In article <3DC88B21.2040605@avalon.net>, Jonathan Osuch <osuchj@avalon.net> writes:
would call. This will make porting fracting much much easier. The menus can be abstracted too as well. [...]
This sounds very much like what I did to xfractint a while back. Did that code ever get incorporated into the base, or is it orphaned on a branch?
Yes, it's orphaned. I never did get it working again.
It should be un-orphaned instead of reinvented then. Skunky, please take a look at this code before you start putting in a porting layer. The code that I contributed had that going about 85%. I never took it to completion because a) I started writing this book and ran out of time, and b) I had to test with a funky X window system server under Win32. It really needs a native Win32 layer, which I had planned on doing, but isn't in the existing code. I hope to come back to working on xfractint after the book is done... but its turned out to be as big a project as Tim warned me :-). Skunky, you also asked if there was an official 'owner' of the fractint/xfractint code. I'd say Tim Wegner is as close as we have to that, but fractint has so many contributors its hard to say any one person 'owns' it. But I do consider Tim the guy with his hand on the rudder, even though there are many people tending oars. Just my opinion, naturally. -- Ask me about my upcoming book on Direct3D from Addison-Wesley! Direct3D Book <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/> izfree: Open source tools for Windows Installer <http://izfree.sourceforge.net>