banksie@ono.isor.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Banks) (01/31/91)
--text follows this line-- Well I like translator but it has a few failings.:- 1) You must load translator first instead of being able to double click on a file. I am surprised you haven't added this option before as the code for it is simple. 2) Only one picture can be open at a time. This is a biggie to implement but would be very nice... The best approach for a basic program to do this is to wimplslot itself to the minimum size for itself and just its variables. Then extend you wimplslot slightly and build a heap just above himem. Then use the heap to store all your picies etc... This approach has the nice touch that basic (not realising that the memory limit has been extended) doesn't corrupt your heap at all. 3) The last missing thing is it would be nice to display amiga IFF animation files. Presumably using the system you have for displaying more than 1 GIF pic in a file would be a good way of handling it. Other than that it is a very slick piece of programming and keep up the good work! Cheers! Philip R. Banks P.S. how did you get the decompressions so fast? I have written a couple of Atari decompressors but I was little cackhanded with em and they take about 30secs a pic.... *-----------------------------------------------------------------* @@@@@@/| | BANKSie! (aka Philip Banks) banksie@isor.vuw.ac.nz | @@@@@/#| | An Arc owner stuck in a non Arc spot. | @@@@/##| | Well you try drawing the Arc Symbol in Ascii 'Graphics'! | @@@/---| *-----------------------------------------------------------------* @@/ |