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1999 March 31

Earlier editions of PabloDraw were known as iDraw and published under iCE (Insane Creators Enterprise).
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  • FILE_ID.DIZ
  • idraw32.exe
  • CWSDPMI.EXE
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  • LICENSE.TXT
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iDraw Help file 1.0.98 ====================== Table of Contents ----------------- 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 --------------- 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 -------------- 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 -------------- 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 ------------ 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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