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- Here it is: The first OS/2 PM Bitmap viewer that shows the REAL colors!
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- imShow - An OS/2 2.0 application to display pictures in the formats:
- BMP (OS/2 1.1, Windows 3 and OS/2 2.0 formats)
- GIF (only plain, error-free, non-interlaced GIF87)
- im (an image file format developed at the University of Zürich)
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- The "new" thing on this picture viewer is the support of the OS/2 2.0
- palette manager. This means, you can see your pictures with their
- actual colors!
-
- Requirements:
- - OS/2 2.0 with service pack installed (to get the palette manager).
- - A display adapter and device driver which supports 256 colors and the
- palette manager (I tested it on the IBM XGA).
-
- Drawbacks:
- - There is no help (well, there are that few menu options, I don't
- think one will miss it).
- - The GIF reader is very slow and absolutely not robust. The
- application simply quits without an error message if something is
- not ok with the GIF file.
- - There is a bug in PM: If something small covers the picture (like
- if you drag an icon over it), then the picture gets incorrectly
- redrawn. To force a redraw, simply display the "about" dialog box.
- - The vertical scroll bar works "the other way around", I like it
- better this way (so this is not a bug but a feature...).
-
- I am still hoping that such excellent packages as WINGIF or CVIEW
- get ported to OS/2, so I don't think I will invest a lot of time
- into my little application in the future. So this may well be the
- first and the last release...
- The version number is 2.0, since the very first version is three
- years old (working under OS/2 1.1), but 2.0 is the first release
- that makes it outside of the university.
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- Copyrights:
- Application: Martin Erzberger, University of Zürich, 1989/92
- im Library: Jürg Schaufelberger, Urs Meyer, University of
- Zürich, 1989/90
- GIF decoder: David Koblas, 1989
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- My current address: erzberg@ifi.unizh.ch