Banner accepts a text message and scrolls it in huge letters across the PalmOS screen. While the message is scrolling, press the up or down hardware buttons to interrupt. It takes up around 64K of RAM, most of this is the compressed font data; the actual code size, both the UI code and the font drawing code, is very small and simple.
Version 0.2 is now available, with many of the features most requested by users of 0.1. Several users have reported interesting and unusual things they use Banner for; if you have one, I’d love to hear from you.
Change Log
0.1 2-Sep-2001
FIRST RELEASE
0.2 26-Sep-2001
bugfix: incorrect handling of non-ASCII chars at end of string caused fatal exception;
bugfix: international characters did not display;
completely reorganised GUI and increased message field screen size;
added menus for cut/copy/paste/about;
added repeat/continuous/looping option;
added start delay;
added optional beep after each message loop (since screen is usually not visible to holder)
Building
The font included in the PRC file in this distribution (“Fairfax Station”) is copyright (C) 1997-2001 Nick Curtis http://www.nicksfonts.com, and is used with permission. This font is not licensed under the GPL, and is not included in the source distribution. To build this program yourself, you must find your own font and use the supplied Perl scripts to generate the “bannerfont.rcp” file. If you do this, you must seek the permission of the font copyright owner before distributing your build.
Banner is released under the Gnu General Public License. You must read the file license.txt (supplied in both download files below) before using this software.