------------------------------------------------------------------------------ T H E A M O S P R O P I C T U R E S L I D E R V 2.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M.VERNAGLIONE * HEGELSTR.72 * 63303 DREIEICH Fido: 2:2461/318.3 19.11.94 \ If you donīt have got the Fullversion by me, or you have tested the Demo- version, so please let you register. You can do this by sending a Euro- Cheque about 15 DM. For orders please include 5 DM for Disc and Charge fee ( Germany ) or 7 DM for other countries. When you attempt to put any of your Slideshows in Public Domain, or you give it to a friend.... please use the sliplayer program to show the Slideshow. There will be more space for pictures and modules. -/- MANUAL -/- Files : Slider2.2 - mainprogram for generating and testing your slideshows Sliplayer - this do not have a syntaxchecker and is shorter. (for presenting your slideshows) Checker - a scriptchecker - call as the slider Slider2.2.Dok - german manual Slider2.2.Doc - this english manual - Slider2.2 needs always Mathtrans.library and Medplayer.library just for playing MED Modules. ATTENTION: Slider works on Machines with OS1.3 up to 3.0. Under OS3.1 it is unable to display interlaced screens ( Bug in Amospro ). Starting: Slider [ Scriptfile Path ] ( example: ' Slider df0:s/ ' ) If you start Slider without path it will get ' Sys:s/ ' as Default. You can also start your Slideshows from Workbench: You need a Project-Icon with defaultool ' IconX ' and rename that as example: Slideshow.info. Then you generate a ASCII-textfile with following lines: Disc:path/slider disc:scriptpath/ example : Slide:c/slider Slide:s/ and save this with the name Slideshow. Now you can doubleclick the Slideshow Icon to start the Slideshow! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -/- The script file -/- * Can contain up to 256 lines and 100 characters. All above this limits can cause program errors or too long waittimes. Displaying a picture: Discname:path/picturename Inscroll Speed1 Outscroll Speed2 Wait . . . . repeat or end MUSIC or NOMUSIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Inscroll: Fades or scrolls in a picture up - scroll up dn - scroll down ru - decrease height of the old picture, the back (second) picture becomes visible. rd - same as 'ru' but down sh - shows a picture immediately fd - colorfading fl - Flickereffect for a definite time you can see the new picture and the old picture, black screen or a rainboweffect shining through. su - same as 'up' but the old picture will be replaced by the new one from bottom to above sd - same as 'su' but down an - loads a ANIM-IFF5 animation and plays you can use scrollcommands for first and last picture by a trick: example: - Anims:anim.01 up 1 ne 0 0 - loads first picture and scrollup - Anims:anim.01 an 0 fd 3 5 - loads whole animation and after playing 5 times colorfades out ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Outscroll: Out scroll or fading the Picture. ne - no Effect, the old picture will be at the same place for next effect up - scrolls up dn - scrolls down fd - fades out Fl - Flickereffect same as 'fl' from inscroll cl - cleans the screen immediately a1 - a horizontal linepattern cleans the screen in two passes, first the even lines then the odd lines a2 - same effect as 'a1' but vertically a3 - cleans horizontally the odd end even lines in one pass, the even from left to right and the odd from right to left a4 - same as 'a3' but vertically b1 - effect similar that when you turn off a TV (not really realistic) c1 - a checkerpattern cleans the screen in two passes e1 - a line cleans with circular movements the screen * Do not use fd a2 a4 b1 c1 and e1 with HAM Pictures (fringes) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Speed1 - sh - no sense - up/dn/ru/rd/su/sd - Effectspeed (1-Slow) - fd - Effectspeed (1-Fast) - fl - Effecttime (1-Very short) - an - nope - Speed2 - cl - nope - up/dn - Effectspeed (1-Slow) - fd - Effectspeed (1-Fast) - fl - Effecttime (1-Very short) - a1/a2/a3/a4 - nope - b1 - Fadeoutspeed of remaining spot - c1 - dimension of boxes, high number = little boxes - e1 - step ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Wait Waits for n seconds before loading next picture or apply scrollout effect. You can break the waitloop by pressing right mousebutton. If you have put 'an' in commandline, so 'wait' is the amount of times were the animation will be played. