Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!felix!trwrb!cadovax!keithd From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: iffencode with display? Message-ID: <1311@cadovax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 17:15:47 EST Article-I.D.: cadovax.1311 Posted: Fri Jan 9 17:15:47 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 22:53:29 EST References: <658@hp-sdd.HP.COM> <1210@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA Lines: 33 In article <1210@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) writes: >> I decided to use iffencode with the ray traced displays so's >>I wouldn't have to wait so long for the display. However, 'display' >>doesn't seem to allow me to go back to the working window so that I >>can invoke 'iffencode'. > We converted the ray-traced pics to IFF with "Grabbit" by >Discovery Software. It is a hot-key activated screen saver/dumper. >No screen flipping required. >carolyn I've succesfully done this WITHOUT 'Grabbit', using 'saveiff', though I can't remember where I got saveiff, I think it may have been on a local BBS. It will save the 'highest screen' after 5 seconds once you tell it 'go'. I may have slightly modified the ray tracing pic display program though, I don't remember. The one problem I had early on was that once you click back on the original screen (the one you're trying to save) the menu-bar would be re-painted over the picture, and thus saved out with the file. I think what I did was to setup the display program so that there was no visible menu bar, and then use the Amiga-m and Amiga-n keys to switch back and forth. I now have all of the 320x400 HAM images converted to IFF and a 'showilbm' type display program that will work with them. Don't forget the Amiga-m and Amiga-n keys for switching screens when you don't have move-to-background boxes on the menu bar. I use them all the time, sometimes even when I do have the menu bar boxes, just out of habit. Keith Doyle # {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd # cadovax!keithd@ucla-locus.arpa