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Kodak S-RA2500 Manual

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KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System
For information programs
running under PC-DOS
Version 1.0
(C) Copyright
Kodak Limited, 1987
Contents
A-1
A-2
A-3
A-4
A-5
A-5.1
A-5.1.1
Install equipment 8 A-5.1.2Assign projectors 9
A-5.2
A-5.2.1
Frame Editor 10
A-5.2.2
Screen Editor 18
A-5.3
Execute 20
A-5.3.1
Run source program 21
A-5.3.2
Run compiled program21
A-5.4
Disk 22
A-5.5
Exit 23
A-6
What the user system is used for23
A-7
User system operating procedure24
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System For information programs running under PC-DOS Version 1.0 (C) Copyright Kodak Limited, 1987 Contents What the S-RA2500 Editing System is used for Connecting the hardware 4 Starting the Editing System 5 Main menu 7 Submenus 8 A-5.1 Setup 8 A-5.1.1...
  • Page 2 A-7.1 Producing a user diskette 25 A-7.2 Specifying a pathname for SCREENS 26 A-7.3 Self-start 27 First lesson 28 B-1.1 Starting is easy 28 B-1.2 Getting to know each other 30 B-1.3 One step at a time 34 B-1.4 Making an attractive impression 41 B.1.5 Screen text 43B-2Second lesson 48 B-2.1...
  • Page 3 How to use this Manual Because we understand the misgivings which many software users have about bulky manuals, we created this software package as a product whose design makes it almost unnecessary to refer to a manual. Nevertheless, we feel that initial reference to this Manual when first using the program will allow users to discover the many capabilities of this powerful software product more quickly.

  • Page 4: What The S-Ra2500 Editing System Is Used For

    If one of the usual programming languages has to be used, the task is generally expensive and time-consuming. The solution to this problem is the S-RA2500 Editing System, a computer program for creating information programs and a tool which will enable you to combine the power of the computer and the visual qualities of slide projection in order to get your information over to the required audience in an effective form without having to learn a programming language.
  • Page 5 Depending on the recipient’s response, individual slides or complete sequences of slides are then projected or new blocks of text are displayed on the screen. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 3 In keeping with this overall scheme, an interactive information program has the following...

  • Page 6: Connecting The Hardware

    A-3 Starting the Editing System Before using the KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System, it is advisable to use the COPY function of your computer to produce a backup copy of the system diskette. Use this backup copy of the system diskette for working purposes and keep the original dis- kette in a safe place so that it is always available to provide a replacement if the system diskette becomes unusable.

  • Page 7: Main Menu

    A hard disk is ideal. You can change the working diskette or change over to a different working drive at any time. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 6 KODAK S-RA2500 projectors...

  • Page 8: Submenus

    EQUIPMENT -Number of projectors us (1 to 16) -Selection of serial interface to be used to control KODAK S-RA2500 projectors (COM1/ COM2). -Selection of serial interface to be used to control a selectable cassette recorder (not available in version 1.0).

  • Page 9: Editor

    Pressing the ESC key leaves this submenu and causes the program to accept the values which were entered. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 9 A-5.1.2 ASSIGN PROJECTORS The Editing program automatically assigns the designations A to P in ascending order to the projectors used depending on the number of projectors defined in the INSTALL menu.
  • Page 10 23 to 11 frames which can be simultaneously viewed at a glance. Naturally, it is possible to change over between these forms of display at any time. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 11 Editor instructions The FRAME EDITOR is interactive and menu-driven;...
  • Page 11 <Ins>Insert character KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 12 The <ENTER> key is used to terminate the entry or amendment of a frame and store the rel- evant frame. The effects of the instruction on the state of the hardware is simultaneously apparent in the projector display (if the latter has been enabled).
  • Page 12 SLIDE <adrNN>: select stated slide location - apertures (slide lifter) open automatically. SELECT <adrNN>: select stated slide location - apertures (slide lifter) remain closed. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 14 OPEN <adr>: closed apertures open as soon as addressed projectors are ready.
  • Page 13 SHOW <name>: one block of text identified by name (8 characters) is displayed on the screen. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 15 BLOW <name>: one block of text identified by name is revealed from a vertical centre-line on the screen.
  • Page 14 If <value> equals zero, the counter specified in <n> is reset to zero. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 17 STORE: the instantaneous count in all 32 counters is stored in an ASCII text file under the name COUNTER.DAT.
  • Page 15 FRAME. Any syntax errors are audibly signalled and the relevant incorrect item flashes. Pressing help function key F1 provides further details concerning the nature of the error. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 18 A-5.2.2 SCREEN EDITOR The blocks of text used in the program (SCREENS) are prepared using this Editor which is essentially a screen page text editor which has a few additional special functions.
  • Page 16 SCREENS to be used as a data entry mask in conjunction with the RESPONSE instruction described earlier. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 20 Input fields Input fields are marked by the character sequence .. The location and length of this character string defines the field in which the cursor appears during a data entry procedure.
  • Page 17 (RUN SOURCE PROGRAM) or pro rams which have been compiled and saved to diskette (RUN COMPILED PROGRAM) unde real-time onditions. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manu Page: 21 A-5.3.1 RUN SOURCE PROGRAM The RUN SEQUENCE function in the Frame Editor only executes one program sequence - branch instructions are not executed, they interrupt the running of the program.
  • Page 18 (up to 8 characters) can be entered and terminated by pressing the ENTER key. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 23 If any function key (except <F1> = help) is pressed at this level, a further window appears; this contains a selective directory for the active floppy disk drive.
  • Page 19 A-6 What the user system is used for The end product of all programming activities carried out using the KODAK S-RA 2500 Editing System is an application program which, after completion, is stored on diskette in compiled form so that it can be used by the program .cp255 KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 24...
  • Page 20 If provision is to be made to abort the program, the program can be started using the RUN <name> BREAK option. In this case the program can be interrupted by pressing <F6>. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 26 A-7.2 Specifying a pathname for SCREENS...
  • Page 21 Treat this Part of the Manual as a kind of „learning game“, which, if you join in, will very quickly teach you how the KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System works. In this case, „join in“ means reading first and then doing.
  • Page 22 KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 30 Try enabling various functions by using the appropriate cursor keys to move the menu pointer to the right or left.

