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Bview    1.10    IFF Viewer with extensive GUI (ECS/AGA)

Bview 1.10 IFF ILBM viewer with GUI for all functions
for kickstart 37.175 and higher ECS & AGA support.
copyright 1992-1994 by Joeri Alberty.

> Features of Bview <

 - Gadget Intuition interface (gadtools.library) for every function.
 - Easy change Viewmodes with a click of your mouse
 - Easy scale your bitmap to fit on screen.
 - Print a picture with adjustment of printer settings
 - Save a picture in IFF ILBM , Scr , Raw on disk
 - View the IFF ILBM -> BMHD CAMG etc ...
 - Save your environment of Bview to ENV: etc ...
 - Save information about picture to disk or printer. (MakeText
 - Make a Slide show by pressing a button..
 - Use Double buffered mode (load one pic & view the other.

----->  Improvements from 1.02 to 1.05

- HAM KEY USING message fixed.
- Save problem with 256 colors fixed.

- Scaling routines can now enlarge a picture if it is a brush etc...
  (Use Fit & Scale (Aspect & Scale) in Change mode menu and press Render)

- Ilbm to source generates now colortables for
  LoadRGB4(),LoadRGB32(),SetRGB32().

- You can now use an AppIcon Set 'PRO_START=2' in Tooltypes (Bview icon)
  ('PRO_START=0'

- load and display, 'PRO_START=1' make Bview an Commodity)

- Compiled with SAS C/C++ 6.51 with optimiser ... (__inline)

----->  Improvements from 1.06 to 1.10

- Information & Option menu's rewritten 
  Now you can use DBmode ,promoted mode etc..

- Loader & saver rewritten to improve speed.

- BIG problem fixed with some pointers of the IFFparse library
  Now you don't loose your colors anymore.

- More stable than 1.06 by rewriting the process routines.
  Now you have a viewer,GUI with a loader and not the other way around.

- SHELL support improved.
  Now you can use #? & / for loading directories & wildcards.
  see guide for more information & examples.
  Gives you information when something did go wrong

- Other smaller improvements in the code ...

- Changed save routine of ENV: so it doesn't crash anymore.

- You can load mangled pictures & display them partly.

Author: Joeri Alberty
Path: gfx/Bview-1.10.lha