Vista  -  Image storage system

by Nathan Micholey

Vista is a program for storing bitmap graphics in a Filer-style window which instead of displaying filetype icons, displays miniature versions of the stored images. It behaves in a similar way to the normal Filer and allows you to store additional information on each image as well as each directory. The images are stored in JPEG format and the miniatures are stored as squashed sprite files, so the storage requirements are very low.

Vista comes supplied with no images. Running the item from the RISC User menu system opens an archive containing the application. You should make a copy of it before you use it, so that the original is always an empty directory which can be copied again to make a new image directory. To create a new directory, you must therefore copy Vista from the archive to the desired place on your hard disc (although it will work on floppy discs, the storage requirements for large image directories make it somewhat impractical).

The Filer must have seen ChangeFSI before Vista can run properly. You may find with versions of ChangeFSI earlier than 0.95 that ChangeFSI has to be run, then quit before Vista will work. If this is the case it would be a good idea to try and get a newer version of ChangeFSI.

It is possible to have several copies of Vista on a hard disc so that separate image directories can be maintained.

A more detailed description together with instructions on using the program can be found in the !Help file inside the application.

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