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- From: irmen@cs.vu.nl (Irmen de Jong)
- Subject: Imagine GUI replacement
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:33:23 GMT
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- My friend asked me to post the following:
- (my comments are in square brackets)
-
- ------------------- CHOP HERE ---------
-
- Goodday.
-
- I have taken a look at the challenge to write a replacement GUI for Imagine,
- if you ever worked with the program you will know why!!
-
- Imagine is a 3D modeling and ray-tracer program, The lay out is generaly
- a 4 window setup with the 3 views and a perspective. These windows have a
- interactive function. You can click on a point in this window to select it or
- drag it to move.. Also there are lots of pull-down menu's.
-
- Since I can't get the source, and the program is updated regularly i
- thought about the IDCMP messages which are sent to the program.
-
- If I send messages to Imagine when the user clicks a point on my screen,
- and take the output of the specific window (more a region, not an actual
- window) and plot it on my own screen, would this work? How do I send IDCMP
- messages, and does enybody know where I can find documentation about IDCMP
- messages?
-
- [ Irmen: About the IDCMP messages, check intuition/intuition.h and
- the autodoc on ModifyIDCMP().
- It is quite dangerous peeking in the screen of another program...]
-
- The basic idea behind writing a replacement GUI is that Imagine writes
- directely in the screen memory which gives all the graphic cards a
- hard-time. Also the gui is old and needs the professional Kick 3.1 Look.
-
- The whole idea is still in its infancy, If you have any other suggestions
- please feel free to comment!
-
- Thanks.
-
- --
- zander@hio.hen.nl http://www.pimpernel.nl/~sander/
- Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as in life.
- -Joseph Conrad
-
- ------------------- CHOP HERE ---------
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- / Irmen de Jong (email: irmen@cs.vu.nl WWW: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~irmen/) \
- \ Computer Science, VU A'dam, NL. ``Nothing lasts forever'' -- Species /
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