Welcome to the Generator Hex!

First I would like to thank you for using my program.  It makes writing it all the more worthwhile to me.

First off, though, I would like to say that this program is provided "AS IS" with no gurantees.  While there is no problems or harmful bugs in the program (that I know of), sometimes things do happen without rhyme or reason.  Because the application is free, it is presented "AS IS" with no warranty.  Like most (if not all programs), whatever happens while you run the program is your problem (as stated in lawyer-talk in the end user license agreement in most software installation programs, you know, that thing you never read and just hit the accept button.)  I will say that I tested this program on my machine (a pentium 150 w/48 megs of ram) with no negative results.  Now that that is out of the way, lets continue.

Please note that in order to run this program to run as intended, you will need to install the Visual Basic 5 Runtime files (service pack 3 version).  These can be downloaded from the Jank Productions web site at http://jankpad.cjb.net or from my personal homepage at http://welcome.to/chrishowell.


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*           TO INSTALL         *
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First, read this file.  Next make sure you install the VB5 Runtime files (SP3 version).  Unzip the contents of the zip file to a temporary directory.  Run the setup.exe program from the temporary directory and follow the on-screen instructions.  After the program has been installed, you can delete the temporary file.  To uninstall the program, select Add/Remove Programs from the Control Panel.


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*  Distribution of Generator Hex  *
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Generator Hex is provided at the affordable price of FREE!!!  Ok, free really isn't a price, but Generator Hex is free.  Thats right, you can use this program, my sweat, my blood, and my tears (well maybe not the first two) at absolutely no cost to yourself.  And, not only is Generator Hex free to use, it is also free to redistribute.  However, there are a few catches to that last one.  The following must be done if you choose to redistribute Generator Hex.

1. Generator Hex may NOT be sold for a profit.  You may charge a reasonable amount to compensate for the medium on which you are redistributing it such as a disk or cd-r, as long as you are redistributing it on a physical medium.  You may NOT charge even a penny if you redistribute it through electronic means such as email or providing it as a download, or any other means in which you redistribute it at no cost to yourself.

2. All the files associated with Generator Hex must be redistributed with the Generator Hex program.  This includes any and all image files, help files, et all.  This especially pretains to the text you are reading right now; You MUST include a copy of THE ORIGINAL README.txt file, intact and unaltered.

3. If you wish to include Generator Hex in a "shareware collection", or some variant thereof, you must notify me beforehand that you are doing so.

IN ADDITION, you may not decompile, disassemble, or in any way reverse engineer JankPad.  I mean come on, if you are so lame that you need to decompile this in order to make something like it for yourself then you don't deserve to be a programmer...

As I said, the program is free and I expect no monetary reimbursement.  However, it would be appreciated if you could lend any feedback on the program so that I can enhance future versions of the program.  If you enjoy the program, I would appreciate it if you would tell your friends about it, and maybe give the web site (http://jankpad.cjb.net) a visit once in awhile.


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*    About Generator Hex    *
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Generator Hex was developed by myself, Christopher Howell, on Valentine's Day weekend (yeah, tell me about it), 1999 (Version 1.0).  Version 2.0 written 1999.  The program was written using Visual Basic 5 Professional Edition with Service Pack 3 installed.


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*    Why Generator Hex?    *
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Why the hell would I want to use Generator Hex?  Why did this kid bother wasting his valuable college consumed time writing this program?  Well, if for no other reason, I love to program.  More importantly, Generator Hex is built to help find the hexidecimal code for colors so that you can find the color you need for your HTML Page, such as background, text, and link colors.


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*       Hexy Features      *
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 1. Scroll bars to quickly manipulate the color selection

 2. Save color definitions to later use

 3. Copy either the hex code, RGB code, HTML body tag, or HTML font tag directly to the clipboard for pasting in another app

 4. "Intellimize", an emulation of how a form is minimized on a Macintosh system.

 5. Color previews for background, text, link, visited link, and active link

 6. Random color generation

 7. HTML document generation


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*    What is Intellimize?   *
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Ah, who cares?  It doesn't seem to be going over well...


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*     Janky Beta Testers    *
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Person(s):                             Machine(s):

Myself, of course                      Pentium 150, 48Mb RAM

B. Bouvet				                  AMD K6-2-3D 450, 64Mb Ram

Scott Williams				               Pentium, 32Mb Ram

Jon Badessa				                  Pentium II 266, 64Mb Ram

W. G. Webster				               Pentium MMX 233, 64Mb RAM


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*      Special Hex Thanks      *
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To:
Microsoft, for creating the easiest, most powerful, limitless developement environment: Visual Basic.

To:
You, for reading this far and using Generator Hex


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*       Additional Facts      *
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I've fallen and I can't get up.
Where's the beef?


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*      To Contact     *
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The Jank Productions Website: http://jankpad.cjb.net
                          or: http://homepages.go.com/~jankpad/

Chris Howell's E-Home: http://welcome.to/chrishowell
                   or: http://members.xoom.com/c_howell

Email: c_howell@xoommail.com


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