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Short: user-friendly picture viewer
Author: Timm S. Müller
Uploader: Timm S. Müller (Timm.Mueller@darmstadt.netsurf.de)
Type: gfx/show
Version: 0.99e
Requires: Kickstart 3.0 (v39), MC68020
features
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- independent from display hardware:
displays every picture on any screen mode, resolution and
color depth, including hicolor, truecolor and HAM.
- free scaling:
scales images to the required dimensions automatically, with
respect to the aspect ratios of both the screen and the
picture.
- display quality:
features highly elaborated color quantization and rendering.
dithering is available on displays with 256 or less colors,
and on HAM screens.
- user friendly:
opens a scalable (or borderless) window on the workbench, on
public or custom screens.
- heavily multithreaded:
uses massive internal multitasking for an user-compliant
behavior. the main window stays usable while loading, drawing,
copying, scanning, ...
- highly configurable:
has got innumerous configuration details to suit your personal
taste.
requirements
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- os3.0 (v39)
- 68020, minimum suggested: 68030/50
- lots of memory, minimum suggested: 16mb
- datatypes.library v39 (suggested: v43)
supports
- higher cpu, fpu
- os3.1 (v40)
- cybergraphics, picasso96
- newicon.library v40
news
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- added AUTOCROP feature.
- added artificial intelligence. MysticView uses a neural network
to learn and predict the user's preferred displaymode for each
picture.
- fixed broken commandline.
- re-implemented escape key for quitting.
- added PRIORITY and FONTSPEC settings.
installation notes
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MysticView is meant to be a stand-alone utility, and I really
recommend to install it in the SYS:Utilities drawer (or any
other path that is looked up by the Workbench).
in this case, MysticView can be easily configured to be the
default tool for pictures and preset files. you just have to
specify 'mysticview' instead of a clumsy path, such as
'work:applications/graphics/viewers/mysticview/mysticview'.
recent changes
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0.99e
- the neural network has been overworked.
- the AUTOSAVESETTINGS setting is no longer saved in the icon,
it is now part of the global configuration
- MysticView did not read its settings from an icon when it
was started as an icon's default tool. fixed.
- added AUTOCROP setting
0.99d
- added AUTODISPLAYMODE and a new menu entry "learn and predict".
if activated, MysticView uses a small neural network to learn the
user's desired displaymode for different kinds of pictures. "learn
and predict" does not care about the rarely used displaymodes
IGNOREASPECT and FIT. it will only learn from and try to predict
KEEPASPECT, KEEPASPECT2, and ONEPIXEL.
- added a new icon by M. Grothmann.
0.99c
- fixed display mode settings in the menus. mutual exclude
was broken since 0.99b.
- added menu item "rename picture". Renaming in this
context means moving a picture to any place in the
filing system. the difference towards "move picture"
is that the picture is kept in the current picture
list. requested by G. Hones.
0.99b
- the commandline arguments were broken as of v0.99. fixed.
- "reset display settings" is now considered when the display
mode is changed. requested by infinity.
- re-enabled the escape key for quitting. requested by
P. Habermehl and J. Urbanek
- added PRIORITY setting (normal, nice, low). the priority
is only considered when mysticview starts.
- the options menu has been completely restructured.
some settings have been removed from the menu, they are
only accessible throughout tooltypes now: Hide mode,
simple/smart refresh, keep image when hidden
- removed every second frame of the supplied animation from
the archive. it appeared somehow obscene to me to include
half a megabyte of animation data for silly demonstration
purposes only.
- by default the system's screen font is used for the
picture info text.
- added FONTSPEC tooltype for the picture info text.
syntax: size[,name]. example: FONTSPEC=8,topaz
- revised the documentation. many details did not reflect
recent changes.
- with LMBACTION=NEXT, only mouseclicks that exactly hit the
picture will actually advance the picture list.
- slightly modified the supplied example presets.