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- MainView.Doc V1.0
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-
- MainView is MainActors external player. It can display all
- animations/pictures for which MainActor has the proper loader modules.
-
- The key commands while playing animations or showing pictures are
- the same as if you would view them directly with MainActor.
- Thats the reason for not listing them here again, have a look at the
- MainActor doc section 3.2 under "Play" and "Show".
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- If MainActor saved an icon for the animations/pictures to view, MainView
- will take the view settings from this icon (overruling its own settings) !
- You can change this behaviour through the 'IgnoreIcons' option.
-
- You can start MainView from the workbench or form the cli :
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- Starting MainView from the Workbench
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- If you start MainView from the wb (per icon) you can select the file(s)
- to view in an asl-requester. For multi selecting just press one of the
- shift keys and select the files with the mouse. (Starting from OS 2.1+)
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- MainView supports the following tooltypes :
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- Window
- ------
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- This tooltype enables the window mode, all animations or pictures
- will be displayed in an window on the current public screen.
- Is disabled by default.
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- FrameInfo
- ---------
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- FrameInfo enables the FrameInfo mode. For further details look
- at the MainActor.Doc.
- Is disabled by default.
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- NoCaching
- ---------
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- Disables caching, with caching disabled MainView plays direct from
- the harddisk (or whatever). This allows you to play big
- animations even if you have not much ram.
- Is disabled by default.
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- IgnoreIcons
- -----------
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- Ignores the icons of the animations/pictures
- Is disabled by default.
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- Flash
- -----
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- Enables the Flash option.
- Is disabled by default.
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- XOffset=<Value>
- ---------------
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- You can directly set the start x offset.
- Defaults to 0.
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- YOffset=<Value>
- ---------------
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- The same for the y offset.
- Defaults to 0.
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- Repeat=<Value>
- --------------
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- Repeats the animation <Value> times.
- For example "Repeat=1" would play the animation one time.
- Defaults to 10.
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- Directory=<Path>
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-
- This is the initial directory for the asl-requester.
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- Anim_Module=<Module>
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- Chooses the default loader module for animations.
- Default is the "Universal" module.
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- Pic_Module=<Module>
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- Chooses the default loader module for pictures.
- Default is the "Universal" module.
- If you want to view all pictures for example on the PicassoII gfx board,
- choose the "Universal_PicassoII" module.
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- Starting MainView from the cli
- ------------------------------
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- Starting MainView from the cli will give you enhanced functionality.
- You can for example define patterns for animations or picture lists.
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- Usage is : MainView [-<options>] <file>
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- You can enter as many files as you like.
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- MainView supports these options :
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- -w : enables the window mode
- -fi : enables the frameinfo option
- -nc : turns caching off
- -i : ignore the icons for the animations/pictures
- -f : enables the flash option
- -xvalue : value describes the initial x offset
- -yvalue : the same for the y offset.
- -rvalue : value describes how often the animation should be repeated
- -amodule : where module is the default animation loader
- for example "-aUniversal" selects the universal
- loader (default).
- -pmodule : where module is the default picture loader
- for example "-aUniversal" selects the universal
- loader (default).
- If you want to remap your pictures to the PicassoII
- board enter "-pUniversal_PicassoII"
- Examples:
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- 'MainView -nc -r1 Graphics:Pics/#? Graphics:Animation/#?8_32'
- will show all files in the Graphics:Pics/ directory as well as all
- files in the Graphics:Animation/ directory which end with '8_32'and
- all animations will be directly played from the harddisk (one time).
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- 'MainView -pPicassoII Graphics:#?_24Bit'
- will display all pictures which names end with '_24Bit' on the Picasso-II
- board.
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