Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!apple!uokmax!drtiller From: drtiller@uokmax.uucp (Donald Richard Tillery Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: IFF picture viewers ... Message-ID: <1990Aug30.213930.3782@uokmax.uucp> Date: 30 Aug 90 21:39:30 GMT References: <9FDqo3w162w@valnet> Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Lines: 43 I will speak for David (unbeknownst to him since he is not on the net - I'll forward your letter to him :-), since I talked to him yesterday (he'd the president of the Oklahoma Amiga Computer EnthusiastS - OACES - users group). He sold his 2500 last week to get his hands on a little cash temporarily because he just recently moved. He is expecting to get a 3000 at the beginning of the year and is working on Superview 3.1 (as of yesterday) without a machine of his own (UGH! he says he already has the shakes). Some of the enhancements he is talking about adding are: The ability to include specific command-line-like arguments in the comment field of a picture for individual file control (positioning, color cycling, animation speed overriding, etc.). A status window which can be pulled up (that's what he said) from the bottom to display Author/Artist info (from the ANNO chunk in the IFF file), frame count and to give feedback of coordinates for positioning (as well as other stuff). Support of SHAM and SLOP (an optimized version of SHAM which will free up more processor time for multi-tasking). Control of animations' speed, direction etc. while running. Some other things which have been mentioned in the past couple of months (maybe for 4.0) were support of GIF files, calls to separate programs for specialized viewing formats like Dynamic ones (since he hasn't been able to get the info on these modes) and more! I hope he's not too angry about me stealing his thunder but I'll get him a copy of this reply and see if I'm in trouble. Thanx for your support! _______ __________ _/____) ' __ /_/ / ' / / __ _ "N.I.N.J.A.J.I.S."-Me / \___/__/___/ |_ /__/__/__/_/_-_/__/_/ The Displaced Razorback. ___________________________________________/ Founder: IDGAFF Ltd. The Amiga Computer - "...a more fiendish disputant than the Great Hyperbolic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler of Ciceronicus Twelve..." -D.Adams; Well, almost.