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- TransferAnim.mcc documentation
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- TransferAnim.mcc is a MUI customclass intended to display transfer
- (or busy) animations as known from browsers.
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- This release also has very limited documentation.
- Developers will get most out of reading the autodocs and included
- example.
-
- MUI is copyright Stefan Stuntz.
- Thanks to Allan Odgaard for putting up with my questions.
- Thanks to Kai Hofmann for the installerscript and suggestions.
- The icons are taken from MUI's main archive.
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- Why
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- Having a few different ongoing projects, I realized that it was a
- specific piece of code I reused in almost all of them (the mui ones,
- anyway).
- And this was the code to display datatypesobjects and transferanimations.
- So I decided to make this a customclass for easier integration in
- my own programs and to allow others to easily implement similar
- objects in their projects, without too much effort.
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- Requirements
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- This first release of TransferAnim.mcc uses datatypes to load
- images and it also uses some other 39+ graphics calls, thus it
- will only work on 3.x+ machines.
-
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- Installation
-
- Thanx to Kai Hofmann, the customclass comes with an installerscript,
- without his work on MCC-Install, this would not be true.
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- So, for easy installation, just doubleclick the install icon and en-
- joy yourself as you loose some hd space.
- The images needs not to be installed, they are only there for the
- supplied demo.
- However, if you don't install the images, the demo will look pretty
- lousy unless you run it directly from the unarchived directory.
-
- If you wish to install the class manually for some reason, just copy
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- libs/mui/#? to mui:libs/mui/
- images/#? to mui:images/
- demos/#? to mui:demos/
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- and if you wish to use the developerfiles, just copy them from
- developers/ to your prefered autodoc and includes directories.
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- Todo
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- The class has the basic features I require for my own programs,
- but if you have requests for me to implement other functions,
- please suggest these to me!
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- Author
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- The class is written by Linus McCabe with help from alot of people on
- the mui mailinglist.
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- To get in touch with me write to
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- Linus McCabe
- Rogsholmsv 6
- 51532 Viskafors
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- sparkle@hehe.com
- http://sparkle.amiga.tm
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- I'm open to suggestions, bugreports and critisism!
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- Disclaimer
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- The author takes no responsibility whatsoever to any loss of data
- or other damage this class might cause.
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- Use it at your won risk!
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- Usage
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- The only things the enduser needs to worry about is installing the
- class correctly and the mui prefs.
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- If you wish, you can change the mui prefs to your preffered settings.
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- Currently there are two options to change.
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- ° Default animation
- This animation is used whenever the animation specified by
- the program was not loadable for some reaso, maybe because
- the file was not found.
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- ° Default precision.
- Here you can specify with what precision you want the ani-
- mations remapped.
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- ° Play mode
- Specify how you want the animations to play, choices are
- play always, play when window's active or never play.
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- Developers
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- Developers who wish to use my class in their programs are totally free
- to do so. However, I'd wish to be notified about it, and I wouldnt mind
- a free copy of your program if you are charging money for it. This is not
- mandatory, however.
-
- I also wouldnt mind being mentioned in the about requester or the docu-
- mentation for the program.
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