[chaoscope] Re: wish list (shortcuts)
- From: Chaoscope <chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:00:45 +0100
Hi Dan, hello all,
You could just have users map their own shortcut keys. I'm not
exactly a programming aficionado, so I wouldn't know how much
time/energy/coffee you would have to put into something like this.
Not a lot of energy but a whole lot of time as this is my preferred
time/energy ratio. :-)
We had this discussion before François and me about customizable
shortcuts, I have a hard time seeing how it can improve a UI, all it
probably would do is making user support harder since every user could
virtually have a different set of shortcuts. Then again I could be wrong.
Speaking of which, what exactly is Chaoscope programmed in? Is the
source freely available?
Chaoscope is programmed in bad C++, with a pinch of C and a sprinkle of
assembly language. I use Borland C++ Builder 4.0 Professional Edition. I
tried the latest version (6.0) of their IDE but it was crashing too
often for some reason.
Borland focused on fast build times rather than fast execution time; the
compiler doesn't produce MMX/SSEx instructions, therefore Chaoscope is
currently relatively slower than it should be.
The source code will eventually be freely available, probably under GPL,
once I've reached version 1.0. I want to make the source code as well
documented as the program itself.
Anyway I've uploaded a new animation for your viewing pleasure. You'll
find it there:
http://media.putfile.com/no_logo_plasma/640 (Quicktime 5.88Mb)
It's a rotation of "No Logo", a Pickover rendered in Plasma which you
can see in the online gallery. It shows how Plasma is transparent on
nearby points and how it becomes more opaque as the distance between
points increases.
Nicolas Desprez
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