Short: WebAnimDesigner 1.2 for PersonalPaint7.+ Author: A. Paabo Uploader: paabo bancom net Type: gfx/ppaint Version: 1.2 Architecture: generic PROGRAMS USING THE FILES - Personal Paint from version 7.+ MAIN APPLICATION - Using Personal Paint 7.+ in conjunction with PPaint's SaveAnimGIf.pprx INSTALLATION - Copy 'WebAnimDesigner.pprx' to PPaint:Rexx DESCRIPTION - WebAnimDesigner is a simulator of what you would get if you saved your current animation as an animated gif using various settings of transparency, dispose, etc. and one of three optimizations--no optimization (all frames same size), boundaries optimization (animated objects on clean fields are tightly framed, so frame size and position will vary from frame to frame), and deltas optimization (any animation where background is relatively constant-after the first frame, the frames are made out of deltas). -As a bonus, Cloanto's SaveAnimGIf is incorporated into the script, modified so it 1) accepts info from the WAD requester and directly from the animation (instead of generating its own requester) and 2)so it allows the setting of transparency and dispose in all possible ways.(Thanx to Oscar Sillani of Cloanto for info.) This means that instead of 1 way of saving in boundaries optimized, and 1 way of saving in deltas optimization, each can be saved in 4 ways. With the addition of no-optimization, technically there are 12 ways of saving your animation to animated gif, instead of 2 ways provided by the original SaveAnimGif.pprx. -The purpose of WAD is to enable the more advanced animaed gif designer, to implement exotic combinations of dispose, transparency, and optimization, in order to achieve maximum effects for minimum filesize. -SEE THE HTML GUIDE THAT IS PART OF THE PPRX_WAD.LHA ARCHIVES BEGINNING WITH VERSION 1.2 , FOR MORE INFORMATION REVISION HISTORY: -version 1.2 ---fixed loop problem (was running only once) so when saved loops infinitely---Loops can be explicitly set----HTML GUIDE CREATED -version 1.1 --further improved the requester panel to suit the way it would be used -version 1.0 --the way it is used is figured out, and reflected in a new requester design -versions before 1.0 explore the practical aspects of operation, and also contained a few problems. AUTHOR: -Andres Pääbo, Box 478, Apsley, Ont. Canada K0L 1AO. Can-705-656-9387 -email paabo@bancom.net -check web site at www.bancroft.bancom.net/~paabo/WAD/WAD.html for latest -date of this upload Jan 16, 1998 -------------------------------