COLORPT - Color Point Program ------- ----- ----- ------- (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1992 - 1993. All Rights Reserved. COLORPT is an OS/2 Presentation Manager program that continually reports the color value and English name of the pel (pixel) that happens to be under your OS/2 PM mouse pointer. The color value can be displayed in several different color models, including RGB (red, green, blue) values, CMY (cyan, magenta, yellow) values, and HSV (hue, saturation, value or brightness) values. COLORPT is especially targetted to users of laptop and notebook PCs with grayscale LCD displays. Editing OS/2 or Windows program icons, drawing charts, obeying program instructions to "Press the red button", and so forth on such systems is often difficult due to the user's inability to discern colors on the gray display. COLORPT was written in an effort to make these tasks easier. =============================================================================== REQUIREMENTS The program is a 16-bit application compiled to run under either OS/2 1.30.1 or OS/2 2.x. =============================================================================== INSTALLATION The file COLRPT.ZIP is a ZIP archive file. Unpack it with PKUNZIP (available on any bulletin board system or on CompuServe) into the subdirectory from which you intend to use the program. The following programs are contained within the ZIP file: COLORPT.DOC This file. COLORPT.EXE The executable file. COLORPT.HLP The interactive help file for the program. COLORPT.ABS A short description of the program. LICENSE.TXT The AS-IS program license agreement. =============================================================================== OPERATION The COLORPT program uses no command-line arguments, so it may be executed by simply typing COLORPT at an OS/2 command-line, by placing it in one of your OS/2 1.3 Group menus, or by placing it in one of your OS/2 2.0 Workplace Shell file folders. The latter are the preferred methods of execution, as you can then specify that COLORPT come up at system start-up. To successfully use COLORPT's built-in interactive help, be sure that the file COLORPT.HLP is in your current default directory or is in a directory listed for your HELP environment variable. (At any OS/2 command prompt, type SET to see which directories are listed after "HELP=".) The first time you run COLORPT, the program will appear at a random position on your OS/2 PM screen. You may move the COLORPT window to any convenient location on the screen and, if you prefer that COLORPT always start up at that screen location, you may select the "Save window position..." option under OPTIONS on the action bar menu. COLORPT consults your OS/2 system configuration parameters to determine how long it should display its initial logo screen. After you install OS/2, the logo panel display time is 'indefinite', and you must press ENTER to dismiss the panel. You may change the logo panel display time to any desired value in milliseconds, including 0, in one of the following ways: Under OS/2 PM 1.30.x, bring up the Desktop Manager menu and select the "Group - Utilities" option. Under this menu, select the Control Panel application. The logo display time value can be changed via an action bar menu item. Under OS/2 PM 2.x with the WPS, open the "OS/2 System" folder on the desktop. Under this folder, open the "System Setup" folder, and select the System icon under this folder. The logo display time value can be changed via one of the notebook 'tabs'. =============================================================================== CREDITS _Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice_, Foley, van Dam, Feiner, and Hughes, Second Edition, 1990, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-12110-7. =============================================================================== HISTORY Version 1.00 September 11, 1992 First full-function release. Released to the world via the IBM Employee Written Software program. Version 1.01 July 22, 1993 Program was not saving options correctly under OS/2 2.1, causing multiple unrelated program errors at subsequent startups. Program options are now saved to COLORPT.INI, and not to OS2.INI. Released to the world via the IBM Employee Written Software program. ===============================================================================