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- Document $VER: EDTViewDocumentation 0.5 (10.09.93) Colin Bell
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- 1. About EDTView
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- EDTView 0.5 is a small and simple IFF, GIF, PCX, BMP, JPG Viewer.
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- It is also a simple image conversion tool. It will save images in
- IFF ILBM format so you can load in a GIF & save it as an IFF.
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- It also allows you to change the images built in screenmode before
- saving so you could for example change a picture from PAL:High Res
- to SUPER72:Low Res. Sometimes the datatypes give wrong screenmodes
- when they load in files (EG. the JPG datatype) so you can adjust this
- before you save it.
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- 2. Why bother?
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-
- Good question. There are MANY fine image conversion packages available for the
- Amiga & I do not intend to compete with them. 8-) This just started out as a
- programming exercise to see how easily I could write an IFF viewer using the E
- programming language. A few days later, and here it is.
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- 3. Usage
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- Simply type edtview from the CLI or click on its icon from workbench.
- A file requester will open asking you to select a file to load.
- If the file is recognised, edtview will print out some details of the file &
- then open up a screen & display the file. Heres the tricky bit. The options
- are available via pull down menus but depending on the color scheme of the
- file you are viewing you may not be able to see them properly. They are:
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- 3.1. ABOUT__Shortcut_RightAmiga-A
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- This displays information about the
- picture file & the author information.
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- 3.2. MODE___Shortcut_RightAmiga-M
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- This pops a screenmode requester up
- allowing you to change the screenmode.
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- 3.3. SAVE___Shortcut_RightAmiga-S
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- Save the picture as IFF-ILBM.
- A file requester will prompt you for a filename
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- 3.4. QUIT___Shortcut_RightAmiga-Q
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- Quit this fine program.
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- 4. What's a datatype?
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- A datatype is something CBM added in KS 3.0. One of the best things they ever
- did. Datatypes provide transparent data conversion to programmers. So
- basically, all you have to do is write a picture viewer that handles a
- standard IFF (but even easier than that) file & leave the rest up to
- someone else. As long as a datatype exists for that file format, the
- conversion is done for you. So far there are PD GIF,JPG,PCX,and BMP
- picture datatypes available as well as the ILBM datatype supplied by
- CBM. There is also Animation datatypes in WB3.1.
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- 5. Look at the handle !!
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- Check out the size of my executable.
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- No, your eyes aren't deceiving you.
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- This Image Converter/Viewer comes in at a low 6508 bytes long!!!
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- 6. Contact
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- If you have any questions or queries, contact me at.
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- Colin Bell
- P.O. Box 1058
- Bondi Junction
- NSW 2022
- Australia.
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- OR: Fidonet 3:714/909.4
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- 7. Boring.
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- THIS PROGRAM IS COPYRIGHT 1993 COLIN BELL.
- THIS PROGRAM MAY NOT BE SOLD OR USED IN ANY PD COLLECTION
- THIS PROGRAM CARRIES NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
-
- AMIGA IS A TRADEMARK OF Commodore Business Machines Inc.