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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
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Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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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
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