



                               TheDraw Version 3.30
                Color and Monochrome Screen Image Generator/Editor
                                 Operation Manual



                       COPYRIGHT (C) 1986,1987,1988,1989 by
                   TheSoft Programming Services and Ian E. Davis
                              All Rights are Reserved



                           TheSoft Programming Services
                               1929 Whitecliff Court
                              Walnut Creek, CA. 94596



                          Written using Turbo Pascal v5.0


The software programs TheDraw (TM) and TheDrawR (TM) are Copyright (C) 
1986,1987,1988,1989 by TheSoft Programming Services. All rights are reserved.

TheDraw and TheDrawR are registered trademarks of TheSoft Programming Services. 
Other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective holders.

TheDraw is a powerful screen image generator/editor for color and monochrome 
video users.  We use TheDraw to compose advertisement screens here at
MICRONEWS.  TheDraw makes designing and figuring out a video screen display
childs play.

TheDraw's basic premise is...be easy to use.  The most novice computer user can 
make an ANSI text file screen with TheDraw in only minutes. Then, he can
explore and use more of the power available in TheDraw.

The biggest problem facing most people is we really do not know what will look
good until we see it.  Manually editing a screen can literally take hours. 
TheDraw allows you to free form until you really know what is perfect.  With 
the picture in mind, you can quickly develop whatever is necessary or instruct
TheDraw to create a data file which can be used.  Instead of hours, making a 
screen takes minutes.

TheDraw can transform your masterpiece into data files with the following
formats: 

 1.  ANSI color text (useful in batch files, BBS's, etc...)

 2.  ASCII text (compatible with word processors and text editors)

 3.  BINARY files (generic, useful in most everything)

 4.  BSAVE (for Basic)

 5.  COM files (actual separate programs executable directly by Dos.  Great for
     batch files.)

 6.  ASSEMBLER (for the die-hard coder)

 7.  TURBO PASCAL (directly compilable source code)

 8.  C (format is for Turbo C specifically)

 9.  OBJECT (Intel format compatible - suitable for linking)

10.  THEDRAW (custom storage format for FAST loading and saving)





TheDraw was originally written as an improvement to a program named AnsiDraw by
Amrich Enterprises.  Both programs provided similar operation, with TheDraw
giving a much enhanced user interface.

TheDraw has been vastly improved over the abilities of AnsiDraw, and most other
screen editors.  It is compatible with systems that have 150k of free memory
available.  Monochrome and Color monitor users are supported, and a special 
keyboard driver allows you to redefine keystrokes that do not operate properly
or are used by other programs (registered version).

Another feature TheDraw fully supports is ANIMATION.  With this facility you
can develop quick and dirty presentations, or simply make a generic screen
appear with pizzazz.  You can either let TheDraw make an animation sequence
from a static image, or one can be made from scratch; thus letting you fully
control the appearance of your work. TheDraw gives you a maximum of 16000
separate animation "entries" to handle the most complex job.  The final result
can be saved either as an ANSI file (Ansi Animation) or TheDraw format file.













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