JW> -> Which of the thousands of decks are you planning on using?

JW> The Crowley deck...

Hmmm... wonder if they're on the Web somewhere...

JW> The 11 card Celtic cross for the reading...
JW> The "Tree of life" in explanatory modules...
JW> The explanations devolve on the adjoining sepheroth.

What, all at the same time??? Maybe I'll just concentate on "Select the
card and draw it on the screen here--> ."

JW> -> Do you want the cards to overlap (C cross) and be reversible?
JW> ->
JW> I don't use want or need reversals...(There's always yin in that yang :-)

So, no "2 of cups reversed" meaning something different than upright.
I guess there's no need for a routine to flip the card's display, then?

JW> And (to the question) No, Each card I want to display...with rolling
JW> text to the side or underneith...

In a cross layout with the current card highlighted, or the cards in
a row beside each other, or one card per screen, or a small permanent
cross layout with a flashing box around the current card and a big
picture of the actual card below it, or.......?

JW> -> After I found out I could make PaintShop convert 16-color GIFs (screen
JW> -> caps of the whole deck from MS Solitaire) into a sorta human-readable
JW> -> format (Adobe's Encapsulated PostScript), I scribbled a couple of QB
JW> -> progs to quickly convert the resulting files into that
"easy-use" format
JW> -> I mentioned earlier. That was AFTER I wrote an editor where I could
JW> -> manually draw and save a card.
JW> ->
JW> Holy cow. I AM impressed.

It's what I seem to do best. Way back in high-school ('76ish), I sorta
co-wrote a game program with another guy, he was figuring out all the
logic that just made my brain hurt, and I made the printout look nice.
(No monitors then, just card readers and lots-o-paper).

JW> (And about a thousand miles behind...
JW> I'm still enmired in writing the text (that appears slooowly :-)

O....... h...... ,..... r..... e...... a..... l...... l..... y...... ?

JW> And you are the first knowledgable person I've communicated with
JW> 'bout the cards...

Just an offshoot from other things. I first found those 32x32 icons
in a DOS graphical menu system, and wondered if I could write a similar
program in Qbasic. Once I figured out how to read the icon files and
display/edit them, it was a natural step to the bigger pics you want
to use, so I took a little tour around the Web to see what's what, and
what you might be dealing :) with.

JW> I'll look into Paintshop...(gotta learn about scanners...
JW> got one? Have a preference?)

Let's see, in order... Have fun, me too, nope, dunno.

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