@DATABASE SViewNG.guide @WIDTH 80 ## $VER: SViewNG.guide V6.00 (3.3.97) ## ## For reading this file you may use: ## ## Program-Name available at ## ## - AmigaGuide (various Packages) ## - MultiView (Workbench) ## - PowerGuide (Aminet CDs) ## @NODE MAIN "SViewNG_Documentation" SViewNG V6.00 (3.3.1997) - SHAREWARE - © 1993-97 by Andreas Ralph Kleinert. All rights reserved. A PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX PRODUCT. Needs Kickstart V2.04. Kickstart release 3.x compatible. GUI created with StormWizard 1.0 @{"REGISTER NOW" SYSTEM "ED Register"} @{"Copyrights" LINK Copyrights} @{"Distribution" LINK Distribution} @{"Author/Correspondence" LINK Correspondence} @{"The program's purpose" LINK Purpose} @{"How to install it" LINK Installation} @{"Where to obtain Updates from" LINK UpdateNote } @{"How to use it" LINK Usage} @{"Evaluation restrictions" LINK EvaluationRestr} @{"Known bugs and program limits" LINK Bugs} @{"Program history" LINK History} @{"Possible future enhancements" LINK Future} @{"Credits and Support" LINK Credits_and_Support} _ _ // Only \\X/ Amiga makes it possible. Please visit: SuperView WWW Sites http://home.t-online.de/home/Andreas_Kleinert/ http://www.amigaworld.com/support/sview/ Simon Edward's Image Engineer WWW Site http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~sbe/ (Image Processing program produced by Simon Edwards) @ENDNODE @NODE "Purpose" SViewNG is a program that has been designed for the purpose, to display, convert and process any kind of bitmapped graphics as fast and as comfortable as possible. Fast means not only fast in reading and displaying but also in calling and using the program. Highest possible flexibility is implemented via a native modularian system, consisting of the superview.library, the SVObjects, SVDrivers and SVOperators. These intentions resulted in a bundle of features and options you have access to when using SViewNG and installing it to your System: - licensed "SuperView-Library" (see directory SuperViewLibrary) - intensive use of many special OS V2.04+ and OS V2.1+ capabilities - support of many OS V3.x+ and AGA graphics features, as e.g. support of interleaved BitMaps - support of external Fileformat-Libraries (SVObjects): - IFF-ACBM - Windows,OS/2 BMP - PNM (PBM,PGM,PPM) - IFF-ILBM - JPEG (JFIF v6) - IMG (GEM Graphics) - IFF-DEEP - PhotoCD - WPG (WP Bitmaps) - IFF-PBM - TIFF - MacPaint MAC - IFF-RGB8 - PCX - EPS (Header/PS) - IFF-YUVN - Atari Degas - C64 (Koala, Doodle) - FBM - Windows Icon - CDR-Previews - QRT/POV Raytrace - Mac PICT-2 - SGI - SVG - Targa - Pictor/PCPaint - SunRaster - UtahRLE - PNG as well as all OS3-Datatypes and 24 Bit DataTypes (picture.datatype V43). Many formats with 24 Bit-Support. Reads XPK- and PP20-packed data via Unpack.svobject. Writes C-Sourcecode in chunky/RGB notation. Together with external third party programs also the following file formats seamlessly can be embedded: File Format needs program also needs support for --------------------------------------------------------- - AMF MetaView (ILBM) - DXF/AutoCAD (tm) MetaView (ILBM) - FIG AmiFIG (Postscript) - CGM GPlot (Postscript) - IFF-DR2D MetaView (ILBM) - Limbo Limbo 4.0 (PNM) - Postscript (TM) Ghostscript - - WPG-Vector MetaView (ILBM) - WMF MetaView (ILBM) - support of external periphal devices (DEVICE-access SVObjects): - Scanner (scanner.device of ScanQuix) - Printer (printer.device support; uses own 24 Bit dithering) - support of external display drivers (SVDrivers): - ECS - AGA - EGS7 - OpalVision - Retina - CyberGraphX - PicassoII - Merlin (Picasso96 yet via CyberGraphX or PicassoII API) - Support of external operators (SVOperators): - Dither24Bit - 24BitToHAM - HilbertDither256 - ExtractRed - ExtractGreen - ExtractBlue - XOR - ExtractGrayScales - TopToBottom - LeftToRight - Rotate - Scale50 - AnyTo24Bit - Crop - CallPNM - OptimizePalette - RotateFree - PaletteDither plus the following from Steve Quartly: - SQBentley - SQTiling - SQThreshold - SQOilPaint - SQMosaic - SQEmboss - SQSlicing - SQDiffuse - SQContrast - SQSharpen - SQBlur - SQDeep_Press - SQMotion_Blur - SQHighPass - "Screen-Grabbing" - Commodity (optional) - ARexx-Ports (optional) - AppIcon (optional) - AppMenu (optional) - AppWindow (optional) - Clipboard reading and writing - Support of Devices, like e.g. Scanners - Localization for OS V2.1+ - AmigaGuide OnLine-Help for OS V2.04+ (asynchroneous & localized with 2.1+) - detailed configuration via Config-File, Cli-Options and Workbench-Tooltypes - Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Workbench-Users (optional) - conversion of the supported File-Formats - information about the displayed graphics via Requester, selectable via GUI-Menu - and more And via the SVObjects for IFF-ILBM, IFF-ACBM, IFF-YUVN, IFF-DEEP and IFF-PBM: - use of "iffparse.library" for reading and writing - reading and writing of 32 Bit viewmodes (OS2 CAMG) and AGA 8 Bit Colormaps (OS3 CMAP) - intelligent CAMG-Chunk replacement routine (if CAMG is supported) - and more @{i}GIF is obsolete - you neither should use nor support it any longer. If you are doing WWW design, use PNG and JPEG instead. It's important !@{ui} @ENDNODE @NODE "Installation" Even if you use the supplied Installer-Script, you should read the following notes. If you do not own the standard Installer-Program you should read them even more carefully and follow the instructions given. Note: Should after starting the installer script appear an error message "Can't find program 'Installer'" (or similar), you have to enter the correct path to your Installer program via the Workbench menu Icon/Information. Please do also not forget, to install the library fromout its directory (own script at sub-directory 'SuperViewLibrary'). If you own a KeyFile, place it to "S:", or place it elsewhere and change the environment variable "KEYPATH" to the corresponding directory. The SuperView-Library has to be installed seperately, anyway ! Needed Workbench Resources HardDisk-Users won't perhaps have to install any additional Workbench Resources to their HardDisk. Disk-Users will have to copy the following libraries into their "LIBS:"-Directory, if these not already do residate in ROM (may depend on the version of the operating system): - gadtools.library V37+ - iffparse.library V37+ - asl.library V37+ - commodities.library V37+ - utility.library V37+ - workbench.library V37+ - icon.library V37+ Users of OS V2.04 or greater should also install the following libraries: - amigaguide.library V34+ (please avoid using V34 - it's known to cause problems) Users of OS V2.1 or greater should also install the following libraries: - locale.library V38+ Other needed Resources You will also have to copy the following libraries to your "LIBS:"-Directory (plus SVObjects, SVDrivers and SVOperators): - superview.library V15+ - superviewsupport.library V7+ GUI has been designed with StormWizard, so this program needs "wizard.library" V37+ (you can find a copy in the StormC Demo archive or the Wizard Demo package located on Aminet under "biz/demo/StormWIZARD1_0.lha"). Installing the Main Program Copying SViewNG to your "WBStartup"-Drawer is perhaps one possible solution, but installing it in any other directory will suffice anyway. You should also install an appropriate Config-File in one of the supported paths (e.g. "ENV:" or "S:"). Please note, that the standard icon tooltypes cause SViewNG to open the GUI and a file requester straight after startup - don't forget to change that, if you dislike it. @ENDNODE @NODE "UpdateNote" General ~~~~~~~ Although the SViewNG archive does contain any of the needed parts, you might wish to get updates sometimes. The newest version usually can be found under Aminet:gfx/show/SViewNG.lha Also, there may occur several additional archives, contaning more optional SVObjects/SVDrivers or SVOperators (usually named this way: "sv******.LHA"). FTP ~~~ AmiNet ------ You might try to search under pub/aminet/gfx/show at ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk, ftp.wustl.edu or ftp.uni-paderborn.de where the complete archive is available. When using gopher also ftp.wustl.edu may be accessed (search at 1/pub/aminet/...). Of course you may also take a look at the various CD-ROMs containing material from AmiNet (Fred Fish-CDs, AmiNet, etc.) ======================================= Official SuperView Online Support Sites ======================================= *** COB *** - Running on AMIGA 4ooo TOWER / 040 25Mhz / 18MB / 5.4 GB HD - Sysop: Jens Loreck Online: 00.00h - 24.00h Data: +49-2774-92064 V34/ISDN (33.6k/64k bps) +49-2774-92065 V32terbo/ISDN (19.2k/64k bps) UseNet: SYSOP@COB.wwbnet.de Guest-Account for downloads (user "GAST", no