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Ok well it is about time someone make a file on how to make Ansi. There have
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been a few made in the past but most were quite lacking! Well the first thing
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you will need is a text editor that allows you to put escape into a file.
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A good one is MicroEmacs on the extras disk. It has a function called
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Quote-char that allows you to put Ascii code 27 in your text file (the Escape
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Key). To put an escape character in your file on MicroEmacs type Ctrl-Q then
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hit the escape key. It will type a "^[" on the screen this is how the escape
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code is symbolized by this text editor. Now all you need are a few codes and
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your imagination and you are off. There is one thing you must know. If you
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plan to use your ansi on a BBS there are two types of Ansi (Vt-100 & Vt-102)
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supporting term programs. There are the 8 color ones (Online! for example)
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which allow 8 colors on the screen and usually have a black background color
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and then there are the 4 color term programs (Like Diga!) that only allow
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4 colors on the screen and usually have a blue background. If you use 8 colors
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in your Ansi graphics and someone calls you with a 4 color term program they
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will not see the last four colors or the last four will be displayed as white
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which is how some terms handle the extra colors. Either way they will probably
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not be able to understand your graphics so it is a good idea to make two sets
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of menus and/or other files that are printed on the bbs one for 8 color users
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and one for 4 color users.
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First of all there are the 8 foreground color codes:
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30.......Black (invisible) _
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31.......Red \
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32.......Green |----- Use onle 30-33 for 4 color terms
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33.......Yellow _/
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34.......Blue
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35.......Magenta
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36.......Cyan
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37.......White
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Then there are the 8 Background color codes:
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40.......Black (no background color) _
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41.......Red \
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42.......Green |---Use only 40-43 for 4 color terms
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43.......Yellow _/
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44.......Blue
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45.......Magenta
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46.......Cyan
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47.......White
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Ok so lets say you want to print the word welcome in blue letters with a yellow
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background. You would type (for microemacs) a CTRL-Q the the ESC key. This would
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give you the ^[. Then type [43;34m. This would show up as a ^[[43;34m on the
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screen. For any color changes you must put the "m" (make sure its lowercase!)
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at the end this tells the term program its the end of the Ansi sequence. You
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do not always have to specify the background/forground colors. If you wanted
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to change the text to Black but leave the background yellow just type
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^[[30m because once you set a background or foreground it stays that way until
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you set it different. So one last time if you wanted to print the word AMIGA
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with each letter a different color with a black back ground it would look like
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this (on MicroEmacs):
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^[[31mA^[[32mM^[[33mI^[[34mG^[[35mA
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this would give you:
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[31mA[32mM[33mI[34mG[35mA[31m
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Ok now onto the much more fun stuff Cursor Movement. There are 2 ways to move
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the cursor.
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1. To specify a Row and Column for the cursor.
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2. To tell the cursor to move in relationship to its current location.
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Either way is quite easy and they each have their own benefits.
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Ok to place the cursor at Row 3 column 50 the sequence would look like this.
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^[[3;50H (make sure you put an H at the end of this sequence just like the
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m for color.)
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It is quite easy to do cursor movements this way but the file can become
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quite LONG!
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The second way is to make cursor movements relative to the currsors last
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location. Such as moving it up 10 over 5 or something.
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This is done with 4 different ansi codes :
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^[[nA Up ___
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^[[nB Down \
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^[[nC Right |--------- Where the n is the number of space you want to move
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^[[nD Left ___/
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So a ^[[30D^[[10A would move the cursor right 30 and up 10.
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The final phase! Viewing your new creation.
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There are a few ways you can view your new creation. If you are setting it up
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for use on a bbs just logon locally and type the file from the BBS it will
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show it to you in Ansi mode. If you created a 4 color picture just open a CLI
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make it full screen size if you have cursor movement so it looks right and type
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it, it will show it to you in ANSI. This is also a good way to see what an 8
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color picture looks like to a 4 color term user because workbench is only 4
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colors. There are just about no other ways to view an 8 color ansi file unless
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you were to set up 8 color workbench with the PD program to make an 8 color
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workbench.
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Oh ya there are also a few other ansi codes that may help you a little:
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^[[0m...... Normal text (resets color type style and everything else)
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^[[1m...... Bold text
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^[[4m...... Underline (good for making unbroken straitlines)
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^[[5m...... Italics (will cause text to Blink on an IBM)
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^[[7m...... Italics (will make italics on amiga and IBM)
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[8m...... Truns cursor off completely it does what you tell it to but
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all actions are invisible.
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The above codes can be put together in a color code sequence like:
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^[[34;41;7m would make it blue on red with italics turned on. Remember you
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have to shut off the italics or ieverything after that will be printed in
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italics and to turn it off you must send a ^[[0m then the colors are returned
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to noramal also you must reset them back to what you were using before if you
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want to stay with that color!
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Ok well now you are all ready to create your masterpiece! Also to view Ansi
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remember you must be set at VT-100 or VT-102 and at 8N1.
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Special note to BBS-PC! users. If you make a text file with the above codes
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it will work fine but if you want ansi in the Menu instead of putting the
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CTRL-Q esc key in the title ="" lines just put a \27 it works the same.
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So make a picture today and upload it to the special Ansi Graphics contest of
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the amiga tele-trader! Your picture may be the best and be displayed on the log
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off screen and you recieve 5 Upload credits!
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New Contest EVERY MONTH!
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