10-30
         Patterns.........................10-31
         Pause............................10-31
         PIC..............................10-32
         Play.............................10-33
























      Playback.........................10-33
      Polar Coordinates................10-33
      Polygon..........................10-33
      Print............................10-34
      Printer Support..................10-34
      Quality..........................10-34
      RAM Disk.........................10-35
      Recording........................10-35
      Registration.....................10-35
      Rename File......................10-35
      Replicate........................10-36
      Resolution Set...................10-36
      Retrieve File....................10-36
      Revolve..........................10-36
      Reverse Video....................10-37
      Rose Curves......................10-37
      Rotate...........................10-37
      Save.............................10-38
      Scale............................10-38
      Scale Factor.....................10-39
      SCN..............................10-39
      Screen...........................10-40
      Screen Aspect Ratio..............10-40
      Shade............................10-41
      Shareware........................10-41
      Shift............................10-42
      Shift Cursor.....................10-43
      Show.............................10-43
      Sine Curve.......................10-43
      Slide............................10-43
      Slide Show.......................10-43
      Smear............................10-44
      Speed............................10-44
      Spiral...........................10-44
      Spoke lines......................10-44
      Spray paint......................10-44
      Status...........................10-45
      Strip............................10-45
      Subdirectories...................10-45
      SUBST............................10-45
      Suspend..........................10-46
      Template.........................10-46
























         Text.............................10-46
         Text Scrolling...................10-47
         Time.............................10-48
         Translation......................10-48
         Unfade...........................10-48
         Up...............................10-48
         Update...........................10-49
         Update Frequency.................10-49
         VCT..............................10-49
         Video............................10-49
         Video Modes......................10-49
         Video Object Reverse.............10-50
         Visual Horizon...................10-50
         Visual Layer.....................10-50
         Width............................10-50
         Workspace........................10-50
         XOR..............................10-51
         Zoom.............................10-51
         Zoom Factor......................10-52
         Zoom Print.......................10-52



     APPENDIX


      A: Shareware..........................A-1
         Why pay for software you have......A-3
         Invoice............................A-4


      B: Start Up...........................B-1
         Demo Program.......................B-3
         Program Configuration..............B-4
           Expert Mode......................B-5
           Screen Aspect Ratio..............B-5
           Update Frequency.................B-5
           Drive for Workspace..............B-6
           Drive for Completed Drawings.....B-6
           Isometric Status.................B-6
           Horizontal Screen Dimension......B-6
           Correction Check.................B-7
























        Cursor Type......................B-7
        OKIDATA 92.......................B-7
        Default Printer #................B-7
      Printer Configuration..............B-8
        Printer Name.....................B-9
        Printer Width....................B-9
        Decimal Codes....................B-9


   C: Program Files......................C-1


   D: Additions..........................D-1


   E: Hardware...........................E-1
        Compatible Computers.............E-1
        Memory Allocation................E-1
        Graphics Boards..................E-2
        Monitors.........................E-3
        Keyboard.........................E-3
        Printers.........................E-4
          HP-LaserJet....................E-4
        Mice.............................E-5
        Plotters.........................E-6
        Digitizers.......................E-6
        Joysticks........................E-6
        Lightpens........................E-6
        Scanners.........................E-6


   F: Creating 35mm Slides...............F-1
        Viewgraphs.......................F-8


   G: DATEIT.............................G-1


   H: Libraries..........................H-1
        File Extensions..................H-1
        Pattern Screens..................H-4
        Alternate Text Fonts.............H-9


























      I: Supplemental Programs..............I-1