dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (10/05/86)
It seems to me that using IFF may be the best way to transfer information over the clipboard device. Then, we programmers don't have to use two separate schemes, and the ClipBoard can be viewed just like a normal file (now there's an idea.... how'bout a way of getting at the ClipBoard via a DOS device???). Speaking of which, could somebody send me the information required to order full IFF documentation? I know it was posted a while back, but the message has gone of the edge of the world as far as our news server is concerned (read "cd /usr/spool/news/net/micro/amiga;fgrep IFF *"). -Matt
phillip@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Phillip Lindsay) (10/06/86)
> > > It seems to me that using IFF may be the best way to transfer > information over the clipboard device. Then, we programmers don't have to > use two separate schemes, and the ClipBoard can be viewed just like a > normal file (now there's an idea.... how'bout a way of getting at the > ClipBoard via a DOS device???). > > Speaking of which, could somebody send me the information required > to order full IFF documentation? I know it was posted a while back, but the > message has gone of the edge of the world as far as our news server is > concerned (read "cd /usr/spool/news/net/micro/amiga;fgrep IFF *"). > > > -Matt Matt - Clipboard data *must* be IFF...The newer Addison Wesley RKM's reflect this. IFF Docmentation and Disk: send $20 check/money order to: (payable to) Commodore Business Machines c/o Software/Kim 1200 Wilson Drive West Chester, Pa 19380 -phil
kim@amdahl.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn) (10/07/86)
In article <8610050027.AA07291@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: > Speaking of which, could somebody send me the information required > to order full IFF documentation? I know it was posted a while back, but the > message has gone of the edge of the world as far as our news server is > concerned (read "cd /usr/spool/news/net/micro/amiga;fgrep IFF *"). Matt ... I believe the IFF package is available from CBM, West Chester for $20. Includes documentation and a floppy, as I recall. I'm not sure how "current" it is though ... Carolyn? /kim -- UUCP: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ihnp4,oliveb}!amdahl!kim DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 CIS: 76535,25 [ Any thoughts or opinions which may or may not have been expressed ] [ herein are my own. They are not necessarily those of my employer. ]
carolyn@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) (10/10/86)
In article <3878@amdahl.UUCP> kim@amdahl.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn) writes: >In article <8610050027.AA07291@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: >> Speaking of which, could somebody send me the information required >> to order full IFF documentation? ... >Matt ... I believe the IFF package is available from CBM, West Chester >for $20. Includes documentation and a floppy, as I recall. I'm not >sure how "current" it is though ... > >Carolyn? The IFF specs and disk containing docs, source, Lattice object, and some executable examples is available for $20 from Kim Montgomery / Software Tech Support Commodore Business Machines 1200 Wilson Drive West Chester, PA. 19380 Make the check out to Commodore Business Machines, and be sure to include your name and address and ask for "IFF docs and disk". Not much has changed since or original April 30 printing of the material. We just had a new batch printed/duplicated with the following changes: Document 1. Errata/Addenda from previous printing were incorporated. 2. New listing for SeeILBM. Disk 1. The source for the readpict.c module no longer "contains binary". The problem was a control character in a comment. (If you want to find it using Emacs, search for the word "via" in a comment line. I think the control character is in the word "handle" in the same line) 2. Revised source for SeeILBM. The revisions to SeeILBM were: - Polling eliminated ("if" replaced by "Wait"). That all stemmed from very early misunderstanding of what was in mp_SigBit. When I modified ShowILBM into SeeILBM, I copied the IDCMP loop code from my first screen/window program. (Where is my dunce cap) - Checking of window->MouseX and MouseY replaced with saving and checking of msg->MouseX and MouseY. This makes little difference to SeeILBM but is necessary when SeeILBM is used as a base for a program that can't handle its messages immediately. You want to know where the mouse was when the BUTTON was pressed, not where it is when you HANDLE the message. (Oh there it is) - Handling of ILBMFrames modified to use only one global frame. It now has a chance of working properly with LISTs and PROPs but I don't have any to try it out on. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Information not yet in IFF docs: 1. EA just told me that they have defined two more SID values in SMUS: (SID value) (Next data byte) #define SID_Clef 135 0=treble,1=bass,2=alto,3=tenor #define SID_Tempo 136 beats per minute (0-255) 2. I hope to have descriptions of the Deluxe Video forms VDEO and ANBM in the near future. Hopefully, those of you working on animation packages will be able to use these forms instead of creating new (incompatible) ones. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Carolyn Scheppner -- CBM >>Amiga Technical Support<< UUCP ...{allegra,caip,ihnp4,seismo}!cbmvax!carolyn PHONE 215-431-9180 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=