COLLECTOR v3.5
by Frederic Calendini.WB3.0
(Creation-ware just sent a disk of your work).
I recently found a very good image cataloguing programme called 'COLLECTOR' on AFCD27:Seriously_Amiga/Shareware/Graphics/Collector33 it is best to drag the whole Collector33 draw on to your hard drive as this programme expects to see the 'LIBS' draw in the parent directory. (As if the draw was on the boot drive).
On running the software you are presented with a screen of black boxes,
first you should set the (PDM)'SETTINGS' e.g. size of thumbnail, number of
colours this is important to get right at an early stage. The indexes that
are produce must be of the same type. e.g. all grey scale or all 256 colour.
I have set mine to 256 colours and a thumb-nail of 96*96
Next setup the picture viewer by (PDM)'PICTURES'-'DEFINE ACTIONS'.in the box
put #?= PPSHOW "%S" this will allow PPSHOW to display the pictures.
note. Put the PPshow programme in your "c" directory.
Start by 'THUMBNAILS'-'Add' a requester enables you to select the picture(s)
to be indexed, choosing the path and either select a picture or select 'ALL'
from the requester.
The indexing is slow especially JPEG's a progress bar shows this and a message
is displayed if a picture cannot be indexed. e.g. Cannot convert a greyscale
picture to colour index.
Once completed the index can be saved anywhere e.g. in a index draw or with
the pictures.You can view the whole picture by double clicking on the thumbnail
providing you have set up the viewer correctly.by double clicking on the title
of the picture you can display information about it and its location you can
also update index if more pictures are added to the drawer.
A good package and its all but free. R.A.B.
This program is an absolute must for a A1200 using a single scan monitor like
the Commodore 1084 ,the Philips 8833 monitor or a television.
This software is a interlace flickerfixer for workbench only and is limited
to 16 screen colours.
So you are able to run a flicker free Workbench at :-
A proportional high-resolution 640 by 512 with 16 colours
or Super high-resolution 1280 by 512 if your MAD.
It also is able to boost the HighGFX lace modes on multiscan Monitors such as 800 X 600 mode.
Please Note if you use this software on a TV make sure you can still read text without eye strain by using a suitable font.
Impressive Programme that really works, saves buying a flash monitor.
May be found on CUCD No19 in Readers contributions, and is CHOCOLATEware.
Please note.
Had a problem with a 16 colour animation crashing the system when using
MagicTV2 it was being played by ViewTech (VT) via a 'Project' icon it was
solved by using PPshow instead.
(Shareware 5DM or 5000 Lire)
Uses MUI for prefs Programme and can be found on CUCD 21 in Utilities
This multi-featured programme adds two gadgets to the window's title bar the
first toggles between 'SHOW ALL FILES / FILES WITH ICONS' and the second
toggles between view as 'ICON / NAME'.
Other features include :-
1.Auto-closing parent window when you open a new drawer.
(stops screen becoming cluttered with windows)
2.Can close all windows with one key (User definable).
3.Can close windows one at a time in order by key (User definable).
Please note the cursor keys can also be used to scroll windows but the documentation tells of bugs in this feature so it may be best to turn this part off in the preferences, don't let this put you off this this a very useful utility, also remember it takes a little time to change a window from a NAME listing to ICONS but very fast vice versa.
A great programme if you like using the good old Workbench.