Is mutiview a good program?

[chris]

Multiview is great!  I love it - a simple one-stop program that can view any file you throw at it*.  It is ideal for setting as a "default viewer" in YAM etc because it will, literally, load anything (pictures, anims, sound samples, video, text, hypertext, even structured drawings and tracker mods).

Alas, it won't work with 1.3 as it requires Datatypes which only became available in 3.0.  Time to upgrade?

Chris
* providing you have a Datatype for the format

[chris]

Karlos wrote:
My only criticism is that theyr'e not bidirectional. An encode method in the datatype system would be very cool.

datatypes.library supports this already, but nobody uses it.  There are a few Datatypes around that implement the save method, but I haven't seen any software that allows you to save using Datatypes - even Multiview doesn't allow it.

Chris