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From: Markus Gebhard <ukgh@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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Subject: Re: JavE flyboy.jmov
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:20:31 +0100
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MJP wrote:
> 
> ok, I have edited it to extend the time most of the text boxes
> are on the screen, plus fiddled with color. Let me know what
> you think.
> 
> http://www.bluedwarf.net/mikechat/jmov/flyboy.htm

The dialog still is to fast for me :-( But the movie is cool - I like
the credits most :-) - Thanks!

And in this JMOV I see that the player needs an additional feature: Some
indicator saying "playing" or so...

> Markus, will we be able to color individual characters? That
> would have been nice in this jmov anyway.

The answer is no, and I have done this decision a long time ago: 
  I will not add color to JavE. I have played around with individual
colored character when I was working on the image2ascii converter. At
the first sight the result was cool, but then again no. It is the same
thing as with black/white and color photography: The effect on a
spectator of a color picture comes more from the color than from the
shape, shades, etc. It is easy to impress people with colorful images
but it is much more art with black and white. This is my personal
opinion. Also I should add that I did a lot of black/white photography
in former years.
So I will not add color to JavE - but as the jmov player is open source
anyone can try to enhancing it by adding a color option.

Furthermore I still have not finished the work on the JMOV editor in
JavE so I better concentrate on that (and other things). 

One more thing about colors: By not supporting colors in JavE there is
an empty space where any other software developer can still do a lot of
interesting things.
Maybe I already have repelled (or demotivated) others with the overkill
of features in JavE. Actually I don't like such monopolistic software
and so I want to restrict myself (although it is not easy ;-)). As long
as I make the rules for what new features will be added, there never
will be color in JavE.

Markus
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