General

Aaw can handle bitmap graphics. In order to see pictures of objects and mobiles you need special viewer program which connects to mud at same time as you normally play.

Also player characters can have pictures. As our resources are limited the policy is that only legend characters may have picture of their own. Contact imms if you have one. We also gladly take pictures drawn by players for objects or mobiles. Every picture has its author. Please don't send copywritten material.

Viewer

Currently we have the following versions of viewer:

• Java version 0.01, requires Java capable browser. This is very BETA and doesn't work properly. It's reported to work with
  • Netscape 4.03 under Linux and NT
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 under NT.
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 under NT (surprise!).

  There is some bug which causes connection closure sometimes.

• Java version 0.02. Same as 0.01 but caches pictures in memory.
• Unix version. Unix version requires X-windows and Tcl/Tk packages. Program needs compiling. Check the path for frontend where 'wish' can be found.

When connecting first connect normally with telnet and after that connect with viewer. When connected it should say "Your B channel has been opened successfully" in the telnet window.

Unix version

Common problems:

• Forget to compile aawview.c: gcc -o aawview aawview.c
• Port for viewer is 5100, not 4000.
• Check username and password. Also capital letters should be proper.
• The path for 'wish' is wrong. Use 'which wish' to find out correct path and edit 'frontend' file to match it. You need wish (tcl/tk) in order to use this version.
• aawview can't find/execute frontend. Set frontend excutable (chmod +x frontend)
• Wrong version of Tcl/Tk. The program is written for Tcl 7.4 and Tk 4.0.

Note: Unix version is developed under Linux so you might have some problems under other unixes. Reports needed for changes so we can give better support to other people in the future.

Unix version is preferred over java version currently as it makes .aawview directory under your home directory and caches pictures there. Program lacks mechanism to validate cache entries so it might be necessary to clean cache from time to time.

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Edited by Seandr
November 23, 2004