On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:28:21 +0100 (CET), Veljko Miljanic wrote: > I woud like to help you with development of Arachne. As am I already > programming in asm for about 3 or 4 years(usualy graphic) I am sure that I > am capable of doing something like that. But I must worn you that doing > web browser in pure asm would be hardly possible because: > - Hardly enyone could program JPEG poutines in pure asm(and just to say > that worst thing with arachne is that it does not have internal support > for jpegs). Take a look at LXPIC v6.3 http://home.t-online.de/home/stefan.peichl/ a small (size of exe :15K!) yet powerful viewer of JPG, GIF, PCX and BMP files >From the docs : " LxPic is a very fast, powerful and small DOS picture viewer. It has just 16KB code and runs in 64KB memory on any 8086 compatible computer to decode and view pictures of any size. This makes LxPic ideal for use on the HP Palmtop, for which it was originally designed. On Windows systems, LxPic runs perfectly in a full screen DOS box or in a DOS box window. LxPic processes BMP, PCX, JPG and GIF files of any kind. BMP and PCX files may have 2, 4, 256 or True Colors (16 Mio). JPG files may have 256 gray scales or True Colors. GIF files may have Version 87a or 89a (including multi images) with up to 256 colors. " Here is something VERY interesting in the docs as well " LxPic has an internal interface for use with other programming languages or batch files. This interface allows you to place pictures at a desired position in an already filled application screen. You may select whether you want to gain back control immediately after the picture has been placed on the screen, or whether you want to pass intermediate control to LxPic and get back control when the ESC key of LxPic is pressed. The appli- cation may then write around or even into the picture. Multiple pictures may be positioned or overlayed on one screen. If you want to put more than one color picture on a color screen, all pictures should use the same color palette, otherwise only the colors of the last drawn picture are correct. " How about it Michael? Think something like this could be incorporated into Arachne? Lxpic is copyrighted freeware, so you would have to get his permission to include Lxpic in Arachne. It sounds good since you don't have to convert the JPG to BMP just call Lxpic to put the image on the screen. Dev Teelucksingh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interesting DOS programs at http://www.opus.co.tt/dave -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client -- -- http://home.arachne.cz --
