thats an insane screeny! looks like winamp! is it going to be skinable?

Don't know, but it looks awesome already

It does look sweet, I'll be trying it out in the next few days. Does anyone know how he/they got such a poorly colored screen shot?

Could just be the program he was using was messed up. Check out the screenshots in my link, for some reason I could not turn the contrast down

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Click my "Web Page" link.

I think they look fine. Use CalcCapture, it is a pretty good program.

They do, but the contrast is not normally like that. I think it's just windows

Well, there are four 'colors' right? White, light gray, dark gray, black. The contrast on the HW1 calcs is only 16:1, HW2 32:1, a computer 500 or more:1 so they will not look exactly alike on the calc and the computer. But the 'colors' on the calc cover its full gamut and/or contrast ratio, so the same should be true on the computer screen.

My point is that the rest of my screenshots have a white background, but this one does not.

Use the VTI skin editor and make the brightest color white and the darkest black. Then when you use a capture program, nullify the image editing options and you'll always be fine.

Thanks!!

Your other option (for still images) is to take a screenshot with VTI and convert the image into a .gif from a .bmp

What?!?!?!?!?
:-o

Right- some that were done for mine, too, were greenish- background-colored. I prefer the white, but a screenshot is a screenshot. :)

He used MSpaint to convert it to a gif. Try it.

-W-

Sorry, if that is a little cryptic. He used VTI to caputer it as a bitmap. Then he used MSpaint to convert. If you goto File>Save As... and replace .bmp with .gif, you will have a gif. However decrepid that gif looks, that is not to say.

-W-

I use Photoshop Elements and I have a 4 and 8 level color table designed just for converting graphics into high quality gifs/bmps. Then I use iStudio and viola!

"Then I use iStudio and viola"

"Viola" is a musical instrument. I didn't know that you could do such complex picture data manipulation on a viola.

i play the viola, and its not a computer. the word he was trying to say is pronounced woilia

Oh yeah, just a note: old MSPaint versions will not convert BMPs to jpgs or gifs. The new ones will. The new ones also support transperency (gifs) and a couple of other things. Anyway, if you have a Win98 or above, you should be fine.

Try The GIMP (for Windows, too! See URL). It can save to GIF, as well as a million other formats. Best of all, it's free! (As in beer and speech).

I use the Gimp all the time, and I've even used xwd in a simple script to get animated screenshots under X from VTI using Wine. (for some reason X takes more than a tenth of a second to get the target window information, so I get only about 6.3 frames/sec :-( ... maybe I'll look at xwd's source and make a similar C program just to get animated screenshots of any window, not just of TI emulators)

OK, I'm done rambling inside parentheses now.

Actually, the windows version of GIMP is so buggy it is hardly useable. Or, at least it was the last time I tried it (about a year ago.) It is great under Linux, however.

MWM

I've found WinGIMP is pretty buggy too, but it's still usable. It's still better than any other imaging program we have installed in Windows (i.e., PageImage, Corel PhotoHouse 3.0, and, of course, MS Paint).

I also use GIMP under Linux, since it is much better under a *nix system than under that other system.

That's interesting, my experience with GIMP has been bug free. (Yes, the windows version.)

dont use that... as he said, its buggy... use irfanview... its free too, designed for windows, finished (no bugs) and converts any pic format to any other, along with movie and audio file formats too

to find it search on google. the software is free, and not shareware or anything that expires or is not a full version.

goto my url for the convertor.

irfanview is the best!

XN View is the best!
It can even read/write to TI Bitmap, Acorm/ZX Spectrum sprites, and a whole host of totally random formats.

As cool as that would be, take a step back and ask yourself "What would be the point?"

The program itself was created as an example of the library's power. It's not for practical use. No one is going to use their calculator as an mp3 player. Go buy an iPod.

Has anyone actually gotten this program to work properly? The previous PolySound versions I've tried worked fine in VTI (with stereo sound and everything) but this new one doesn't. The program starts up fine, but even when the song is supposedly playing and the volume meters are non-zero, nothing comes out of my speakers except the annoying 'click click click' sound that an idle calc makes. I've tested both Ti-89 and Ti-92+ versions on VTI, with several different ROMS, but no luck. Any feedback on this?

It doesn't work on VTI. It should work on a real calculator, assuming you have the required hardware.

Why is it that earlier versions of PolySound (1.3, etc) worked in VTI, but the new one doesn't? What changed?

I don't know. You could look at the source codes to each, but in the readme for v2, it says it won't work in VTI.