elton's NFO Builder 2000 By -PUNISHER-

 On 10th of september, FnW proudly presentz elton's NFO Builder 2000 -------------------------Some information════════════════Hello boyz and girlz,we know, you've waited alot for the new version of our great NFO Builder. The lastrelease has been 1 year ago and since that you hadn't heard something from us.Since elton, the main programmer had to do his duty at the army, he hadn't much timecode a better NFO Builder. Thus, we decided to completely recode the app, becausesome wanted features couldn't be implemented that easily.But this is the past. Here's the long-awaited NFO Builder 1.0 aka NFO Builder 2000!We hope you'll enjoy it and you will make great NFO's and ASCII art!!Introduction════════════This program is designed for everybody, who wants to make some ASCII or ANSI art.This includes all these NFO's delivered by cracking groups. Our intention towrite this prog was the problem to design some good NFO for our cracks withtools like the Windows Editor or NFODiz. It was almost impossible to make some creative images or to try out some ideas. The solution of this problem is in front of you!(for old NFOB users: I know this is the same text as in NFOB 0.9b, but since it definitlyhits the point, I left it untouched ;)Functions═════════The program has an interface similar to popular paint programs. You have theedit window, a symbols toolbar and another toolbar with paint utils. since thisprog is designed for making NFO's, it uses the normal ASCII symbols to make somegraphics.The most important thing is probably the support of multiple documents. You can openjust as much NFO as you want.Toolbar-------On the left side, you'll find a normal toolbar with 13 buttons, which some of youprobably know from Paintbrush or another drawing program.The first symbol has literally no function. It deactivates, drawing and writing, so it'sgreat to simply watch at some NFO's.The next tool is the pipette, with which you can simplay point any cell on the NFO Editwindow to pick up any char you want.The third symbol has a function, which many of you really wanted in the old NFOB!It activates the marking of a rectangle of cells, which you can then cut, copy, paste ordelete.The most important tool is the pen. Only with this you can freely paint with any charyou want! Like a pen, uh? ;)Not that difficult, the next is a rubber, which deletes already drawed symbols.The paint bucket has the same function as in every other paint program, it fills a sectionwith a specified char.The big 'A'. Very important, since nobody really wants to set every letter and every wordper chartable and mouse ;) Just hit the keys of your keyboard and be surprised *g*Three new buttons: DrawLine, DrawRectangle, DrawCircle. Must I say more?Almost every NFO has some kind of framework, like a chart. With the next two buttons youcan simply drag frame ractangles. If two frames cut each other, the program willautomatically set the right char for the frame (Try it out, I can't really explain it ;)The last button creates some Credits line for the NFO Builder at the bottom of you NFO.We don't force you to include this line in your NFO, but it would be great if you do itanyway ;)In the little window "Character" you will see the actual char, which you've selected.Think of a "color window" of normal paint apps.Adhoc-Menu----------You'll see the Adhoc-Menu if you right-click in the NFO Edit Window. At the top you candeactivate the grid and the scrollbars. some kind of preview functionYou'll probably noticed the thin red line at column 80. If it's activated, you can'tdraw more then 80 chars horizontally. This is the border of normal NFO's, found incrack releases etc. If you make ASCII art and need more chars, just deactivate the border."Select all", "cut" Copy" and "Paste" are known functions, I think, so I won't explain them anymore.At the bottom of the pop-up menu, you have the ability to rotate a selection in the NFO EditWindow. You see, we want to be the better Paintbrush ;)Char Window-----------At the start you'll see a small char table with all chars sorted in squares. If you right-clickin the window, you get a small menu with "Sorted" and "unsorted". Unsortet show you all availablechars, with which you can paint.About this version══════════════════Since we worked about 1 year on a new version of our ASCII Painter, I think I can say,that it's better than the first one.Though we made some beta tests, I must admit that there may be some other bugs.If you find something strange, or if you find some real bug, please report it to usso we can do a workaround!!Send an e-mail to fnw2k@gmx.net.Known Issues══════════ - The scrolling of a big NFO is really slow! We encountered this problem just before the release so we couldn't fix it at this time. We'll work on it.Final words═══════════We want to thank all ppl, who supported us while we worked on the program. YourE-Mails told us that you like our program and the idea and they encouraged us toto to more ;)Especially we want to thank tBS for the amazing logo he did without asking! At themoment we got this pic, we were really surprised and proud, because we couldn'tbelieve that some like the NFOB that much!