  • Page 23: B-1.2 Getting To Know Each Other

    KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 31 The first thing to do is to let the Editing System know the hardware environment with which it is dealing.
  • Page 24 If you select this item, the projector display appears on the screen. This is a window in which you can monitor how the projectors respond to your instructions while you are working with the Frame Editor. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 33 This window displays a small brightly bordered square containing A->a. This means: The connected projector is addressed by the name „A“...

  • Page 25: B-1.3 One Step At A Time

    The symbol representing the projector immediately moves to the new location. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 34 Pressing the ESC key takes you back to the SETUP menu and pressing ESC again takes you back to the main menu.
  • Page 26 - and this line is overbright. The part of your program which comes just before and just after the frame which has been processed always remains visible. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 36 You’re probably looking for the symbol for the projector which you spent so much time defin- ing in the SETUP function.
  • Page 27 The SLIDE instruction is used to show slides and waiting times are obtained by using WAIT. All this takes place on projector A, the only projector in the system. Enter the follow KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page SLID...
  • Page 28 The state of affairs is now as follows: The S-RA2500 provides the facility of selecting a slide without immediately projecting it. The slide remains in the magazine and the slide lifter „stands at the ready“, i.e. it waits for an in- struction to lower the slide into the slide gate.

  • Page 29: B-1.4 Making An Attractive Impression

    HOME key to go to the beginning of the program and press F5 to run it..cp255 KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 41 When the program is running you should pay special attention to program steps 8 to 12 in order to observe the special features of the SELECT, OPEN and CLOSE instructions described in the paragraph on the previous page.
  • Page 30 KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 42 If the flashing time is subtracted from the original waiting time (5 s), this gives a residual waiting time of 4 s. Let us assume that the intention is to initially show the slide continuously for 4 s and then for it to flash for 1 s.
  • Page 31 FRAME editor because what you would see would be no different from what you saw before. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 44 Blocks of text (SCREENS) are only shown in „real-time mode“ - to display text you must go to...
  • Page 32 This enables you to reduce or increase the size of the box as you require. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 45 The next time the <Ins> key is pressed this undoes the anchoring of the box and the entire box can be moved around the screen by using the cursor keys.
  • Page 33 In order to display the newly prepared block of text, which we will assume you have called „MYTEXT“, in your program you must once again expand the program: KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 47 LIGHT A SLIDE A1...

  • Page 34: B-2.1 Structural Characteristics

    The picture frequency can be faster than 0.1 s and you can program special-effect-like anima- tion sequences. The program example supplied demonstrates the use of this special effect. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 48 B-2 Second lesson As you might expect, the second lesson is somewhat more difficult but it is also more interest- ing.
  • Page 35 Subroutine A Fig. B-4: Structure of branched prog a m s KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page B-2.2 Each to his As usual, our statement of the problem is very simple: we wish to show three blocks of text...
  • Page 36 If you wish to allow the user a specific time to press a key you can achieve thi by placing a WAIT instruction before the keyboard status poll as shown in the following exam l e : KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page WAIT 10 ; 10 s waiting time KEY 1 SHOW1 ;...

