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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.
If you lack a middle mousebutton you can use alt key with right mousebutton to give
the same effect.
Put transfig and fig2dev somewhere in the path in order for save/export to work.
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.
Want to run the program on a public screen? Try 'xfig -display PubScreen'
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.
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.
If you are able to crash the program in any other way, I'd like to know!
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!
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
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..