============================================================== Credit Text Scroller Cracked 100% by High Tension -------------------------------------------------- June 28 , 1990 ============================================================== *** User's Manual: Typos, Revisions or Additions *** ============================================================== We recommend that you print this file to your printer. MAJOR CHANGE ! The Credit Text Pop-Up, Page 16 ---------------------------------------------- The Credit Text Pop-up was simply too long. Besides, we added features not described in the regular manual, which made it longer yet. So it has been split into TWO pop-ups. One pop-up appears when you click the right button anywhere on the big fat proportional gadget in the middle of the screen. The second pop-up appears if you click anywhere else on the screen. Here is a description of added features: 1. Proportional Gadget Pop-Up: -------------------------- Generate Slide: This selection will take the current text display and generate a horizontal text animation. Left-adjusted text will move in from the left, and back out. Right-adjusted text will move in from the right, then back out. Lines of centered text will alternately move left and right, ie, every second line will move left, the lines in between will move right. The resulting ANIM will always contain 80 frames. The ANIM will hold for approximately 10 frames when the text reaches the center of the display. To test this, use the "Text.Example" file provided on the distribution disk, with one of the Blank Screen backdrops. Alternate lines left adjusted, centered, and right adjusted, then select GenerateSlide, and watch what happens! SetDrops: This is a "toggle", which allows you to choose whether the text display will be one-color, or have automatic drop-shadows. If it is one-color, then it is color 2 of the four-color text colors selections which is used. This toggle is available only on a global basis (ie, either all lines have it or they don't). If it is desired for single lines, the effect can be achieved by selecting the background color for colors 1,3, and 4 in the text colors selections. TextDrawMode: This gives you four modes with which to experiment. Only InverseVid seems to be practical in the context of this program - this option will make the text the background color, and the area surounding the text will take on the four colors assigned to the text. The text then appears to be carved out of a three-dimensional plate. Feel free to experiment with the other options. TextFile This option allows you to interactively change the text file being used in the display. 2. Rest of Screen Pop-Up --------------------- LineDrawMode: This gives you four modes with which to experiment on a line-by-line basis. See TextDrawMode above. SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN BOOTABLE DISK/HARD DRIVE INSTALL PROCEDURES ----------------------------------------------------------------- The description on page 8 no longer holds. It is tricky to produce procedures which handle all situations. We are still trying to improve this area. For this product, we have created procedures which simply necessitate dragging the installation icons to the appropriate locations, then double-clicking on the icons. Bootable Disk Installation: Create a formatted blank disk named Bootable_CreditText, and "install" it (ie, if the disk is in drive df0:, type "install df0:" after formatting the disk). With the Credit Text distribution disk in one drive, open the window for the blank formatted disk named Bootable_CreditText, then drag the icon named DragToFrmttdDsk into the blank disk window, then double-click. The procedure should then copy all relevant files from the distribution disk and your standard Wirkbench disk to the bootable disk. Hard Drive Installation: In response to some complaints about the DigiMate procedure, it is now possible to drag the hard drive installation icon to ANY drawer on your hard drive. It is recommended, of course, that this drawer be one called TASS. For users who already have TASS on your hard drive, this is no problem, since old TASS files will be replaced by new files, and any necessary new files will be added to your hard drive. Our goal is to keep TASS upwardly compatible, so this should have no effect on previous commercial TASS releases. NOTE: None of the tutorial files will be copied. It is expected that all this is done AFTER you have completed the tutorials. Of course, you could always copy the tutorial files in the main drawer of the Credit Text disk, if you wish. ADDED FEATURE: "ASSIGN" directly from the Credit Text screen: NOTE: THIS FEATURE REQUIRES AREXX TO BE ACCESSIBLE Font users often have different font sets in different locations, and use the "assign" command to go from one set to the other. As a convenience, two gadgets have been added to the interface screen. The "Assign" gadget allows you to examine the current set of system asignments. the "->Change" gadget allows you to add to the system assignments. For instance, if you