ACHART 1.2: Ascii Character Table for Windows 3.0 Copyright 1991 by Dave Lord This program may be freely used and copied but may not be sold except for a nominal copying charge not to exceed US $10. This file should be included with all copies of ACHART 1.2. The author reserves the right to charge for future versions. Changes for version 1.2 ----------------------- Added Help. Added keyboard commands to operate scroll bars. Added ability to copy a character to the clipboard. Now you can effortlessly paste special characters into other applications. Added Character Info message box which pops up when you double click on a character. Shows value in Hex, Decimal, and Binary. Put the "Shades" cursor back in the About Box. Changes for version 1.1 ----------------------- Added Default Palette selection in Charset menu. Added EBCDIC character chart. Made some minor tweeks in appearance. Description of program ---------------------- ACHART is a Windows 3.0 program which displays a character chart in the form of a 16x16 table. The following variations may be displayed: IBM PC character set. Smiley faces and all. ANSI character set using names (NUL, SOH, STX, etc.) for the control characters. ANSI character set using (^A, ^B, ^C, etc) for the control characters. EBCDIC character set. Everytime I see this I can't help but wonder what drugs they were using that would make breaking up the alphabetic characters seem like a good idea. A really remarkable encoding that everyone should be familiar with. Default Palette selection in Charset menu. OK, this isn't a Charset. Too bad. The default palette is what you get if you specify colors in a Windows program using PALETTEINDEX(num) without first having created a logical palette. As far as I know there are never more than 20 entries so it may seem strange that I display them in a 256 entry table. Well, maybe someday there will be more. Besides, I already had code to display a 256 entry table. Pointless Rambling ------------------ You may be wondering why I wrote this program. Practice mostly. I've been playing with Windows and wanted to write something that was at least somewhat useful. Then too, I'm always looking for an ascii chart and I prefer the table format over the typical list format because it allows me to see all the characters at once. That makes it easier to find the value for all those special characters than if I had to scroll through 256 lines. So why aren't I asking for a donation? Yeah, right. Like I really believe anyone is going to send me money. I doubt it would really be worth the trouble of having to mess around with a handful of $5 checks anyway. Face it, all I really want is the glory. That and of course women throwing themselves at my feet. Everybody knows that Windows programmers get all the girls. At least that's what Bill Gates keeps telling me, though the folks over at IBM keep whispering "OS/2, OS/2," in my ears as I sleep at night. So don't send me money unless you really happen to have a lot of it. If you want to send me glory, expensive presents, fabulous job offers, or if you're a woman who wants to throw herself at my feet, you can write to me at the following address. By the way, I apologize if this sounds sexist, but I'm really not much interested in having any of you guys throwing yourselves at my feet. Dave Lord 3307 Lincoln Av. San Diego, CA 92104 Disclaimer ---------- ****** NOTICE: The author provides no guarantees for this ****** ****** program and assumes no liability for any dammages ****** ****** resulting from its use. ******