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.name
Bview
.type
Image Viewing
.short
IFF Viewer with extensive GUI (ECS/AGA)
.description
Bview 1.10 IFF ILBM viewer with GUI for all functions
for kickstart 37.175 and higher ECS & AGA support.
copyright 1992-1994 by Joeri Alberty.

> Features of Bview <

 - Gadget Intuition interface (gadtools.library) for every function.
 - Easy change Viewmodes with a click of your mouse
 - Easy scale your bitmap to fit on screen.
 - Print a picture with adjustment of printer settings
 - Save a picture in IFF ILBM , Scr , Raw on disk
 - View the IFF ILBM -> BMHD CAMG etc ...
 - Save your environment of Bview to ENV: etc ...
 - Save information about picture to disk or printer. (MakeText
 - Make a Slide show by pressing a button..
 - Use Double buffered mode (load one pic & view the other.

----->  Improvements from 1.02 to 1.05

- HAM KEY USING message fixed.
- Save problem with 256 colors fixed.

- Scaling routines can now enlarge a picture if it is a brush etc...
  (Use Fit & Scale (Aspect & Scale) in Change mode menu and press Render)

- Ilbm to source generates now colortables for
  LoadRGB4(),LoadRGB32(),SetRGB32().

- You can now use an AppIcon Set 'PRO_START=2' in Tooltypes (Bview icon)
  ('PRO_START=0'

- load and display, 'PRO_START=1' make Bview an Commodity)

- Compiled with SAS C/C++ 6.51 with optimiser ... (__inline)

----->  Improvements from 1.06 to 1.10

- Information & Option menu's rewritten 
  Now you can use DBmode ,promoted mode etc..

- Loader & saver rewritten to improve speed.

- BIG problem fixed with some pointers of the IFFparse library
  Now you don't loose your colors anymore.

- More stable than 1.06 by rewriting the process routines.
  Now you have a viewer,GUI with a loader and not the other way around.

- SHELL support improved.
  Now you can use #? & / for loading directories & wildcards.
  see guide for more information & examples.
  Gives you information when something did go wrong

- Other smaller improvements in the code ...

- Changed save routine of ENV: so it doesn't crash anymore.

- You can load mangled pictures & display them partly.
.version
1.10
.author
Joeri Alberty
.requirements
reqtools.library, version 38.1266 (included)
iffparse.library, version 37 or better 
.distribution
Freeware
.address
Italielei 49 B9
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium (Europe)
.email
alberty@reks.uia.ac.be
.construction
SAS C V6.51
.tested
Bview was programmed with SAS C v6.51 on a Amiga 500
Kickstart  V37.175  Workbench  V38.12  with 3 MB  memory + ECS 

It is tested from A500 - A4000/40 and works ok there...
Tested for AGA support on a A4000/040 and A1200
Print option tested on NEC PINWRITER P2plus (A500), Laserjet 
printer (A3000)

Bview 1.05 doesn't work on an A4000/030 maybe 1.10 does.

.docs
Bview_110.readme
Bview.guide
.described-by
Dan Fish (daf@starfish.amigalib.com)
.submittal
Downloaded via ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu.