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Earlier editions of PabloDraw were known as iDraw and published under iCE (Insane Creators Enterprise).
- Zip - DOS / NFO tool
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- FILE_ID.DIZ
- idraw32.exe
- CWSDPMI.EXE
- IDRAW.TXT
- SPECS.ZIP
- TINYVIEW.ZIP
- LICENSE.TXT
- REGISTER.TXT
- README.TXT
- UPDATE.LST
iDraw Help file 1.0.98
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Table of Contents
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1. Introduction
1.1 What is iDraw?
1.2 Disclaimer
1.3 Getting started
1.4 Requirements
1.5 Features
2. Running iDraw
2.1 Command line parameters
2.2 Running under DOS
2.3 Running under Windows 95/NT
2.4 Running under OS/2 & Windows 3.1
3. Using iDraw
3.1 Viewing your work
3.2 Keeping backups of a drawing
3.3 Using multiple configurations
3.4 Mouse Support
4. Configuring iDraw
4.1 How iDraw is configured
5. Key Configuration
5.1 Syntax and rules
5.2 Control keys
5.3 Lock states
5.4 Key identifiers
6. Technical Support
6.1 Contact information
6.2 Internet
1. Introduction
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1.1 What is iDraw?
------------------
iDraw is a text drawing program for creating what is known as 'ANSI'
text graphics. This is the usual format for Bulliten boards, which
are usually run through a dial-up line, or on the Internet through
TELNET.
iDraw gives you many features that enable you to quickly create
text graphics, and save them in a multitude of formats.
1.2 Disclaimer
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THIS PROGRAM IS DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; WITHOUT EVEN THE
IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE WITH RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE AND THE ACCOMPANYING WRITTEN
MATERIALS, IF ANY. MISTIGRIS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE OPERATION
OF THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR FREE OR MEET USER'S
SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS.
Please read LICENSE.TXT for information about the license agreement.
1.3 Getting started
-------------------
To start up iDraw, all you need are two files:
IDRAW.EXE and IDRAW.OVR.
When you run the program, iDraw will generate a IDRAW.CFG file with
all of the options and configuration information needed to customize
iDraw to your specific needs. This file can be modified by an
external editor, or within iDraw by pressing <ALT-O> (by default).
If you happened to modify IDRAW.CFG in such a way that makes iDraw
unusable, you can just delete IDRAW.CFG, and run the program again.
1.4 Requirements
----------------
iDraw requires VERY little in terms of hardware. Refer to the
following for what your system should have.
DOS 16-bit version (iDraw)
------------------------------
- 80286 (IBM PC compatable)
- 550k conventional memory
- VGA video card
- Monochrome monitor
DOS 32-bit version (iDraw32)
----------------------------
- 80386
- 2 mb RAM
- VGA video card
- Monochrome monitor
1.5 Features
------------
The features of iDraw are the best yet in any ascii-based drawing
program. If you are in dire need of a specific feature which is not
supported by iDraw, please contact the author.
- Can save in the following formats:
ansi, acgs, binary, crunched, ascii, pascal, c, asm, renegade,
telegard, pcboard, netsafe, mirc, lord, avatar, diz, exe,
bitmap, and vp.
- Can load the following formats:
ansi, acgs, binary, crunched, ascii, renegade, telegard, pcboard,
mirc, lord, avatar, netsafe, diz, and vp.
- Multiple or Single backups
- Flashing cursor
- iCE colour support
- Key mapping configuration
- Default save/load format settings
- Configurable format extensions
- 20 User-Definable character sets
- Block flip, rotation & text formatting
- XMS memory usage (for 16 bit versions)
- Tab stop settings
- Sprite/transparent layer mode
- Picture joining & block loading
- Character drawing
- Line drawing
- Attribute drawing
- BBS MCI codes for Renegade, Telegard, PCBoard, and Wildcat!
- 4 different ruler modes
- VGA viewing with different font widths
- Line, Rectangle, and Circle drawing
- Sauce editor & support
- Automatic config file generation
- FAST ASM drawing routines
- Optimized or Normal ansi/avatar/acgs saving
- Colourized configuration editor with help for each option
- Direct colour changing (ALT-0 to 9, CTRL-0 to 9)
- Current time, and time-on display
- Autosave feature
- Recent save/load history list
- Flip/Rotation character fix settings
- And much, much more!!!
