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- Short: RTG datatype picture viewer
- Author: bifat / TEK neoscientists
- Type: gfx/show
- Version: v1.00
- Requires: os3.0 (v39), MC68020
-
-
- RTG datatype picture viewer - dark green release
-
-
- features
- --------------------------------------
-
- - independent from display hardware:
- displays every picture on any screen mode, resolution and
- color depth, including hicolor, truecolor and HAM.
-
- - scaling and aspects:
- automatically scales images to the window's dimensions, with
- respect to the aspect ratios of both the screen and the
- picture.
-
- - display quality:
- features highly elaborated color quantization and rendering.
- automatically uses dithering when needed. note: dithered HAM8
- easily outperforms the display quality of hicolor.
-
- - user friendly:
- has a nice button bar, features intelligent selection of
- screenmodes, displaymodes, windowsizes and -positions, won't
- annoy you with changing screens and windows.
-
- - integrated:
- MysticView is a commodity, and it's fully integrated to your
- workbench. simply drag'n'drop pictures, directories,
- configurations and lists to its window or appicon, or launch
- configurations and lists with a double-click.
-
- - list management:
- MysticView has got a few, but yet powerful functions to
- manage picture lists.
-
- - asynchronous and modular:
- uses massive internal multitasking for loading, rendering,
- scanning, interaction, etc. get the full benefit from the
- best 68k and PPC datatypes around.
-
- - picture caching:
- uses intelligent picture preloading and caching. watch entire
- slideshows from memory.
-
- - highly configurable:
- has got innumerous configuration details to suit your personal
- taste.
-
-
-
- requirements
- --------------------------------------
-
- minimum:
-
- - 68020
- - os3.0 (v39)
- - datatypes.library v39
-
- minimum recommended:
-
- - 68040/25
- - 16mb fast memory
- - datatypes.library v43
-
- supported:
-
- - os3.1 (v40)
- - higher processors
- - cybergraphics, picasso96
- - newicon.library v40
-
-
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- installation notes
- ---------------------------------------
-
- - please use the installer. it will corrupt your
- system beyond repair. :-)
-
- - MysticView is meant to be a stand-alone utility,
- without setting up assigns and stuff, and it's
- recommended to be installed in SYS:Utilities/ or
- any other path that is looked up by the Workbench.
- this has many advantages for workbench integration,
- as you can start MysticView by double-clicking
- preset or listfile icons without further
- configuration.
-
- - this is a major update. please do not use your old
- configuration - it's recommended to freshly install
- MysticView and re-configure it step by step. nothing
- serious will happen if you don't, but some tooltypes
- are interpreted differently, the new default config
- reflects many useful changes, and it's designed for
- best usability. you will get rid of many obsolete
- tooltypes, too.
-
- - the installer may prompt you to choose a default
- configuration that fits to your system. don't
- worry, there is nothing that can go wrong with
- different configurations.
-
-
-
- news
- --------------------------------------
-
- - major parts have been rewritten from the scratch
- - GUI buttons
- - more efficient loading and memory management
- - faster
- - simplified usage
- - better multitasking
- - better reaction to user input
- - improved list handling
- - multi-preloading and picture caching
- - append pictures to another running instance
- - many bugs and quirks removed
- - improved documentation
- - lots of new features
- - shareware-limitations removed
-
-
-
- recent changes
- ---------------------------------------
-
- since 0.99f
-
-
- * 1.00
- - version number bumped
-
- 0.99h
- - v1.00 feature freeze.
- - menus are being restructured.
- - fixed a bug in the buffer size calculations which caused
- the background loader to run amok sometimes.
- - mysticview and all its libraries are now using v39 exec
- memory pools again.
- - improved the install script and supplied some configs.
- - neuralnet.library wasn't installed with earlier versions.
- fixed.
- - documentation updated and improved
- - an auto filerequester was opened even with filenames
- passed in the commandline. fixed.
