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- From: andrew_abernathy@wire.gwinnett.com (andrew abernathy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: the big demo / matrices
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.040934.8445@wire.gwinnett.com>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 04:09:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: wire.1992Sep5.040934.8445
- Sender: andrew@wire.gwinnett.com
- Organization: or lack thereof
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- I have a (hopefully) quick question about matrices, cells and
- tags. I use browsers in several places to allow the user to select some
- entity. When I load the matrices, I set the cells tags to unique values
- so that I can easily identify a selected cell. Well, I can get the cell
- that is being selected, but it's tag always returns as -1. I'm having to
- identify cell by their stringValues, which is very inconvenient. Does
- anyone have any ideas why I might be getting the behavious I am?
-
- --
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- As a quick update to those familiar with my plight... the
- prototype is going pretty well. I have the majority of the general
- structure of my program together. (Things are not being done nearly as
- neatly as I would like... I plan to clean it up when the rush is over.
- Actually, sleep will come first...) Much is being handled by external
- programs. I am using Speaker/Listener to have ImageViewer open TIFF
- images and to have Adobe Illustrator open converted AutoCAD files. (I'm
- pre-loading the Illustrator files for performance reasons; can't do that
- with ImageViewer as it's not smart enough to know when it already has a
- file open. Fortunately, the load time on the TIFFS is acceptable.) I'm
- using distributed "I can't believe they're that trivial to implement"
- objects to control Movie. (That is just so amazingly cool! NeXT, you
- outdid yourself this time. Now I hope everyone starts setting up server
- objects and supplying the header files for them.) GETTING the video has
- turned out to be more of a problem than I expected... the images we grab
- on the pc don't look that great, but that's all we've got to grab them on.
- I've created a boatload of screens; probably 3/4 of the screens are done.
- I've stolen icons from all over the system. I haven't done any database
- stuff at a programmatic level (though the interface level works great); I
- may not have time to learn how to do that, in which case all my data will
- be dummied up. I've learned a good bit... enough to motivate me to keep
- going after the demo! The demo, by the way, is next Wednesday, but I have
- to have this wrapped up early Tuesday morning. I will be posting to let
- everyone know how it went. I am at an additional disadvantage in that
- this stuff will be in amongst a bunch of actual products on other
- platforms. My stuff already looks cooler than any of the other stuff.
- That could be largely due to the way cool icons I snarfed...
-
- I appreciate everyone's help; I will be acknowledging all messages
- when I get a opportunity to breathe. For now, back to work.
- --
- andrew_abernathy@wire.gwinnett.com (NeXTmail gleefully accepted)
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