The file viewer application is designed to view the contents of Jet's binary resource input files: Indexed Mesh files (*.IM), Progressive Mesh files (*.PM), and Animation files (*.kin). These files are generally made up of "chunks", and there have been various versions of most of the chunks.
NOTE: The current file cannot read the V1.01 PMIN chunk at the end of the current progressive mesh files because Auran has not yet released the format of this version of this chunk.
This application has changed as follows:
| 08/29/2001 | Released the initial version which could view an Indexed Mesh file. |
| 09/09/2001 | Restructured the MFC project files for this application to no longer expect MFC help facilities. It should now compile directly from the unzipped files. |
| 09/20/2001 | Expanded to include the new formats of the RC1 pre-release of the Jet engine. |
| 10/18/2001 | Expanded to now view Progressive Mesh files (except the V1.01 PMIN chunk) and Animation files. |
The general procedure for using this utility is to run the program, open a file, usually using the Browse button to search for it, and push the View File button. The viewer application will create a View_filename.txt file in its current directory, and will execute the Windows Notepad application to display the result when it is done.
You can compare two versions of a resource file by running this viewer against each version, and then using a file comparison utility to compare the textual representation of each file in the View_filename.txt file created by the viewer.
That's about it, this is a pretty simple utility.