2. Running iDraw
----------------
2.1 Command line parameters
---------------------------
You can specify command line options when you start iDraw to load a
file automatically, or to use a different configuration file. Syntax
is as follows:
IDRAW.EXE [<filename.ext>] [/c <filename.cfg>]
<filename.ext> - filename to load
/c <filename.cfg> - specify a configuration file to use, other
than the default IDRAW.CFG.
2.2 Running under DOS
---------------------
iDraw and iDraw32 are both DOS applications. However, since
iDraw32 is a Protected Mode application, you MUST have cwsdpmi.exe
in the same directory as iDraw32, plus, you must have an extended
memory manager (eg. HIMEM.SYS) loaded in your config.sys file.
2.3 Running under Windows 95/NT
-------------------------------
Since iDraw was debugged under a Windows 95 dos box, it would
be safe to assume that iDraw works well under Windows 95.
Windows NT may not be so forgiving when it comes to some of the
hardware accessing that iDraw uses to draw to the screen. If you
have Windows NT, it is suggested to run under dos mode if you
run into any problems.
Note that with iDraw32, there is no need for the dpmi extender
(cwsdpmi.exe), since Windows95/98/NT provides DPMI services.
2.4 Running under OS/2 & Windows 3.1
------------------------------------
iDraw has only been breifly tested under OS/2, and has never been
tried with Windows 3.1 (does anyone still have it?? (: ) OS/2 seemed to
screw up the keyboard every so often when using a mouse in a windowed
dos box. It worked fine in full screen. Windows 3.1 is just DOS, so I
am sure that it would run fine on it.
3. Using iDraw
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3.1 Viewing your work
---------------------
iDraw has a feature which allows you to view your work 'zoomed out'.
This allows you to make sure that everything in your drawing is
proportional and looks good. iDraw uses 16 colour mode to display
this because, after all, that is what an ansi is comprised of. To
view your drawing from iDraw, press the VIEW_IMAGE key
(default ALT-V). You can change the size of the preview mode with
the VIEW_CHARACTER_WIDTH identifier in IDRAW.CFG
3.2 Keeping backups of a drawing
--------------------------------
When you are drawing a picture, you usually want to keep all of
your old work, just in case you don't like what you have added to
your drawing. iDraw supports this by providing multiple backup
files, numbered and lettered. To turn this option on, make sure
BACKUP_TYPE is set to Multiple in IDRAW.CFG.
3.3 Using multiple configurations
---------------------------------
If you have different preferences for different types of files or
areas in your hard drive, you can make iDraw use a specified
configuration file. If the file does not exist, it will be created
for you with the defaults.
If you save the configuration file in the current directory, and
you run iDraw from that directory, iDraw will use that configuration
file instead of the one that is in iDraw's directory.
3.4 Mouse Support
-----------------
iDraw's mouse support is pretty much the only thing that isn't
configurable.. (too much of a pain in the..)
However, since there is usually only two buttons on a mouse, there
couldn't be much done with it.
3.4.1 Scrolling through the page
To scroll through the page, all you have to do is move the mouse
past the edge of the screen. This will scroll through the page
when EDGE_SCROLL is set to NO in IDRAW.CFG. If it is set to
YES, just move the cursor to the edge of the screen, and iDraw
will automatically start scrolling. To slow down or speed up
the scrolling speed, set the SCROLL_SPEED in IDRAW.CFG to a
desired speed.
3.4.2 Selecting a block
To select a block with the mouse, move the cursor to the starting
position for the block. Click and hold down the left mouse
button, and drag the mouse to the ending position of the block.
With iDraw, you can select in any direction, so you can start
at the bottom, and select upwards, as well as downwards.
Once you have finished selecting, you can then use the keyboard
to select an option. If you wish to modify the selection,
press the left mouse button again, and move the cursor.
To exit from selection without doing anything, you can press the
right mouse button.
