Is mutiview a good program?

[Housey]

I find it interesting that there is no Windows equivelant (.. not that i've used anyway...).  OK, XP explorer has the ability (and more...) but in earlier versions of Windows when you double click a file it opens a program... sometimes you don't won't to open that program, you just want to load the pic, anim, song or whatever, thats where a prog like multiview is a good idea.

[alx]

The whole datatypes system is far more elegant than what m$ have come up with so far.  Does Amiga inc/Gateway have a patent on datatypes?

[KennyR]

Windows does have an equivalent to datatypes, called "filters". It's a system of DLL files located by registry entries that's nowhere near as elegant or as usable, but it does work.

[Karlos]

Datatypes rock. No other system I've used handles data formats quite as elegantly.

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

How nice it would then be if you could load a jpeg etc. into multiview and could save as any other (pixel based) image format you had a datatype for.

Definately something I want to see in later versions of the OS :-)

[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

[iamaboringperson]

I was wondering if multiview is a good program?

yep! i think so! its compact and it does the job

I'm using WB 1.3, and have no idea of it's usefulness, but it sounds good, from what I've read, but couldn't find a review of it.

its very usefull, extremly good
but not very usefull to you im afraid - it comes with AOS3.x and only works on those versions!  :-D
there is no way in the world it will work on 1.3  :-o

i suggest you rush out and at least buy 3.1 (preferably 3.5)
you will be amazed by the difference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
one difference is: your machine will seem a hell of a lot faster

[iamaboringperson]

The reason I posted to ask, is, couldn't it be enhanced to access the internet?

were you planning on accessing the net from a 1.3 machine? :-o

[Atheist]

Hi iamaboringperson,

No, I'm gonna get an A1 G4XE. I'm not getting it till October of this year, due to finances being tied up.

I will try to buy one of the 1.3 GHz models Alan said were going to be made (should have enough).

And 2 gigs o' ram.

I was just thinking out loud, if I transferred files to my web space in the Amiga file formats, why couldn't multiview (on any other computer) pull them back off? HTML isn't the law of the internet after all. Let's face it, THEY won't know what they're missing.

No constant updates of viewers, all 12 of them!!

AmigaOne! It's the tops!

[olegil]

KennyR wrote:
Edit: Oops, RKY already did. I'm going blind...

Tsk tsk. We all know what causes that, don't we?


(I am of course talking about studying too much and playing too little games ;-) )

[Dr_Righteous]

Datatypes as CODECs... Interesting concept!

Edit: Oh, and MultiView rules... I'd be lost without it!