Visual Basic
Visual Basic - reviled slightly less than the <blink> tag.
I can live with that.
Download some applications (source included). Learn, laugh, cry.
Rainbow Text v1.0
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Rainbow Text creates the html code and a color preview of rainbow colored text.
The main function of the program is a function called HSBtoLNG which takes a color in hue, saturation and brightness terms and returns a web-ready hex triplet. When the hue is incremented in small steps a rainbow effect is produced.
One can create many nifty variations with the main function. Try varying the saturation or the brightness instead of the hue, or all of them at the same time.
SineWave Text v1.0
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SineWave Text is a program that produces HTML for colored text.
This program works by drawing three sine waves (representing the red, blue, and green components of a color) with user-variable amplitude, frequency, and phase shifts. Then the program iterates through 360 degrees taking the value of each wave at each degree and merging them to form a color value.
Credit goes to this site http://www.mu.org/~doug/blend/index.html for introducing me to the idea of producing gradients from sine and other shaped waves.
Filter Spy
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Filter Spy allows one to quickly view the important bits of all 56K 8bf files in a specified directory and its sub directories. What are 56K 8bf files you ask? They are filters used in graphic applications such as Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop. This app only reads the older 56K type, but with a little effort and a nifty freeware hex editor, it could be expanded to work with the newer 48K filters.
txt2pad v 1.0
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txt2pad converts a Windows directory structure into a TreePad v 2.6.9c file.
TreePad is a small and compact IM (information manager) that can store and search text data. While you can import multiple files into TreePad, the files must be in the same directory. txt2pad allows you to choose an initial directory and then it will build a TreePad file containing all files found in that directory and all of its subdirectories. Additionally, you can choose which file types txt2pad should include in the output TreePad file.
Edit Plus Text Filters
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EditPlus is a great shareware text editor. It can be customized for many programming languages and you can extend it's capabilities with user created "User Tools". Text Filters are a certain type of user tool that read input from stdin and write it to the stdout. This download contains the core module used to create a Text Filter user tool in Visual Basic. It also includes a sample filter that can number 20000 lines in 3 seconds and prompts the user for the width of the number field.
