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- THE AMIGAVISION PLAYER: AVPLAYER, release 2.04
-
- (c) Copyright 1992 Commodore-Amiga, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
-
-
- AVPlayer, avdb.library, avtextgad.library, camd.library,
- realtime.library, and associated documentation and icons are
- (c) Copyright 1992 Commodore-Amiga, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
-
- THIS SOFTWARE AND/OR INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS-IS". NO
- REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ARE MADE, AND ALL USE IS AT YOUR OWN
- RISK. NEITHER COMMODORE NOR THE AUTHORS ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY
- OR LIABILITY WHATSOEVER.
-
- This archive contains a freely redistributable player program
- called AVPlayer. AVPlayer is a version of AmigaVision Professional
- without the Flow Editor. It allows you to play back flows created
- in AmigaVision Professional or AmigaVision 1.7.
-
- This archive may be distributed provided the following rules are
- complied with:
- A) No change may be made to the AVPlayer, its libraries or
- documentation.
- B) AVPlayer and its associated libraries may not be installed on
- a user's system or Workbench unless the installation procedure
- included with the distributed product has determined that
- the user's system or Workbench does not include more recent
- versions of these files.
- C) The AVPlayer must be distributed in its complete form,
- containing the 8 files listed below:
- 1) AVPlayer, version 2.4
- 2) AVPlayer.info
- 3) AVPlayer.doc
- 4) AVPlayer.doc.info
- 5) avdb.library, version 2.2
- 6) avtextgad.library, version 1.1
- 7) camd.library, version 37.13
- 8) realtime.library, version 37.3
-
-
- AmigaVision Professional is an icon-based authoring tool for
- creating presentations, point-of-information displays and
- interactive courseware. It is compatible with AmigaVision version
- 1.7. Among its many new features are: CDTV support, playback of CD
- Digital Audio and CD-XL Motion Video files, multi-dimensional
- arrays, streamed-in animation and sound files, ANIM Brush support,
- more screen transitions, V39 compatibility and AA graphics support.
-
-
- USING AVPLAYER
-
- To use the AmigaVision player program, enter the following from the
- AmigaDOS CLI:
-
- AVPlayer <filename.AVf> [-sXXXXX]
-
- The first parameter, the AmigaVision file to be presented, should
- contain the file's complete path, and the .AVf extension. For
- example:
-
- AVPlayer MyDisk:examples/Quiz.avf
-
- The second optional parameter overrides the default stack size.
- When the AVPlayer is started, it sets a default stack size of 20K.
- To override this stack size, specify the "-s" parameter followed by
- a number which represents the new stack size. For example:
-
- AVPlayer MyDisk:examples/Quiz.avf -s10000
-
- will cause the AVPlayer to set a stack size of 10K.
-
- Before the AVPlayer creates its stack, it will check the system
- stack. If the system stack is the larger than the stack that
- AVPlayer wants to create, a new stack will not be created, the
- system stack will be used instead. If the system stack is smaller
- than the one that AVPlayer wants to create, a second stack will be
- created for the AVPlayer.
-
- This version of the AmigaVision player cannot be run from Workbench.
-
- This version of the player has been divided into three portions:
-
- AVPlayer : the main executable, and
- avdb.library : a library containing all AV's database
- functionality,
- avtextgad.library : a library containing all AV's input field
- form functionality.
-
- The optional libraries are needed only if the flow contains icons
- from the Data sub-menu. They are intended to be placed in the Libs:
- directory or in the same directory as AVPlayer. As they are
- specific to AmigaVision, we recommend that they be stored with the
- executable.
-
- Camd.library and realtime.library must be present in the Libs:
- directory if you plan to play MIDI files with AmigaVision. If you
- have copies of these libraries that are older than those in the
- AVPlayer archive, use the libraries from the AVPlayer archive.
-
- You can determine the version number of your libraries by using the
- version command. For example,
-
- version libs:camd.library
-
- will return the version number of the camd.library file in your
- LIBS: directory.
-
-
- RUNNING THE AVPLAYER FROM A PROJECT ICON
-
- To play an AmigaVision flow from a Workbench icon, the following
- procedure may be used:
-
- 1. Create a Project-type icon (same type as an AmigaVision Flow
- icon). For this explanation the Project icon will be called
- "RunFlow.info".
-
- 2. Set the Default Tool of the Project icon to c:IconX. Do this by
- selecting the Project icon, and then choosing Information or
- Info from the Workbench menu. Enter "c:IconX" in the Default
- Tool, and then select Save.
-
- 3. Use a text editor to create a text script file as follows,
- substituting the path and name of your AmigaVision flow.
-
- Sample script file:
-
- .key none
- .bra {
- .ket }
- MyDisk:AVPlayer MyDisk:examples/Quiz.avf
-
- 4. Save the text script file in the same directory as your Project
- icon and with the same name as the icon minus the ".info". So,
- if your Project icon is called "RunFlow.info", then the text
- script file must be saved as "RunFlow".
-
- 5. Now, if you double-click your Project icon, IconX will execute
- your script.
-
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-
- ERROR REQUESTER CODES
-
- 1007 Amiga is low on memory; Please free some and try again.
