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FLX V0.9
coded by Ornaghi Alfredo
E-Mail : ted@intercom.it
Web page: http://www.intercom.it/~ted/
FREEWARE VERSION
Flx is a .FLI and .FLC animation viewer.
Flx shows the animations inside a Workbench's window or in its own 256 colours
screen.
Flx has been completely written in 68020 assembler. !!!
These are the characteristics of FLX :
- it shows the animation on a Workbench's window
- it shows the animation on a 256 colours screen
- possibility to use the original animation palette (256 colours Wb)
- possibility to use the original Workbench palette with any number of colours
- automatic colours remapping (Workbench based)
- reduction of the number of colours used by animation, in order to show it in WB
(for example : from 256 to 16)
- real time animation reshaping to adapt it to the window's dimension
- it shows the frame number and the total number of frames in the window's title
- possibility to show simultaneously more animations, executing FLX many times
(memory limited)
Through the menus it is possible :
- OPEN SCREEN : to open a 256 colours screen for the animation
- CLOSE SCREEN: to close the screen opened with OPEN SCREEN
- PALETTE ANIM: to use the original animation palette (better with 256 colours WB)
- PALETTE WB : to use the original Workbench palette (with re-mapping, scaling,
and so on)
- LOAD ANIM : to load a new animation (available from the 0.9 version)
- ABOUT : information about the programme
- QUIT : exit from FLX
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Amiga OS 2.04+ (68020 or greater!)
HOW TO USE FLX:
Usege: CLI only:
flx [ANIM NAME],[XPOS],[YPOS],[XSIZE],[YSIZE],[MAXX],[MAXY]
ANIM NAME = file's name
XPOS,YPOS = the new positions for this window
XSIZE,YSIZE = the new dimensions for this window
MAXX,MAXY = the new limits for the size of this window
example:
flx hd1:anim/prova.fli 10 10 320 200 640 400
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X position --- | | | | |
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Y position ------ | | | |
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X size ---------- | | |
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Y size -------------- | |
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max X dimension ------------------ |
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max Y dimension ----------------------
HISTORY:
- 0.9 : aminet version
- some bugs corrected !!! Now Flx is more stable then previous!!
- new functions added about information on animation
- added drawer and file path
- added support for not standard 320x200 file!
- added BestModeIDA for open screen
- command line parsing is now done with ReadArgs()
- animation's name
- position's window (X & Y)
- window's size (X & Y)
- maximum window's size (X & Y)
- fixed guru's bug in asl file request access
- fixed dug in window's size
- fixed bug in file's name using asl.library
- fixed bug in window's size
- fixed bug in colours remapping routine
- added keyboard shortcuts
- Already corrected bug in 0.9beta :
- There seems to be a bug in the *Window's Size* option. When you go
from one percentage to a lower %'age (e.g. 50% -> 30% or 70% -> 60%
etc.), the sizing gadget and the vertical blue border gets fucked up.
From : Jan-Tore Eliassen (E-MAIL: jteliassen@mail.link.no )
- If you use the *Window's Size* option when you *haven't* loaded an
anim, it jumps to a 10% window, and won't get bigger no matter what
%'age you try to pick. Have to use the mouse to get it bigger. When
you have loaded an anim *Window's Size* option work again.
From : Jan-Tore Eliassen (E-MAIL: jteliassen@mail.link.no )
- When I use the *Project/Load Anim* and there's a long path name, Flx
doesn't find the file. If I try a couple of times my Amiga crashes...
e.g. cd0:resources/animations/fli/fli_anims/<fli-animation> (I use
the FLI animations on Amiga Format CD3 for test purposes).
From : Jan-Tore Eliassen (E-MAIL: jteliassen@mail.link.no )
- 0.9beta (only for beta-tester) :
- Added asl.library for file request
- Menus are now font-sensitive
- News functions added in menus:
- New about
- Size window from 10% to 100% of the original
- Frame's number/Total frames's number in window's title
- Changed some internal codes, the new size is about the half of previous
version....
