IMAGVIEW.TXT

                       Tue  06-14-1994  17:45:26

     IMAGVIEW.EXE, -another- simple and simple minded Visual BASIC for
     Windows program! This one displays "any" graphic file with the
     extensions *.BMP, *.WMF, *.ICO, and.... *.RLE! This viewer can
     display your Windows 3.1 startup file called VGALOGO.RLE (in
     C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM if you are looking for it) and any other *.RLE
     file you have been dying to view.

     What's that? Who gives a blinking cursor about graphic files with
     the extension *.RLE??? Well... you do, probably, but you don't know
     it yet....

     You see... Microsoft uses *.RLE files for their startup logo
     graphic format. Last year I wrote a file set called WINLOGO.EXE
     that showed you how to CHANGE the Windows 3.1 startup logo to one
     of your very own. But, didn't have a way to -display- these *.RLE
     graphics before installing them until now.

     WINLOGO.EXE is one of the most downloaded programs on CompuServe.
     So... I know that Windows 3.1 users just LOVE graphic programs and
     like to mess with their Windows logos.

     This Visual BASIC will display those mysterious and elusive *.RLE
     files as well as display "life-size" or ENLARGE your true-blue 766
     byte Windows ICONS. Yes make =big= icon pictures and also "Stretch
     to Fit" your *.BMP, *.WMF and *.RLE pictures too....

     What does "Stretch to Fit" mean? Well if the graphic is small,
     "Stretch to Fit" will stretch it to fit a three by four inch (3x4")
     IMAGE Box on the screen. If the graphic is humungous... checking
     the "Stretch to Fit" Check Box will make that graphic SMALLER.

     With the "Stretch to Fit" Check Box UNCHECKED, you will note if you
     Click on a large graphic, the Window displaying the program will
     enlarge to fit that graphic and the shrink again with when
     displaying a smaller graphic. It was so neat to write the code to
     do that.... Only took me a few dozen minutes compared to the
     impossibility of doing the same with a DOS program.

     So... "one small step for graphics and one giant step towards
     making a Visual BASIC Windows LOGO Changer!"

     John De Palma on CompuServe 76076,571