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - repeat/end repeat loop slideshow end break slide after last picture ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** COLORBACKGROUNDS *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You can put colorcommands in the script: Back - Color: WHITE : CopperBar Color RED : GREEN : BLUE : RGB : CYAN : MAGENTA : YELLOW : DEL : kills the Copperbackground * no parameters there - Pos: vertical Positionadjust of rainbows - Cchng/Scan: color change per scanline. A value of 1 changes the color every line, 2 changes the color every 2 scanlines and so on. Example : Back BLUE 0 1 Pictures:Infopic up 1 up 1 10 Back DEL pictures:pic1 sh 0 up 5 . . Colorregister 0 is transparent for Copperbackgrounds. When you want to display pictures over a copperbackground, you must kill the colorregister 0 from the contens of the picture. The Slider is not able to display ECS or AA pictures. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Playing Musix in Slideshows *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - MUSIC/NOMUSIC - The last command in a slidescript and must be ever been in script followed by a īReturnī MUSIC : Slider searchs the script > muz.script < in the same path where the Slidescript is and plays the modules listed in the script If you want to hear one single music trough the slideshow, you put just only one module in the list For more musix after a slidepass put more modules in the list NOMUSIC : No musix The Music-Script Discname:Path/Musicname . . . Slider2.2 can play : - Med Modules (MMD0/MMD1) - Sound/noise/ProTracker-Modules - Amos Bank (.abk) Modules ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Script-Syntax-Errors were only listed by Slider2.2 and not by Sliplayer * Sliplayer is to use in finished and tested Slideshows ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You can quit slideshows by pressing both mousebuttons, but you must press in the waitdelay. When a scrolleffect is running you cannot abort. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ****************************************************************************** When you have a combination of 16-Color-Hireslaces pics and Coppereffect, so you have probably irregularitys in smooth scroll, because the CPU not even becomes the necessary CPU-cycles for the scroll loops. When you own an Amiga with 68000 CPU or/and you habe only chipmem, i suggest to only use Lowrespics and background. Laced Pics are better displayed without copperbackground. Only the scrollcommands UP,DN,SU,SD,RU,RD have this restriction. ****************************************************************************** The programm tells you whatīs wrong when you have put nonexisting pictures or modules in the scripts. ****************************************************************************** New features probably included in the next version 2.3: 1) User-interface (?) 2) play samples (??) 3) Support of powerpacked files (??????) ? = probability to include this function ****************************************************************************** History: * V0.9 * I was searching a good slideshowprogram in PD, but theese was not good enough for my pourposes, so i decided to program one. As base for the Slider i've got the code of an slidedemo, that i programmed to present my videodigis. This demo had the pictures embedded into the code and the effects implemented was UP, DN and FD. * V1.0 * Scriptcontrol over the slideshow * V1.8 - V2.0 * All effects and Copperbackgrounds. * V2.1 * Changes since v2.0 - Audiofilterbug fixed - RD: Last line was invisible * fixed - C1: After the effect the screen was not closed * fixed - better errorhandling - wait abort by pressing RMB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * V2.2 * Changes since V2.1 - Syntaxchecker - even better errorhandling - scriptprocessing optimized - effect d1 and moving rainbows killed, because not useful and bad routines - requester will be open on Workbench - on errors the files were not closed * fixed - rainbow variable intensity killed - changes in the syntax of copperbackground commands * textscrolling was implemented for a time, but the textmovement was too silly. Itīs better to program in assembler by other people. If you have any interrests please contact me... (you have to be able to programm in AmosPro and Assembler) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -/- TO ALL USERS OF THIS PROGRAM -/- Please send me an error-report if you get errors or if you see errors in the scrolleffects. Please include the bad slideshow-disc and backcharging fee. Asta la vista... Thanx to all registred users of my program : Richard Diezmann Holger Helmprecht R.CH.Blume Hans-Joachim Johns Klaus Moeckel Robin Wernard Thorsten Nilson