xfractint, still more
Hello again, Yesterday I wrote about the RDS screen that isn't in the main menu, but does pop up after Ctrl-s. It's the same for Starfield and Ant Automaton, they're not in the main menu, but pressing a/Ctrl-a takes you to the parameter screens. It seems that the (in)visibility of the zoombox depends on the colormap. The zoombox is visible with: chroma defaultw firestrm froth6 & froth616 gamma1 & gamma2 glasses1, glasses2, & glasses5 goodega grid headache landscap paintjet topo The zoombox is invisible with: altern default froth3 & froth 316 green grey lyapunov neon royal 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. Thanks again Natalie -- Stolen tagline: Linux is like a wigwam, no windows, no gates, apache inside. [ Linux Counter: user 230952 machine: 111180 ]
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
On Sunday 01 December 2002 18:34, Jonathan wrote:
Is it possible to make the K (up) and J (down) keys in the save parameter screen act like normal character-typing keys? [snip]
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.
Yes, you're right, better keep the keys as they are. It's not so hard to edit the par afterwards and change the k/j to K/J.
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.
Great. [snip]
I've fixed this.
And thanks again. I do seem to keep you very busy these days... Natalie -- Stolen tagline: Linux is like a wigwam, no windows, no gates, apache inside. [ Linux Counter: user 230952 machine: 111180 ]
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