April 17, 1991 patchlevel 1.7 New in 1.7: (4/17/91) o changed address of mailing list (now xgrasp@@ankh.ftl.fl.us) o fixed bug in float. o fixed bug in glib manpage. New in 1.6: (4/3/91) o really support PCX files. o implement getcolor. o make sure clearscr uses current color. o fix bug where fades were not relative to bottom of screen. o make pfade use wildcards. New in 1.5: (4/1/91) o Supports Autodesk animator format. o 10X performance enhancement. o runs faster under X11 than the DOS version on a 486 with a SuperVGA. o people who are drooling should check the release date for 1.5. o supports PCX files... o man pages for glib and xgrasp. o files named *.gif that are really .pic files work. o changed the names of some routines to avoid conflict on some machines. o made MAXCODES larger for big .gl files. o fix bug in putup wrt offset clippings. o clearscr calls videomode(). o fix bug in parser for TEXT. o removed code which moved origin on window commands. o fix cmd line arg parser. New in 1.4: (3/5/91) o type changes for IBM RS/6000's. o changes in FLY for 4.0.3 optimizer bug. o TILE implemented. New in 1.3: (3/2/91) [1.2 was internal] o strdup() implemented. o fix error in parser. New in 1.1: (2/28/91) o Support for SET files. o usleep implementation. o added #include o a few typos. Version 1.0: (2/25/91) This program tries to recreate the functionality provided by the PC program GRASPRT.EXE. It plays animation files which usually have the extension .GL. This file format is partially described by the documents found in the file "docs". It has many missing features, but it is complete enough to view a large percentage of the GL files that I have seen. Some of the problems are outlined below... Doesn't work with BLOAD/BSAVE images. Doesn't do transparencies. Doesn't have a default font for gls that dont load their own. Doesn't have a default colormap for each "video" mode. Doesn't scale images. It is not clear where the origin of the coordinate system is... from examples, I have assumed it is in the lower left corner increasing up and right as in PostScript... this make most of my test cases work, but there are still the odd few which make it seem like it should be in the upper left as in X11. So until this gets resolved, don't be surprised to see images getting animated off the edge of the window. If you are trying to compile this on pre-X11R4 systems, you'll need to comment out the XSetWMProtocols(...) line in xgrasp.c. I have created a mailing list for discussion about this software... Please send all submissions for the list to xgrasp@ankh.ftl.fl.us Any requests for additions and/or deletions should go to listserv@ankh.ftl.fl.us (put the word 'help' in the message body to get info on how to use the list server.) ______________________________________________________________________ Patrick J. Naughton email: naughton@sun.com Sun Laboratories voice: (415) 336 - 1080