password). This includes SuperView Support as well as Aminet area access. This Box is AmBos-based, you may easily browse through the BBS areas. SViewNG is stored at "Box Inhalt/Support/SuperView". (For AmBos, use ANSI/VT220 and 16 Colors.) @ENDNODE @NODE "Usage" How To Use SViewNG: An Introduction @{"1.0 SViewNG's Construction" LINK Construction} 1.0.1 The Workbench Interface 1.0.2 The Graphical User Interface (GUI) 1.0.3 The CLI Interface 1.0.4 The Commodity Support 1.0.5 The ARexx-Ports 1.0.6 The App-Features 1.0.7 Configuration Commands @{"2.0 Controlling And Using SViewNG" LINK Control} 2.0.1 Options for Configuration and ARexx 2.0.2 GUI and WB-App Handling 2.0.3 Controlling the Display-Screen @{"3.0 Information about the supported Gfx Formats" LINK Gfx-Formats} 3.0.1 IFF-ILBM 3.0.2 IFF-ACBM 3.0.3 Other File Formats @ENDNODE @NODE "EvaluationRestr" This is the evaluation version of SViewNG, which is SHAREWARE. To remind you to register, every time you start or leave the program, an appropriate Requester will appear. Also, ARexx-Ports are no longer available in the evaluation version and only saving of ILBM CmpByteRun1 is possible. All in all: - Requester at startup and when leaving - no ARexx-Ports - saving of file formats other than IFF-ILBM CmpByteRun1 is NOT possible After you've received and installed your Keyfile these restrictions will disappear. @ENDNODE @NODE "Construction" 1.0 SViewNG's Construction SViewNG bases on several interfaces, of which almost any can be activated/deactivated and accessed separately. These are: - The Workbench Interface - The Graphical User Interface (GUI) - The CLI Interface - The Commodity Support - The ARexx-Port - The App-Features - Configuration Commands 1.0.1 The Workbench Interface The Workbench interface is just a standard WB-Interface, which means that it supports sevaral Tooltypes for program configuration, of which nearly any are also available via ARexx and the ConfigFile. It is supported to use SViewNG as a DefaultTool for Project Icons via the Workbench "Information" Menu as well as displaying pictures via "multiple selection" as described in the Workbench manual. See @{"2.0.1" LINK Control} for more details on configuration. 1.0.2 The Graphical User Interface (GUI) As many other programs SViewNG gives the user the possibility to control most activities via a Graphical User Interface, based on the standard Intuition elements as Gadgets, Menus and Windows. @{"SViewNG's GUI" LINK Control} allows to reach nearly all of the program's features and also provides even more of them. This GUI is not necessarily opened automatically, because SViewNG is also designed to run as a Commodity in the Background (see 1.0.4), where a GUI often is not actually needed. The GUI may be activated via Configuration options (see @{"2.0.1" LINK Control}), which either have to be placed in the Config-File, as Icon- Tooltypes or as CommandLine-Options (see 1.0.3). When running SViewNG as a Commodity the GUI can also be opened via the standard WB-Program "Commodity Exchange" (see 1.0.4). If an AppIcon or AppMenu is installed, it also will let the GUI pop up (see 1.0.6). 1.0.3 The CLI Interface The CLI Interface provides nearly all possibilies as the GUI does (except Screen Saving/Gfx Converting), so that CLI users are completely integrated into the program's idea of concept. Allowed configuration options can be parsed via CommandLine by simply adding an "-" to their front (see @{"2.0.1" LINK Control}). 1.0.4 The Commodity Support Only one of the currently running copies of SViewNG at a time has the possibility to install itself as a Commodity which can be controlled via the standard WB-Program "Commodity Exchange". Special options (see @{"2.0.1" LINK Control}) allow to set the HotKey, the Priority and can specify, if the GUI should pop up or not. Via the HotKey (default: alt esc) SViewNG is present everywhere it is needed and even the GUI can appear anywhere as fast as possible, because of the "Commodity Exchange", which allows it to pop up just by pressing the specific button there. 1.0.5 The ARexx-Port The ARexx-Port is another feature, which strenghtens the interactive capabilities of SViewNG, because it allows to contact the SViewNG Process from nearly anywhere at nearly any time to tell it to do a specific task. Most of the ARexx-Commands are also available as configuration options, so they are described there (see @{"2.0.1" LINK Control}). The default of the ARexx-Port is "SViewNG.rx". Only one SViewNG Process will allow such a port at a time, but by specifying different names (see configuration section), more ARexx-ported tasks are possible. 