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VIEW Documentation
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IFF (ILBM) Picture VIEWer 1.0 - January 1, 1988
(C) Copyright 1987 Mark Riley, All Rights Reserved.
VIEW is a *small* utility for displaying IFF pictures. Now, I realize that
there are plenty of IFF viewers out there already, but I thought that this
one would be of interest because of its small size (only 600 bytes.) There's
no fancy anything in VIEW, since it is optimized for size. This means no
error messages or built in usage facilities. Thus, VIEW is the smallest,
tiniest, dirtiest IFF picture VIEWer in town (until some tall dark stranger
comes up and blows it away... ;-) If you haven't guessed already, VIEW
is written in assembly language.
I'd like to thank Andry Rachmat for posting USHOW 2.0; there were some neat
tricks for optimizing in it. No doubt VIEW can probably be squeezed in size
further, but I thought I'd release it and see what someone else can come
up with.
Feel free to redistribute VIEW (for non commercial purposes only.) If there
are any questions or problems, I can be reached at the following services:
PLINK: SONIX - BIX: mriley
Happy VIEWing.... ;-) -Mark-
P.S. I'll be uploading a more robust version of VIEW that'll interact with
PLAY (my Sonix score player) and allow people to easily put together
really polished looking slide shows w/music. Look for it at a BBS
near you!
VIEWing Pictures
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VIEW is simple to use. You may want to install it into your "c:" directory
before you use it though. This way it'll be there no matter which directory
you move to.
Usage: VIEW picture
Don't use quotes when typing the picture name, even if there are spaces.
This is because there is no command line parser in VIEW (optimization), so
what you type is what you get (I think it's actually easier.) If VIEW has
any problem displaying the picture, it'll just exit, no error message, no
nothing (sacrifice for optimization.)
Once the picture is up, you can use the usual invisible screen drag and
front/back gadgets to manipulate it.
To quit a picture, just type Ctrl-C. The CLI from which you issued the
VIEW command must be active in order for Ctrl-C to work (this is the case
if you don't go roaming around to other screens while VIEWing.) Otherwise
just click in the CLI window and do a Ctrl-C.
If you "run" view then issue a "break" to the process number you ran it as.
Here's an example:
1> run view nagel
[CLI 2]
1> break 2
1>
Being able to run VIEW, makes it a natural in execute files (slide shows)
since you can quit it remotely with a break command:
1> type slideshow
run >nil: view nagel
wait 10
break 2
run >nil: view nagel2
wait 10
break 2
1> execute slideshow
1>
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