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StarInfo/Rawle/!Messages/!Help
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
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| Filename: | StarInfo/Rawle/!Messages/!Help |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 1451 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
Messages
Jonathan Rawle 1996
Most computers have boot files to set up the computer as required when it if
first switched on. Unfortunately, these files often take a while to run, and
the user is left staring at the "RISC OS 3, Initialising..." screen.
Messages adds a small amount of randomly chosen text to this screen for
users to read while they are waiting. These text items could be anything-
jokes, quotations, poems, trivia questions etc. Details of how to create
your own can be found at the end of this help file.
If the text is a question, the question can be displayed while the computer
is booting, and the answer displayed in the desktop.
Messages should not be run from the desktop in the usual way. Instead, it
should be included at the start of your boot sequence.
Pre-Risc PC machines:
1. Copy the !Messages application onto your hard disc if your have one, or
onto your Boot/System floppy (drag its icon from one directory display to
the other)
2. Locate your !Boot file. This will be in the root directory of your hard
disc, or your boot disc if you do not have a hard drive. (If you have not
got a !Boot file at all, read page 109-110 in the RISC OS 3 user guide which
tells you how to create one.)
3. Hold down SHIFT and double click on !Boot. A text editor window will open
containing your boot file
Risc PCs:
1. Copy the !Messages application onto your hard disc
2. Hold down SHIFT and double-click on !Boot
Then double-click on 'Choices' then 'Boot'
3. Hold down SHIFT and double click on the file called 'Desktop'. A text
editor window will open containing the file
All machines:
4. Type the word 'Run ' on the top line (the space after this is important,
but do not include the '' marks. Do NOT press return)
5. Hold down SHIFT and drag the !Messages icon from the directory display to
the text editor window (the window where you just typed Run).
6. A line SIMILAR to the following line should now be at the start of your
boot file:
Run ADFS::HardDisc.$.Programs.!Messages
7. Save the file (press F3 then Return).
If you now re-boot your machine (Ctrl-Break), some text should appear under
the RISC OS 3 banner while you are waiting. If this was a quiz question, the answer will be displayed in a window when the desktop appears.
Messages is supplied with a small program named CheckCtrl. You may want to
include this right at the END of your boot file. This allows you to pause
the desktop by holding down Ctrl so that you can read long pieces of text.
If you are not holding Ctrl, the program does nothing and the desktop is
entered as usual.
Creating your own text
----------------------
A few example pieces of text are included with Messages, but you can quite
easily create your own. Shift double-click the !Messages icon to open the
Messages directory. In this directory you will find a text file,
appropriately called 'text'. You might want to make a copy of this in case
you make a mistake.
You can edit this text file as you wish. Once the edited file is saved, you
MUST double-click on !Update in the messages directory, otherwise the
application will not function correctly. Each time Messages is run, an item
of text is chosen at random from this file.
A guide to the syntax of the file is given below:
The text is not automatically formatted, so you must press return at the end
of each line.
Each text item should contain no more than 30 lines.
At the end of each piece of text, you must include the \ character on a line
of its own.
\
You can centre a line by including <> at the start.
For example:
<>This is centred
You can right-justify a line by including >> at the start.
For example:
>>This is right justified
You can underline using the following technique. Enter the text as uasual,
then add a _ and a character 8 (thats ASCII 8 not number 8) in front of each
CHARACTER that you want underlined.
For example:
Last word is _u_n_d_e_r_l_i_n_e_d
To do this using !Edit, type the _ and the characters, then add the ASCII8
as follows:
Press F4. Select Magic characters
Enter _ as the string to find
Enter _\x08 as the string to replace with
Click on go. Click on replace until all the _ are replaced with _
You can make the computer beep when it displays the message by including
character 7 (hold Alt, press 7 on numeric key pad, release Alt)
To include a question with an answer, use the following format.
For example:
What are the capitals of the following?
1. France
2. Germany
3. Spain
?
Quiz
Answers:
1. Paris
2. Berlin
3. Madrid
\
The first four lines are the question, and will be displayed under the
welcome banner.
The next line is just a '?'. This tells Messages that the text is a question
and an answer is required. This will not be displayed with the text.
The line after this ('Quiz') is used in the title of the answer window in
the desktop. You do not have to include a title, but you must leave a blank
line instead.
The next four lines are the text for the answer. The question and the answer
will be displayed in the desktop.
The '\' indicates the end of the text.
For further examples, please look at the text file provided with Messages.
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