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- SCDPlayer 1.2
- © 1994 Pascal Rullier
- GiftWare
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-
- Distribuality
- -------------
- SCDPlayer is Freely Distribuable, but is *NOT* Freeware. The package
- *MUST* be complete. No Commercial use must be done with written
- permission from his author (see COPYING).
- SCDPlayer is Copyrigth by Pascal Rullier.
-
-
- Why this stuff ?
- ----------------
-
- I have a CDROM drive, and I was tired to use big interfaces just for
- playing CD Audio. I found a shell tool called scsiutil, but the using it
- by command shell was very heavy. So a wednesday, I decided to make a
- GUI for it. It took me only 45 minutes for the GUI creation and the
- main loop. The main functions were here : Eject Stop Play, Track,
- Unit. SCDPlayer 1.0 was born. Very Small 9ko but a window in the
- workbench screen was always here. The next week-end, just a couple of
- days, I decided to make SCDPlayer as a commodity, with popup, exchange
- controls, tooltypes, all the commodities' stuffs. It was, for me, a
- exercice and a very good experience for programming. I look into
- sources of a screen blanker, made by my friend François Paulhiac for
- the handle. SCDPlayer 1.1 was born.
-
-
- Requirements
- ------------
- Only 2.0+ and 1.5Mo RAM (only when GUI is opened)
-
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- Copy SCDPlayer (by workbench) into sys:tools/commodities or into your
- sys:WBStartup
-
-
- Usage
- -----
-
- From the workbench or from the cli:
-
- Select the icon, and edit its information to set the tooltypes with
- your local configuration :
-
- DEVICE=name name of your device (default scsi.device)
-
- UNIT=number number of your CDROM unit (default 4)
-
- CX_POPUP=YES|NO You can choose if you want to popup the GUI at the
- launch (default YES)
-
- CX_PRIORITY=0 The task priority.
-
- CX_POPKEY=keys The keys to popup the GUI (default control alt s )
-
- PUBSCREEN=name The name of the public screen where SCDPlayer should
- appear. If it can't, it will be opened on the
- workbench screen. If the named public screen is opened
- later, the GUI tries, first, to be opened on it. The
- screen goes to front and the GUI is displayed.
-
- DONOTWAIT Only if you put SCDPlayer in the WBStartup drawer.
-
-
- STEP=number Step for the level in sliders when using keyboards
-
-
- VOLUME=number Set the volume when launching (0<=VOLUME<=255). If this
- parameter is not set, the volume is the hardware volume
-
- AUTOPLAY If set, a CD-DA will be played when it will be inserted.
-
-
- UPDATE=number Number for time update. if number <= 0, the update will be
- done permanently. If it is too big, the displayed time will
- be false.
-
-
- The GUI
- -------
-
- When it is diplayed, you can see 5 slider bars and 10 buttons.
- The track will play when the button will be released. Eject the CDROM disk,
- Stop it, or Play the current track displayed, TOC to see the table of
- contents, Jump to the nex public screen.
- If a CD is already playing, SCDPlayer sets the current track and displays
- the current time. It doesn't block the playing.
- (This advantage will be lost in the version 1.3 with the CD identification)
-
- You have 2 gadgets on the window : the Close hides the GUI but don't
- leave SCDPlayer. The Resize gadget changes the window into a window
- bar with the track and the time, the cyclic gadget allows to change the
- displayed time in the near gadget and in the window title.
- - Current (C:) time from the begin of the track.
- - Next in (N:) remaining time to the next.
- - Total (T:) Total time from the begining of the CD.
- - Total end in (E:) Remaining time up to the end of the CD.
-
-
- You have also a menu with 3 items: About shows my address for sending
- your gifts (it's not a command, you do what you want, but I like
- receive gifts such as CDROM Demo or your contribution *8)
-
- Hide (keyboard short-cut: Right Amiga H) Hides the GUI.
- Quit (Right Amiga Q) Exit SCDPlayer.
-
- If SCDPlayer is running, but hidden, the hotkey puts the public screen
- (if it exists) most front and displays the GUI, also if you try to
- launch another SCDPlayer, the first displays its GUI.
-
- If you prefer to use the keyboard, you have some useful keys :
-
- Right or Left arrow You change the current track without playing
- Up or Down arrow Change track with playing
-
- HELP Displays the info requester.
-
- In the second menu, ONLY Read TOC (Amiga Right R) has the same effect as
- the gadget TOC. In the third menu, Amiga O or Font...Topaz 8 changes the
- GUI font to topaz 8, very useful, if your screen-font is not proportional.
-
- The GUI is font adaptative.
-
- SCDPlayer detects itself:
- - the track change,
- - the max number of tracks of the CD.
-
- SCDPlayer displays a correct TOC.
- SCDPlayer supports 3.0 Menu Look.
- SCDPlayer is volume-sensitive (i.e. if another CD Tool changes the volumes,
- SCDPlayer auto-adjusts itself)
-
- The Sliders
- - In an horizontal way
- - L Left volume.
- - R Right volume.
- - Vol Global volume.
-
- - The vertical to the balance.
-
- All other menus, gadgets will be implemented in the 1.3 released (End of
- September - Exams First !^)
-
-
- The Future
- ----------
-
- SCDPlayer will edit the track list to do a CD library.
- SCDPlayer will have a CD catalog (compatible with others CDPlayers)
- SCDPlayer will be able to choose its police for the GUI.
- SCDPlayer will save its preferences into the icon.
- SCDPlayer will have a random playing.
- SCDPlayer will be localized.
-
- Known BUGS *8(
- --------------
- Some SCSI cards like oktagon have a long answer delay, it doesn't works
- very fine.
-
- Special Thanks
- --------------
- I would like to thanks
-
- Gary Duncan
- Philips PTS
- 23 Lakeside Dr
- Tally-Ho Technology Park
- Burwood East Vic 3151
- Australia
-
- EMail: gduncan@philips.oz.au
-
-
- The Software Brewery
- Dipl. Inform. (FH) Heiko Rath
- Raiffeisenstr.10a
- D-64331 Weiterstadt
- Germany
-
- EMail: hr@brewhr.swb.de
-
- Commodity Greetings to François Paulhiac.
- Icon Design Greetings to François Gastaldo.
-
- If you have some suggestions, gifts, a chip AMD33C93A (the chip controls
- SCSI Bus on an A3000), etc... please send me this to :
-
- Pascal Rullier
- 25b, rue du Prof Lande
- 33380 BIGANOS FRANCE
-
- Email : bugss@frbdx11.cribx1.u-bordeaux.fr (always)
- Fidonet: Pascal Rullier 2:324/8.3 (always)
-
- Don't forget to support authors : Gary Duncan, Heiko Rath.
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