amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell) (12/07/89)
Please Help Me!
I am about to hand over the final version of control software for
a robotic system which will go into service in a chip fab. I have put
many hundred hours into it. The computer it runs on is an MS-DOS system
with a VGA monitor.
For my own personalization of the effort, I have created a wonderful
painting on an EGA system using a paint program known as doctor halo.
I can save it in Dr. Halo's format, but I want to be able to write my
own program that can display this handsome placard during the lengthy
booting process. Therefore, I need:
1. A program to capture this image from the screen so I can save it
in my own format. Must be TSR, conjured via hotkey.
2. A program that reads this image from disk and
puts it on screen, then relinquishing control to DOS WITHOUT
(!!) removing the graphics picture from the screen so that
the large control program can load with the picture on the screen.
I can probably write this myself, if you can tell me how to do this in
either Turbo Pascal 5.0 or Turbo C 2.0 . I _think_ I need to write a
TSR that can "grab" the screen image and save it in some simple format
on disk whilst I have it on-screen in Dr. Halo. I do not know how to
write a TSR. Tell me how to do this! I want to get it out of the
(probably proprietary) Halo format and pull it down into one I can
manage easily. Tell me how to have a "hot key" pull up my program from
behind halo.
Clue me in QUICKLY! I go to send it for acceptance on the night of the
10th of december.
tony lovell (be QUICK!)
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amlovell@phoenix.princeton.edu ...since 1963.