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- Changes from 1.01 to 1.02
- -------------------------
- There have been little changes. In fact this is 1.01 released
- again with the little bugs fixed up. I am preparing version
- 1.1 with a lot of changes. It still has some bugs to be fixed.
-
- - Some known bugs have been fixed up.
-
- - There is no more restriction on this software. There is
- a key comming with the distribution to allow acess to all
- functions. The software will not expire any more for this
- version. Versions comming after this still expire.
-
- - The Sound association file is NakedEye.snd . It is the
- default association file for GIF and VOC files. If you
- have a soundblaster card, simply edit this file to set
- up the association and play the sound. The key M is used
- to activate the sound when you are having a slide show.
-
- - The TEXT association file is NakedEye.trc . It allows you
- to set the association between GIF and TEXT files. The
- text file can be displayed by selecting ShowText on the
- control panel or T when a slide show is on. This is for
- people who want to display some comments or poetry etc.
-
- * Version 1.1 will be released later in the year when I get
- the bugs out. It will be very different with pop-up menu
- user interface. It will also support XMS memory. I will
- also rewrite the documentation to make it simple and precise.
-
- Changes from 1.0 to 1.0.1
- -------------------------
-
- There are several changes. I am not rewriting the manual
- because it simply take too much time to be worth it. From now
- on all new changes will be in this NOTE.TXT file.
-
- There have been changes from version 1.0 to version 1.0.1
- Most features are the same but the internal implementations
- may have changed for better or for worse. You will find
- the version number changes very slowly because the software
- is fairly complete in what it is designed to be: a GIF Viewer
-
- Here are the changes from 1.0 to 1.0.1 (Oct 1991). A * means
- important.
-
- * The executable is now abbreviated to ne.exe . Many
- people have found NakedEye is too long to type.
-
- - NakedEye will swap itself to EMS or XMS memory if DOS
- escape is invoked by F9 or SHELL. If it cannot find
- either types of memory it will spawn the DOS shell
- without swapping itself out of conventional memory.
-
- * NakedEye is now an overlay program. It will have only
- active segments in conventional memory. The rest is in
- a memory cache in EMS or XMS. This has released about
- 60K extra out for general use. Typically after start-up
- there will be 370K of memory left for general use. You
- should set up your system with some EMS memory if you
- have 2Mbytes or more of memory. A line like the
- following (or similar) can be added to your config.sys
-
- device=c:\dos\emm386.exe 1024 ram
-
- If you have a lot of memory then the more memory is set
- up for EMS the faster NakedEye will refresh display and
- paint the next picture. I prefer to reboot my machine
- with a different set up when I want to use NakedEye
- with a lot of GIF files. There are many programs on the net
- for this purpose.
-
- It is recommended that NakedEye is installed on your hard
- disk. Running NakedEye from a floppy disk is too slow.
-
- - Rotation and Resize are now faster if there is enough
- memory. NakedEye will swap itself out of conventional
- memory and invoke a tiny program outside to do the job.
- If there is about 500K left when NakedEye starts, it
- will be able to deal with images of size 800x600 or
- similar sizes very effectively.
-
- * A small change to user interface. Option /m alone will
- put it into a selection menu which was the default in
- version 1.0. It is nicer to start NakedEye into the
- first picture for experienced users.
-
- - NakedEye will now deal with about 97Mbytes of information
- after decompression from GIF into normal indexed raster
- image. About 200 GIF files can be opened in a session
- if they are not all too big.
-
- * Command Shake'it and ShLevel are added for the pleasure
- of the eyes. The Shake'it command add vibration to a
- selected region. The other tells NakedEye how much to
- shake the region. Use the mouse to pause for selecting
- more regions to be set into motion. Type ESC will get you
- back to normal control.
-
- * Command Curtain and Curmode are added. Curtain draws a
- curtain of 50% visibility across the area selected. Curmode
- controls the direction of drawing. This set is another
- chewing gum for the eyes. These weird commands and the
- lenses etc ... are the unique features of NakedEye.
-
- * A sound player is incorporated in the distribution. It is
- called SPLAYER.EXE . This program will play a VOC format
- file for the Sound Blaster card continuously. Two commands
- are added into NakedEye 1.0.1 called Music and Mfile.
- Music plays the sound file associating with a gif file.
- Mfile let you name the associating file for GIF and VOC
- files. You need a Sound Blaster board to play music/sound
- while looking at the GIF files. This SPLAYER.EXE program
- takes an optional argument -ns standing for non-stop playing.
-
- The format of the sound association file is simple. A line
- starting with # is a comment line. The rest contain two
- formats; one for the sound player and the other for GIF and
- VOC files
-
- Example: File NakedEye.SND
-
- ######################################################################
- # This is the sample sound association file. #
- # The character # is used to comment a line. #
- # #
- # player should be set to your favourite VOC player. The default one #
- # is SPLAYER.EXE distributed with NakedEye 1.0.1 . There can be more #
- # than one player. The last one immediate before the correct #
- # GIF = VOC association entry will be used to play the VOC file. #
- # #
- ######################################################################
- player=.\splayer.exe
- paradise.gif=.\oxygen.voc
- wgardn1.gif=.\waltz1.voc
-
- The above file shows an example of the sound association file
- between GIF files and VOC files for NakedEye 1.0.1. You can see
- that the sound player is .\splayer.exe and for every GIF file
- there is a VOC file name. Also note that the file name on the
- right hand side of = is with full directory path name.
- The name on the left is the filename of the GIF file without
- the directory path.
-
- Now you can set up the association file between GIF and VOC
- and play music or sound when you view the picture. BE CAREFUL
- and make sure that FULL PATH NAMES are used for the sound
- player and the VOC files. If this is not set correctly NakedEye
- will simply complain "Cannot open". You will have to edit
- your own association file or modify the sample file NakedEye.SND
- to make sure that it works even when you run NakedEye from a
- directory different from where you install NakedEye.
-
- The key M was used for displaying the memory status in 1.0
- Now it is used to play sound (Music). When you first request
- for music, NakedEye will ask for the association file name. It
- will scan the file for GIF <-> VOC association and play the
- VOC file. Subsequent request will cause NakedEye to scan the
- same association file. You can change the association file any
- time by the command Mfile which must be selected from the
- control panel.
-
- * Slide show with MUSIC is possible now with NakedEye 1.0.1
- You simply type M when the slide show is on (using F2).
- NakedEye will play the VOC file associating with the current
- GIF file, when finished it will display the next GIF file and
- play the next sound file and so on ...
-
- When the slide show and music are on at the same time, to stop
- them you have to type ESC twice.
-
- Until NakedEye 1.0.2, Good Bye and hope you enjoy NakedEye.
-