PROGRAM/DISPLAY =============== You can determine which display driver should be used for showing graphics with the following functions. PMPro supplies display drivers for most of the available graphic cards (ECS, AGA, Merlin, Picasso II, Retina, EGS and CybergraphX). But please note that the display drivers are selectable for only those which corresponding with the hardware that is present in the system. Should your graphic card include special display utilities, e.g. for GIF, JPEG or IFF, you may use these via the function "external viewers". Configuration: -------------- You may select the preferred display driver and configure it via this menu . The following settings can be made : * select display driver Here you select the display driver module that you want to use. Further information on the modules are described within chapter "display drivers". * configure display driver Some drivers allow specific settings which are made here. They are described in the chapter "display drivers". * 24BIT display Here you can specify which colour depth should be used for displaying 24BIT graphics (24BIT, Greyscales, HAM, 256 Colours etc.). Should you own a graphic card module 24BIT should be kept. When using AGA- older ECS drivers you can specify the preferred colour depth for displaying 24BIT graphics. But it has to be mentioned that displaying in 256/16 Colours takes some amount of CPU time as a high quality colour reduction will be applied. So don't use this function when you just want to take a quick look at your graphic or want to do a kind of dia-show (HAM or greyscales would be better here). Note: This function only concerns the function Display (Pop-Up-Menu) and Dia-Show but not the function Display within image processing menu. * 8BIT display Just like with 24BIT displays you may specify here which colour depth should be used for graphics with 256 colours. This function, though, is mainly for Amiga's which neither include a graphic card nor the AGA chipset (ECS-driver) to allow displaying of 256 colour graphics. Should your machine contain the AGA chipset or a graphic card you should always select Keep to prevent unnecessary loss in image quality. Your settings will be stored via the Save function and will also be present after starting the program next time. These settings will also be used by the program MultiConvert and may also be saved and or modified from there. Information: ------------ An information requester will be opened with current settings about the selected display driver. Please note that AGA and ECS drivers will also show up 24BITOPERATOR=ExtractGrayScales. This does not concern displaying graphics (PopUp-Menu and Dia-show) but instead only applies to the image processing menu. 24BIT graphics (if no graphics card driver is selected) will always be displayed there in greyscales. See also chapter "image processing". NOTE: The select menu for display drivers only indicates such ===== drivers for which the necessary hardware has been installed. For example, a Picasso-Driver will not appear if no Picasso has been installed in the system. External Viewers: ----------------- This function allows binding of viewers which take over displaying of graphics (not with Slide-show). So you have a simple method of displaying graphics in 24BIT on your graphics card This is useful as viewer programs which have been especially designed for graphic cards often work faster and more effectively than PMPro's display modules. To use external viewers with PMPro you must copy them (e.g. Showiff, Showgif and Showjpeg for Picasso II) to the directory "Viewers" in the PMPro path. In addition, care has to be taken so that the display program is able to be CLI-started with the graphic's name as a command line parameter. Now start PMPro and select the function "Display/external viewers". You may now select a specific external viewer for any of the supported graphic file formats. Please take the following steps: 1.) Select the file format (IFF, GIF, etc.) to which the new settings should be applied within the ListView "Graphicformat". 2.) Within the ListView "Viewers" select the preferred external viewer (or INTERNAL for the internal viewer) for this graphic file format. 3.) When selecting an external viewer the string gadget "command line" shows up the name of the display program with the addition "FILE$". "FILE$" is a variable which will be replaced with the graphic's name when calling the viewer. After FILE$ there may follow additional CLI-options for the specific viewers. You have to confirm your selections with RETURN! 4.) This has to repeated for the other graphic file formats. The separate functions: - Save: Saves the current setting. These will be available with every new run. - Load: Loads the settings from the configuration file. - Use: Uses the changed settings without saving these to the configuration file(s). After leaving the program, these will be lost. - List: Shows the current settings of the viewers within a window. - Cancel: Quits the menu without keeping any of the changed settings.