ANIMATOR-9 v3.6
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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
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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?
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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
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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.
      
      <applet CODE="animator9.class" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240">
		<param name="CameraModel" value="2">
		<param name="FrameDelay" value="200">
		<param name="BackAndForth" value="0">
		<param name="Picture" value="mvc-229m.jpg">
		<param name="Rotated" value=0>
		<param name="URL" value="">
      </applet>
      
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
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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
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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
