Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!usenet!prism!goodwinm From: goodwinm@prism.cs.orst.edu (Michael Goodwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: blah to switcher (was something else) Keywords: switcher complaint Message-ID: <1991Apr03.065353.641@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 3 Apr 91 06:53:53 GMT References: <40171@netnews.upenn.edu> Sender: @lynx.CS.ORST.EDU Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: prism.cs.orst.edu In article sbeagle@kennels.actrix.gen.nz (Sleeping Beagle) writes: >widyono@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Dan Widyono 'Aasmodeus') writes: > >> Just recently there was a posting about a program called Switcher. This is >> only an opinion, and not a flame. My only complaint was the need to press >> a button / key to activate the save screen (why not a hot-key combination?). >> This rendered it useless with such programs as Dyna-Show, and I think Mostra, >> which blank and exit when a key is pressed. I could never get any snapshots. > >This may seem obvious to me, but... > >If you can display the picture with Mostra or Dynashow, why do you need >to save the screen???? > >To show the pic with those viewers, you already have to have an .iff pic >file anyway. I tried saving a Dyna-Show pic with ScreenX, and all I got was garbage.