Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu!v089pfrb From: v089pfrb@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jeffrey C Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: blah to switcher (was something else) Keywords: switcher complaint Message-ID: <68669@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 3 Apr 91 21:23:25 GMT References: <40171@netnews.upenn.edu> <1991Apr03.065353.641@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Reply-To: v089pfrb@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4.5 In article <1991Apr03.065353.641@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>, goodwinm@prism.cs.orst.edu (Michael Goodwin) writes... ->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. Can ScreenX handle dynamic hires screens? If it does not realize the palette is being switcher on each scanline... then it will save the picture wrong.