1.0.6 The App-Features Another interactive feature of SViewNG allows you to install an AppIcon, AppMenu and/or AppWindow. All these are each optionally. The AppIcon is placed on the Workbench and allows direct activation of SViewNG, as via ARexx or "Commodity Exchange" (Requester). The AppMenu just works like the AppIcon. The AppWindow only takes place, when the GUI is opened, so that any pictures of which you drop an Icon into the GUI Window will be displayed immediately. 1.0.7 Configuration Commands Because of those many options and features is has perhaps to be explained which order takes place when configuring the program at startup time or later. Here's a table: - Default Options (integrated in SViewNG) - ConfigFile (read from Disk, if available) - a) Tooltypes (read from Icon(s) at WB-Start) b) CLI-Options (supplied via CommandLine at CLI-Start) - ARexx-Command (received while the program is running) @ENDNODE @NODE "Control" 2.0 Controlling And Using SViewNG As described before, SViewNG can either be controlled via Workbench, CLI, "Commodity Exchange", ARexx or its GUI. The Commands, which are available for configuration and interactive ARexx use follow (2.0.1). After that the handling of the GUI is described more detailed (2.0.2). 2.0.1 Options for Configuration and ARexx The letter after the specific command tells you from where it can be reached: C [ Config-File ] T [ Workbench-Tooltypes, CLI-CommandLine] A [ ARexx ] Command Function Usage ALREADY_KNEW_ABOUT Then you need no About-Reqs [ C T A ] (registered version only) QUIT Leave SViewNG [ A ] HELP Load AmigaGuide DataBase [ C T A ] REQUEST Request for displaying a Gfx [ C T A ] SHOW= Display a specific Gfx [ C T A ] LOAD= Load a specific Gfx [ C T A ] UNSHOW End Displaying / Close Display [ A ] SAVE_TYPE= Set new Save-Type for "SAVE" [ C T A ] (does not affect GUI settings) SAVE= Save current Gfx as SAVE_TYPE [ A ] SVDRIVER= Set Default-SVDriver by ID [ C T A ] SVOPERATOR= Set Default-SVOperator by ID [ C T A ] ACTION Do SVOperator action [ A ] OPTION_LOAD= OPTION_SAVE= SCREENSAVEDELAY=<1/50 sec> Delaytime before saving screen [ C T A ] ICONPATH= Location of DefaultIcons [ C T A ] ASLFR_LEFT= FileRequester Initial LeftEdge [ C T A ] ASLFR_TOP= FileRequester Initial TopEdge [ C T A ] ASLFR_WIDTH= FileRequester Initial Width [ C T A ] ASLFR_HEIGHT= FileRequester Initial Height [ C T A ] ERROR_REPORT= "NO" Will e.g. suppress any Requesters, which may cause ARexx-Scripts to wait for user activity. Supresses them also when working with the GUI, so use it carefully. [ C T A ] LOGFILE= Where to put a logfile ? [ C T A ] REJECT_ICONS= Reject Icons in FileRequester? [ C T A ] PUT_ICONS= Put Icons when writing Files ? [ C T A ] INSTALL_CX= Install as a Commodity ? [ C T ] INSTALL_AREXX= Provide an ARexx-Port ? [ C T ] AREXXPORTNAME= Name of ARexxport (<=63 chars) [ C T ] INSTALL_APPWINDOW= Provide an AppWindow ? [ C T A ] (only together with OPEN_GUI or CX_POPUP=YES) INSTALL_APPICON= Provide an AppIcon ? [ C T ] INSTALL_APPMENU= Provide an AppMenu ? [ C T ] OPEN_GUI Open the GUI immediately [ C T A ] CLOSE_GUI Close the GUI immediately [ A ] CX_POPKEY= Standard CX_POPKEY command [ C T ] CX_POPUP= Standard CX_POPUP command. [ C T ] CX_POPUP=YES is equivalent to OPEN_GUI. CX_PRIORITY=<-128..127> Set Priority of SViewNG [ C T A ] Process and the Commodity Broker. If called via ARexx only the process priority is set new. The default name of the ARexx-Port is "SViewNG.rx". 2.0.2 GUI and WB-App Handling The GUI mainly consists various areas which are marked by specific gadgets: Picture Gadgets @{"Slide View" LINK GADGET_View} @{"Load" LINK GADGET_Load} @{"Save" LINK GADGET_Save} @{"View" LINK GADGET_ViewBuf} @{"Action" LINK GADGET_Action} @{"ViewMode" LINK GADGET_ScreenMode} @{"Medium" LINK GADGET_Medium} SVObject/SVDriver/SVOperators Gadgets @{"SV-Switch" LINK GADGET_SVGad} @{"SV-ListView" LINK GADGET_SVList} @{"SVInfo" LINK GADGET_SVInfo} @{"Add" LINK GADGET_SVAdd} @{"Remove" LINK GADGET_SVRemove} Screen Gadgets @{"Screen-ListView" LINK GADGET_ScreenList} @{"Update" LINK GADGET_ScrUpdate} @{"Info" LINK GADGET_ScrInfo} @{"Save" LINK GADGET_ScrSave} More options are available via the "Project" Menu, where you can select between the following actions: @{"FileInfo" LINK MENU_FileInfo} @{"Help" LINK MENU_Help} @{"About" LINK MENU_About} @{"Hide" LINK MENU_Hide} @{"Quit" LINK MENU_Quit} By pressing HELP while selecting a Menu, or by selecting a Gadget after turning on the Gadget-Help via pressing HELP you may enter the context-sensitive documentation. 