Changes from 1.0 to 1.0.1
-------------------------

There are several changes. I am not rewriting the manual
because it simply take too much time to be worth it. From now
on all new changes will be in this NOTE.TXT file.

There have been changes from version 1.0 to version 1.0.1
Most features are the same but the internal implementations
may have changed for better or for worse. You will find
the version number changes very slowly because the software
is fairly complete in what it is designed to be: a GIF Viewer

Here are the changes from 1.0 to 1.0.1 (Oct 1991). A * means
important.

   * The executable is now abbreviated to ne.exe . Many
     people have found NakedEye is too long to type.

   - NakedEye will swap itself to EMS or XMS memory if DOS
     escape is invoked by F9 or SHELL. If it cannot find
     either types of memory it will spawn the DOS shell
     without swapping itself out of conventional memory.

   * NakedEye is now an overlay program. It will have only
     active segments in conventional memory. The rest is in
     a memory cache in EMS or XMS. This has released about 
     60K extra out for general use. Typically after start-up
     there will be 370K of memory left for general use. You 
     should set up your system with some EMS memory if you
     have 2Mbytes or more of memory. A line like the 
     following (or similar) can be added to your config.sys

        device=c:\dos\emm386.exe 1024 ram 

     If you have a lot of memory then the more memory is set
     up for EMS the faster NakedEye will refresh display and
     paint the next picture. I prefer to reboot my machine
     with a different set up when I want to use NakedEye 
     with a lot of GIF files. There are many programs on the net
     for this purpose.

     It is recommended that NakedEye is installed on your hard 
     disk. Running NakedEye from a floppy disk is too slow.

   - Rotation and Resize are now faster if there is enough 
     memory. NakedEye will swap itself out of conventional
     memory and invoke a tiny program outside to do the job.
     If there is about 500K left when NakedEye starts, it
     will be able to deal with images of size 800x600 or
     similar sizes very effectively.

   * A small change to user interface. Option /m alone will
     put it into a selection menu which was the default in 
     version 1.0. It is nicer to start NakedEye into the 
     first picture for experienced users.

   - NakedEye will now deal with about 97Mbytes of information
     after decompression from GIF into normal indexed raster 
     image. About 200 GIF files can be opened in a session
     if they are not all too big.

   * Command Shake'it and ShLevel are added for the pleasure 
     of the eyes. The Shake'it command add vibration to a 
     selected region. The other tells NakedEye how much to 
     shake the region. Use the mouse to pause for selecting
     more regions to be set into motion. Type ESC will get you
     back to normal control.

   * Command Curtain and Curmode are added. Curtain draws a
     curtain of 50% visibility across the area selected. Curmode
     controls the direction of drawing. This set is another
     chewing gum for the eyes. These weird commands and the
     lenses etc ... are the unique features of NakedEye.

   * A sound player is incorporated in the distribution. It is
     called SPLAYER.EXE . This program will play a VOC format
     file for the Sound Blaster card continuously. Two commands
     are added into NakedEye 1.0.1 called Music and Mfile. 
     Music plays the sound file associating with a gif file.
     Mfile let you name the associating file for GIF and VOC
     files. You need a Sound Blaster board to play music/sound
     while looking at the GIF files. This SPLAYER.EXE program
     takes an optional argument -ns standing for non-stop playing.

     The format of the sound association file is simple. A line
     starting with # is a comment line. The rest contain two 
     formats; one for the sound player and the other for GIF and
     VOC files

Example: File NakedEye.SND

######################################################################
# This is the sample sound association file.                         #
# The character # is used to comment a line.                         #
#                                                                    #
# player should be set to your favourite VOC player. The default one #
# is SPLAYER.EXE distributed with NakedEye 1.0.1 . There can be more #
# than one player. The last one immediate before the correct         #
# GIF = VOC association entry will be used to play the VOC file.     #
#                                                                    #
######################################################################
player=.\splayer.exe 
paradise.gif=.\oxygen.voc
wgardn1.gif=.\waltz1.voc

     The above file shows an example of the sound association file
     between GIF files and VOC files for NakedEye 1.0.1. You can see
     that the sound player is .\splayer.exe and for every GIF file 
     there is a VOC file name. Also note that the file name on the 
     right hand side of  =  is with full directory path name.
     The name on the left is the filename of the GIF file without
     the directory path.

     Now you can set up the association file between GIF and VOC
     and play music or sound when you view the picture. BE CAREFUL
     and make sure that FULL PATH NAMES are used for the sound
     player and the VOC files. If this is not set correctly NakedEye
     will simply complain "Cannot open". You will have to edit
     your own association file or modify the sample file NakedEye.SND
     to make sure that it works even when you run NakedEye from a
     directory different from where you install NakedEye.

     The key M was used for displaying the memory status in 1.0
     Now it is used to play sound (Music). When you first request
     for music, NakedEye will ask for the association file name. It
     will scan the file for GIF <-> VOC association and play the
     VOC file. Subsequent request will cause NakedEye to scan the
     same association file. You can change the association file any
     time by the command Mfile which must be selected from the
     control panel.

   * Slide show with MUSIC is possible now with NakedEye 1.0.1
     You simply type M when the slide show is on (using F2).
     NakedEye will play the VOC file associating with the current
     GIF file, when finished it will display the next GIF file and
     play the next sound file and so on ...

     When the slide show and music are on  at the same time, to stop
     them you have to type ESC twice.

Until NakedEye 1.0.2, Good Bye and hope you enjoy NakedEye.
