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MoviePRO - an ANIM player for Movie and ANIM5 animations
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Version Beta 4, 14-Feb-91
This program and iff.library by:
Christian A. Weber, Bruggerweg 2, CH-8037 Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Any suggestions or bug reports are welcome, e-mail to:
UUCP: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmswi!mighty!chris
INTERNET: weber@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
THIS PROGRAM IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. IT MAY BE FREELY DISTRUBUTED, COPIED
AND USED FOR COMMERCIAL OR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE
CHANGES TO THE SHOWIFF.* FILES AS LONG AS YOU CLEARLY MARK THE CHANGES.
DISCLAIMER
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS".
NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ARE MADE WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY,
RELIABILITY, PERFORMANCE, CURRENTNESS, OR OPERATION OF THIS SOFTWARE, AND
ALL USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT, DIDN'T YOU. THE AUTHOR
ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USE
OR INABILITY TO USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
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FEATURES
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- Plays Movie animations (Created with Sculpt 3D/4D or DILBM/PILBM) and
ANIM5 animations (Videoscape, DPaint...).
- Runs from both Workbench and CLI, creates an AppIcon under Kickstart 2.x
- Uses double-buffering for best results
- Is fully multi-tasking compatible!
REQUIREMENTS
------------
MoviePRO requires the arp.library and, of course, the iff.library. These
two files should be located in the LIBS: directory.
Currently, MoviePRO requires 10 KBytes of stack. Make sure you set this
stack size in EVERY animation's icon, or a guru will visit you!
Note: This is only a beta release and has many bugs! Beware!
WORKBENCH USAGE
---------------
Under Kickstart 1.3:
Select all animations you wish to view while pressing the SHIFT key, then
double-click the MoviePRO icon.
You can also set the animation's default tool to MoviePRO using WorkBench's
'Info' feature. You must set the stack size to at least 10K in the icon.
If you wish to display all the animations in a drawer, select the drawer,
and while depressing the SHIFT key, double-click the MoviePRO icon. This
works even with disk icons!
If a drawer or disk contains another drawer, the animations in that drawer
will also be displayed.
Under Kickstart 2.x:
Under Kickstart 2.x you have an additional possibility, which you may
prefer once you are familiar with Kickstart 2.x: You can put MoviePRO in
your WBStartup drawer. When you boot your Amiga, MoviePRO is automatically
started and creates an "AppIcon". This icon looks like any other icon, and
you can freely chose it's name and it's position (see below). But this
icon has an interesting feature: You can view an animation by simply
dragging the icon of that animation on MoviePRO's AppIcon. This works for
drawers and disks too, of course.
If you wish to remove the MoviePRO AppIcon, simply start MoviePRO again.
Tool Types:
MoviePRO understands several tool types. You can edit them using the
"Show Information" or "Info" commands from the Workbench menu. Here's
a list of the recognized tool types:
ICONXPOS Specifies the x coordinate of MoviePRO's AppIcon. This works
only under Kickstart 2.x and above.
Example: ICONXPOS=620
ICONYPOS Specifies the y coordinate of MoviePRO's AppIcon. This works
only under Kickstart 2.x and above.
Example: ICONYPOS=120
ICONNAME Specifies the name of MoviePRO's AppIcon (Only Kickstart 2.x).
Example: ICONNAME=Animation Player
OPTIONS Here you can specify several options, in the same format as
if you would enter them from CLI. Works under 1.3 too.
Example: OPTIONS=ALL LOOP 5 NOOVERSCAN
TASKPRI If you have a slow processor or a complex animation, MoviePRO
needs more processor time to display the animation in the
desired speed. If you set TASKPRI to some value higher than 0,
MoviePRO will run slightly faster. Note that in this case
you should not run any time-critical software (such as terminal
programs) while playing animations. TASKPRI can be set to any
value between -128 and 127.
Example: TASKPRI=50
CLI USAGE
---------
The template is:
Patterns/...,ALL/s,C=CONTINUOUS/k,L=LOOP/k,T=TIMING/k,NO=NOOVERSCAN/s,V=VERBOSE/s
MoviePRO <patterns> [ALL] [CONTINUOUS num] [LOOP num] [TIMING jiffies]
[NOOVERSCAN]
Example: MoviePRO Anim/* Sculpt/foo.anim CONTINUOUS 32000 TIMING 3
patterns can be any number of file names, directories or disk names.
All of the ARP wildcards can be used. (?,*,#?,...)
ALL if this keyword is specified, animations in sub-directories
will also be shown.
CONTINUOUS n This determines how many times the animation is displayed.
LOOP n With LOOP you can specify how many times the animation is
played, but not continuously. This is for animations which
are not designed as endless-loop-animations.
TIMING n specifies the delay between the frames of the animation, in
jiffies. Note that if you have a complex animation or a slow
processor, values lower than three (3) are not guaranteed to
give the desired results.
NOOVERSCAN display all animations in the size of the Workbench screen, and
never in overscan. This is not very useful ;-)
VERBOSE This is only for debugging and should never be used.
KEYS AND MOUSE-BUTTONS
----------------------
While an animation is displayed, you can press the following keys:
LEFT MOUSE BUTTON
Display the next animation. If there are no more animations to show,
MoviePRO closes its window and terminates.
If in AppIcon mode, MoviePRO closes its window and waits for new animations.
RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON
Abort immediately
Ctrl-C (if the MoviePRO window or the CLI window is active)
Abort immediately
Ctrl-E (if the MoviePRO window or the CLI window is active)
If you started MoviePRO from Workbench, ore enabled the "ALL" option from
CLI, pressing Ctrl-E will skip all animations in the current sub-directory,
and return to the parent-directory (like in the CLI "Dir" command).
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Gruss
-chris