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ANIMApplet

 © Werner Randelshofer
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Changes

Version 5.3.3
2011-08-23

  • Animation frames were played with the wrong duration (with frame duration + 1 jiffie).

Version 5.2
2011-04-10

  • Adds support for CCRT color cycling.

Version 5.1
2011-02-19

  • The parameter "PlayWrapupFrames" was ignored.

Version 5.0
2010-08-04

  • Adds support for PBM images.
  • Adds support for blended CRNG color cycling.
  • ANIMApplet is now licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

Version 4.1
2010-01-23

  • Adds support for Deluxe Paint IV DRNG color cycling.

Version 4.0.3
2010-01-08

  • Fixes calculation of color cycling rate.

Version 4.0.2
2009-12-28

  • The loading progress bar is now showing again.

Version 4.0
2009-12-25

  • Adds support for ANIM Brush files.
  • Adds support for ILBM images.
  • Adds support for CRNG color cycling.

Version 3.4
2008-04-05

  • Fixes copyright character in splash screen.
  • Adds splash image with Amiga poing ball animation.
  • Adds pack200 compressed applet.
  • Replaces thumb .gif image by .png image.

Version 3.3
2006-10-01

  • Adds support for Eric Graham's compression method "J".
  • Adds support for ping-pong playback.

Version 3.2
2005-07-17

  • Movies are rendered now using true color (direct color model), because some Java virtual machines have problems rendering anmations with changing color palettes.
  • Holding down the mouse on the movie slider prevents now the movie from progressing.
  • Changes threading behaviour of the player. It is based now on a sequential event dispatcher instead of individual threads.

Version 3.1
2005-02-20

  • Use different values for Jiffies depending on the Commodore Amiga Graphics Mode (CAMG). (Jiffies is the time base for animations).

Version 3.0
2004-12-28

  • Renames applet parameters because the conflicted with the special applet parameters of Sun's Java Plug-In.

Version 2.1.1
2004-12-23

  • Improves performance of planar to chunky conversion algorithms.
  • If Java2D is available, the rendering hint for nearest neighbour interpolation is set. This gives fast and crisp image scalings.

Version 2.0.1
2003-04-27

  • The readme file states now that the controller is 16 pixel high.

Version 2.0.1
2003-04-26

  • Adds support for audio playback.
  • Adds support for IFF ANIM+SLA and IFF ANIM+ANFI.
  • Adds 'audio', 'info' and 'debug' parameters.
  • Controller reworked. It is now 16 pixels high. (The controller in version 1.0 was 15 pixels high).
  • Support for Java 1.0 dropped. The minimal requirement to run ANIMApplet is now Java 1.1.
  • Major overhaul of all parts of the code.

Version 1.0
1999-10-01

  • One line of pixels is not cut away anymore on the right and on the bottom of the animation.
  • The control panel slider can now only be moved within the progress indicator area.
  • ANIMApplet is distributed now as a .jar file instead of a .zip file. You can rename the file animapplet.jar to ANIMApplet.zip if you don't want to change your existing HTML code.

Version 0.4
1999-05-30

  • Applet parameters added:
    * autoPlay
    * backgroundColor
    * controller
    * foregroundColor
    * framesPerSecond
    * loop
    * playEveryFrame
    * scale

Version 0.3.1
1999-05-13

  • Aestethic improvement of the control panel.

Version 0.3
1999-05-09

  • First release.