#Scripting
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I've come across an industrial customer who needs help with an extremely
dry and dull ascii text file that describes his product. He would like it
"jazzed up" somehow. My original demo with them consisted of several
animations and bullet screens, all scripted to fade, feed and branch to one
another. Now what I'm up against is 17 pages of ascii text to "jazz up,"
and the limitations of size and space. Is it possible to script with more
than one disk interconnected by the script, and what is meant by levels (as
in you can only use 24 levels of loops, etc.)? If you can't script from
disk to disk, is there a self-extracting utility that you could recommend
to set up on end-users' machines? Also the aaplayhi utility works great
for me so far, but has it been fighting with end-users' machines. I think
my presentation may have to be 320 X 200 just for space and resolution of
old VGA. Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated. It would
be nice to land a Fortune 500 company.
Roger D.
P.S. Exotic batch file creation may be over my head. I'm new at this
computer stuff.
I'm not aware of any way to script across disks. Can't you put this stuff
on a hard disk? Maybe GrantB or PhilD would be able to suggest something
(without resorting to exotic batch files).
Perhaps GRASP could do this… it would provide an extremely flexible
scripting environment for you.
– G
Thanks Gary,
Maybe I didn't make myself clear about what I'm trying to create. What
we're trying to do is create a freely distributable specifications
presentation that my client can give to his potential customers for
reference of technical data. It may be presumptuous to assume that these
people would want to put this on their hard disk. Maybe someone can help
me out on this GRASP scripting, although I'm real happy with the results
I've gotten doing scripts for aaplay.hi. Maybe I can just break it into
separate disks and script each separately. I was very pleasantly surprised
by the reception I got from one of the largest companies in our metro area.
They really liked the 3DS/AAPro combination presentation.
Roger D.
Actually, be glad you're NOT working with a fortune 500 company. They are
much harder to deal with than the little guys… Trust me, I know!
Roger, If you switched to GRASP, you'd be helped with the text: you just
put your ASCII file and a font file on the disk. GRASP puts up the pretty
large text at run time. (Your client could even make editing changes to
the text file themselves.)
(And, you can do the nice text in 640×480 x 16 colors on a standard VGA.
This is readable, fast, and if you pick a nice palette, looks good.)
The GRASP guys have their own forum (GO GRASP) and some of us are about
here too.
Chuck Jameson Silver Tongue Software
Charles, I agree with you completely. If all you want to do is put text on
the screen, Grasp is a much more efficient way to do it.
– G