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- ]P]E]R-Anim, a simple animator program for the Amiga
-
-
- Since some of you may have my very user-unfriendly ansi/anim editor PER-AEd
- I thought I'd give you an update of the animator editor together with a
- complete new version of the Ansi editor. I hadn't planned to have PER-AEd
- spreaded so I'm not to be hold accountable for bugs in that program. If you
- find any however, please let me know.
-
- If you're looking for a user-friendly easy to use multi purpose animation
- editor, you're in the wrong place on two counts. This editor does however
- contain an option which makes it easier to make nice animations. You can
- load a background and edit the animation against that one.
-
- However, since this animator uses a RAW: window for editing and doesn't get
- it's key sequences through either IDCMP or the console.device, the program
- isn't working that well when you have multiple programs running or when you
- keep keys pressed.
-
- These are small (well, it depends on what you call small, I guess) dis-
- advantages compared to other animation editors currently in the running.
-
- I am, however working on a new version of this animator using custom screens.
- Since these get their messages through IDCMP, I think I can safely state that
- the next version of this program is going to be quite more user-friendly
- (menus and stuff) and a lot nicer.
-
- The last version some of you may have seen of this program is in my previous
- Ansi editor, which - by the way - wasn't meant to be spread, when you called
- it with 'PER-AEd anim'. The only difference is that this version is a little
- bit more user-friendly due to my using the requester library in this version.
-
- If you're not satisfied with the result, you can contact me at the following
- addresses to leave me notes and/or requirements for a good animation editor:
-
- -Crystal Palace BBS [+31-2975-30299]
- -peraue@cs.vu.nl (usernet)
- -P-E Raue, Bieslook 92, 1422 RS Uithoorn, The Netherlands
-
- Please send me any suggestions you have for the animation editor or other
- utilities you might find usefull.
-
- Well, there isn't much to tell about the editor itself so I'll just give
- you a quick rundown of the commands and what they do.
-
- Control Keys
- ------------
- Ctrl-Q -> Quit PER-Animator Editor V1.0
- Ctrl-W -> Write Animation To Disk
- Ctrl-L -> Load Animation From Disk
- Ctrl-R -> Redraw Animation, if you have your background on, it will also
- redraw your background for you.
- Ctrl-Z -> Clear Animation, beware, this doesn't clear your background, you
- have to press 'Alt-C' to achieve that.
- Ctrl-D -> Delay Animation, the program delays the animation by inserting
- blanks after each animation frame, and just as much blanks as
- you enter.
- Ctrl-B -> Bold On
- Ctrl-I -> Italics On
- Ctrl-F -> Following Animation Frame
- Ctrl-P -> Previous Animation Frame
- Ctrl-U -> Underline On
- Ctrl-N -> Normal
-
-
- Alt Keys
- --------
- Alt -B -> Show Background
- Alt -O -> Omit Background
-
- Alt -L -> Load Background
- Alt -C -> Clear Background
-
- Function Keys
- -------------
- F1 -> Pen Color 0 ( ESC-'[30m' )
- F2 -> Pen Color 1 ( ESC-'[31m' )
- F3 -> Pen Color 2 ( ESC-'[32m' )
- F4 -> Pen Color 3 ( ESC-'[33m' )
- F6 -> Background Color 0 ( ESC-'[40m' )
- F7 -> Background Color 1 ( ESC-'[41m' )
- F8 -> Background Color 2 ( ESC-'[42m' )
- F9 -> Background Color 3 ( ESC-'[43m' )
-
- =======>
- NOTES:
- =======>
-
- After pressing backspace, you will have lost the colors and specifications
- of the previous frame, so you'll be editing in normal background/foreground
- colors and normal style.
-
- Don't try to load a non-animation in the editor other than as a background
- because the program will behave very strange after that, because it sees
- the screen as a continues pair of characters on ONE line so you'll be
- editing a single line, and the editor doesn't support this.
-
- I hope you like this program (not much chance), and if you have any ideas
- that you would like to see in the custom-screen version of this utility,
- let me know, and I'll see if I can fix it.
-
- ]P]E]R signing off.
-