3.4.3 Buttons
The mouse has different functions througout the program, but it
has been situated in such a way that the left mouse button
is the action button, and the right mouse button is the abort
button. This means if you are doing something, and click the
right mouse button, it will most likely abort the procedure.
4. Configuring iDraw
--------------------
4.1 How iDraw is configured
---------------------------
iDraw is configured using a plain ascii text configuration file.
When you edit the cfg file within iDraw (ALT-O), the effects of
the change are immediate when you exit the configuration editor.
iDraw looks for IDENTIFIERS (or labels) which denote a specific
option. Each identifier has it's own parameter list, which are
seperated by spaces on the same line.
You may specify identifiers to only be looked at when PABLO first
starts up by putting 'STARTUP' before the identifier in the line.
eg:
startup columns 80
- This will set the column width of the drawing area to 80, only
at startup. So if you load a file with a width of 160, and
go into the options, it will not set the width back to 80.
5. Key Configuration
--------------------
5.1 Syntax and rules
--------------------
A key definition consists of two parts, a identifier, and a key
sequence. You can have a maximum of 4 different keys for each
key identifier.
syntax:
<IDENTIFIER> <KEY>[ | <KEY> [ | <KEY> [ | <KEY> ] ] ]
parameters:
<IDENTIFIER> - The symbol that iDraw recognizes.
<KEY> - The key combination declared using
one of the recognized keys listed
below. To specify combinations,
(for example, holding down two keys),
seperate them by a '-'.
example:
To allow the user to press ALT-Q, or CTRL-ALT-X to quit the
program:
exit_program ALT-Q | CTRL-ALT-X
To go to the next page when the user presses ALT-P, OR
ALT-NPADPLUS (+ key on the number pad), with the number lock
OFF:
inc_page ALT-P | ALT-!NUMLK-NPADPLUS
5.2 Control keys
----------------
These are the Shift state keys, which are optional for a key
sequence, and must be held down in conjunction with a specified
key identifier.
LSHIFT - Left shift
RSHIFT - Right shift
SHIFT - Either shift
CTRL - Either CTRL key
ALT - Either ALT key
5.3 Lock states
---------------
These specify whether the lock states must be on or off for
each function identifier, and are optional:
NUMLK / !NUMLK - Number lock must be ON/OFF
SCRLK / !SCRLK - Scroll lock must be ON/OFF
CAPLK / !CAPLK - Caps lock must be ON/OFF
5.4 Key identifiers
-------------------
The following is a list of all recognized keys, which can be made
in combination using the '-' character to seperate them. At least
ONE of the following keys must be specified for iDraw to recognize
the key:
ESC BCKSPC TAB
ENTER NPADENTER 0 - 9 A - Z
MINUS = ; '
` \ , .
[ ] /
SPACE CAPLOCK SCRLOCK NUMLOCK
PRNSCN F1 - F12
HOME END LEFT RIGHT
UP DOWN PGUP PGDN
INS DEL
NPAD0 - NPAD9 NPADMINUS NPADPLUS NPAD.
NPAD*
These are substitutes for NPAD0 to NPAD9 (excluding NPAD5):
NPADUP NPADDOWN NPADLEFT NPADRIGHT
NPADHOME NPADEND NPADPGUP NPADPGDN
6. Technical Support
--------------------
iDraw was programmed by Curtis Wensley AKA Eto.
At this time, no more versions of iDraw will be released, until it
has been fully tested to the extent that it can be released as a full
version. I am leaving it up to the users to find all of the hidden
bugs that were not found during the production of iDraw. Please
contact the author of iDraw with any bugs and/or comments.
6.1 Contact information
-----------------------
You can contact the author directly via email at:
[email protected]
If you are reporting a bug, make sure you leave step by step
instructions that you took to get the error so that I am able to
reproduce the bug myself (I am unable to fix it otherwise).
If you are making a suggestion, please don't expect it to be done
immediately. It may take some time for me to find time to work
on it. If it is a big addition to iDraw, it may not be implemented
at all. Though I am always open to suggestions. (:
6.2 Internet
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The official web site for iDraw is located at:
http://idraw.ice.org
Visit the site for information about iDraw, and new updates.
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