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<p><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Window
overview</span></b></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Sprite
Explorer has a very comfortable interface. There is nothing hard in it � the
windows can be divided into the main menu, toolbar, and frames viewer and
information panels. Here we'll describe the icons, which can be found on toolbar
and tell you what the information panels do.</span></p>
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<img border="0" src="img_toolbar.GIF" width="461" height="24"></font></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Above, there
is an image of Sprite Explorer's toolbar. Now I'll try to describe each icon of
the toolbar.<br>
Icons, including drop-down menu are numbered from 1 to 15 as their position from
left to right.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:white"> Number</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:white"> Caption</span></td>
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<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: white"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:white">Description</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 1</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Create new HL
sprite file</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Launches the
sprite creation wizard, which will help you to create a new sprite. Click
<a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="pg_new.htm">here</a> to find more about this wizard.</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 2</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Open HL
sprite file</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Loads a
Half-Life sprite from a folder into Sprite Explorer.</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 3</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Previous file
in folder</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Loads a
sprite, which is previous in the folder (or .pak, if sprite is loaded from
it)</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 4</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Next file in
folder</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Reads a
sprite which is next in the folder to active sprite (or in .pak, if sprite
is loaded from it)</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 5</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Drop-down
menu</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Shows list
of sprites, found in folder of active sprite, or from the whole .pak file,
to make navigation in folders easier.</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 6</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Copy frame to
clipboard</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Copies
selected frame to the clipboard, so you can paste it wherever you want (in
mspaint or winword for example)</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 7</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Save single
frame to .GIF</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Saves select
frame to .GIF. If there are multiple frames select, it will save first
selected frame.</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Save single
frame to .tga</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> The same as
before but saves the frame to targa graphics format.</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 9</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Save selected
frames to .gif</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Saves
selected frames into a .gif file. You can select multiple frames also by
clicking on them and holding Ctrl.</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 10</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Save selected
to .GIF�s </span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> The same as
before but saves frames into seperate .GIF files.</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 11</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Decompile
sprite (.qc)</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Exports the
whole sprite to a collection of .GIF's and a .qc file, so it can be compiled
by Sprite Explorer or SprGen utility.</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Save sequence
to .gif</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Exports
whole sprite to .gif animation file.</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 13</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Read html
manual</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Launches
your browser with Sprite Explorer's help system which you are reading now :)</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 14</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">About Sprite
Explorer</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Displays
dialog box with information about program authors. You can send us email, by
clicking on a name.</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> 15</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Quit
application</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Quits Sprite
Explorer.</span></td>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Information
panels are situated at the right and the bottom. The one at right shows you the
sprite's animated preview and information about the sprite, such as size, kind
and transparency mode (format). The panel at the bottom shows you the hint of a
GUI element on the window: for example when you'll move the cursor to a button
on the toolbar, you'll see a hint there. Also Sprite Explorer�s state label is
situated here (it has [PAK] or [FAT] text on it). It shows whether active sprite
was loaded from a folder or directly from .pak. When you are loading a sprite on
this panel, you can see the progress bar, which shows the progress of loading
procedure.</span></p>
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