ANIMATOR-9 v3.6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some digital cameras let you take nine snapshots of an object in seconds. Animator-9 is a freeware program that was written to enable you to view the nine tiny pictures in animation form. It supports photos taken by these cameras: Sony DSC-F1, Mavica FD-51, Mavica FD-71, PhotoPC 600, Olympus D-220L, Fuji-MX700, Nikon Coolpix 950, Nikon Coolpix 600, Casio QV-770, Fuji DX-10, Nikon Coolpix 990, Sony TRV-11 and Toshiba PDR-M60. Animator-9 includes a Java applet that lets you animate the original JPG file in your Web page. Starting from release 2.9, you could make your own animation even if you don't have any supported camera. Indeed, you don't need any camera at all. Animator-9 can compose any BMP or JPG files sequence to an animation file. INSTALLATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This program is self-contained and no setup is needed. To install the software, unzip the compressed file, then click the program animator 9.exe to start. To remove it, just delete the program. Animator-9 does not create any hidden file, nor any registry entry. There is a Java applet animator9.class comes with the package. This applet is needed only if you want to animate the original JPEG file in your web page. WHY JAVA? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It reads the original JPEG file and animates it in the browser. The file size is smaller and hence download faster. In addition, animated-gif stores 256 colors while JPEG stores in true color. USING JAVA APPLET ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to use Animator-9 Java applet?     - Create a folder (directory) on your hard disk.     - Copy the JPEG file, animator9.class file to the folder.     - Start Animator-9 and experiment with the animation on the JPEG file.     - After you make the right animation speed, press the HTML button.     - A HTML file is created, which should be placed in the same folder       where the JPEG is stored.     - Now quit Animator-9 and click the HTML file. The browser should open       and the animation should start. So far so good? Now make it online.     - Upload the HTML file, animator9.class and the JPEG to your web server     - Remember to store everything under the same directory.     - If the online HTML works, you could copy the HTML code to other web page,       just make sure that the new web page is also under the same directory.     - So now you have make the animation open to the world. May I have the URL       address of your site, please. Email me. Sample HTML code generated by Animator-9. The HTML file created by Animator-9 is pretty simple. It specifies the class name, frame size and other 4 parameters. Those parameters are self-explained. Add hyperlink to the animation. If the "URL" parameter is empty, clicking on the animation will load the picture. You could fill in any valid URL so that clicking on the animation will jump to the URL specified. Enlarge or shrink the animation. The "Width" and "Height" parameters are set to 1:1 scale by default. If you want to enlarge or shrink the animation, simply modify these two parameters to reflect the new dimension. JAVA COMPATIBILITY ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Java applet is compiled using JDK 1.1.7. Older browser may not support the newer version of Java. I have tested it on Netscape 4.5 and Internet Explorer 4.0. If you don't see the animated-jpeg, probably you should update your browser. FINALLY ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have any problem with it, please let me know. By the way, you are more than welcome to visit my home page, see what others are doing and share what you have done. It is people like you that energise me to add so many features to Animator-9. Enjoy your animation! Paul Law email: plaw@netvigator.com web: http://come.to/plaw