AWeb Animated GIF Plugin
version 1.00

Animated GIF test image

Index

Introduction
Requirements
Installation
Shareware
Known bugs
Future improvements
Credits

Introduction

These days animated gifs are getting more and more popular to give internet pages a nice extra touch. For AWeb users these animations were just shown as the first image of the animation. Until now! This plugin for AWeb will decode and play (nearly) all gif animations on the world wide web making AWeb the Amiga Internet Browser which is able to show you the pages as they where meant to be!

Not only animations are supported, normal gif images are handled by this plugin as well. It will show them in a progressive manner, meaning that you can already see part of the image when the image is not even completely downloaded yet.

Requirements

This is what you'll need to be able to use this plugin:

Installation

To install this plugin all you need to do is double-click on the installer icon and select your AWeb directory when asked (or copy the file animgif.awebplugin to the awebplugin drawer in the AWeb main directory). Next open the AWeb browser settings window and select the Viewers tab. Now add or change the entry IMAGE/GIF, set Extensions to 'gif', Action to 'AWeb plugin' and Name to 'awebplugin/animgif.awebplugin'. In the Arguments field you can select wether or not you want scaling by setting it to SCALEMODE=xxx. Where xxx can be:
  1. No scaling.
  2. Enlarge width or height in such a way that the aspect ratio of the image will be as it was meant to be by the author of the image.
  3. Same as 1 but now the size reduced instead of enlarged.

Shareware

This plugin is shareware. The demo version is complete, but will display a message text over the second half of the animation reminding you that you haven't registered yet. I'm not trying to make a lot of money with this shareware fee, but I do want to support all new hardware (like Graphic boards and the PowerPC). Unfortunately I'm just a student and can't afford this hardware without your support. It's probably possible to crack the program and remove the message, just remember that this is illegal and how much better you'll feel having your own personal copy.

For more information about registration look here.

Known bugs

Known bugs in this release are:

Future improvements

Planned improvements for the near future are:

Credits

Programming:Supporting company:Beta-Testing:
Willem Mestrom
Amitrix
Vincent Groenewold (supernov), Yvon Rozijn and the AWeb Beta-testers
This page was created by Willem Mestrom (author of the AWeb Animated GIF plugin).