HelioDragon V1.1
March 10, 2002
Earle F. Philhower, III
earle@ziplabel.com
http://www.ziplabel.com/helio

HelioDragon lets you play Mah Jongg Solitaire, dragon style, on your Helio.
It has undo and redo options, as well as a hint feature.  Best of all, you
can make your own tile sets in any image editor under Windows.

New in V1.1:
. Little celebration when you win (very little, but better than nothing)
. Less confusing hints, lets you know when you're out of moves
. Timer keeps track of total time played
. Minor tweak to 8 bamboo card, added inverted card set

Helio Installation:
** You must install BOTH DRAGON.APP and DRAGTILE.HDB file before running **
. Start helio desktop
. Right-click on the username to bring up popup menu
. Select "Install PDA Application"
. Select Add, then dragon.app
. Select Add, then change the "Files of Type" popup to "HDB Application Files",
  and select dragcard.hdb
. You can also add invtile.hdb via the method above for an inverted tile set
. Hit the hotsync button

Playing HelioDragon:
. The object is to remove all the tiles.
. A tile may be removed if it's not blocked (there are no tiles above it
  and at least one of the left or right sides is not touching another tile).
. Hit OK or use the menu to get a hint.
. Hit the Shuffle menu item to rearrange the tiles

Making Custom Tiles:
. Copy the file "dragtile.bmp" to a new file, and open it in any image
  editor (MS Paint and Photoshop work fine).
. Using only grayscale colors, draw anything you'd like inside the boxes,
  but be sure that you stay inside each tile and that you do not remove the
  lines between tiles
. Do not resize the image or tiles, they are fixed and cannot be changed.
. Save the image file and exit your image editor.
. From a command line in the directory you saved the file in, execute
     MAKEGRAY filename.bmp
  Replacing filename.bmp with the file you just saved.
. MAKEGRAY will make a filename.hdb file.  Install this file on your Helio
  via the desktop manager, or copy into your ACC directory, and hot sync.
. Run HelioDragon, and use the menu "Change Tiles" to select your new file

** If you make a good looking tile set, feel free to email me the BMP
   and HDB files for inclusion on my website and later releases **

Original Sources:
. A lot of this application came from an XPL0 application, MJ.XPL:
    \MJ.XPL FEB-16-01
    \Mah Jongg Solitaire Game by Loren Blaney
. I've never used XPL0 myself, but you can find out about it from:
           http://www.idcomm.com/personal/lorenblaney/

Have Fun!
earle@ziplabel.com
