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- http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~krabbe/magiceye/
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- An AugustA team Release!
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- Copyright:
- This program and all accompanying files (program-icon) are copyrighted 1996 by
- Christian 'cr8y' Krapp! You can copy these files to your friends as long as the
- files are unchanged. It is not allowed to demand a fee higher as media costs and
- a (little) copy-fee. In addition, no one is allowed to put these files onto a
- PD-disk or an CD-Rom. You can get a permittion by the author. Please contact!
-
- For the AmiNet, FreshFish and MeetingPearls CD-Rom's is no permittion requiered!
-
- This program isn't Public Domain or Shareware. It's is developt as Freeware.
- Everyone, who use this program, should send me an postcard or an eMail. (I want
- to know, how many (or much? ;^) ) Amiga-Fans use this program).
-
- When you use this little program, than you use it on your own risk! The author
- take no respons for damage made by MagicEYE!
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- What is it?
- No: This is not again a program to render 3D pictures! Do you know the
- MagicWB- or NewIcons-Stuff? (what a question ;^> ) And: I think you know these
- funny Eye-programs, which fellow the mouse-pointer! Ok. Than you know MagicEYE.
- It's an Eye-program for an upstyled Workbench.
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- 10 reasons, why to use this program:
-
- 1.) colorized eyes ;^)
- 2.) automatic window close, when WB is closed (screennotify.library)
- 3.) you can configurate a lot
- 4.) patch to have an screen-drag MagicEYE-window
- 5.) 6(!) different eye-effects
- 6.) colorremapping, MagicWB nolonger needed (AmigaOS 3.0+)
- 7.) very short program
- 8.) it's an commodity
- 9.) can copy screen-background into MagicEYE-window
- 10.) MagicEYE-window is the hindmost window
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- What do you need?
- You need of course an Amiga-Computer (or an compatible one ;^) ). Also you
- need at least AmigaOS 2.04 or higher. Sorry, but I can't guarantee, that the
- version for AmigaOS 2.04 work, because I have only an Amiga with AmigaOS 3.0.
- In addition to the OS you should run your Workbench with at least 8 colors and
- a quadratic resolution (e.g. 640×512). Last but not least you should use an
- 13 point high font for screen title. This is necassery, because MagicEYE has
- an fixed high of 13 points. And new for release 2 of MagicEYE you need the
- screennotify-library from Stefan Becker (optional, if you want automatic close
- of the MagicEYE-Window when WB close).
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- Different program versions:
- It's very simple: The 'new' AmigaOS 3.0 has some better functions which are
- supported by MagicEYE. And so, I have produced two versions: One for AmigaOS 2.0
- (MagicEYE_37) and one for AmigaOS 3.0 (MagicEYE_39) and higher.
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- How to install?
- Nothing simpler than that: you copy only the right program-version of MagicEYE
- to your WBStartup-directory on you startvolume (disk, hd...). That's it :-]
- When you want to run your User-Startup, than copy MagicEYE into your
- C-Directory and run MagicEYE from User-Startup.
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- How to use?
- You can run this program from the Workbench (or the WBStartup directory) and
- from a Shell (User-Startup).
-
- DONOTWAIT : This has nothing to do with MagicEYE. It's only a flag for
- Workbench.
- WIN_X : Where do you want to place the MagicEYE-window? Here you
- WIN_Y configurate the x and y position. Default: WIN_X=545 and
- WIN_Y=1
- ATTENTION: If you use an titlefont smaller than 13 point,
- set the value of WIN_Y to 0.
- PRIORITY : Defines the task-priority. This value should be lower than
- 0, so, other programs (which need the system-time) gets more
- system-time. The default value is 0 (program) or -5 (Icon).
- DRAGPATCH : With this (non system-friendly) patch it is possible, to
- drag the screen with the MagicEYE-window. So there is no
- different on the screen-title, when you want to drag down
- the screen (funny). Default is off!
- BACKGROUND : Copy the background of the position, where the Eyes appears
- into the MagicEYE window (and so into the background).
- QUICKQUIT : Enable faster quitting of MagicEYE (with right Mousebutton).
- BACKDROP : Enable the Layer Patch, that bring the MagicEYE window to
- the hindmost window (every time!). ATTENTION: with this
- patch there will be the function BehindeLayer (-54) from the
- layer.library changed!
- SLEEP_PERIOD : This flag define the time that the program wait, till it
- close the Eyes, when the mouse isn't moved! Default: 50.
- (Try different values!)
- FRESHUP_PER_SEC : This value define, how often the Eyes are rendern in a
- second. So, you have here the posibility to define, how much
- system-time is used from MagicEYE (and of course with the
- PRIORITY). An example: If you give as FRESHUP_PER_SEC an 1,
- the Eyes is renderd once in a second. Default is 50 (=> so
- MagicEYE renders the Eyes 50 times a second). The max. value
- for this flag is 100 (Or have you an screen-mode with more
- then 100Hz?).
-
- And now the effect-configuration. Very important to know: The values, that you
- give here, are interpreted as a probability (1/value). The value must be greater
- than 1:
-
- SLEEPY : This value is needed, to define how often the Eyes are
- closed.
- TIRED : Define, how often the eye-lid's go down to the half.
- ROLL_SYNCHRON : When roll the Eye synchron (in same direction).
- ROLL_ASYNCHRON : When roll the Eye asynchron (in different direction).
- LEFTRIGHT : How often the Eye's look Left-Right.
- RANDOM_EYE : Defines, when you get the trembling Eye's.
- BLOODY : When get the red Eye's?
-
- So, that's it. You know now all the features of MagicEYE. Or...? You want to
- know, how to exit this mega mighty program? Is it true? Do you want to quit this
- program? Ok. I see... You want know this (very stupied :-|) feature: There
- are two ways:
- 1.) Run MagicEYE again!
- 2.) Run Exchange, select MagicEYE and quit it!
- 3.) (when QUICKQUIT) Aktivate MagicEYE-Window and press right Mousebutton!
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- What can be made better?
- * More funny things with the Eyes
- * Eye's with eyebrow's?
- * It is possible, that there exists errors (undocumented features ;^) or bugs)
- which we doesn't want!
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- For any reaseon (bug-report, ideas ...) try this:
-
- sMail: Christian Krapp
- Hagenmähderstr. 9
- D-86391 Stadtbergen
- (GERMANY)
- eMail: krabbe@informatik.fh-augsburg.de
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- History: (xx means 37 (AmigaOS 2.04) or 39 (AmigaOS 3.0+))
-
- Vxx.0 28.04.1995 - First try (produced MagicEYE-Animation).
- Vxx.1 16.06.1995 - After a long work it's done. The first public-version ok.
- Vxx.2 01.08.1995 - Silly error removed (Thanks Roland Fulde).
- - Colorizing implemented (Markus Speicher and Mario Cattaneo
- were interessted, only 39.x-Version).
- - ScreenNotify-Library supported (Mario Cattaneo).
- - Rolling Eye (Dirk Wrocklage).
- - Tremble and red Eye's (Michael Krapp).
- - Rolling Eye asynchron, tired Eye and look Left-Right
- (Christian Krapp)
- Vxx.3 01.03.1996 - ScreenNotify-Library optional!
- - supports Commodity-Library
- - red Eye's become white after a while of closed Eye's
- - removed time-waste when Eye's are closed (problems with
- Nemac IV)
- Vxx.4 20.02.1997 - Trancparent background (optional)!
- - Quickquit again included!
- - MagicEYE window is hindmost window
- - MagicEYE in WWW http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~krabbe/magiceye/
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