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- Image Tools Demo is a sample program and it exists in
- two versions with minor differences: LIBDEMO.EXE for library
- demonstration and DLLDEMO.EXE for Dynamic Link Library demo.
- Usage is very simple:
- Menu bar consists of three menus:
- 1. FILE menu
- a) Load Image: This option opens common dialog for loading
- images.
- Note: Program doesn't recognize extensions
- for himself, so it won't work if you choose
- BMP image type and try to load some demo.tga
- image.
- b) Save Image: Using this option, you can save image in active
- image window in any format. All images are
- in 24-bit true color format after load, so that
- is a format in which they will be saved. If you
- want to save some image in 256 color format you
- have to convert it first by using proper option
- from OPTIONS menu. If you are saving animation
- format (FLI,FLC) then attempt to save to file
- with existing name will cause the program to
- append image to the end of the animation file
- (if the file is proper animation file of the same
- image size). If you want to save/append image to
- a FLI file, image size must be 320x200.
-
- c) Exit: This is option you should choose if you think
- there's nothing more to see in this demo.
-
- 2. OPTIONS menu
- a) Image info: Gives you information on image
- b) Remap colors: Allows you to turn off remapping
- colors after loading image (gives you
- more speed, but only if you have
- 24-bit graphics card)
- c) Convert to 256: Converts image to 8-bit format. This is
- useful if you want to save it (because
- some formats such as GIF allow only this
- image format).
-
- 3. EFFECTS menu
- Here you can choose between many various effect available in
- this package. All effects work only on 24-bit images, so
- you can't use it on images converted to 256 colors.
- All effects are used with some default parameters, because
- this is just a demo. If you want to test the SIZE effect,
- change the size of image window and call the effect. After
- that image will fit new window size.
-
- WARNING: Due to the limitations of demo version you can
- load, save or use effects only twice before terminating application.
- After that every other attempt will cause error message.
-