2.0.3 Controlling the Display-Screen SViewNG opens for each graphic, which has to be displayed, a suitable Screen. This Screen and the attached Window are usually pushed to the Foreground automatically und become activated, just right after the graphic has been loaded. After that you have the possibility, to control the program's behaviour via the following actions: Mouse control: - left Button quits the display When displaying OS3-Datatypes via "Slide View": - left Button within the graphic, while moving the mouse scrolls the graphic. (see relating note in the Screen-Titlebar) Keypad control: - Key "L" : Load new graphic - Key "Q" : Quit display - Key "X" : Quit display and leave program - Key "H" : Open GUI (GUI-Screen still in Background) - HELP-Key : Open GUI (GUI-Screen still in Background) - ESC-Key : Quit display and leave program (naleûy trzymaê naciôniëty przez ok. 1-2 sekundy) @ENDNODE @NODE "Gfx-Formats" @{i}GIF is obsolete - you neither should use nor support it any longer. If you are doing WWW design, use PNG and JPEG instead. It's important !@{ui} 3.0 Information about the supported Gfx Formats 3.0.1 IFF-ILBM IFF-ILBM is the standard Gfx FileFormat for the Amiga. Currently there do exist two versions of this Format: - IFF-ILBM, unpacked - IFF-ILBM, CmpByteRun1 encoded The difference is, that the second one contains data, which is encoded with the CmpByteRun method, while the data of the first is unencoded. The reason, why both methods are included, is that sometimes it may be more efficient to let the IFF-ILBM file unpacked and then pack it with an other packer instead encoding it with CmpByteRun. Also there may exist some older - actually VERY old - programs, which do not support the packed format. IFF-ILBM graphics may contain Amiga-specific color cycling (CRNG) and ViewMode (CAMG) information. 3.0.2 IFF-ACBM IFF-ACBM is the standard Gfx FileFormat for AmigaBASIC. Currently there only does exist one version of this Format: - IFF-ACBM, unpacked The reason, why the data is unpacked is nearly the same, why IFF-ILBM is not used here: From Basic programmes it is not easy to read packed data anyway and it would slow down the program enormously. Data in an IFF-ACBM is saved BitPlane for BitPlane, to increase the speed of reading. If you use an automatically packing FileSystem or a patched DOS it might be useful to use IFF-ACBM, because the speed of displaying pictures dos not increase only with AmigaBASIC programs, but also with SViewNG. And if you use such a method of background packing you will not even need more HardDisk space, which is in fact needed if converting from IFF-ILBM (CmpByteRun) to IFF-ACBM. On the other hand needed space is nearly the same as for unpacked IFF-ILBM graphics - but the speed is higher. 3.0.3 Other File Formats SuperView-Library supports many different graphics file formats, of which some can be both, read and written, some only read or maybe some only written. It also does support reading of all OS3-Datatypes. Please refer to the SuperView-Library documentation for further information. See also paragraph: @{"About the program's abilities" LINK Purpose}. @ENDNODE @NODE "MENU_FileInfo" - FileInfo Gives information about the currently loaded Gfx, as width, height or color-depth. @ENDNODE @NODE "MENU_Help" - Help Starts this Online-Help. @ENDNODE @NODE "MENU_About" - About Informs about SViewNG. @ENDNODE @NODE "MENU_Hide" - Hide Closes the GUI of SViewNG (which when in Commodity-Mode, not necessarily means to quit SViewNG itself). @ENDNODE @NODE "MENU_Quit" - Quit Closes the GUI of SViewNG and exits the program. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_View - Slide View When clicking on this gadget, any old Display will be closed, a FileRequester will appear and the selected picture - if of a known File-Type - will be displayed immediately and replace the old display. