the software and clip art downloadable on this page are freely offered gratis, with no responsibility claimed or recompense required. permission has been requested from copyrighted work. i retain all copyrights to all other work on this site.

Download the mediaRef Macro	I wanted to have Frontier handle my ShockWave Flash (.swf) files like it does for GIFs and JPEGs. Well, I hacked imageRef, and came up with mediaRef. This takes a bit of preparation, partly in anticipation of the day when mediaRef can handle all sorts of multimedia files other than ShockWave Flash files. First of all, the macro works a lot like imageRef, except that instead of looking for a table called mages, it looks for a table called media, where all the .swf files are stored. The Flash files can be loaded using the WEB>Load Image File... dialog, but before that, it is important to prepare the Flash files first. Unfortunately, at least on my system, when FreeHand creates a Flash file, it is assigned a Type code of TEXT. That means that Frontier thinks that the file is a text file, and has a difficulty loading it as a binary form. So, it is a simple matter to use Frontier to batch change all the Flash files to a type code of ShWF (this is case-sensitive!). After that, you should be able to load the file as usual. Usage of mediaRef is: mediaRef ("imagespec",height:"XX", width:"YY") imagespec is the name of the Flash file stored in the media subtable. Width and Height are specified in pixels; since Flash files are vector based, you can scale to any dimensions without losing fidelity.
Download the vDynBar Macro	If you wonder how I did the little dynamic navigation bar on this site, this is the magic Macro that did it. Basically, it is a rough modification of the GlossSub macro, but it does the job, making an infinitely expandable dynamic navigation bar. If the name doesn't match that of the page, it implements a link. If it does, well, it just makes it bigger, changes the background, and drops the hot link. simple. Use in a table context.
Download the ShowDate Macro	A new addition to my website: I was encouraged by people in the Frontier-webmaster mailing list, and I am making available a macro I created called ShowDate. To use it, just add ShowDate () to your web page, and it returns the current date of the form 6 January 1998; this is mostly of use to people who prefer the European date notation over the American one built into Frontier.
Vector PICT of a rearing Cowboy	While I was working on the designs in "Graphic Inspirations", I had to trace the original Frontier cowboy logo from a bitmapped GIF to a vector based format, which lends itself to more flexible manipulations. I used a combination of FutureWave SmartSketch and "Macromedia" FreeHand v 5.5 to achieve. Since I put in the work, I was loathe to see it go to waste, so, with "Dave Winer"'s full permission, I am offering the vector format file to the rest of the Frontier user world. You can download it from here as a PICT file, and if there are requests, I can also generate an EPS or offer the FreeHand native file. I wanted to make it as a Flash 2 file, but I don't own Flash yet, and cannot afford it. I hope you find it useful.

This page is found at http://www.io.com/~pantheon/frontierBoard/downloads.html.