- - added PICFORMAT setting. it allows to specify a format
- string for the picture info display. currently defined
- are %p - pathname, %f - filename, %w - width, %h - height,
- %d - depth. default "%f - %w×%h×%d".
- - fixed APPEND option.
- - MysticView and all libraries have been recompiled with
- higher optimization levels
- - added a lot of DirectoryOpus configuration hints and
- examples
- - when a loaded presetfile contained a new SORTMODE,
- MysticView did not immediately resort the list. fixed.
- - added a slightly updated version of MystiCube to the
- distribution
- - increased neural network training threshold
-
- 0.99g
- - fixed a bug in guigfx.library which caused MysticView
- to crash at exit, when the standard C= picture and ILBM
- datatypes were used for loading HAM pictures. thanks to
- Hexaae for the bug reports and debugging assistance.
- - the background loader has been rewritten from the
- scratch. the new loader is faster, and memory management
- is more efficient.
- - preloading (and caching) of multiple pictures is now
- supported. provided you have enough memory, MysticView
- can keep entire slideshows buffered in memory. Mysticview
- now reacts much better to skipping back and forwards in a
- picture list.
- this redesign also fixes a major bug (enforcer hits
- and crashes, when pictures were deleted from the
- list) and some minor problems.
- - added menu item "Scan Asynchronously" (corresponding
- tooltype is ASYNCSCANNING). the behavior of the background
- scanner is no longer dependent from the sortmode.
- - MysticView's multitasking is much nicer towards other
- applications now. all time-consuming jobs are running
- at the same priority. the default is 0 (if started from
- the workbench), or the same as of the shell process
- that launched MysticView. the PRIORITY setting has been
- removed. MysticView now works very comortable at high
- system load.
- - added GUI buttons for open, previous, next, slideshow,
- looping, etc. tooltype: SHOWBUTTONS. enabled by default.
- you may also use a set of your own buttons via the
- BUTTONPIC tooltype. a tiny animation of MysticView's
- logo has been included, too. the respective tooltype
- is ANIMPIC.
- - MysticView now offers to change the filename for already
- existing pictures that are to be copied or moved.
- - copying, moving and deleting do no longer work
- asynchronously. MysticView now waits for these operations
- to complete.
- - added sort criteria filesize, filedate, combined
- path+filename, and a reverse-sort option.
- - the picture-info textline contains more useful
- information, and it updates while scanning and loading.
- - added self-starting feature, as known from many text
- editors. if another MysticView is running, the commandline
- option APPEND passes specified pictures/paths/patterns
- to that instance. if no other MysticView is found, a new
- instance will be started.
- - shareware-nagging has been removed.
- - added menu item "Add Pictures..." to the current
- filelist.
- - added menu item "Add from List..." to the current
- filelist.
- - static-palette rendering gives better results
- (guigfx.library v15.2)
- - filerequester simplified: the default filename is now
- set to "#?", so committing "Okay" without selecting
- any files will include the entire directory's contents.
- - Added "First" function for skipping back to the
- first picture in a list. Skipping back stops a slideshow.
- - fixed a long-standing bug in mysticview.library that
- caused pictures to be rendered incompletely in slideshows.
- - the SLIDEDELAY tooltype setting is now measured in
- 1:10th of seconds, no longer in seconds.
- - added PIP feature. (in this context it has nothing to
- do with graphics card hardware). it's experimental -
- do not use it, it doesn't work very well together with
- opaque window sizing, thanks to these #?%&@! layer
- cliprects.
- - the neural network which tries to predict the user's
- desired displaymode has changed. it has got more brains
- now, and it differentiates more picture parameters,
- but it also requires more training. the network is now
- also recalled during window-resizing, thus MysticView
- may immediately switch the displaymode. this makes the AI
- feature a bit more transparent to the user, but also a
- bit more nasty. simply let the menu item 'Options/Learn'
- disabled if you think it's too confusing. recommended
- reading: configuration/AUTODISPLAYMODE
- - MysticView's commandline arguments are now sorted
- alphabetically. this might interfere with any particularly
- useful order, but at least you've got the chance to find
- something.
