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- !Help file for QuickFliC 0.76 (7-June-1993)
-
- On PC's you've probably seen FLI or FLIC animations.
- The format of these movies is often 320*200 with 256 colours.
- This program does it best to display the movies as good as
- possible on an Archimedes.
- Mode 15 gives the best results but all the other modes are
- also allowed. Multisyncmodes like 21 or 28 are too slow.
-
- If you doubleclick on a FLI(C)-file icon (filetype FLIC, &189),
- the program starts and shows a window in which the movie will be
- displayed.
- Below the main sprite there are some buttons which have the fol-
- lowing functions:
-
- - 1: Stop the playing movie and display Frame 1.
- - <: Stop the playing movie and display the last frame.
- This option takes some processortime because of the structure
- of the FLI(C)-file.
- - >: Stop the playing movie and display the next frame.
- If you keep pressing on the select-button, the program will
- keep on showing the next frames.
- - >>: Starts the movie.
- - ||: If the program is in "frame-mode" (1,<,>) then the movie starts
- again otherwise the program switches form animation-mode to
- frame-mode (=stop).
-
- The main window also shows the number of the frame which is on display.
- Pressing on the menu-button shows a window which contains some
- information about the loaded FLI(C)-movie.
-
- Closing the window turns the animation off and the program will rest
- on the iconbar without taking processortime.
-
- You can also load a FLI-file by dragging it to the main window or
- to the iconbar. The filetype must be right otherwise nothing will be
- loaded.
-
- Known problems:
-
- - The Archimedes doesn't allow the programmer to choose 256 palette-
- colours freely. This program has to do a difficult job in selecting
- the colour that most closely resembles the PC-colour. I use the
- ColourTrans routines but often there seems to be no possible match
- and the colours will be messed up. The CC ColourCard and hopefully
- the VIDC2 will solve this really annoying problem.
- Dithering is a solution but I don't know how to implement this as
- I have no documentation about it. The Machinecode routines need
- rewriting in that case!
- - Although only a part of the screen changes with each frame, the
- complete window will be updated. I'll have some structured redesigning
- to do to improve on this, but as long as the colours are no good it
- seems pointless.
-
-
- Restrictions :
-
- - A FLI(C) movie may not contain more than 400 frames.
- - The resolution of a FLIC-file may not be greater than 320*200.
- (FLI is always 320*200).
-
-
- For now, have fun.
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-
- Léon Neelen
- Moeflonstraat 111
- 7314 PP Apeldoorn
- Holland
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