| TICTEXPV v1.01 for TI-89/TI-92p | (c) TI-Chess Team 2001 |
| General Informations | |
TICTEXPV is a viewer for pictures and animations generated with PictureMaker v1.3 from Philippe Gervaise aKa CandyMan. These pictures shows up with extension EXPR on the VAR-LINK screen.
I have not tried to make own pictures with it, but there are already many pictures arround which are generated by this tool (at least at: http://www.i-france.com/candyman).
As far as I know there is no viewer for these pictures arround which runs smoothly on HW2 calculators with installed AMS 2.05. Therefore I have developed my own viewer. It's an NOSTUB program (doesn't need any kernel or library installed) and it runs on all HW and AMS versions without any problems.
- Black/White Pictures
- Black/White Animations
- 4-Grayscales Pictures
- 4-Grayscales Animations
- 8-Grayscales Pictures (limited support: ONLY 4 grayscales are used)
- 8-Grayscales Animations (limited support: ONLY 4 grayscales are used)
8-Grayscales Types are just limited supported, because it exists no stable (flickerless) grayscale support for HW2 calculators and I won't implement features which works only on HW1 calculators.
There is not much to know about the viewer. When you start the viewer it traverses the whole VAT (directory structure on the TIs) and checks each file if it is a compatible with itself. Afterwards it shows you a list of these files. Select one file and press [ENTER]. Now you can view the picture. If the picture is over-sized (doesn't fit on screen completely) you can use the cursor keys to scroll arround. If it is an animation you can press [+] and [-] to adapt the frame rate. On HW2 calculators you can modify the grayscale refresh rate with [DIAMOND][LEFT] and [DIAMOND][RIGHT] to get better grayscales.
This program may be distributed by any other website for non-commercial use only.
DISTRIBUTIONS ON ANY OTHER MEDIUM (Disc,CD-ROM,DVD etc.) are PROHIBITED without separate allowance of the author.
The author makes no representations or warranties about the suitability of the software and/or the data files, either express or implied.
The author shall not be liable for any damages suffered as a result of using or distributing this software and/or data files.
You are free to re-use any part of the sourcecode in your products as long as you give credits including a reference to the TICT-HQ (http://tict.ticalc.org).
- Philippe Gervaise (CandyMan@I-france.com) for the PictureMaker v1.3 and the documentation of the file format. Credits for the pictures in directory "samples" belongs to Phillippe, too (I have taken them from the PictureMaker v1.3 distribution).
- The TICT-Beta testers. The list is too long to get them all mentioned here, but the readme file of the upcoming TICT-Explorer will mention them in details
- ... and me (thomas.nussbaumer@gmx.net) for the implementation
- You can reach Thomas Nussbaumer at thomas.nussbaumer@gmx.net
- Marcos Lopez can be reached at marcos.lopez@wol.es
Suggestions, bug reports and similar are VERY welcome. Please use our Messageboard at http://pub26.ezboard.com/btichessteamhq for this.
... and last but not least: The TI-Chess Team (TICT) Website can be found at: http://tict.ticalc.org