kortink@utrcu1.UUCP (Kortink John) (01/28/91)
Does *nobody* have *any* comments on Translator 6.29 ?
Or does everybody take it for granted lately ?
John Kortink
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In article <784@utrcu1.UUCP> kortink@utrcu1.UUCP (Kortink John) writes: >Does *nobody* have *any* comments on Translator 6.29 ? >Or does everybody take it for granted lately ? > >John Kortink Well, here's one : Lovely program, V. useful, thank you very much. Of course, what we could _really_ do with is a decent Art package for the Arc such that packages like Translator weren't needed quite so much. Something along the lines of Dpaint III, none of this pathetic (menu design, what's that !?) Artisan or Atelier (and I though Artisan menu's were bad!) anyway.. back to Translator.. Better than ChangeFSI in my opinion (not to mention being PD) Tom. cs9h9tts@uk.ac.swan.pyr
ecwu61@castle.ed.ac.uk (R Renwick) (01/29/91)
In article <784@utrcu1.UUCP> kortink@utrcu1.UUCP (Kortink John) writes: >Does *nobody* have *any* comments on Translator 6.29 ? >Or does everybody take it for granted lately ? > >John Kortink > Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!! =============================================================================== ############ Richard Renwick ecwu61@uk.ac.ed.castle # # Computer Science 4 OR rlr@uk.ac.ed.lfcs @ ~~~ ~~~ @ University of Edinburgh |\@ ** ** @/| Edinburgh | @ ** ** @ | |/@ || @\| @ \ || / @ @ \______/ @ "Doesn't the grass look funny from underneath?" @ @ - Penfold @@@@@@@@@@ ===============================================================================
hughesmp@vax1.tcd.ie (01/30/91)
In article <784@utrcu1.UUCP>, kortink@utrcu1.UUCP (Kortink John) writes: > Does *nobody* have *any* comments on Translator 6.29 ? > Or does everybody take it for granted lately ? > > John Kortink Ok, one suggestion... Tell me if a file is too short, or not quite right; just yesterday, I got a GIFF file of a scud missile (?) from an info server I think, but in its travels, it had been through a machine, an IBM I believe which had made it go from ASCII to EBCDIC to ASCII, and all the carets in it had gone... Then, after uudecoding, it wasn't quite right. Translator just showed a mostly black picture... Similarly with extra short MTV pictures ... any short pictures in fact... it just blacks off the end... Could it just pop up a window saying 'hi, this is a bit wrong isn't it?', and display what it gets from it also... Merlin. SICK ... We're assembly language programmers. We don't declare anything, we just use them.
johny@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Lord Yak Da Hairy) (01/30/91)
In article <784@utrcu1.UUCP> kortink@utrcu1.UUCP (Kortink John) writes: >Does *nobody* have *any* comments on Translator 6.29 ? >Or does everybody take it for granted lately ? I tried to mail this, but it bounced. Anyway, a completely excellent program which I use a lot. Thanks. The new menu layouts and icons are also rather nice. Is there any chance of support for Macintosh PICT files in the next release? We have a scanner here which likes giving things in PICT format... -- John Yeates (Lord Yak Da Hairy) -------------------------------------------- -- johny@syma.susx.ac.uk OR johny@cogs.susx.ac.uk (0273) 678318 -- Always be excellent, never be rude, with the GIFT OF GAB from DR DUDE! What! You expected a witty comment down here?
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'! | @@@/---| *-----------------------------------------------------------------* @@/ |