On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:28:21 +0100 (CET), Veljko Miljanic wrote:
(on the ARACHNE-DEVELOPMENT list)
> I woud like to help you with development of Arachne. As am I already
> programming in asm for about 3 or 4 years(usualy graphic) I am sure that I
> am capable of doing something like that. But I must worn you that doing
> web browser in pure asm would be hardly possible because:
> - Hardly enyone could program JPEG poutines in pure asm(and just to say
> that worst thing with arachne is that it does not have internal support
> for jpegs).
Take a look at LXPIC v6.3 http://home.t-online.de/home/stefan.peichl/
a small (size of exe :15K!) yet powerful viewer of JPG, GIF, PCX
and BMP files
From the docs : "
LxPic is a very fast, powerful and small DOS picture viewer.
It has just 16KB code and runs in 64KB memory on any 8086
compatible computer to decode and view pictures of any size.
This makes LxPic ideal for use on the HP Palmtop, for which
it was originally designed. On Windows systems, LxPic runs
perfectly in a full screen DOS box or in a DOS box window.
LxPic processes BMP, PCX, JPG and GIF files of any kind.
BMP and PCX files may have 2, 4, 256 or True Colors (16 Mio).
JPG files may have 256 gray scales or True Colors. GIF files
may have Version 87a or 89a (including multi images) with up
to 256 colors.
"
Here is something VERY interesting in the docs as well
"
LxPic has an internal interface for use with other programming
languages or batch files. This interface allows you to place
pictures at a desired position in an already filled application
screen. You may select whether you want to gain back control
immediately after the picture has been placed on the screen, or
whether you want to pass intermediate control to LxPic and get
back control when the ESC key of LxPic is pressed. The appli-
cation may then write around or even into the picture. Multiple
pictures may be positioned or overlayed on one screen. If you
want to put more than one color picture on a color screen, all
pictures should use the same color palette, otherwise only the
colors of the last drawn picture are correct.
"
How about it Michael? Think something like this could be
incorporated into Arachne? Lxpic is copyrighted freeware,
so you would have to get his permission to include Lxpic
in Arachne. It sounds good since you don't have to convert the
JPG to BMP just call Lxpic to put the image on the screen.
Dev Teelucksingh
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Interesting DOS programs page at http://www.opus.co.tt/dave
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