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- Tapestry -- Version 2
- Copyright 1989 Joe Hitchens, All Rights Reserved.
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- Permission is given to distribute this software and
- attached data files freely, so long as the entire package
- is left intact and unaltered, and no profit is made from the
- transaction.
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- Tapestry is a little utility for attaching a pretty picture (or ugly if
- you prefer) to your normal workbench display. Any 1 bitplane (2 color) IFF
- picture can be loaded, though you may want to use one which has roughly the
- same dimenstions and pixel aspect ratio as your Workbench screen.
-
- Tapestry (Version 2) is only usable from the CLI. I normally have it
- run as a background process from my startup-sequence. Usage is as follows:
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- 1> tapestry picfile [ picfile2 picfile3 ... ]
- or
- 1> run tapestry picfile [ picfile2 picfile3 ... ]
- or
- 1> run >nil: tapestry picfile [ picfile2 picfile3 ... ]
-
- At least one picture filename parameter is required. If more than one
- picture filename is provided, Tapestry will choose one of the filenames
- at random.
- If the first usage is used, a ^C will exit tapestry. If the second or
- third usage is used, the BREAK command can be used to exit tapestry.
- If the third usage is used, and you are working under Version 1.3 of
- WorkBench, the CLI can be closed after Tapestry has been 'run'.
- If no usage is used, ^C or BREAK will not be necessary.
-
- The WorkBench screen will not close when Tapestry is running. To save
- memory by closing the WorkBench screen, you will have to BREAK Tapestry
- first.
-
- Possible return codes for tapestry are as follows:
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- 0 Everything went fine. No problem.
- 1 Allocation of the display memory failed.
- 2 There was a problem loading the IFF picture file.
- Either the file was not found, or not a readable IFF ILBM, or some
- other such nonsense.
- 3 The Intuition and Graphics libraries couldn't be opened.
- 4 The WorkBench screen couldn't be found.
- 5 There is something odd about the WorkBench screen.
- If the WB screen has more than 2 bitplanes (4 colors), or if
- Tapestry is already running, or you already have a DUALPF, HAM
- or EXTRA_HALFBRITE WorkBench (How would it be?), This will occur.
- 6 An attempt was made to run tapestry from an icon.
- This is not supported yet.
- 7 Tapestry couldn't open the invisible ID window.
- This is done so that calls to CloseWorkBench() will fail.
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- Tapestry eats up a certain amount of CHIP memory, in addition to the
- program, stack and data. This is how much:
- Normal non-interlace WorkBench 16K
- Normal interlace WorkBench 32K
- Also, if your WorkBench has overscan, even more will be consumed.
-
- The picture files included with Tapestry and listed below were all created
- by me and are "Copyright Joe Hitchens". They are, however, part of the
- package as described at the top of this document.
- entire package. They are:
- Lyssette This is the only LARGE format picture. Use it if
- you have an interlaced WorkBench.
- Lyssette.200 This is a 200 line tall version for normal WorkBench's.
- Lion
- Rects
- Window
-
- Send comments, suggestions to me. I'll find the lovely, vivacious and
- available bachelorettes myself:
- Name : Joe Hitchens
- Phone: (801) 292-2190
- UUCP : joe@vixen.uucp
-
- j.h.
- March 18, 1989
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- Look for these features in future versions of Tapestry.
-
- * 2 bitplane images (will use still more CHIP memory, beware)
- * Repeating images. This will allow a small brush ILBM to be used and
- repeated in a tile pattern to fill the entire screen.
- * Icon launch.
- * Animating tapestries. :-)
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