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_Load - Load When clicking on this gadget, a FileRequester will appear and the selected picture - if of a known File-Type - will be loaded and held in the Memory for multiple saving (e.g. in different file-formats). If the speficic SVObject (e.g. Datatypes-SVObject) does not support exporting Buffers, a Screen will be opened in the Background to keep the picture. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_Save - Save The stored Buffer will be saved as a picture in the desired file-format, as selected in the ListView-Gadget. (Select "SVInfo" Gadget for more information on the speficic FileFormats). @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_ViewBuf - View Allows to take a quick view on the currently loaded buffer. Functionality is _not_ the same as with "View". Here you'll just take a short look onto the picture and then click it right out of the way. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_Action - Action Modifies the currently loaded SV_GfxBuffer in a way, which depends on the currently selected SVOperator. After that you may save or display the result of the operation via the selected SVObject/SVDriver. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_ScreenMode - ViewMode Opens a ViewMode requester where - depending on the selected SVDriver - a screen mode for the currently loaded SV_GfxBuffer my be selected. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_Medium - Medium This gadget switches the Input/Ouput medium between Disk, Clipboard and Device. This affects loading and saving of graphics. You may e.g load a graphic from ClipBoard, then switch to Disk and save it to there. If disk access is selected, a FileRequester will appear before loading and saving anything, otherwise just the first clipboard unit will be used. More about clipboard use perhaps can be found in your computer's manual. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_SVGad - SVObject/SVDriver switch Gadget This gadget switches the @{"SVListView-Gadget" LINK GADGET_SVList} between SVObject/SVDriver Mode. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_SVList - SVObject/SVDriver ListView Gadget This gadget is for selection of the SVObject/SVDriver, which should be the source for the actions, which can be performed via @{"View" LINK GADGET_View}, @{"Load" LINK GADGET_Load} or @{"Save" LINK GADGET_Save}. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_SVInfo - SVInfo This gadget displays more detailed information on SVObjects/ SVDrivers/SVOperators. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_SVAdd - Add This Gadget adds new SVObjects/SVDrivers/SVOperators to the system, which can be selected via FileRequester. Don't try to selecting other libraries than those, which have a name ending with ".svobject",".svdriver" or ".svoperator" ! Removing is possible via @{"Remove" LINK GADGET_SVRemove}. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_SVRemove - Remove This Gadget removes unusede SVObjects/SVDrivers/SVOperators from the system. This is only possible, if the current SViewNG-Task is the only program, which accesses SuprView-Library at the time. Otherwise the action will result in nothing. Adding is possible via @{"Add" LINK GADGET_SVAdd}. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_Prefs - ? This gadget allows edition of Controlpad settings of the currently selected SVObject/SVDriver/SVOperator from the GUI (just like with the SVPrefs program). @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_ScreenList - ScreenListView Gadget This gadget is for selection of the Screen, which should be the source for the actions, which can be performed via @{"Update" LINK GADGET_ScrUpdate}, @{"Info" LINK GADGET_ScrInfo} or @{"Save" LINK GADGET_ScrSave}. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_ScrUpdate - Update If the list of selectable Screens is not up-to-date an update can be forced by pressing this Gadget. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_ScrSave - Save The Save-Gadget in the Screen area allows you to save the marked Screen in the selected graphics file format. @ENDNODE @NODE GADGET_ScrInfo - Info This Gadget presents various information on the currently selected Screen. @ENDNODE @NODE "Bugs" Known Bugs and program limits: Limits ------ - When trying to create some kind of a "slide show", you have to decide how long the user should see a picture displayed, because a mouse click by the user will end displaying as well as sending an ARexx/Commodity/Tooltype command to SViewNG, which immediately will cause it to display the new picture. This is not a real bug, this is just because of interactive message receiving while a picture is displayed. Multiple picture displaying is only possible when starting different SViewNG Tasks, which then all have to be "quit"ted by a mouse click. When creating a Slide Show you may better use "SuperSlide" which fits those needs well (can be cound in the "Tools" directory). @ENDNODE @NODE "History" SuperView is NOT related to the program with the same name from AmigaLib Disk 367, about which I read late _after_ I began programming it. It also has NOTHING to do with that same-called display interface system. V6.00 (3.3.97): - MAJOR REVISION - now, what many people requested, has finally been done: the GUI has been written completely. It is now been designed with with StormWizard in the most important parts and has become fully font-sensitive and re-sizeable in these parts. This results in the following changes: - the program and its related files are now called "SViewNG" ("next generation" or "new gui" - as you like it), so that you optionally can use the old and new version synchroneously - all related catalogs, guide files etc. now are named "sviewng", too - there are now again two catalogs altogether, only the one of the main program could kept its content, thus there's again need for new translations of the GUI catalogs - this program now needs "wizard.library" V37+ (you can find a copy in the StormC Demo archive or the Wizard Demo package located on Aminet under "biz/demo/StormWIZARD1_0.lha"). - Menu help does not work as usual - and more **************************************************************************** Version history before V6.00 no longer included **************************************************************************** @ENDNODE @NODE "Future" Possible future enhancements _might_ be: - more and smarter functions for image processing - 8 Bit or HAM preview screens for any graphics - holding more than one graphic in memory (multi-handle accesses) - and more @ENDNODE @NODE "Correspondence" SuperView WWW Sites http://home.t-online.de/home/Andreas_Kleinert/ http://www.amigaworld.com/support/sview/ _________________________________________________________ | You may reach me the following way. | | Send bug-reports, money or whatever to: | |---------------------------------------------------------| | * SuperView Development & Registration * | | * DRAFU Development & Registration * | | * Image Engineer Registration Site Europe * | | | | | | PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX | | | | Andreas R. Kleinert | | Sandstrasse 1 | | D-57072 Siegen | | Germany, Europe | | | | Any snail mail to the old address will still be routed. | | | | Phone: +49-271-22869 also FAX + AM | | +49-271-22838 | | | | Weekdays after 17.00h. | | | | When calling via phone you may leave a message, | | if I'm not available - but don't expect me | | calling back to USA, Australia, ... since | | german phone rates are HIGHLY expensive. | |_________________________________________________________| EMail: Please send binaries via ARK@COB.wwbnet.de, and keep them smaller than 16 KB. Please think twice before sending them - my postbox is not unlimited in size. * Do not send binaries via Fido or Fido-Gates ! * - Fido Andreas Kleinert 2:2457/350.18 - Usenet ARK@superview.ftn.neckar-alb.de (Fido-Gate) Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de (T-Online) ARK@COB.wwbnet.de (Z-Netz) ARK@amigaworld.com (AmigaWorld) - If nothing else works, try one of these public Fido-Usenet gateways: In Germany: Andreas_Kleinert@p18.f350.n2457.z2.fido.sub.org From USA or elsewhere: Andreas_Kleinert@p18.f350.n2457.z2.fidonet.org When reporting any bugs, please don't forget to include a detailed description of the bug and tell me, if it is reproduceable or not. Please also mention the version number of SViewNG you used and describe your system configuration (Amiga model 500/.../4000T-060, Kickstart/OS, RAM, HardDisk, special configurations). If you want to get a newer - and maybe debugged - version of SViewNG do not forget