have a font set in dh0:fonts, and your current font assignment is elsewhere (check using the "Assign" gadget - it is a TASS Text Scroll Gadget, so out-of-view items can be brought into the display as described in the manual) then click on "->Change". A "From" requester appears, at which point you would type in "fonts:". Then, a "To" requester appears, at which point you would type in "dh0:fonts". Check the "Assign" list again, and the change should appear. SHOWANIM INCLUDED NOTE: THIS FEATURE REQUIRES AREXX TO BE ACCESSIBLE The manual says that ShowANIM from Sparta is not included. However, some of our DigiMate users had some problems using very early versions of ShowANIM, so to alleviate the version problem, we have included the version we use. Although the interface we have constructed for ShowANIM requires AREXX, of course ShowANIM itself certainly does NOT require ARexx, so you can always use it from a command line. CHANGE IN "TEXT OVER AN ANIMATION", PAGE 35: The example has been changed. The ANIM included here is TunnelANIM, and the text file to use is TunnelANIM.Text. NOTE: This exercise will require between 2 and 3.5 MegaBytes! It is recommended that you save it to your hard drive as it generates, then delete it after playing it. If this is too large for you, create a text file with 3 or 4 lines, and a simple short lo-res ANIM as a test case. Here is a suggested way to test this out: Load Credit Text. Load TunnelANIM.Text into the Text Window, and TunnelANIM into the Background Window. Click on CTXT. From the pop-up, select 4 lines per frame (higher, if you want a smaller ANIM) and 18 lines per page. Set the left edge to 0, and use Topaz 8 font. From Text Colors, use color 0 (black) for colors 1,3, and 4, and a bright red for color 2. then select GenerateANIM. ANIM Cut-And-Paste ------------------ The description on page 39 refers to the Append function in the Backgrounds pop-up. This has been removed from the pop-up and placed on a gadget directly on the front screen. This change has the major advantage of now making it possible to select ALL your files, and multiple copies of ONE file, in one move. The beginning of the ANIM still requires NewANIM from the pop-up as described. It is NOT NECESSARY to "Load" files into the Backgrounds Window before appending them - they can be all appended directly from the Append gadget. USING AREXX WITH CREDIT TEXT ---------------------------- There are major changes from the description on page 41 in the manual: In order to use ARexx with this release of Credit Text, you must of course first install ARexx on your system. Then, Credit Text must be running, and you must be in the screen accessed by clicking on the CTXT gadget. Then, use left Amiga M to get to the Workbench and CLI, from where the REXX macro can be run. This implementation is still far from perfect. We are working on it, and it will become far better with time! There are now FOUR example ARexx programs which can be used in conjunction with Credit Text. These examples reside in the drawer TASS/Macros/Credits. Here is a summary and brief description: 1. LeftRight.REXX Puts alternate lines of a text file on the left and right of the display (ie, left-adjusted and right-adjusted). 2. LeftToRight.REXX Puts lines alternately left-center-right. 3. ShowWholeText.REXX Will attempt to put ALL lines of the text file within a single display screen. 4. Toy.REXX The only example which will go through to the final step of actually generating the ANIM. All the lines of text will initially be piled on top of each other, then they will gradually separate by "fanning out" from the top. Make sure the first line of text is positioned at the top of the screen prior to using this macro. To run any of the four examples above, make sure Credit Text is running and CTXT has been used to get into the Credits screen. Pop into the Workbench, use the CLI to get to the TASS/Macros/Credits drawer, then type "rx LeftRight", for instance. Pop back to the Credits screen, and you can observe the macro acting. A Final Note: If you have ARexx, replace the file StartUpTass in the TASS drawer of your Credit Text distribution disk with the file StartUpTass.IfYouHaveARexx in the same drawer. It has extra lines to take care of the ARexx installation. Extra Background Screens ------------------------ In addition to the screens mentioned in the manual, there are several more blank background screens in the main drawer of the distribution disk. These are: 1. Credits.ehb - A lo-res extra-half-brite blank screen. The extra colors gives a lot more variety to a text display. However, keep in mind that it may cause a speed and storage problem. 2. Credits.ehb.lace - An interlace version of #1. 3. Credits.hires - A hi-res version of #1. Final Notes: ----------- This version does not contain the subtitling option. The interface for this option is causing some debate. We are working on it. A Plea to Our Users: What further do you want to see in a text scrolling program? We are not limited in what we can provide - it is only up to you to ask. Please let us know.