     PROSKAN TV                PASTEIT.TXT                    2 JULY 1996
     VER. 3.01                                                     Page 1
     
  'GRAPHICS' (G)      [TEXT PASTE OPERATION & INFORMATION.]
     
    HITTING THE 'GRAPHIC' BUTTON ON THE MAIN SCREEN WHEN IN STANDBY MODE, 
  WILL BRING UP THE 'TEXT PASTE' WINDOW. CLICKING YOUR MOUSE POINTER ON THE 
  BUTTONS TURNS THEM ON OR OFF [OR SOME OTHER WINDOW FUNCTION].  THEN IF YOU
  HAVE A PICTURE IN THE TRANSMIT WINDOW, YOU CAN PUT YOUR CALL OR ANY OTHER
  WORDS INTO THE PICTURE AT THE LOCATION OF YOUR CHOICE.   YOU CAN THEN HIT
  'ESCAPE' TO CLEAR THE 'GRAPHIC' WINDOW, HIT THE F10 KEY AND TRANSMIT THE
  PICTURE IMMEDIATLY WITH THE TEXT YOU PUT IN. WHILE IN THE 'GRAPHICS' WINDOW,
  THE SAME PICTURE CAN BE PUT TO AN EMPTY HIGHLITED THUMBNAIL BY CLICKING THE
  'FILES' BUTTON.  WHEN THE 'FILES WINDOW' APPEARS JUST CLICK ON THE F1 BOX
  AND THE PICTURE WILL APPEAR IN THE THUMBNAIL YOU SELECTED. 


  [ COLOR MIXING ]

  STARTING WITH THE THREE DARK BLUE VERTICAL COLOR MIXING BARS LOCATED AT
  THE BOTTON LEFT OF THE SCREEN WHICH ARE MARKED RED, GRN, & BLU, YOU CAN PUT
  YOUR MOUSE POINTER ON THE SMALL RED LINE IN THEM AND MOVE IT UP OR DOWN BY
  HOLDING DOWN YOUR LEFT MOUSE BUTTON AND DRAGGING THE RED LINE. NOTICE THAT
  THE COLOR IN THE FIRST BOX JUST TO THE RIGHT OF IT CHANGES COLORS AS YOU
  DRAG THE RED LINE. (I CALL THIS THE COLOR MIXING BOX) ALL THREE COLOR BARS
  OPERATE THE SAME AND WILL INTERMIX THE COLORS. THERE IS 5 MORE BOXES TO THE
  RIGHT AND ONE JUST ABOVE THE SECOND BOX WITH ABBREVIATED WORDS IN THEM:
  SUCH AS : OLN = OUTLINE, PEN = PEN, SPR = SPRAY, FCHR = FACE OF CHARACTERS,
  BCHR = BACKGROUND OF CHARACTERS, SCHR = SHADOW OF CHARACTERS.  SIMPLE HUH?
  

  [ SETTING THE CHARACTER COLORS ]

  BE SURE THAT THE 'TEXT' BOX HAS AN X IN IT.  ( TOP AREA OF THE SCREEN )
  IF NOT, CLICK YOUR MOUSE POINTER ON THAT BOX, THEN YOU CAN DO THE FOLLOWING.
  THE COLORS OF THE CHARACTERS, THEIR SHADOW AND OUTLINE, IS VERY SIMPLE TO
  DO. MOST OF IT IS SELF EXPLANITORY ON THE SCREEN. AS AN EXAMPLE LETS MAKE
  ALL THE CHARACTERS RED. MIX YOUR PAINT IN THE MIX BOX TO THE SHADE OF RED
  YOU LIKE. THEN PUT YOUR MOUSE ON THE F IN THE FCHR BOX AND CLICK THE RIGHT
  MOUSE. THE FCHR BOX WILL THEN CHANGE TO THAT COLOR. OUTLINE AND SHADOW ARE 
  DONE THE SAME WAY. NOTE THAT THE LAST CHARACTER YOU TYPE WILL BE SHOWN IN 
  THE BOX ABOVE THE WHITE TEXT INSERTION AREA AND IN THE COLORS YOU SELECTED.


  [ MAKING AND INSERTING TEXT TO YOUR PICTURE ]
      
    THE WHITE HORIZONTAL BAR ABOVE THE COLOR MIXING VERTICAL BARS, IS THE
  'TEXT INSERTION SPACE'. AFTER SOME CHARACTERS ARE INSERTED BY TYPING FROM
  YOUR KEYBOARD, ( THEY CAN BE REMOVED WITH THE BACKSPACE KEY. ) THE WORDS 
  YOU PUT THERE WILL STAY THERE UNTILL YOU REMOVE THEM WITH THE BACKSPACE 
  KEY EVEN IF YOU GO OUT OF THE PROGRAM AND RETURN. NEXT GO TO THE 'ATTRIBS'
  BOX ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN, THERE YOU CAN SELECT OR DESELECT YOUR 
  CHARACTERS OUTLINE, SHADOW, ETC.
     
  TO PLACE YOUR WORDS INTO THE PICTURE, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PUT YOUR MOUSE
  POINTER AT THE SPOT YOU WANT THE WORDS, AND CLICK YOUR LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.
  IT IS ADVISABLE THAT YOU CLICK ON 'BACKUP' FIRST TO STORE YOUR PICTURE IN
  CASE YOU DON'T LIKE WHERE YOU PUT YOUR WORDING. THEN ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS
  CLICK ON 'RESTORE' TO GET YOUR ORIGINAL PICTURE BACK.
   