- 1010 Screen resolution and interlace settings of consecutive pictures
- must be the same to perform specified transition.
- (Fade transitions will work)
- 1022 Warning: Insufficient or Fragmented memory! Free Memory and hit
- Continue to try again, or Cancel to Abort AmigaVision.
- 1023 Operation could not be performed as specified.
- Select:
- Continue: to continue presentation
- Cancel: to terminate presentation.
- 1026 Evaluation was terminated due to lack of memory.
- 2002 Insufficient memory.
- 2008 Cannot open file specified.
- 2009 Specified file is not of IFF format.
- 2010 Cannot open screen.
- 2011 Cannot open window.
- 2012 Video Error: Cannot open Devs:Player.device. Please install
- proper driver software.
- 2014 Type Mismatch of variables in expression.
- 2015 Syntax error. Please refer to the User's Manual.
- 2016 Incomplete expression.
- 2017 Numeric operation on a string or a boolean variable is not allowed.
- 2018 Divide by zero. Please check variable values.
- 2020 String table overflow.
- 2021 Incorrect parameter type.
- 2022 Incorrect number of parameters.
- 2023 Variable name too long.
- 2025 Unknown variable. Please define variable before using...
- 2027 Field name is empty or contains illegal characters.
- 2028 No Fields specified for Database.
- 2029 Cannot insert - Record length would exceed maximum size of 4000
- Characters.
- 2031 Cannot insert - Database already contains record with this key.
- 2032 Cannot insert - Empty Keys are not allowed.
- 2033 Cannot insert - A Boolean has not been set.
- 2034 Cannot create - Filename invalid or not specified.
- 2035 Cannot open/create - More than 10 Databases open.
- 2040 Specified file is not of ILBM format.
- 2041 Specified file is not of ANIM5 format.
- 2042 Specified file is not of 8SVX format.
- 2043 Specified file is not of SMUS format.
- 2044 Specified file is not an AmigaVision application.
- 2045 Specified file is not an ILBM or ANIM5 format.
- 2046 Specified file is not ASCII.
- 2048 Incompatible application file format.
- 2049 Value is not the correct type.
- 2050 Value is out of range.
- 2051 Value is invalid.
- 2053 Presentation error: Could not open screen; aborting.
- 2055 Image output only possible on printer.
- 2056 Value cannot be negative.
- 2057 Field is Invalid.
- 2058 Number will not fit in field when properly formatted.
- 2059 Date is Invalid.
- 2060 Cannot initialize video player. Please check player, cable, and settings.
- 2061 Filename & type is too long. (30 character maximum)
- 2062 Specified file is not an AmigaVision 'Display Object' file.
- 2063 Specified file is not of dBaseIII format.
- 2064 Cannot create Workbench icon file: Filename is too long.
- 2065 Cannot create backup file: Filename is too long.
- 2066 Backup file will not have a Workbench icon: Filename is too long.
- 2067 Drawer & filename is too long. (255 character maximum)
- 2068 Drawer is too long. (255 character maximum)
- 2069 Filename & type may not contain the characters: / \
- 2070 Command specified in Execute icon cannot be performed.
- 2071 Cannot find default tool for project in Execute icon.
- 2072 Illegal negative parameter: This function accepts positive values only.
- 2073 The second parameter must be greater in value than the first.
- 2074 Cannot open specified database
- 2075 Cannot delete record
- 2076 Database record must be selected before performing action
- 2080 Valid Timer units are 1..9 inclusive.
- 2081 Function does not accept input of zero (0).
- 2082 Parameter(s) outside of acceptable range.
- 2084 Cannot load file: it was created by a newer version of AmigaVision.
- 3001 Can't find Workbench 1.3 libraries
- 3002 No textfile specified.
- 3003 Cant open textfile.
- 3004 Bad chunk read
- 3005 Flowfile read error
- 4001 Unable to open file '%s'
- 4002 Not an IFF file '%s'
- 4003 Read Error
- 4004 Can't find instrument '%s'
- 4005 Bad Compress Type in '%s'
- 4006 Not enough memory
- 4007 Not a valid ANIM5 file '%s'
- 4010 Expression syntax error
- 4011 Can't open translator library
- 4012 Can't open narrator device
- 4013 An SMUS file is running
- 4014 Not a valid 8SVX file '%s'
- 4015 Too many sounds
- 4016 Can't open audio device
- 4017 Not a valid SMUS file '%s'
- 4018 Too many instruments
- 4019 Cache manager not running
- 4020 Unable to open desired screen
- 4021 Display object already in use
- 4022 Voice is active
- 4023 Serial device is busy
- 4024 Audio device is busy
- 4025 Timer device is busy
- 4026 SMUS file contains no instruments
- 4027 ILBM too deep
- 4028 Filename needed for 'File Defined' usage
- 4029 A Forms icon is already executing: second activation ignored.
- 4030 Current CD does not contain the track(s) specified.
- 4031 Invalid range specification for CD Audio play command.
- 4033 Not a valid ANIMBRUSH file '%s'
- 4035 Can't open camd.library.
- 4036 Can't open realtime.library.
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