to register as an user of SViewNG with the included registration form. Nevertheless unregistered users are as welcome to report bugs as users who decide(d) to register. @ENDNODE @NODE "Credits_and_Support" I perhaps have to thank many persons, but I won't list them all up here, since many of them are already mentioned in the documentation to "SuperView-Library" (so read it, please). Thanks go to (in alphabetical order): - Jan van den Baard ... for his great tool GadToolsBox, which I formerly used to design the GUI of SuperView. - Gerd Frank ... for Beta-Testing, Bug-Reports and last not least for his many ideas and suggestions, espescially concerning the re-design of SuperView's GUI ;-) - Roman Patzner ... for the nice icons he designed for use with Martin Huttenloher's MagicWB (8 Colors minimum) and sent to me for inclusion with SuperView. Many thanks for the work he has done on them and for related ideas and suggestions. Since many people use MagicWB, Roman's Icons are now included as the standard set, but please note that these are especially designed for an appropriate Workbench environment (take a look at "RomIcons" on AmiNet). - Martin Schulze ... for uploading SuperView onto the AmiNet and including it into the SaarAG series, so that it reached more people out there. Also for sending and receiving all those mails, which did not find their way through the labyrinth of Fido-Gateways ;-) - Detlef Winkler ...credits and many thanks go to him for the new icon set introduced between V4.2 and V4.42, which had been included upto V4.61 as an alternative set. He has also designed the new SuperView Logo and many Default Icons for the various File Formats (see DocFile "Bonus/ReadMe"). - to the translators Francais: Emmanuel REY Italiano: Alessandro Basso (cralex@amiga.dei.unipd.it) Luca Giolo (grifon@vega.unive.it) Svenska: Patrik M Nydensten (nyden@algonet.se) Torbjörn Aronsson (torbjorn.aronsson@mailbox.swipnet.se) - and last NOT LEAST - all registered users of SuperView for supporting Shareware - all people I already mentioned in the documentation to SuperView-Library @ENDNODE @NODE "Distribution" Copyright The program SViewNG in this version and its documentation files are (C)opyright 1993-97 by Andreas R. Kleinert. All rights reserved. The right of using this program is granted to you by paying the SHAREWARE-fee of 30,- (outside western Europe 40,-) DEM to the author (20 USD/25 USD). Together with the registration you also receive your personal KEYFILE. Should any of the listed terms and clauses within this document not be valid in conjunction with the law of certain countries this does not affect the validity of the other clauses. Disclaimer The author takes no responsibility for any results of the use of this program. This software is provided "AS IS" and there is no warranty of any kind, so that you use this software at your own risk. The author reserves the right to discontinue development of the program. Rights Registered users which paid the SHAREWARE-fee get the rights described on the registration form. Distribution The REGISTERED version of SViewNG MUST NOT be redistributed. The Distribution of Keyfiles is FORBIDDEN. The following only applies to the unregistered evaluation (EL) version of SViewNG: The program SViewNG in this version is freely distributable (SHAREWARE). You may copy it, if the copyright notice is left intact and all of its parts are included in the distribution. This program must not be included in commercial packages or commercial program collections without my written permission. This program must not be sold in any way, but it is allowed to take a nominal fee including the costs for copying. This program may be put on public domain disks or included in public domain disk libraries. Special permission hereby goes to Fred Fish's AmigaLib-Disks and the german series (in alphabetical order): AmigaSzene, BerndsPD, FRANZ, GPD, SaarAG, TAIFUN and TIME. This program may also be distributed via electronic mail and may be put into mailboxes as long as the redistribution conditions are respected in all points. By using or distributing this program you automatically agree to all of the above conditions and terms. @ENDNODE @NODE "Copyrights" Copyrights Some of the mentioned names or products above may be copyrighted by companies or trademarks of companies. @ENDNODE @ENDNODE