[Fractdev] <Richard> Q's re Fractint for Windows

Richard,
> > Is the latest [beta] still: FractIntSetup-21.00.beta5.msi ?
> Yes
Thanks for the confirmation.

I just installed this and I am very impressed with its behavior.
Thanks for all your work! I really agree with your approach of keeping
the DOS user interface and restructuring the fractal code for Windows
as the first step towards a full migration of DOS Fractint to Windows.


I was surprised (looking in Task Manager) at how little of my CPU
was being used (and how it varied between fractals) when calculating
some of the parm file fractals included in your distribution.

[Its certainly pleasant not to have the DOS keyboard read routines
not continuously sniffing at my fingers in your Windows beta!]

What currently determines how much of the CPU is given to the
calculation of a fractal? <---<<


> I won't release another version until I've fixed a bug in the formula
> rendering that keeps giving a light red screen for certain formulas.

When I took a quick look at the formula parser some time ago,
I was pretty intimidated. The parser looked like an ad hoc
design approach, rather than an automatically generated parser,
like lex and yacc.


I guess if the formula parser code is still the original code, that
something like the changed #includes and/or data typing and
it passing must be the source of the problem.

The fact that the bug in the formula rendering keeps giving a
consistent symptom (a light red screen) should hopefully help
in the eventual diagnosis of the problem.


You may want to delete or update Jonathan's ReadMe.txt
file in your next beta since it describes the DOS version.


I note that you changed the keys that encode different screen
resolutions from the original encodings. So far that has only
impacted my SSTOOLS.INI file. It could also affect .BAT
files that include a screen resolution change. I guess I'm
working my way around to asking whether it could be useful to
have the keys that encode screen resolutions be the same as
the default DOS encodings...


Do you have a web page where you collect the issues/bugs that
people report or that you are working on -- beyond the items
listed in the BUGS.txt file included in your distribution?
I don't want to report any items that have already been
reported, or reported and fixed like: <---<<

> <\> or <h> or <ctrl-h> just redraws the current image
Fixed in beta 6


- Hal Lane

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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fractdev-bounces@???]On Behalf Of Richard
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 8:40 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Fractdev] What is the latest version of Richard's
> 'Fractint forWindows'?
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> In article <MDBBJLBFBICIIEIHFBMEAECNDFAA.hallane@???>,
> "Hal Lane" <hallane@???> writes:
>
> > Is the latest still: FractIntSetup-21.00.beta5.msi ?
>
> Yes
>
> I won't release another version until I've fixed a bug in the formula
> rendering that keeps giving a light red screen for certain formulas.
> --