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                             PicView Version 5
                            Copyright July 1995

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This Program  is Shareware, please feel free to copy and distribute it in 
full, along with  this text file. Reverse translating or any  editing  of 
this  program is  forbidden - I had lots of late nights writing it in the
first place, and if I wanted  you to have the source it  would have  been 
included in the PICVIEW5.ZIP file.

PicView  is a .PIC  file viewer. An option  is included to  allow  a .PIC 
file with a grey plane to be viewed - useful for looking at Icons.

A brief history of PicView.

PictureView was first written for the Series 3a  in September  1993,  but
the name was shortened to PicView (V1.0)  to fit  on the  system  screen.
This  was  re-written  many times before V2.0 was  released as Shareware.
A very small bug was fixed in version 2.0.1, about a week later.

The  apparent  popularity  of  version 2  bought  about  version 3 - this
included zooming and picture rotation for users with a lot of patience or
nothing better to do. Version 4 extended these  latter two options to the
grey plane - not  available  with version 3. 

PicView Version 5.0 - A legend in it's own Run-Time!

Updates since version 4: PicView version 5 now allows  editing for  users
with sharp eye-sight. Zooming and Rotating speeds have increased slightly
although lots of spare time is needed to rotate big files. The screen now
scrolls  autmotically if you  reach it's limits  whilst  moving  the zoom
sprite. A default PIC file can be selected to  load every time  you start
the program. Printing PICs - no, sorry, it's only  been  fourteen  months
what did you expect? I'm still trying to sort this out.

Oops! Version 5.01 fixes a bug in the edit routine.

Version 5.1  Now  adds a password  facility - you  can protect your files 
from prying eyes, and includes some operational changes. Zoom and  Rotate
are even faster now than in version 5.0.

Installation: This ZIP file includes the following files: 

PICVIEW.OPA  - The application file.
RED5.BMP     - An example single plane bitmap.
PICVIEW5.TXT - You're reading it!
PICVIEW.RSC  - The Help screen text.
PICED.PIC    - The ball-point pen sprite.


To install PicView, copy Picview.opa into any \APP directory and  make  a
directory under this called PICVIEW. Copy the  last two  files into  this
directory and  install the  application from  the system screen using the
PSION-I hot key.

The first  time you  run  PicView, a directory called PICVIEW is  created
in the root directory of the internal drive, to hold  the  various  setup
files PICVIEW.CFG and PICVIEW.PRF. If you register, your  own PICVIEW.REG
file will be found in here. Please do not distribute this file. 

If  you are already  using an earlier  PicView, remove  the existing .CFG 
file as it needs to be  replaced. PicView 4  and  later  users  can  also
remove the existing Help and sprite files.

Advantages of registration: I get richer. You get issued  with a password
which gives removes the nag screen from Edit, Zoom, and  Rotate. It  also
enables the 'Save' option after editing or  rotating  the PIC.  The  Zoom
option allows you to Zoom in to a 70x70 area in the picture,Icons (48x48)
are tripled  in  size.  Question - What's slow  and needs lots of memory?
Answer - Rotating the picture.The Rotate option rotates the whole picture
through 90deg, and gives you the option to store the new image.This takes
a very long time, and needs at  least  twice the  size of the picture  in
available memory whilst the process is being carried out.  

Registered  users will also  receive  up-dated  versions  free  of charge 
(IBM PC format disks).

Bugs - Hopefully these have all been sorted out. If you should find  any,
please let me know. 

'Get Out' Clause:  I  cannot   accept  liability   for  any  loss of data 
arising from your use of PicView5. There is no warranty attached to  this 
product, either implicit or implied. 

Copyright. The name PicView and  all the  associated  files and data  are
the  copyright of  Matthew  Walters.  Reverse  translating  is  expressly
forbidden. If anybody is particularly interested in my rather random code
(who says that chaos doesn't work?), I  will  probably send you a copy if 
you ask politely. 

The Author: Matthew Walters

The Authors Address: 9, Belvedere Close, Kidderminster, U.K. DY10 3AT.

MW July 26, 1995