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- Xfig amiga info
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- The program itself should be pretty self explanatory. In order to run it you'll need
- to have a stack of 20000 or more. Also if you want the program to use colors you'll
- need 32 free colors. This means a 64 colors minimum color workbench with os3.0.
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- If you lack a middle mousebutton you can use alt key with right mousebutton to give
- the same effect.
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- Put transfig and fig2dev somewhere in the path in order for save/export to work.
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- Anyone know how to do an xor (complement) operation with bitmaps (blitter operation)?
- I didn't find any so I added a bounding box when moving rotated text instead.
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- Want to run the program on a public screen? Try 'xfig -display PubScreen'
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- Memory usage
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- Yes, the program uses a lot of memory..Probably 2-3 meg of fast ram. This probably
- means a 4mb a1200 will have difficulties running it! Also freeing memory is a novel
- idea in the unix programming environment so the program may fail to release some
- memory on exit. I have added the most obvious freeing to reduce this memory loss
- as much as possible.
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- Program freezes?
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- Unfortunately this can occur. As far as I have been able to tell this happens
- when one of the option windows is opened in front of the drawing area and some
- operation is done in the canvas. The reason for this is probably that the program
- is using clipping to limit drawing to certain areas of the canvas which probably
- interferes with MUI's clipping and then makes the program freeze. Couldn't
- find much reference to the proper way of do clipping with MUI (probably isn't
- any..) so the alternative would be not to allow the option windows to stay
- open, but this is somewhat awkward since it can be avoided by not having
- the option windows overlap the main window.
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- If you are able to crash the program in any other way, I'd like to know!
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- Why save/print/export disable?
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- It seems that even the best program of its kind won't result in a noticeabe number
- of contributions (like xmgr) so I am led to believe that it is a fairly general
- opinion that if you've got the full program, why pay? So my following programs will
- most likely be savedisabled!
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- If you'd like a full version of this program $10 in my mailbox will do the trick!
- (in case you haven't got a email address, add $5)
- $10 isn't a lot so don't expect too much more for this amount!
-
- Terje Pedersen
- Oterveien 55
- 9017 Tromsoe
- Norway
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- Unix account?
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- It seems that I'll be loosing my unix account again..:-( Anyone got one to spare?
- There are local commercial providers of internet access, but with the
- current $ input from my current ports this isn't a likely option.
- I guess doing online support for my ports can prove to be difficult without
- e-mail access :-/ Also the above about an extra $5 will be permanent if/when
- I loose the current account..
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