11.Nov.2002
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Astronomy: Modifications in Digital Almanac III
Achim Stegemann writes:
In order to keep the program slim, I decided to cut off some very old stuff. In this
case the support of the graphics format IFF-RGFX will be stopped. IFF-RGFX is an
alternative graphic format to IFF-ILBM, which was originaly developed by Andreas
Kleinert and carried by me.
While IFF-ILBM only archieves a weak image compression, IFF-RGFX offers by the use
of the XPK modular compression rates for the encoding. Unfortunately this format was
never assumed by the Amigans. I do not know any other program, which supports RGFX
except SuperView and Digital Almanac. Therefore I threw it now of the program. RGFX
was replaced by the portable PNG format, which is supported already for some time in
DA III.
Moreover I am developing a new concept for the program documentation. Instead of
using connected HTML files as before, which can be read then in an external Browser.
From now on a program assistance will appear within DA III. Each window therefore
possesses its own description, which in an extra assistance window is displayed.
Thus storage space is saved and an update of the documentation is likewise simpler
than so far. The release of the new DA III version 4.9 are to be expected in December
2002!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 11. Nov. 2002, 23:43] [Comments: 0]
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