  
 
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  [TEXT SIZE ]

  JUST BELOW THE 'ATTRIBS' BOX ARE THREE SMALL BOXES WITH THE WORD 'SIZ'..
  [ SHORT FOR 'SIZE' ] THIS IS THE SIZE OF THE CHARACTERS THAT WILL BE PUT 
  ON THE SCREEN. THE FIRST BOX IS 'SMALL, THE NEXT 'MEDIUM, AND LAST, 'LARGE'. 
  CLICK YOUR MOUSE ON THE SIZE YOU WANT. BE SURE AN X APPEARS IN THAT BOX.


  [  MULTIPLE PICTURES ON ONE SCREEN ]
                                                                  
  IN THE FAR TOP RIGHT OF THE GRAPHICS SCREEN  YOU WILL SEE A BOX THAT IS
  MARKED 'QUOD', MEANING FOUR. IN OTHER WORDS YOU CAN SELECT UP TO FOUR
  THUMBNAILS AND PLACE THEM ALL IN THE SAME PICTURE.  TO DO THIS YOU MUST
  CLICK ON THE 'QUOD' BOX, PUTTING AN X IN IT.  THEN WITH A BLANK TRANSMIT
  SCREEN  ( OR ONE WITH A PICTURE IN IT )  YOU CAN SELECT A THUMBNAIL WITH
  YOUR MOUSE. CLICK ON IT TO HIGHLITE IT, AND THEN PLACE YOUR MOUSE POINTER
  INTO ONE OF THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE TRANSMIT SCREEN PICTURE. CLICKING YOUR 
  LEFT MOUSE AGAIN WILL PUT A QUARTER (QUOD) SIZE PICTURE THERE THAT YOU 
  JUST SELECTED.    


  [ BLEND ]

  WHILE STILL IN THE 'GRAPHICS' WINDOW, CLICK ON THE 'BLEND' BOX TO PUT AN X 
  IN IT. (ANOTHER CLICK WILL REMOVE IT) THE 'BLEND' BOX WORKS THE SAME WAY 
  BUT ONLY OVERLAYS FAINT TO FULL STRENGTH PICTURES. TO MAKE A FULL STRENGTH 
  PICTURE, JUST KEEP CLICKING YOUR LEFT MOUSE WHILE YOUR MOUSE POINTER IS IN 
  THE PICTURE AREA. IT WILL OVERLAY FULL SIZE PICTURES THAT YOU HAVE IN THE 
  TRANSMIT SCREEN ALSO, BY DOUBLE CLICKING ON THE THUMBNAIL, THEN ADDITIONAL 
  CLICKS TO PUT THE AMOUNT OF OVERLAY YOU WANT.


  [ C-HEADER ]  (CAPTURE HEADER)

   TO MAKE YOUR PERSONALIZED FULL LENGTH HEADER, FIRST SET THE "PEN" SIZE TO
  16. THAT WILL BE THE HEIGHT OF THE HEADER BACKGROUND. NEXT SET THE COLOR
  YOU WANT FROM THE COLOR MIXING BARS INTO THE COLOR MIXING BOX. WITH "PEN"
  ON, DRAG THE CURSER ACROSS THE TOP OF YOUR TRANSMIT SCREEN. IT WILL BE THE 
  COLOR YOU MIXED. NOTE...UTILIZE THE "BACKUP" AND "RESTORE" FEATURE TO SAVE
  YOU FROM HAVING TO MAKE YOUR HEADER OVER FROM SCRATCH IF YOU MAKE AN ERROR.
  NEXT GO TO "TEXT" AND TYPE IN YOUR DESIRED HEADER. UTILIZING THE BACKUP AND
  RESTORE FEATURE YOU CAN CHANGE THE COLORS OF YOUR TEXT BY CHANGING THE
  COLOR IN THE COLOR MIXING BOX. THIS WAY YOU CAN HAVE MULTI-COLORED TEXT.
  WHEN YOU ARE SATISFIED WITH THE RESULTS YOU MADE, YOU MUST CLICK ON THE 
  "C-HEADER" BOX TO LOCK IT IN. YOU ALSO HAVE TO EXIT AND GO TO THE "CONFIGURE"
  SCREEN, WHERE YOU WILL CLICK ON "H" (HEADER). WITH THE HEADER BOX DISPLAYED,
  YOU MUST TYPE IN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LINE   //CUSTOM  . THIS WILL MAKE
  YOUR CUSTOM MADE HEADER OPERATIONAL. YOUR OLD HEADER WILL NOT BE ACTIVE
  AND ANYTHING TYPED IN AFTER  //CUSTOM  WILL NOT BE ACTIVE. YOU CAN CHANGE
  YOUR CUSTOM HEADER AT ANY TIME BY GOING THROUGH THIS SAME SEQUENCE AGAIN.


   NOTES...

     THE AUTHOR, KA1LPA, HAS A MOUSE DEBOUNCE FEATURE IN HIS PROGRAM
  WHICH MEANS THAT YOUR MOUSE POINTER MUST COME TO A COMPLETE STOP WHEN
  CLICKING ON BUTTONS THAT DON'T REQUIRE DRAGGING.

     THE 'SHAREWARE VERSION' HAS MANY OF THE BUTTONS AND FEATURES DIS-
  ABLED.  REGISTERED VERSIONS ARE COMPLETLY OPERATIONAL: 


                                                              LARRY,  N1FEH