  • Page 37: B-2.3 The Alternative

    RESPONSE instruction interrupts the program for as long as it takes the user to key in his input and terminate it by pressing the ENTER key (ENTER must be pressed). KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 53 Nevertheless, it is possible to ensure that a program will resume after a certain time rather than wait for user input for ever and ever.
  • Page 38 The response time is set to 20 seconds. A block of text containing a question is then shown on the screen. The word „KODAK“ is the correct answer to the question. In the block of text, the chara ter string @@@@@ is used to mark a field for the answer entered by the user (there are 5 letter...
  • Page 39 C-1 Programming techniques The following Part of the Manual is intended to give a selected example to illustrate how the more complex capabilities of the KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System can be used in order to enhance the performance of your information programs.
  • Page 40 WAIT 3.5; ... SLIDE A80; ... WAIT 3.5; ... DARK B; AND SWITCH OFF LAMP OF PROJECTOR B.cp255 KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 58 SHOW SELECT; SHOW BLOCK OF TEXT FOR SELECT INSTRUCTION WAIT 2.5; SHORT PAUSE SELECT A10;...
  • Page 41 WAIT 2; ... BACK A; ... WAIT 2; ... SHOW DARK; SHOW BLOCK OF TEXT FOR DARK INSTRUCTION KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 59 WAIT 2.5; SHORT PAUSE DARK A; DEMONSTRATE DARK INSTRUCTION WAIT 2; ... SHOW LIGHT;...
  • Page 42 20; ALLOW 20 s FOR USER RESPONSE J CONTINUE; CONTINUE IN CASE OF KEY „J“ ? START; TERMINATE PROGRAM IN CASE OF ANY OTHER KEY KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 61 LABEL CONTINUE; CONTINUE IF KEYPRESS IS PRESENT SHOW PR11;...
  • Page 43 SHOW ANIMATE3 SHOW ANIMATE4 SHOW ANIMATE5 SHOW ANIMATE4 KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 62 SHOW ANIMATE3 SHOW ANIMATE2 REPEAT 10 ; AND REPEAT 10 TIMES SHOW LOOP1 ; AND SHOW ANOTHER BLOCK OF TEXT FOR LOOP WAIT 3 ;...
  • Page 44 LABEL NO THANKS ; TO DESTINATION „NO THANKS“ SHOW IDENT ; SHOW BLOCK OF TEXT FOR IDENT INSTRUCTION IDENT TEXT ; FETCH USER INPUT AND STORE KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 63 SHOW COUNT ; SHOW BLOCK OF TEXT FOR COUNT INSTRUCTION WAIT 7 ;...
  • Page 45 A must be switched on at this point and that slide No. 23 is shown. The system therefore initially sets the hardware accordingly. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 65 The instructions following LABEL SECOND are then executed. In this case the lamp of projector A must be switched off again and slide No.
  • Page 46 45 without the necessity for a setting instruction. And that’s what was intended in the first place, isn’t it? KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 66 C-1.3.2 Branch instructions in program loops Branching in a LOOP REPEAT structure is not meaningful. The instructions KEY, RE- SPONSE and JUMP are therefore ignored when a LOOP REPEAT structure is in progress.
  • Page 47 KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 67 C-1.3.3 Avoiding unnecessary setting instructions If you write branched programs in which some of the subroutines only show blocks of text, the fact that the projectors are set to the appropriate magazine position each time the subroutine is called even though it does not use the projectors, can sometimes be a nuisance.
  • Page 48 Backward step - aperture function same as STEP - slide 80 follows 0. LIGHT <adr> Example: LIGHT A Switch on lamp(s) regardless of aperture..cp255 KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 69 DARK <adr> Example: DARK A Switch off lamp(s) regardless of aperture.

  • Page 49: D-1.3 Logic Instructions

    The content of POOL and COUNT is deleted. DOCUMENT Example: DOCUMENT The content of POOL is output on the printer.cp255 KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 71 D-1.3 Logic instructions WAIT <t> Example: WAIT 5.55 Delays the next program step by a time interval which can be selected in 0.01 s steps.
  • Page 50 A special TO address <name2> can be assigned to each user input defined in <name1>. The program continues from <name2> if the answer is the same as <name1>. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 72 Two keywords which can be assigned special functions are reserved for <name1>: TIMEOUT: if the user’s answer is not received within the time defined in the TIMEOUT...
  • Page 51 Thus the counts which were valid just before the computer was switched off are automatically set. KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 74 D-1.4 Auxiliary instructions On <adr> Example: ON A-C E...
  • Page 52 [Ctrl]+[<-] Go to previous word [PgDn] Go to next LABEL [PgUp] Go to previous LABEL [Del]Delete character [Ins]Insert blank character KODAK S-RA2500 Editing System 1.0 User Manual Page: 76 D-3 SCREEN Editor function keys D-3.1 Global functions [F1] Help/information [F2] Box mode/text mode changeover...

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