OPENMODE=ALWAYS/IFILBM/IFCOLOURS/REMAP/OPAL

This parameter and menu item specify how images should be loaded for displaying by TSMorph.

• ALWAYS - Only try and load normal ILBM images. Fail if not. The CHANGEPALETTE parameter has an affect on the image display.
• IFILBM - First try to load as an ILBM image, load and remap the image if the image is not an ILBM or has 24 planes.
• IFCOLOURS - As IFILBM but remap if the number of planes in the image exceed the number of the screen.
• REMAP - Loads most ILBM (including 24 bit, EHB, HAM6, HAM8 and DCTV (with dctv.library [REMAP needs to be specified to correctly display DCTV images]), JPEG, TARGA, PPM and GIF. For JPEG if CHANGEPALETTE=YES or NO and the screen (see PUBSCREEN) has more than 2 bit planes then the image is remapped to a dynamic type palette. Otherwise the image is remapped to the screen palette. If this fails then opal.library will be used (if present). This may be required for some JPEGs.
• OPAL - Always use opal.library to load the image. This is probably only useful to load images in Opal FAST IFF format. The images are remapped to the current palette.

When loading and remapping complex images a requester is displayed with a title of Loading Image, a text gadget giving progress messages, a Pass gadget, and a third progress gadget. There is no way of interrupting the load process.

For slow machines it is suggested that you convert the images to ILBMs and specify ALWAYS.