****************************************************************************** - THE LEGENDARY >> SUBSOFTWARE << IN 90 !!! =========================================== - CONTACT US - BP: 36 - - 1380 REBECK - - BELGIUM - - DON'T SEND ANY DISKS - ****************************************************************************** NEW FEATURES in Easyl 1.21 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your new Easyl comes with updated "Easyl" and "PAL Easyl" programs. The main new feature in these programs is that now the command strip can be easily aligned by the user. You must have noticed by now that there is a multi-colored command strip placed at the top of the Easyl tablet. This strip is used by the Easyl or Pal Easyl programs to select colors and other options. The drivers do not use this command strip. The command strip is pre-aligned at the factory, but you may still find that when you press in a box, you do not get the desired effect, but the effect of an adjacent box. In this case, you will have to perform an alignment operation. To align the strip, you must first select either 640x200 or 640x400 (640x256 or 640x512 in PAL) resolution. We recommend 640x200 (640x256) because it does not flicker. Then you must pull down the "Extras" menu strip and select the entry called "Align". After a few seconds, a facsimile of the command strip will be drawn on the Easyl screen, together with some text explaining the alignment process. At this point, an arrow will be pointing to the top left box of the strip, meaning that you should press with your drawing implement (a pen or pencil) in the centre of the Easyl's top left box. By "centre" we mean the little circle in the middle of the square box. When you lift the pen, the first box will be aligned and the arrow will move to the next box. Repeat the above process for every box in the strip (36 times in total). Note that the arrow will not move from a box to the next when you press the pen down, but rather when you lift it. This is true in general for the command strip: a command will not register until you lift the pen, which is a nice safety feature. For example, you can put the pen down on the 'R' box, drag it to the 'K' box and lift it: the 'K' command will be executed. The software does no error checking during the alignment process, but if you feel that you made an error, or if you loose track of where you are, you can abort the alignment session by pressing the red frame button, followed by pressing anywhere in the drawing part of the Easyl tablet (while the button is still pressed). You can then restart the alignment procedure from the beginning. The above sounds time consuming but, if you are careful, you can be done in a minute or two. Once you reach the last box (the one that says 'C'), as soon as you lift the pen from it, a large "PLEASE WAIT" message will appear on the screen. This means that the alignment data you just generated is being written to disk. As a matter of fact, it is being embedded right into the Easyl (or PAL Easyl) code itself. Hence, make sure that the disk you started Easyl (or PAL Easyl) from is not write protected and is still inserted in the drive it was in when the program was started. In this way, the next time you start Easyl (or PAL Easyl) the alignment data will already be there and you will not need to go through the alignment process again. During alignment, the Easyl program will find out its own name and where it was started from, so that the alignment data can be written right into the program file. Therefore, if you have more than one copy of the Easyl program on different directories or disks, you must align each one of them. Alternatively, you can align one program and then copy it to all the directories and disks where you require it.