- - MysticView will never trash its window borders again, and
- this ugly window-border-refresh-maintenance-signalling-task
- is no longer needed and has been removed.
- - added SHOWARROW option. when enabled, MysticView draws
- small arrows at a picture's borders when it is not
- fully visible. enabled by default.
- - usability via keyboard has been improved. the space bar
- is now used for 'one-hand' control of slideshows, which
- is 'handy' for wanking over porn slides, for example. most
- important functions are now available on the numeric
- keypad.
- - changed qualifiers for scrolling via keyboard. CTRL scrolls
- by 100%, SHIFT by 10%, no qualifier scrolls by 1% per stroke.
- - "Reset Display Settings" now reacts instantly, not only
- when a new picture is getting displayed
- - MysticView now instantly reacts to changes of the sort mode
- and sorts the picture list while scanning/loading/viewing.
- - the option KEEPIMAGE (i.e. keep the current image while
- another one is being loaded) is obsolete and has been
- removed.
- - MysticView now correctly displays loading errors, and
- automatically retries loading after flushing the cache
- when the reason for failure was a lack of memory.
- - new default background color.
- - HAM artifacts have been reduced to an absolute minimum
- (mysticview.library v4).
- - added menu item "Remove". as the name suggests,
- this function simply removes a picture from a list
- (without deleting or moving)
- - added menu item "Save List as..." for saving the current
- list of pictures as a listfile.
- - lists are identified by a tooltype in their respective
- icon: "MYSTICVIEW_LISTFILE=YES". you can drag'n'drop
- listfiles to MysticView's window or appicon now.
- - workbench-integration has been improved even further:
- you can start MysticView by double-clicking
- preset and listfile icons, and even both at the same
- time. (e.g. select a listfile, hold the shift key, and
- doublelick a presetfile - or the other way round.) you
- may also drag'n'drop listfile and preset icons on
- MysticView's window (or appicon) at the same time, or
- mix preset icons with pictures/directories/volumes.
- - the displaymodes "keep aspect max", "onepixel" and
- "fit to window" are no longer available in the menus.
- the remaining items have been renamed to
- "scale with aspect" and "display 1:1 pixel" (the last
- one corresponds to the IGNOREASPECT mode).
- - the option HIDEWITHPICTURE has been removed. MysticView
- no longer flushes the current (and buffered) pictures
- from memory when it gets iconified. scanning and
- preloading now silently continue in the background.
- - added an optional picture filter in filerequesters
- (tooltype: FILTERPICTURES). requested by hexaae.
- - requesting the previous picture stops a slideshow.
- - added DEFAULTTOOL setting
- - the REJECTPATTERN argument is now also used in
- filerequesters, not only applied to the picture scanner.
- - added tooltyoe items for a view's text and highlighting
- colors (TEXTCOLOR, MARKCOLOR)
- - added display refresh smoothing (SMOOTHDISPLAY). it will
- interpolate modifications on the display (only zooming
- and scrolling. rotating is not supported).
- - added tooltypes HIDEONCLOSE and HIDEONESCAPE.
- - the memory consumption for opaque-refreshing of
- truecolor pictures on non-truecolor screens has been
- reduced to only 25%, but its short-time peak memory
- consumption is even worse than before.
- - the picture cursor no longer trashes the window borders
- when a picture is rotated, nor does it overwrite
- the infotext. the picture cursor is no longer overwritten
- by the rendered picture - it's visible all the time now.
- - the cursor was placed incorrectly when the picture was
- rotated and zoomed. fixed.
- - some rare visual artifacts have been removed,
- such as background areas using a deallocated pen
- - with STARTPIC=none, MysticView did not always update its
- display correctly. fixed.
- - the former option PRELOAD is obsolete and has been removed.
- the loader is configured with the new setting BUFFERPERCENT.
-