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- From: jarl@hsr.no (Jarl Haugland)
- Subject: Re: On-Line Reference for PHIGS functions/structs
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.131247.6662@hsr.no>
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- Organization: Rogaland University Centre
- References: <63918@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:12:47 GMT
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- In article <63918@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt8166a@prism.gatech.EDU (DOERSCHUK,DAVID OAKES) writes:
- > I am taking a graphical interfaces class, and the system being
- > used is PHIGS on Sun ipc machines. I'm having a difficult time
- > of it, in part because the text ("A Practical Introduction to
- > PHIGS and PHIGS PLUS", by T.L.J. Howard, et.al. c.1991) does not
- > seem to use the same names for functions, structures, and #defines
- > as Sun PHIGS does. I'm told that our version of Sun PHIGS is the
- > most recent, although I can't find the version number by grepping
- > the .h files for "ersion" and "ev" ({V|v}ersion and {R|r}ev).
- >
- > Is there an electronic version of the Reference Manual, or at
- > least a detailed list of the functions/structs/#defines and
- > their meanings/usage? I'm using the phigsextern.h file as a
- > syntax model for function calls, but at my level of competence
- > thats not enough information.
- >
- I've been using the same book as you refer, and have met the same problems.
- Seems like you are using SunPHIGS, while I am using the PHIGS API supplied
- with MIT's X11R5. As far as I know both of these use the same naming-conventions.
-
- My solotion to overcome these problems has been to use the PHIGS reference
- manual pages supplied with X11R5 (in the mit/doc/extensions/PEX/SI/PHIGS catalog).
- Here you will find man-pages for every PHIGS-function, with description of
- datastructures etc. If you put "underscores" in the function-names provided
- in the "T.L.J. Howard..." book you get most of the names correct. See the man-
- pages for details.
-
- If you don't have the X11R5 code it might be ftp'ed from "export.lcs.mit.edu"
-
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