Wednesday 23 January 2019

Looking For Sprites and Reviewing them

A belated Happy New Year to all QLers from QL Heaven.

When there are a lot of sprites, here at QL Heaven, there are over 2500 it can be difficult to remember what each can be used for. Rather than using one of the existing sprite viewer programs which can be downloaded from here as sprites might be separated in to different sub directories to help manage sprites from different sources or having different modes or sizes, while the existing sprite viewers typically show a single directory's worth.

So here is a QuickView sprite viewer. It can be launched via FI2 using the QPAC2 files thing. The selected sprite is displayed with its size and mode in a window that adjusts fro the size of the sprite up to the maximum resolution of the screen in use.


The file name of the sprite is stored in an smsq/e History device so that if multiple sprites are viewed from differing directories they may later be reviewed together as shown below. While the folder icon on QuickView launches a QMenu file requester thing all sprites to be reviewed do not need to be seen during the one session with QuickView. The History device holds the complete file names of all files viewed while the Q68 is switched on so it is possible to view a sprite or 2, close down QuickView, do something else and then restart QuickView and review all sprites viewed by QuickView since the system was switched on.

It is still a work in progress as tools to select sprites and write to a saved file list to use in a sprite library generator program which can be found here have yet to be added, and also a wild card search of a device for all sprite files to find forgotten sprites. Although this can be mainly done with WildSearch
 



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