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- MainView Broadcast PD 1.04 Documentation
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-
- Introduction
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-
- This is the Public Domain version of MainView Broadcast, MainActor
- Broadcast's external player. It only has a limited amount of
- loader/sound modules, but supports all features of MainView Broadcast.
-
- We did make this version available to enable owners of MainActor
- Broadcast to give away their animations, together with sound, which
- they have created with MainActor Broadcast.
-
- The following animation formats are supported by MainView Broadcast
- PD : IFF-Anim5/7/8, CyberVision, FLI, FLC, Picasso, Piccolo, Retina,
- Merlin, Spectrum.
-
- MainView Broadcast only supports IFF and .mod sound files. MainActor
- Broadcast supports more than 20.
-
- MainView Broadcast needs an MABROADCAST: assign !
-
- For more information about MainActor Broadcast, contact your local
- VillageTronic dealer, or :
-
- MainConcept, GbR Mönig/Zabel
- Hermann-Heusch-Platz 3
- D-52062 Aachen
- Germany
-
- Tel: +49-241-4090444
- FAX: +49-241-4090445
- BBS: +49-241-4090446
-
- EMail: info@mainconcept.ac-copy.com
- WWW: http://www.ac-copy.com/maincpt.html
-
- MainView Broadcast
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-
- MainView Broadcast is MainActor Broadcast's external player. It can
- display all animations/pictures for which MainActor Broadcast has the
- proper load modules. You can simply intgrate it into file managers
- like `DiskMaster II' or `DirectoryOpus'.
-
- The key commands while playing animations or showing pictures are
- the same as if you would view them directly with MainActor Broadcast.
-
- If MainActor Broadcast saved an icon for the animations/pictures to
- view, MainView will take the view settings from this icon (overruling
- its own settings)!
-
- MainView will use MainActor Broadcast's `Center' option (which
- centers the display of your animations or pictures) by default. If you
- specify an X or Y Offset the center option will be disabled and the
- specified offsets will be used instead.
-
- You can start MainView Broadcast from the Workbench or from the CLI.
-
- Starting MainView Broadcast from the Workbench
- ==============================================
-
- If you start MainView from the Workbench (per icon), you can select
- the file(s) to view in an ASL requester. For multi selecting just press
- one of the shift keys and select the files with the mouse. (Starting
- from OS 2.1+)
-
- MainView supports the following tooltypes:
-
- `DisplayModule=<Module>'
- This tool type gives you the possibility to select your prefered
- display module, like Amiga, Picasso, etc. and to pass that
- information to MainView Broadcast.
-
- `DisplayType=<Number>'
- If the selected display module supports more than one display type,
- for example `Intuition Window' or `Intuition Screen', you can pass
- your prefered display type to MainView Broadcast with this tool
- type. The display types in the display modules are numbered in
- lexicographic order with 1 being the first display type.
-
- `LoaderModule=<Module>'
- The default load module is the `Universal' module. You can select
- another module with this tool type.
-
- `Directory=<Path>'
- This is the initial directory for the ASL requester. The default
- value is `PROGDIR:' for the directory MainView Broadcast is
- started from.
-
- `Center'
- This tool type activates the `Center' option of the display
- modules. All graphic information will be aligned to the center of
- the output device (screen or window)
-
- `XOffset=<Value>'
- You can directly set the start x offset. 0 is the left border. If
- you specify an `XOffset', centration will be disabled !
-
- `YOffset=<Value>'
- You can directly set the initial y offset. 0 is the top border.
- If you specify an `YOffset', centration will be disabled !
-
- `FrameCounter'
- `FrameInfo' enables the FrameCounter option of the display modules.
- You can get the number of the actual frame from the upper right
- corner of the screen. It is disabled by default.
-
- `StopPlayback'
- This option is quite useful for recording animations on a video
- recorder. The tool type makes the playback stop after displaying
- the first frame; you can then start recording on the video
- recorder and continue playback with the SPACE bar.
-
- `EndlessRepeat'
- This option makes MainView Broadcast play all animations
- continously.
-
- `Repeat=<Value>'
- Repeats the animation <Value> times. For example `Repeat=1' would
- play the animation one time. Disables the `Endless Repeat' option.
-
- `CacheData'
- Enables caching. With caching enabled, MainView plays all pictures
- and animations from the RAM disk and not directly from the
- harddisk (or whatever). If you do not have enough RAM, MainView
- Broadcast automatically disables this option and loads the data
- directly from device.
-
- Starting MainView Broadcast from the CLI
- ========================================
-
- Starting MainView from the CLI will give you enhanced functionality.
- You can, for example, define patterns for animations or picture lists.
- The commands are identical to the tool types, so please refer to the
- section `Starting MainView Broadcast from the Workbench' to get details.
-
- Usage is :
-
- DM=DISPLAYMODULE/K,
- LM=LOADERMODULE/K,
- FC=FRAMECOUNTER/S,C=CENTER/S,
- XO=XOFFSET/K,YO=YOFFSET/K,
- SP=STOPPLAYBACK/S,
- CD=CACHEDATA/S,
- ER=ENDLESSREPEAT/S,R=REPEAT/K,
- DT=DISPLAYTYPE/K,F=FILES/F
-
- MainView Broadcast supports Amiga wildcards, for example:
-
- `MVBroadcast CD REPEAT=1 DISPLAYMODULE=PICASSO WIDTH=1024
- HEIGHT=768 cd0:fli/#?.fli'.
-
- This example would play all files on the device cd0: , which end
- with ".fli". They would be displayed on the Picasso-II graphics board
- with a resolution of 1024x768 points; the data would be cached in
- memory and played only once.
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