sam ende wrote:
On Friday 02 February 2007 18:14, david wrote:
I use XFractint, too. I also wish it matched Fractint's capabilities. It does run faster for me than DOS Fractint did, though. I may be weird, but I like the separation between the command screen and the fractal image ...
no, not at all, i think it is a very good feature and it does have a more sympathetic to the eye interface. i have looked at fractint some time ago and it's vivid blue and red (i think it was those colours) i found visually too much.
It also behaves very nicely while doing image calculations - doesn't hog the CPU with useless keyboard polling like the DOS version does when running under other OSes such as OS/2 or Windows.
I'm not real big on color cycling, but I'd think XFractint would be able to accommodate 24-bit color support much more easily than Fractint because it doesn't have the same memory limitations as Fractint.
yes. my husband's explained to me what that actually means, he thinks it would be a pretty big change to make, i don't think i'm that fussed about it then, xaos also does colour cycling, but it's disadvantage is its limited amount of formulae. it's not that important.
I think adding 24-bit support to Fractint would require a lot of work in the guts of the processing routines.
i suspect also that a lot of the keystrokes don't work the way they do in fractint. for instance, when i press 'e' it doesn't do the evolve parameters what i've read about but opens the colour map menu instead.
On mine, ctrl-e brings up the Evolver. I also discovered that in the command screen, you can use the cursor keys to move amongst the listed commands and press Enter to select it.
i would like to know how to change the default save and opening paths, i would like the files to be saved in their own directory and be able to restore them from there too. do you know how to do that, which files i need to change ?
Sorry, I don't. Would be nice to know, too! -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community