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- FXPLAY SCRIPT LANGUAGE PRELIMINARY REPORT
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- March 30,1994
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- ** STOP **
- ** IF YOU HAVE NOT READ FXPLAY.DOC, STOP AND DO SO NOW, THEN COME BACK **
- ** TO HERE **
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- FXPlay is a stand alone FLI player. It is part of the work I am doing
- to implement a stand alone Multi-Media scripting language.
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- My goal is to develop a powerful "DOS" based shareware presentation package
- which will run well on machines that are borderline for the major
- windows presentation packages (i.e. anything under a 33mHz 486sx with Vesa
- local bus and at least 8 megs of ram).
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- The registration for the shareware package is also going to be far lower
- than the price for one of the major windows packages (Some are $400.00 or
- more)
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- Planned features for the scripting language include all the effects
- in FXPlay plus:
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- Additional control over the Pixellation routine. The ability to
- Pixellate individual areas of the screen while the animation is playing.
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- Additional control over the FLOATER effect. User defined paths will
- be allowed.
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- Support for still frames in .PCX and .GIF format.
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- Support for WAV and SND files.
- (MIDI depends on whether or not I can get this program registered
- by enough users so that I can afford the toolkit I need)
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- Powerful commands for Line drawing and setting up text captions on
- screen.
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- Commands for moving a block of the screen from one part to another.
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- Looping and user input commands in the scripting language.
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- Mouse support.
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- ****************** The following are features that I want *******************
- ****************** to support but do not know if I can *******************
- ****************** find the right information with out *******************
- ****************** help. *******************
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- Playing of MID files. (I need a toolkit I cannot afford
- or source code to play them on Sound
- Blaster)
- Playing of AVI
- (Video for windows) I need the technical specification
- for the AVI file format.
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- GUI drag and drop This one depends on the level of interest
- interface for gen- I get on this project. The initial
- erating scripts release of the script engine will
- include a description of the language and
- a player, you will have to edit scripts with
- DOS edit or another editor.
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- Suggestions are welcome.
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- Registration fee will be $35.00 for the completed language.
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- You can support me in the development of this project and
- save yourself money by sending $15.00 or what ever you can now.
- If you do this you will be notified by mail when the scripting
- language is complete and it is yours for $5.00 postage and handling
- if you have sent $15.00 or the difference between what you send and
- $20.00 a total savings of $15.00
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- Subsequent upgrades will continue to be yours for $5.00
- postage and handling fees.
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- Projected completion time for this project is late 94.
-
- ( I am not a corporation this is a one man project being done in my
- spare time so support would be greatly appreciated. Please make
- checks payable to Anthony W. Henry)
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- My address is: Anthony Henry
- 2307 23rd ST #1
- ZION IL, 60099
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- I can be reached by E-Mail
- CIS: 73073,3404
- INTERNET: 73073.3404@compuserve.com
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