ElyEdit 1.3 Win32

by Michael Preslar
email: mike@lordlegacy.com
http://www.michaelpreslar.com
http://lord.lordlegacy.com
http://www.elysoft.net

Intro
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Elyedit is a win32 gui based editor for bulletin board systems. 

- Load the following formats: ansi, ascii, sansi (lord color codes), wildcat, synchronet's ctrl-a codes, pipe, telegard, pcboard, adept, and nexus

- Save as all those formats plus jpg and bitmap

- mouse support

- block support

- pen types

- different screen sizes: 80x25,  80x50, 80x100, 80x255, 80x500, 80x1000, and "menu mode" which is 79x23



Basic Usage
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Type and it will appear on screen. Hit an F-key, and the character associated with that key will show up. click the left mouse button once to reposition the cursor. click the left mouse button and drag to draw (when in "pen mode".. Uses the "pen type" you've selected).. right click once to "erase" the block you clicked on. Right click and drag to keep erasing

When "block mode" is selected.. Right click and drag to select a block of the screen. Once selected, right click and a popup menu will show up giving you options (move, copy, erase, replace foreground, replace background)

When "color grab" mode is selected.. the foreground and the background of the next block you click on will become your active foreground and background .. Theres a keyboard shortcut for this: position the cursor where you want it, and hit alt-u

"big screen" mode. By default, elyedit is only big enough to display 80x25 at a time. When you select big screen mode, elyedit basically doubles in vertical size so that 80x50 can be displayed at a time

And thats it in a nutshell. See info->whats new for anything I've left out.

Bugs
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If you find a bug, email me at mike@lordlegacy.com and add it to http://lord.lordegacy.com/bugs

Thanks
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Thanks first go out to Rick Parrish.. He wrote an ansi viewer, gave it to me and said "do what you want with it".. I turned it into elyedit

thanks go out to pcm .. he suggested quite a few things that made elyedit better

thanks go to Rob Swindell .. I had run into a bug, and was thinking of rewriting. He suggested that I chill for an hour, and then try again. I did that and didnt end up rewriting the program.

thanks go out to the rest of irc.thebbs.org's #bbs .. they beta tested, made suggestions, and other whatnot.

See info->whatsnew for a full list of who suggested what

