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| Filename: | !AWDec93/Goodies/Phaser/!Help |
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| File size: | 0B7D bytes |
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File contents
Help for Phaser 10/9/93 RISC OS 3.1 ==== === ====== ======= This application totally supports 'Interactive Help' and so if you need any help on the menu entries, windows etc. load it up. (The help messages take into account the status of the application) Features solid sprite dragging, desktop boot file saving & lots of fonts. Description ----------- Produces calendars with moon's phases. Output's yearly or monthly calendars in either text or draw format. Includes a font of the moon's phases, hand drawn called Moon. More Help ---- ---- On loading the year and month is read from the system clock & the fonts are default. (The default fonts can be altered in the messages file) If the font's cannot be found the System font is default. The calendars are very accurate but not accurate for dates before September 1752 due to the changeover of calendars. The calendars display the moons phases for any month or year with a good degree of accuracy. (To �2 days) Turning the moons phases off and giving the font manager more memory speeds up the screen redraw as this application uses a lot of anti- aliased fonts. The moon font consist's of the 30 of the moons phases. If you want to just save a calendar then you can save time on screen redrawing by iconising phaser's window, (hold SHIFT and close it) and then by holding down SHIFT and clicking menu on the window you can change the month & year using adjust instead of select and then save the calendar as normal. Fonts you wish to use must have been �seen� by the computer before loading Phaser if you wish to use them. Year planners output in Draw format take about half a minute to compile and save while the other forms of saving take only a few seconds. The text output tries as closely as possible to mimic the draw output. The calendars are saved with the present state. (With selected fonts and phases on or off) To view calendars in !Draw you first need to load up �Phaser� to install the moon font and also any other fonts you've used and then load the Draw file created by �Phaser�. All calendars fit on an A4 sheet of paper by default but once in Draw format you can do anything with them. (The calendar Draw files have various levels: moons phases, frames, days etc. So that they can easily be altered after the file has been created if needed.) If you get an 'Unable to bind font' error, then press F12, Return and then reload Phaser. Technical Bit --------- --- The calendar routine finds the day of the week the first of the month lands on using a bit of maths and then writes the pre days (from the last month) to that day. Then the days are printed till the end of the month is found and the days of the next month are added after this. The moon's phases routine is similar but more simple as the date of the new moon is calculated and then the moon for the first box calculated from this. The moon phases then cycle till the last box is reached.
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(T| 000000c0 68 65 20 68 65 6c 70 20 6d 65 73 73 61 67 65 73 |he help messages| 000000d0 20 74 61 6b 65 20 69 6e 74 6f 20 61 63 63 6f 75 | take into accou| 000000e0 6e 74 20 74 68 65 20 73 74 61 74 75 73 20 6f 66 |nt the status of| 000000f0 20 74 68 65 20 61 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 69 6f 6e | the application| 00000100 29 0a 0a 46 65 61 74 75 72 65 73 20 73 6f 6c 69 |)..Features soli| 00000110 64 20 73 70 72 69 74 65 20 64 72 61 67 67 69 6e |d sprite draggin| 00000120 67 2c 20 64 65 73 6b 74 6f 70 20 62 6f 6f 74 20 |g, desktop boot | 00000130 66 69 6c 65 20 73 61 76 69 6e 67 20 26 20 6c 6f |file saving & lo| 00000140 74 73 20 6f 66 20 66 6f 6e 74 73 2e 0a 0a 44 65 |ts of fonts...De| 00000150 73 63 72 69 70 74 69 6f 6e 0a 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d |scription.------| 00000160 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 0a 50 72 6f 64 75 63 65 73 20 63 |-----.Produces c| 00000170 61 6c 65 6e 64 61 72 73 20 77 69 74 68 20 6d 6f |alendars with mo| 00000180 6f 6e 27 73 20 70 68 61 73 65 73 2e 0a 4f 75 74 |on's phases..Out| 00000190 70 75 74 27 73 20 79 65 61 72 6c 79 20 6f 72 20 |put's yearly or | 000001a0 6d 6f 6e 74 68 6c 79 20 63 61 6c 65 6e 64 61 72 |monthly calendar| 000001b0 73 20 69 6e 20 65 69 74 68 65 72 20 74 65 78 74 |s in either text| 000001c0 20 6f 72 20 64 72 61 77 20 66 6f 72 6d 61 74 2e | or draw format.| 000001d0 0a 49 6e 63 6c 75 64 65 73 20 61 20 66 6f 6e 74 |.Includes a font| 000001e0 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 6d 6f 6f 6e 27 73 20 70 | of the moon's p| 000001f0 68 61 73 65 73 2c 20 68 61 6e 64 20 64 72 61 77 |hases, hand draw| 00000200 6e 20 63 61 6c 6c 65 64 20 4d 6f 6f 6e 2e 0a 0a |n called Moon...| 00000210 4d 6f 72 65 20 48 65 6c 70 0a 2d 2d 2d 2d 20 2d |More Help.---- -| 00000220 2d 2d 2d 0a 4f 6e 20 6c 6f 61 64 69 6e 67 20 74 |---.On loading t| 00000230 68 65 20 79 65 61 72 20 61 6e 64 20 6d 6f 6e 74 |he year and mont| 00000240 68 20 69 73 20 72 65 61 64 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 74 |h is read from t| 00000250 68 65 20 73 79 73 74 65 6d 20 63 6c 6f 63 6b 20 |he system clock | 00000260 26 20 74 68 65 20 66 6f 6e 74 73 20 61 72 65 20 |& the fonts are | 00000270 64 65 66 61 75 6c 74 2e 20 28 54 68 65 20 64 65 |default. 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