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- Gif2BGI
- --------
-
- Program to display images saved as GIF files on IBM PC display devices using
- the BGI (Borland) driver interface.
-
- The program has few stages as follows:
- 1. Reads GIF file header and determines size of it.
- 2. Dynamically allocate enough memory to hold all the image internally.
- One byte per pixel is always allocated, so a little bit more than
- width*height (of screen, not image) bytes are required.
- 3. Reads all the image in. Interlaced images are read correctly in, although
- they are displayed sequentially.
- 4. Display first image using the defaults as set by the command line option.
- 5. Goes to interactive mode. For full description of the interactive mode
- see below
-
-
- Usage:
- ------
-
- Gif2BGI [-q] [-d BGI Directory] [-u UserBGIDrv.Mode] [-z ZoomFactor] [-b]
- [-h] GifFile
-
- If no GifFile is given, Gif2BGI will try to read stdin for GIF file.
-
-
- Memory required:
- ----------------
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- Screen.
-
-
- Options:
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-
- 1. [-q] : quite mode. Default off on MSDOS, on on unix. Controls printout
- of running scan lines. Use -q- to turn off.
- 2. [-d BGI Directory] : Where should we look for default drivers (as supplied
- by Borland). For example '-d c:/tc/bgi'.
- 3. [-u UserBGIDrv.Mode] : Specifies user defined BGI driver. If for example
- you have a BGI driver for your special vga called MYVGA.BGI and you want
- to run it in mode 2 then type '-u c:/tc/bgi/myvga.2'. Note the absolute
- path to the driver must be specified. Also note that we use '/' and not
- '\' so they would not be treated as options.
- 4. [-z ZoomFactor] : Sets zoom factor of the image. Zoom factor should be
- power of 2 up to 256. Default is 1 (no zoom).
- 5. [-h] : print one command line help, similar to Usage above.
-
- Interactive mode:
- -----------------
-
- Once the image is displayed, the program goes into interactive mode
- which recognizes the following commands:
- 1. C - get Color and Position.
- In this sub menu, a cursor appears, and the Color of the pixel the cursor
- is on, with its position in GIF file screen are printed. The 4 arrows may
- be used (shifted for faster movement) to move the cursor. Any other key will
- abort this sub mode.
- 2. D - Zoom Down by factor of 2 unless current zoom factor is 1.
- 3. R - Redraw the image.
- 4. S - print Status of image and program.
- 5. U - Zoom Up by factor of 2 unless current zoom factor is 256.
- 6. 4 arrow keys can be used to pan to the desire direction, if the image
- overflow to that direction. If, on the other hand, the image fit into the
- Hercules device, arrow keys are ignored. The panning steps are 1/2 screen if
- not on image end.
- 7. ' ' - Space bar may be used to abort current image drawing.
- 8. ESC - Escape key may be used to abort the program.
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-
- Notes:
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-
- As no color quantization is used in this program if a GIF image has more
- colors than the BGI driver support, this program will abort.
- This driver is optimized for drivers with one byte per pixel (256 colors)
- and will run MUCH faster in these cases.
-
-
- Bugs:
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-
- For some reason I could not figure out on my ATI wonder card, int 10h call
- 10h (AH = AL = 10h) to set the color registers sometimes result with wrong
- colors. Direct access of the card registers gives correct results. I dont do
- that to make this program portable but if your driver gives wrong colors it
- is probably because it is using this bios call. Any one has anything to add?