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WinFlic 1.0

AutoDesk® FLI and FLC Player

Copyright © 1993 Shawn Pourchot

Menu Information

FILE:

Open	-	Open a new .FLI or .FLC

ACTION:

Run	Start the current .FLI or .FLC

Pause	Pause current animation (again or Run to continue)

Stop	Halt the current .FLI or .FLC

Top Most	Toggle whether animation is always on top

HELP:

Help	This File

About	Quick Info


Special Functions

COMAND LINE:

You can add the file name after the program name on the comand line and it will execute that file when the program starts.

Adding the following letters tells it how to display the file.  The default is title bar on and not always on top:

First Letter

M	Not Title Bar

m	Title Bar on

Second Letter

T	Always on top

t	Not always on top

Example:	"c:\games\winfrac.exe c:\games\fli\clown.fli MT"

KILL THE TITLE BAR:

Double clicking on the animation will toggle the title bar and menu off or on

MOVE THE IMAGE:

Clicking and holding down the left mouse button will allow you to drag the animation.  When placed were you want it release the button.

WINDOW SIZE:

You can resize the window to any size you desire and it will attempt to scale the image to fit the window.  You may run into 3 problems depending on the size:

1.  You may make it so small that the image sucks because of low resolution.

2.  It runs too slow at large sizes (sorry exit windows or get a faster machine :-)

3.  Worse you get an error saying NOT ENOUGH MEMORY!  make it smaller


Authors Comments

Author Comments

This program was inspired by an article in the March Dr. Dobbs Journal by Jim Kent.  After reading the article I decided I really needed my cute CLOWN.FLI to pop up and start spinning when I first started windows.  So I set out with article in hand to write just such a program.  WinFlic is written in straight C++ with no virtual device drivers to confuse the masses of VGA drivers out there and will hopefully be compatible with future Windows versions.  The compatibly does cost a little speed, noticeable on slower machines.

-SP

Registration

A donation is always appreciated and it might get me to finish the remote control feature I've got floating around in my head!

Shawn Pourchot

PO. Box 123

Madison, WI 53701

$5 Suggested

70214.436@Compuserve.com