X-Finder Wallpaper (XBG) Tools!

X-Finder Wallpaper (XBG) Tools! is a package consisting of
- Screen capture tool
- XBG viewer
- XBG conversion tool


o Setup

  XBGTOOLS.LZH will be decompressed into the following files:

XBGTOOLS.TXT    User's guide in English
XBGTOOLS.JPN    User's guide (original, in Japanese)
CAPXBG  .EXM    Screen capture tool
XBG     .EXE    XBG viewer
XBGCV   .EXE    XBG conversion tool
CAPXBG  .C      Source code of CAPXBG.EXM
XBG     .C      Source code of XBG.EXE
XBGCV   .C      Source code of XBGCV.EXE


o Capture tool

  Capture tool saves the current display image of the HP200LX
  to C:\FULL.XBG.

  Add CAPXBG.EXM to MoreEXM with 'suppress clear-screen' option.
  If you use SMMx, mark the checkbox "Don't Clear Screen".

  Use LxPic or other image viewer to display the image you want
  to convert to XBG. Press the start key you assigned to
  CAPXBG.EXM to save it to C:\FULL.XBG.


o XBG viewer

  This tool display image files stored in .xbg format.

  Copy XBG.EXE to any directory you defined in the PATH
  statement.

  Usage:
    XBG filename

  You may want to add following lines to FINDER.ENV, the
  environmental file of X-Finder.

.xbg    ,96     ,xbg %p%c


o XBG conversion tool

  This tool creates XBG files with 320 x 200 size for split
  screen.  It also reduces the contrast of an image to make
  it better for a wallpaper.

  Usage:
    XBGCV [l|r|c|h|q|k] input_file output_file

    l  save the left half (320 x 200) of the input image to the
       output file.
    r  save the right half (320 x 200) of the input image to
       the output file.
    c  save the central half (320 x 200) of the input image to
       the output file.
    h  reduce the contrast of the input image by half (1/2) and
       save it to the output file.
    q  reduce the contrast of the input image by quarter (1/4)
       and save it to the output file.
    k  reduce the contrast of the input image by half (1/4)
       using error diffusion method and save it to the output
       file

  Example:
    xbgcv l full.xbg half.xbg
  will save the left half of full.xbg -- (0,0) to (319,199)
  with the size of 320 x 200 -- to half.xbg. This file can be
  used as a wallpaper for split screen, both for left and
  right windows.

  Example:
   xbgcv r full.xbg half.xbg
  will save the right half of full.xbg -- (320,0) to (639,199)
  with the size of 320 x 200 -- to half.xbg. This file can be
  used as a wallpaper for split screen, both for left and
  right windows.

  Example:
    xbgcv c full.xbg half.xbg
  will save the central half of full.xbg -- (160,0) to (479,199)
  with the size of 320 x 200 -- to half.xbg. This file can be
  used as a wallpaper for split screen, both for left and
  right windows.

  Example;
    xbgcv h full.xbg light.xbg
  will apply a 1/2 filter to full.xbg to reduce the contrast of
  the image and make it more visible as wallpaper.  This is a
  simple conversion filter. If this option gives an
  unsatisfactory result, use error diffusion option 'k'
  instead.

  Example:
    xbgcv q full.xbg light.xbg
  will apply a 1/4 filter to full.xbg to reduce the contrast of
  the image and make it more visible as wallpaper.  This is a
  simple conversion filter. If this option gives an
  unsatisfactory result, use error diffusion option 'k'
  instead.

  Example:
    xbgcv k full.xbg light.xbg
  will apply error diffusion method to full.xbg to reduce its
  contrast.

