Introduction [top]

So you've decided to try my program, and maybe you've run into some problems. Luckily, there's this documentation which hopefully should do the trick for you.

This help document is divided into different sections relating to this program. To access these, you can either scroll to the part of the documentation, or use the menu off to the right.

Thank you for using my program and enjoy

- - Elevator_Hazard

Basic Use [top]

In this section you will learn about the basic use of this program. Let's get started.

You should notice in the main window of the program there is a menu, it is from there that you can use almost all of the options this program has, so don't miss it! This program is useless if you don't use it. The options on that menu will be explained more in-depth below.

Choose a color[top]

The Choose A Color feature is very useful for quickly finding a desired color and putting it into the proper Warcraft 3 color code format. It will allow you to choose a color, add to custom colors, and when you've choses a color it inserts it into the main work area for you, ready for your use.

Make Gradient Text[top]

Have you ever seen some nice looking gradient text in a warcraft 3 map? Well this program has a feature to do just that! To use, simply follow these steps...

- Press the "Make Gradient Text" feature in the Edit menu.
- Now you will notice that there are two text areas on the window that ask for color codes. They must be 6-digit, containing only hexadecimal digits (0-9, a-f). There is also a button that says "..." next to each field. You can click that to choose a color like in the "Choose A Color" feature.
- In the bigger text area at the bottom of the gradient maker window you should put the text you want to make into gradient text. Note that if its very long, it could take a while and it wouldn't look the greatest in warcraft anyway. Once you have the desired text, you can press the button at the bottom of the window. This will put the generated text into the main text area of that window, from there you can copy and paste it into the main window, and there you go!

Preview [top]

This is probably the most used feature of the program. Toggling the preview feature in the View menu will allow you to edit your text or view the result of your text. While your preview is enabled, the rest of the view menu will be disabled

When the preview is off you can also select different default foregrounds (text color) and default background colors and/or default background images as explained elsewhere in this help file.

Background Colors [top]

In the view menu you have the option to have a background color on the preview of your text. By default it is a white background. By changing the default background color you can easily get a feel of what your text looks like in different scenarios.

Background Images [top]

There is a menu within the View menu which allows you to have a background image when you preview. Simply select the desired background and your ready to go next time you preview.

Foreground Colors (Text Colors) [top]

The forground option allows you to set the text color of your text when you are in preview mode. It defaults to black and you have the option of black, white, and custom color.

Contact Me [top]

Have suggestions? Questions without obvious answer or not covered in the help file? Feel free to private message me on one of the forums I've posted this program on. If you don't know you can either go to scumedit.net and private message me or email me. My email address is . Also if you have questions about editing the source code, feel free to ask. It was developed in autohotkey so refer to there for problems/questions regarding that language.

Notes [top]

I will gladly allow people to edit this program as long as you give credit to original work back to me, and don't take credit for the includes either, the credit is in there or is not required. I'm not sure how much longer I will be working on this program, I usually don't stick to editing/updating programs for very long. Some notes about how the program works are found below.

- Basically this program uses a windows dll to allow the user to select a color. From there it returns a 6-digit hex color-code and the program will format it to work for warcraft, which is pretty simple, it only needs to add |cff and then the hex code and then |r. After that it will send two left arrow keystrokes. The gradient maker is a function developed by Storm_Surge, that's his b.net username on US East. I merely made a GUI manipulate it for him.

  But what about the preview feature? How does it show my warcraft3-formatted text? Simple. It will parse your code so it works for it. For example, if you had text saying `Blah |cff00ff00Blah|r Blah` it will parse it and make it into `Blah <span style="color:#00ff00;">Blah</span> Blah`. From there it loads all that html into an Internet Explorer web browsing control that is embedded into the GUI through COM (I'm no expert so don't ask how that's done :D).

Thanks for reading,

- - Elevator_Hazard