]P]E]R-Anim, a simple animator program for the Amiga


Since some of you may have my very user-unfriendly ansi/anim editor PER-AEd
I thought I'd give you an update of the animator editor together with a
complete new version of the Ansi editor. I hadn't planned to have PER-AEd
spreaded so I'm not to be hold accountable for bugs in that program. If you
find any however, please let me know.

If you're looking for a user-friendly easy to use multi purpose animation
editor, you're in the wrong place on two counts. This editor does however
contain an option which makes it easier to make nice animations. You can
load a background and edit the animation against that one.

However, since this animator uses a RAW: window for editing and doesn't get
it's key sequences through either IDCMP or the console.device, the program
isn't working that well when you have multiple programs running or when you
keep keys pressed.

These are small (well, it depends on what you call small, I guess) dis-
advantages compared to other animation editors currently in the running.

I am, however working on a new version of this animator using custom screens.
Since these get their messages through IDCMP, I think I can safely state that
the next version of this program is going to be quite more user-friendly
(menus and stuff) and a lot nicer.

The last version some of you may have seen of this program is in my previous
Ansi editor, which - by the way - wasn't meant to be spread, when you called
it with 'PER-AEd anim'. The only difference is that this version is a little
bit more user-friendly due to my using the requester library in this version.

If you're not satisfied with the result, you can contact me at the following
addresses to leave me notes and/or requirements for a good animation editor:

-Crystal Palace BBS [+31-2975-30299]
-peraue@cs.vu.nl (usernet)
-P-E Raue, Bieslook 92, 1422 RS Uithoorn, The Netherlands

Please send me any suggestions you have for the animation editor or other
utilities you might find usefull.

Well, there isn't much to tell about the editor itself so I'll just give
you a quick rundown of the commands and what they do.

  Control Keys
  ------------
  Ctrl-Q -> Quit PER-Animator Editor V1.0
  Ctrl-W -> Write Animation To Disk
  Ctrl-L -> Load Animation From Disk
  Ctrl-R -> Redraw Animation, if you have your background on, it will also
            redraw your background for you.
  Ctrl-Z -> Clear Animation, beware, this doesn't clear your background, you
            have to press 'Alt-C' to achieve that.
  Ctrl-D -> Delay Animation, the program delays the animation by inserting
            blanks after each animation frame, and just as much blanks as
            you enter.
  Ctrl-B -> Bold On
  Ctrl-I -> Italics On
  Ctrl-F -> Following Animation Frame
  Ctrl-P -> Previous Animation Frame
  Ctrl-U -> Underline On
  Ctrl-N -> Normal


  Alt Keys
  --------
  Alt -B -> Show Background
  Alt -O -> Omit Background

  Alt -L -> Load Background
  Alt -C -> Clear Background

  Function Keys
  -------------
  F1 -> Pen Color 0 ( ESC-'[30m' )
  F2 -> Pen Color 1 ( ESC-'[31m' )
  F3 -> Pen Color 2 ( ESC-'[32m' )
  F4 -> Pen Color 3 ( ESC-'[33m' )
  F6 -> Background Color 0 ( ESC-'[40m' )
  F7 -> Background Color 1 ( ESC-'[41m' )
  F8 -> Background Color 2 ( ESC-'[42m' )
  F9 -> Background Color 3 ( ESC-'[43m' )

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After pressing backspace, you will have lost the colors and specifications
of the previous frame, so you'll be editing in normal background/foreground
colors and normal style.

Don't try to load a non-animation in the editor other than as a background
because the program will behave very strange after that, because it sees
the screen as a continues pair of characters on ONE line so you'll be
editing a single line, and the editor doesn't support this.

I hope you like this program (not much chance), and if you have any ideas
that you would like to see in the custom-screen version of this utility,
let me know, and I'll see if I can fix it.

]P]E]R signing off.