Short:    User-friendly picture viewer
Author:   Timm S. Müller
Uploader: Timm S. Müller
Version:  0.98a
Type:     gfx/show
Requires: Kickstart 3.0 (v39), MC68020


introduction
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  MysticView is an easy-to-use picture viewer with modern
  features, providing excellent display quality and great
  flexibility.


features
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  - fully independent from native display hardware:
    displays every picture on any screen mode, resolution and
    color depth, including hicolor, truecolor and HAM.

  - free scaling:
    scales images to the required dimensions automatically, with
    respect to the aspect ratios of both the screen and the
    picture.
  
  - display quality:
    features highly elaborated color quantization and rendering.
    floyd-steinberg dithering is available on displays with 256 or
    less colors, and on HAM screens.

  - user friendly:
    opens a scalable (or borderless) window on the workbench, on
    public or custom screens.

  - heavily multithreaded:
    uses massive internal multitasking for an user-compliant
    behavior. the main window stays usable while loading, drawing,
    copying, scanning, ...

  - highly configurable:
    has got innumerous configuration details to suit your personal
    taste.


requirements
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  - OS3.0 (v39)
  - 68020
  - datatypes.library v39

  supports
  
  - higher CPUs, FPU
  - OS3.1
  - CybergraphX, Picasso96


changes
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  since 0.97f

  - re-implemented NORECURSE
  - added NOLOOP and AUTOQUIT settings.
  - changed default background color
  - implemented SORTMODE none/random/alpha
  - added DITHERMODE setting. implemented EDD dithering.
  - pictures that could not be loaded no longer interrupt
    slideshows, and a proper error message will be displayed.
  - added Delete Picture.
  - copy/move/delete now applies to the pictures' icons, too.
  - added STARTPIC setting.
  - restructured menus.
  - added Flip Horizontally and Flip Vertically.
  - MysticView now creates an icon for its settings, if necessary.
  - implemented loading and saving of presets, added PRESETPATH
    and PRESETFILE settings
  - fixed DEFAULT option. now the defaults are overridden by
    arguments specified in the command line.
  - the preload task's priority has been reset to -1.
  - added newicon thumbnail feature.


============================= Archive contents =============================

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   50160   22427 55.2% 30-Nov-97 20:56:42 +render.library
   49936   22319 55.3% 30-Nov-97 20:56:26 +render.library_68040
   90560   39288 56.6% 05-Dec-97 00:28:06 +MysticView
   38746   13079 66.2% 05-Dec-97 00:06:56 +MysticView.guide
    1528    1073 29.7% 27-Nov-97 09:38:04 +MysticView.guide.info
    5323    2583 51.4% 05-Dec-97 01:48:18 +MysticView.info
   90616   39667 56.2% 05-Dec-97 00:30:54 +MysticView_030FPU
    5325    2581 51.5% 05-Dec-97 01:48:30 +MysticView_030FPU.info
   90984   39639 56.4% 05-Dec-97 00:33:58 +MysticView_68040
    5320    2585 51.4% 05-Dec-97 01:48:38 +MysticView_68040.info
   90712   39447 56.5% 05-Dec-97 00:36:52 +MysticView_68060
    5323    2587 51.3% 05-Dec-97 01:48:48 +MysticView_68060.info
    1871    1080 42.2% 27-Nov-97 09:38:04  MysticView.info
   12280    4703 61.7% 04-Dec-97 19:50:48 +history
    5281    1353 74.3% 02-Dec-97 20:11:36 +Install
    1636    1038 36.5% 28-Nov-97 16:47:22 +Install.info
   34844   17292 50.3% 04-Dec-97 19:38:06 +guigfx.library
   33140   16281 50.8% 04-Dec-97 19:39:50 +guigfx.library_68040
   33152   16296 50.8% 04-Dec-97 19:40:42 +guigfx.library_68060
   33132   16282 50.8% 04-Dec-97 19:38:56 +guigfx.library_FPU
   50128   22294 55.5% 30-Nov-97 20:55:54 +render.library_68060
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