Natalie wrote:
Is it possible to make the K (up) and J (down) keys in the save parameter screen act like normal character-typing keys? It is quite annoying not being able to type 'Julia'. As soon as you type Shift-j the cursor moves down. The arrow keys work ok (in all menu screens), so the K and J keys aren't needed for navigation.
Yes, but then they can't be used for navigation. I don't mind this because my arrow keys work, but others may have a problem with it. I haven't found a clean solution, yet.
RDS conversion isn't in the main menu, but the Ctrl-s keys do give access to the RDS parameter screen. The RDS image is ok, but as soon as you go back to the parameter screen and change something, the new image becomes messy. The only solution (as far as I know) is to reload the image, press Ctrl-s, try other parameter settings and if the image is not what you want, reload it again, and so on.
I've made the RDS and ant automaton appear in the main menu. I had misplaced a brace. The reason you need to reload the image every time you want to run RDS is that the savegraphics() and restoregraphics() routines are not implemented in Xfractint. I'll put it on the to-do list.
I ran some old FOTD pars in x fractint, one of them - Spooky_Radicals (November 28, 2000) - caused a crash and a core dump. I removed the line ranges=..., ran the par again, no problems. The resulting image isn't half as nice as the DOS version though.
I tried again, just to be sure, this time the image was drawn completely, but when I pressed s to save the image it happened again.
I've fixed this. Jonathan