COLORPT - Color Point Program
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(C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1992 - 1993. All Rights Reserved.

COLORPT is an OS/2 Presentation Manager program that continually reports the
color value and English name of the pel (pixel) that happens to be under your
OS/2 PM mouse pointer. The color value can be displayed in several different
color models, including RGB (red, green, blue) values, CMY (cyan, magenta,
yellow) values, and HSV (hue, saturation, value or brightness) values.

COLORPT is especially targetted to users of laptop and notebook PCs with
grayscale LCD displays. Editing OS/2 or Windows program icons, drawing charts,
obeying program instructions to "Press the red button", and so forth on such
systems is often difficult due to the user's inability to discern colors on the
gray display. COLORPT was written in an effort to make these tasks easier.

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REQUIREMENTS

The program is a 16-bit application compiled to run under either OS/2 1.30.1 or
OS/2 2.x.

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INSTALLATION

The file COLRPT.ZIP is a ZIP archive file. Unpack it with PKUNZIP (available
on any bulletin board system or on CompuServe) into the subdirectory from which
you intend to use the program. The following programs are contained within the
ZIP file:

   COLORPT.DOC

      This file.

   COLORPT.EXE

      The executable file.

   COLORPT.HLP

      The interactive help file for the program.

   COLORPT.ABS

      A short description of the program.

   LICENSE.TXT

      The AS-IS program license agreement.

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OPERATION

The COLORPT program uses no command-line arguments, so it may be executed by
simply typing COLORPT at an OS/2 command-line, by placing it in one of your
OS/2 1.3 Group menus, or by placing it in one of your OS/2 2.0 Workplace Shell
file folders. The latter are the preferred methods of execution, as you can
then specify that COLORPT come up at system start-up.

To successfully use COLORPT's built-in interactive help, be sure that the file
COLORPT.HLP is in your current default directory or is in a directory listed
for your HELP environment variable. (At any OS/2 command prompt, type SET to
see which directories are listed after "HELP=".)

The first time you run COLORPT, the program will appear at a random position on
your OS/2 PM screen. You may move the COLORPT window to any convenient location
on the screen and, if you prefer that COLORPT always start up at that screen
location, you may select the "Save window position..." option under OPTIONS on
the action bar menu.

COLORPT consults your OS/2 system configuration parameters to determine how
long it should display its initial logo screen. After you install OS/2, the
logo panel display time is 'indefinite', and you must press ENTER to dismiss
the panel. You may change the logo panel display time to any desired value in
milliseconds, including 0, in one of the following ways:

   Under OS/2 PM 1.30.x, bring up the Desktop Manager menu and select the
   "Group - Utilities" option. Under this menu, select the Control Panel
   application. The logo display time value can be changed via an action bar
   menu item.

   Under OS/2 PM 2.x with the WPS, open the "OS/2 System" folder on the
   desktop. Under this folder, open the "System Setup" folder, and select the
   System icon under this folder. The logo display time value can be changed
   via one of the notebook 'tabs'.

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CREDITS

   _Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice_, Foley, van Dam, Feiner, and
   Hughes, Second Edition, 1990, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-12110-7.

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HISTORY

   Version 1.00  September 11, 1992

      First full-function release.
      Released to the world via the IBM Employee Written Software program.

   Version 1.01  July 22, 1993

      Program was not saving options correctly under OS/2 2.1, causing multiple
         unrelated program errors at subsequent startups.
      Program options are now saved to COLORPT.INI, and not to OS2.INI.
      Released to the world via the IBM Employee Written Software program.

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