- Scaling routine has been optimized at 100%
- Scaling and colours remapping routine has been optimized at 100%
- Internal buffer of 64000 byte has been eliminated.
- Max window width (320) and window height (200) are now illimitate...
(only in version 0.9 final!
- Menus in flx's screen was removed! Now Close Screen = Esc!
- Already corrected bug :
- Close Screen option always puts the animation's palette: bug fixed!
- Open Window after Close Screen puts a wrong size : bug fixed!
- Already corrected bug report :
- Every time that I ran FLX the program kept >~62k of Chip mem.
From : peter mysliwy (E-MAIL : pamiga@user1.channel1.com)
- Make the program font sensitive. The menues look real *crap* on my
8bit CyberGfx 768x576 screen.
From : Jan-Tore Eliassen (E-MAIL: jteliassen@mail.link.no )
- The menus' layout is not correct and not font-adaptive, at least in
my 800x600 CyberGFX Wb with "Times 13"
From : Daniele Carnino (E-MAIL: Daniele.Carnino@p54.f21.n334.z2.
fidonet.org)
- When the visualization on the screen is activated, the menus place
themselves behind the running animation
From : Daniele Carnino (E-MAIL: Daniele.Carnino@p54.f21.n334.z2.
fidonet.org)
- It works GREAT here but I have found a small problem that shows up
if you put the fli/flc filename in a pair or "".
From: Bahman Moallem (E-MAIL:bamo@sbbs.se)
- I found a FLC anim that FLX doesn't play properly.
From: Bahman Moallem (E-MAIL:bamo@sbbs.se)
- 0.8 : this is the first public release!
REPORTED TO WORK ON:
- A1200 + 1220 (68020/28+68882/33) + 4 Mb fast (This is my amiga)
- A1200 + 1260 + 1230 scsi + 20 Meg fast ram (Peter Mysliwy)
- A4000/030 + CyberVision 64 + 14 Mb fast ram (Jan-Tore Eliassen)
- A4000/040 + CyberVision 64 + 20 Mb fast ram (Fabio Rotondo)
- A4000/40 28MHz, 16MB RAM, CyberVision64 (Daniele Carnino)
REPORTED TO CRASH ON:
- A1200 + 030/881 @40Mhz, 18 MB RAM total, 3.0 (Colin Faye Thompson)
THANKS TO FLX BETA-TESTERS:
- Colin Faye Thompson
- Jan-Tore Eliassen
THANKS FOR BUG REPORT TO:
- Daniele Carnino
- Peter Mysliwy
- Jan-Tore Eliassen
- Colin Faye Thompson
- Bahman Moallem
REQUIRED FOR USED:
- gadtools.library : (C) by Commodore Amiga Inc.
FUTURES:
- gfx card support (cybergraphX)
- higher speed
- correction of some bugs
- lower memory consume
- control of the timer for images syncronism (now not implemented !)
- best palette : use of the best colours to modify the Workbench original ones and
mix them with the colours of the animation
- new files' format implementation : MPEG, IFF anim, AVI, .....
- PowerPC support code (for new Amiga!)
LEGAL INFORMATION
COPYRIGHT:
FLX is COPYRIGHT © 1996 by Alfredo Ornaghi.
DISCLAIMER:
This software is provided "as it is". No warranties are made. Use this
software at your own risk. The author assumes no responsibility for any
damage caused by the use of this software.
DISTRIBUTION:
The permission to distribute copies of FLX on disk is granted provided
that NO MONEY is charged beyond the cost of the disk.
The permission to distribute FLX electronically on computer network and
Bulletting Board System (BBS) is granted provided that NO MONEY is charged
for accessing or download the archive.
The permission to distribute FLX on all CD archives is granted.
Commercial distributors of freely distributable software are NOT allowed to
distribute FLX.
Bug reports and new ideas are welcome :) Write me!
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| // | Alfredo Ornaghi (Amiga user!) |
| // Amiga | E-Mail : ted@intercom.it |
| \\X/ forever!!! | Web site : http://www.intercom.it/~ted/ |
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