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From: CJRandall <colin@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ns4 Viewer
Date: 2000/03/27
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CJRandall writes
this is me doing a re-post
(sorry to all the good folks in alt.ascii-art.animation ... Llizard=)
there may be a few folks that browse this newsgroup that may find
this of use
>[][ hi ...
>
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>(from a picture of a cave painting)
>
>i've made a little tool for Netscape Navigator 4.04+ -ONLY-
>based on a demo that Meph got from netscape.com
>
>you've prob'ly seen hundreds like this already ...
>it is a generic slide-show viewer and is nothing special
>i am providing reference to it here because you may find
>it useful
>
>if you'd thought you'd like to try to do an ascii-animation
>but didn't want to mess with javascript or special formatting
>of the pics you draw ... then try this
>
>
>NOTE: this has been tested (and working) on:
>
>        win95  - Ns4.04, Ns4.5, Ns4.7
>        win98  - Ns4.7
>        winNT  - Ns4.05
>        mac-os - Ns4.5
>        linux  - Ns4.05, Ns4.6
>
>NOTE:   win95  - Ns4.01 failed! (soft-coded <LAYER> problem)
>
>on-line test:
>  http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk/anim/ns4view.htm
>
>on-line demo:
>  http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk/anim/ns4viewd.htm
>
>the kit:
>  http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk/download/ns4view.zip
>  (i put this little kit together just for fun : 6kb =)
>
>the help sheet:
>       .----------------------.
>      (  -= Ns4 Viewer Pro =-  )
>       `----------------------'
> This is a little tool I use to view
> HTML (colour ascii) animation frames
> made with Netscape-4 Composer or
> Meph's AsciiEditor4 when developing
> an ascii-animation storyboard.
>
>            -= HOW-TO =-
>  1. Using an HTML editor
>  2. select 'preformatted text'
>  3. draw a picture using ascii
>  4. save as "test0.htm"
>  5. change the drawing/colour
>  6. save as "test1.htm"
>  7. change the drawing/colour
>  8. save as "test2.htm"
>  9. change the drawing/colour
> 10. save as "test3.htm"
> 11. copy ns4view.htm to same directory
> 12. load ns4view.htm into Netscape-4
>
>            -= TECHNO =-
> To cusomize/configure the program
> change the values in the header to
> suit your requirements :
>
> count   = 3;       last file number
> prefix  = "test";  filename base
> suffix  = ".htm";  filename extender
> delay   = 200;     running speed
>
> valid file extenders:-
>    htm,html,gif,jpg,jpeg,xbm
>
>[][ enjoy
>[][ colin
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