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- ViewPCX 1.01
- ============
-
-
- What is ViewPCX?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ViewPCX is an image viewer for PICASSO II gfxboards. It handles
- PCX-files with 1 to 4 Bitplanes (2-16 Colors) and 1, 3 and 4
- Colorplanes (= 8/24/32 Bitdepth).
-
-
- Disclaimer
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- The author cannot be held liable for the suitability or accuracy of
- this manual and/or the program(s) it describes. Any damage directly or
- indirectly caused by the use or misuse of this manual and/or the
- program it describes is the sole responsibility of the user her/him
- self.
-
-
- Copyright/Distribution
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ViewPCX, © Copyright 1994 Reinhard Haslbeck. All rights reserved. This
- program may be freely distributed as long as all documentation and
- executable(s) remain unchanged and are included with the distribution.
- Also no profit is to be made by selling this program. You may not
- charge more than Fred Fish does for a single library disk. Commercial
- distribution is NOT allowed without written permission from the
- author. It is allowed for non-commercial BBSs to distribute an archive
- with only the following files in it to save your users some money when
- they want to download this program. NOTE: All files listed below MUST
- be distributed together. None of the files listed below may be
- distributed on it's own! They may ofcourse be archived with any
- archiver.
-
- ViewPCX - Main Program
- ViewPCX.info - Icon
- ViewPCX.doc - Manual
- ViewPCX.doc.info - Icon
- IntuiView.prefs.add - add this to 'IntuiView.prefs'
- IntuiView.prefs.add.info - Icon
-
- How to use
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- ViewPCX can be started from Workbench or Shell. If You start it from a
- Shell the below listed arguments are allowed. Type 'ViewPCX ?' and all
- available arguments are shown:
-
- FILENAME/M,W=WAIT/K/N,M=MODEID/K/N,V=VERBOSE/S:
-
-
- FILENAME:
- Simply the name of the picture you want to see. If no Filename
- is entered, a Filerequester will appear. AmigaDos-style
- pattern-matching is also supported.
-
- WAIT:
- This is the optional duration time a picture will be displayed.
- Useful for slideshows.
-
- MODEID:
- If You don't want the ScreenModeRequester to appear, You have to
- set a vailid ScreenModeID for an Picasso 8/15/16/24 Bit Screen.
- The ID has to be for an 15-,16- or 24Bit Screen if the image is
- a 24/32 Bit file and for an 8 Bit Screen if the image is an
- 1-8Bit file. Look out for the utility 'VScreenID' which helps by
- getting the IDs If You choose an ID which nominal sizes are
- smaller than the picture, the Screen will be an AutoScrolling
- one if possible. If the pictures dimensions are too big to
- display, it will be cropped. If the pictures dimensions are
- smaller than the Screen, it will be displayed centered.
-
- VERBOSE:
- By default no messages are printed out, even
- errormessages are disabled. If You set VERBOSE, You will get
- some information about the image, Screen etc.
-
- If ViewPCX is started from Workbench, You can set values to the
- Tooltypes 'WAIT', 'MODEID' and 'VERBOSE', which have the same meaning
- as they have in Shellstart.
-
- Pressing a key or a mousebutton will close the Screen and ViewPCX
- fetches the next File (in Pattern Matching mode) or pops up the
- Filerequester again. Press the <ESC> key or select 'Cancel' in the
- File/ScreenRequest to abort the program.
-
-
- Requirements
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - An Amiga Computer with a UNSEGMENTED driven PICASSO II pluged in
- - 'vilintuisup.library' V2.x+
- - Amiga OS2.04+
-
- Notes
- ~~~~~
- - has not been tested on 1BM PICASSOs
- - has not been tested with 32 Bit files (24Bit + Alpha Channel)
- - has not been tested with uncompressed files
-
- History
- ~~~~~~~
- V1.0 -> V1.01: Thanks to Gerhard Muellers 'gerlib', ixemul.library
- isn't needed anymore.
- Opens info window when started by icon if tooltype
- 'VERBOSE' is set.
- Compiled without '-funroll-loops' for shorter code.
- Removed Enforcer Hits.
-
- Thanks to
- ~~~~~~~~~
- Markus M. Wild for the GCC port
- Christian Stieber for some GCC hints
- Village Tronic
- Gerhard Mueller for 'Gerlib'
-
- author
- ~~~~~~
- Address: Reinhard Haslbeck
- Spirknerstr. 7
- 84137 Vilsbiburg
- GERMANY
-
- Phone: +49/(0)8741 8676 , +49/(0)8741 91212
- Fax: +49/(0)8741 7140
-
- Internet: haslbeck@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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