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What's up for AIR?
1. Well, of course to make some more screens available.
2. AIR is pretty well running smooth now, the file size is getting
larger with the addition of frames.
My main concentration now will be on packing the frames in an external
file, hopefully with a management program that will allow addition and
deletion of frames, and "text mode" editing.
To do that there are a lot of factors to contend with, it won't happen
overnight :-)
I will be adding a few more frames, but after that, the additions will
stop till I get the external file done.
2a. The management program is well under way. I actually have a command
line version running here, no bells and whistles yet.
Currently the program will do this:
1. List all frames in the file
2. Add a RIP to the file.
3. Delete a frame from the file.
4. PACK the file after deletion of frame(s).
5. Query the file for info on a particular frame.
6. Dump a AIR frame out to viewable format.
Planned features:
Edit frames in text and/or graphical mode.
Edit the Name/Description of each frame.
(currently stored with the frame)
The manager will have full mouse support, and will
make use of menus, pick lists, and dialog entry boxes.
And a few others.....
The editing functions, text mode and graphical mode, have not been
implemented yet, they will be comming along with all the other extra
stuff. Still working the bugs out of the basic things.
The problem I have is the file size of the external file in which the
AIR frames are maintained in. Using a standard RECORD format, the 10
frames in AIR currently, require a 16K data file. And the frames
themselves only add up to about 4K..... see what I mean?
Hopefully I can slim this requirement down some, the capabilities
available with the frames in an external file are great, but I need a
smaller file size!
Once the program, aptly named AIRMGR.EXE is complete, all registered
users will receive it at no cost. And I will most likely release
a limited version for evaluation.
I'm hoping to have a finished version available in less than a month.
3. Eventually I will be doing my own RIP viewer, which will allow you to
view your new AIR/RIP screen, and decide if you need to change it,
before you exit.
I also plan on developing a RIP version of my Ansi Animation Slideshow,
which presents all, or selected files in a slideshow format. Also has a
built in File Manager.
The new version would be the same, but dedicated to RIP screens.
I have not done much in Graphics programming, so there needs to be some
study time and experimenting, before this comes to be a reality.
But the idea is on the books!