P i c o V i e w

				 Version 0.6


CONTENTS

  I. Copyright
 II. Introduction
III. Usage
 IV. Program functions

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I. COPYRIGHT

PicoView is copyrighted by
			     Jörg Richter
			     Dresdener Straße 21
			     21614 Buxtehude
			     Germany

The program is freely distribuable as long as this document is included.
Commercial usage without a written permission is forbitten.

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II. INTRODUCTION

PicoView is a picture view program. Why another utility of that kind ?
As I got my graphic card 'Piccolo' I needed a viewer for up to 8 bit pictures
in high resultion. With the included EGS program 'DIA' is necessary to watch 8
bit pictures in 24 bit or at least 16 bit mode (because of the fixed colormap).
First this requires more memory than necessary (2 or 3 times) and second a
maximum resulution of 800x600 interlaced in 24 bit is available. So
there was e.g. no possiblity to view a 256 color picture in 1280x1024.

In my opinion 'VT' or 'Mostra' are better viewer for the normal Amiga modes,
but you can show pictures with PicoView from 1 to 4 bitmaps on every standard
Amiga and from 1 to 8 bitmaps on an AGA Amiga or an Amiga with graphic card.
Beside this, PicoView behaves a little different than other viewer.

Since I had no time the last three month to get it to version 1.0 and as I
will not have time the make the next months, I publish the program as is it.

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III. USAGE

I think I used some AmigaOS 3.0 functions, so you'll need OS 3.x to run
this program (Can't remember ...).

PicoView can be used from the Shell or the Workbench. A picture, which will
be loaded immediately, may be passed as argument.

SYNTAX: PicoView [<picture name and path>]

The program requires an icon. The following tool types entries must exist:

  - DISPLAYID is used for the screen mode
  - WIDTH     is the screen width
  - HEIGHT    is the screen height
  - DEPTH     is the screen depth (number of bitmaps)
  - OVERSCAN  is the screen overscan type

  The screen mode requester saves the values here, so do not change them
  yourself!

Beside these entries there may exist the following tool type entries:

  - DIRECTORY	     is the default directory to load pictures from
		     (e.g. "DIRECTORY=DH0:pictures/256")
  - CLEAR ON|OFF     Set auto clear on/off
		     Default: CLEAR=OFF
  - CENTER ON|OFF    Set center picture on/off
		     Default: CENTER=ON
  - SHOWTITLE ON|OFF Show the Screentitle on/off
		     Default: SHOWTITLE=ON

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IV. PROGRAM FUNTIONS

General information:
PicoView does not open a new screen for each picture with the picture values.
If the picture has more bitmaps than the screen, these bitmaps are ignored.

The function of the menus should be clear. Scrolling can be done with the
arrow keys or SHIFT and the arrow keys.

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02.01.1994 Joerg Richter