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- ========================== LoadImage v1.11 ===========================
- ======================================================================
- LoadImage is © Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990 by MXM, all rights reserved,
- written by Olaf Barthel. No guarantees of any kind are made that this
- program is 100% reliable. Use this program on your own risk!
-
- ============================= Background =============================
- ======================================================================
- LoadImage is an IFF-ILBM reader which was written over a long period
- of time. This project was started when its author suddenly came upon
- an idea how to resize IFF-ILBM-images. After a week of thought (back
- in winter 1988) the decompression routines were rewritten and the
- LoadHeader() function was added. In late spring 1989 the bitmap
- reader was sped up, the colour cycling and the bitmap scrolling were
- added.
-
- ============================== Features ==============================
- ======================================================================
- This program has a lot of quite remarkable features the authors of
- other readers did not even dream of:
-
- × LoadImage loads anything that looks, smells and tastes like an
- IFF-ILBM-file, even EHB & HAM are handled correctly.
-
- × LoadImage loads anything that looks, smells and tastes like
- an IFF-ILBM-file, even EHB & HAM are handled correctly.
-
- × LoadImage will accept overscanned pictures which require 1MByte of
- chip ram.
-
- × You can scroll around in the bitmap if the picture is larger in size
- than the current display.
-
- × LoadImage takes care of the machine it is running on, i.e. PAL
- images will remain PAL images on a PAL Amiga and will be transformed
- into NTSC-images on an NTSC Amiga.
-
- × LoadImage supports colour-cycling (interrupt code, no sick subtask
- cycling).
-
- × LoadImage can display multiple images, i.e. you can enter more than
- one file in the command line. Amiga style wildcards are also
- supported.
-
- × LoadImage also works from workbench, simply hold down the shift-key
- and select the icons of the images you wish to load, then
- double-click the LoadImage-icon.
-
- × LoadImage includes graphicdump functions. Select the area you wish
- to print and off it goes!
-
- × LoadImage has an Arp interface and can be made resident.
-
- × LoadImage comes along with its source code.
-
- =============================== Usage ================================
- ======================================================================
- LoadImage works both from Shell and Workbench. Double-clicking its
- icon will bring up the Arp file requester asking you to select a file
- to be loaded. To display multiple images hold down the shift key,
- select the files to be displayed and finally double-click the
- LoadImage icon.
-
- LoadImage has the following Shell options:
-
- INFO... Will display a short information page.
-
- NOMODE. Will ignore Hi-Res and Interlace flags, i.e. you will be able
- to scroll around in the picture on screen.
-
- LACE... Will force interlaced display mode.
-
- CYCLE.. Will force colour-cycling on startup.
-
- If you don't supply a filename the Arp file requester will come up
- asking you to select a file to be loaded.
-
- ============ Revision history (most recent change first) =============
- ======================================================================
- V1.11 Major cleanup, all popular bugs in LoadImage v1.9 have been
- fixed, as well as some strange 'features' in v1.10. The
- rubber box in the graphics dump routine now works and will not
- crash if sized too far. The 'Next image' menu entry will
- vanish correctly if dealing with the last image (the older
- revision crashed at this point). The scrolling will not hang
- if the mouse is dragged one pixel away from the screen
- borders. The AutoRequest has been replaced by a custom
- Requester. The IFF-ILBM decompression routine reads the whole
- image into a decompression buffer if enough memory is
- available.
-
- V1.10 Little cleanups, added an Arp interface.
-
- V1.9 First public release.
-
- V1.0 Below written history.
-