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- MoviePRO - an ANIM player for Movie and ANIM5 animations
- --------------------------------------------------------
-
- Version Beta 4, 14-Feb-91
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-
- This program and iff.library by:
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- Christian A. Weber, Bruggerweg 2, CH-8037 Zürich, SWITZERLAND
-
- Any suggestions or bug reports are welcome, e-mail to:
-
- UUCP: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmswi!mighty!chris
- INTERNET: weber@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
-
-
-
- THIS PROGRAM IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. IT MAY BE FREELY DISTRUBUTED, COPIED
- AND USED FOR COMMERCIAL OR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE
- CHANGES TO THE SHOWIFF.* FILES AS LONG AS YOU CLEARLY MARK THE CHANGES.
-
-
- DISCLAIMER
-
- THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS".
- NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ARE MADE WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY,
- RELIABILITY, PERFORMANCE, CURRENTNESS, OR OPERATION OF THIS SOFTWARE, AND
- ALL USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT, DIDN'T YOU. THE AUTHOR
- ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USE
- OR INABILITY TO USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
-
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- ***
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- FEATURES
- --------
-
- - Plays Movie animations (Created with Sculpt 3D/4D or DILBM/PILBM) and
- ANIM5 animations (Videoscape, DPaint...).
-
- - Runs from both Workbench and CLI, creates an AppIcon under Kickstart 2.x
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- - Uses double-buffering for best results
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- - Is fully multi-tasking compatible!
-
-
-
- REQUIREMENTS
- ------------
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- MoviePRO requires the arp.library and, of course, the iff.library. These
- two files should be located in the LIBS: directory.
-
- Currently, MoviePRO requires 10 KBytes of stack. Make sure you set this
- stack size in EVERY animation's icon, or a guru will visit you!
-
- Note: This is only a beta release and has many bugs! Beware!
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-
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- WORKBENCH USAGE
- ---------------
-
-
- Under Kickstart 1.3:
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- Select all animations you wish to view while pressing the SHIFT key, then
- double-click the MoviePRO icon.
-
- You can also set the animation's default tool to MoviePRO using WorkBench's
- 'Info' feature. You must set the stack size to at least 10K in the icon.
- If you wish to display all the animations in a drawer, select the drawer,
- and while depressing the SHIFT key, double-click the MoviePRO icon. This
- works even with disk icons!
- If a drawer or disk contains another drawer, the animations in that drawer
- will also be displayed.
-
-
- Under Kickstart 2.x:
-
- Under Kickstart 2.x you have an additional possibility, which you may
- prefer once you are familiar with Kickstart 2.x: You can put MoviePRO in
- your WBStartup drawer. When you boot your Amiga, MoviePRO is automatically
- started and creates an "AppIcon". This icon looks like any other icon, and
- you can freely chose it's name and it's position (see below). But this
- icon has an interesting feature: You can view an animation by simply
- dragging the icon of that animation on MoviePRO's AppIcon. This works for
- drawers and disks too, of course.
- If you wish to remove the MoviePRO AppIcon, simply start MoviePRO again.
-
-
- Tool Types:
-
- MoviePRO understands several tool types. You can edit them using the
- "Show Information" or "Info" commands from the Workbench menu. Here's
- a list of the recognized tool types:
-
- ICONXPOS Specifies the x coordinate of MoviePRO's AppIcon. This works
- only under Kickstart 2.x and above.
- Example: ICONXPOS=620
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- ICONYPOS Specifies the y coordinate of MoviePRO's AppIcon. This works
- only under Kickstart 2.x and above.
- Example: ICONYPOS=120
-
- ICONNAME Specifies the name of MoviePRO's AppIcon (Only Kickstart 2.x).
- Example: ICONNAME=Animation Player
-
- OPTIONS Here you can specify several options, in the same format as
- if you would enter them from CLI. Works under 1.3 too.
- Example: OPTIONS=ALL LOOP 5 NOOVERSCAN
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- TASKPRI If you have a slow processor or a complex animation, MoviePRO
- needs more processor time to display the animation in the
- desired speed. If you set TASKPRI to some value higher than 0,
- MoviePRO will run slightly faster. Note that in this case
- you should not run any time-critical software (such as terminal
- programs) while playing animations. TASKPRI can be set to any
- value between -128 and 127.
- Example: TASKPRI=50
-
-
-
- CLI USAGE
- ---------
-
-
- The template is:
-
- Patterns/...,ALL/s,C=CONTINUOUS/k,L=LOOP/k,T=TIMING/k,NO=NOOVERSCAN/s,V=VERBOSE/s
-
- MoviePRO <patterns> [ALL] [CONTINUOUS num] [LOOP num] [TIMING jiffies]
- [NOOVERSCAN]
-
-
- Example: MoviePRO Anim/* Sculpt/foo.anim CONTINUOUS 32000 TIMING 3
-
-
- patterns can be any number of file names, directories or disk names.
- All of the ARP wildcards can be used. (?,*,#?,...)
-
- ALL if this keyword is specified, animations in sub-directories
- will also be shown.
-
- CONTINUOUS n This determines how many times the animation is displayed.
-
- LOOP n With LOOP you can specify how many times the animation is
- played, but not continuously. This is for animations which
- are not designed as endless-loop-animations.
-
- TIMING n specifies the delay between the frames of the animation, in
- jiffies. Note that if you have a complex animation or a slow
- processor, values lower than three (3) are not guaranteed to
- give the desired results.
-
- NOOVERSCAN display all animations in the size of the Workbench screen, and
- never in overscan. This is not very useful ;-)
-
- VERBOSE This is only for debugging and should never be used.
-
-
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- KEYS AND MOUSE-BUTTONS
- ----------------------
-
- While an animation is displayed, you can press the following keys:
-
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- LEFT MOUSE BUTTON
-
- Display the next animation. If there are no more animations to show,
- MoviePRO closes its window and terminates.
- If in AppIcon mode, MoviePRO closes its window and waits for new animations.
-
-
- RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON
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- Abort immediately
-
-
- Ctrl-C (if the MoviePRO window or the CLI window is active)
-
- Abort immediately
-
-
- Ctrl-E (if the MoviePRO window or the CLI window is active)
-
- If you started MoviePRO from Workbench, ore enabled the "ALL" option from
- CLI, pressing Ctrl-E will skip all animations in the current sub-directory,
- and return to the parent-directory (like in the CLI "Dir" command).
-
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