Re: New Complete Pascal example (event driven programming)

[limtc <thyechean@gmail.com>]

Hi Michael, thanks for the feedback. You give me a different
perspective from a GS user which caught me by surprise.

In my iMac here, this is just a 6 page web page and the files all
appeared on the first page (as a table). So the best solution is
probably to host the GS specified files elsewhere, not on this site.

Since I don't have an Apple IIGS now (unless I can get it somewhere),
all my testing can only be done on emulation. Thus the name of the
site is "Virtual GS Programming" and I can't guarantee anything can
work on the real GS but I do appreciate feedback.

I discovered my Mandelbrot II GS code a few days ago, and it is the
version I put up. If you have the newer version, maybe you can send
back to me? As far as I know, the original Mandelbrot GS work, the
follow up will not work (it will crash during resolution switching),
so I hack out 2 versions - 320 mode and 640 mode version that work
partially the day before, just to show what it is. They will have a
lot of UI issues since it is impossible for me to edit the source code
I write 15 years ago...

Thanks for the feedback!

On 9 14 ,   1 14 , Michael Kent <mich...@syndicomm.remove.this.com>
wrote:

> This page gives me 35 pages of Pascal source code and a page at the bottom
> with links to a .zip file and a .bxy file (minor nit: can you put the
> links to the archives at the top so we don't have to scroll down through
> 35 pages of source to get to them?  Not a big deal either way, though).
>
> I can download the .zip and .bxy files just fine, but PMPunzip chokes on
> the .zip file with a memory error (I have 5.125 Meg).  I'll let the
> emulator people report whether it works for them.
>
> The .bxy file unwrapped to a ShrinkIt archive which unpacked with Balloon
> just fine.  So no problems at all downloading or extracting the archive.
>
> The problems arose when I tried to run the resulting programs.  Mandelbrot2
> had a yellow band at the bottom of the main menu stretching from the bottom
> of the screen up to about 1/3 of the way up the buttons.  The buttons were
> orange, which seemed to be an interaction with the yellow band.
>
> Entering the Mandelbrot set in 640 mode was correct at first, but selecting
> a region caused problems.  It re-drew the screen from the top down in pix-
> ellated form (correctly from the way I remember the program working from
> way back), but then it replaced the pixellated screen with a repeating
> pattern about the size of a lo-res block.  Selecting a new region causes
> it to pixellate and zoom in on the repeating pattern.
>
> The Mandelbrot set appeared to work correctly in 320 mode, but returning
> to the main menu found it to be shifted off the screen to the right.  The
> rightmost button says "Qui" and then gets cut off.  At the top of the screen
> the main menu says "Beautyedzoomet of that point".
>
> The "About the author" screen seemed correct, but returning to the main menu
> from that screen revealed an olive green band across the bottom of the
> screen extending from the bottom to just under the "colour mode" line.
> The buttons were brown with light purple text.
>
> Mandelbrot 320's main menu was titled "BeautyedzoomChean (GS Lover)" and
> displayed similar behavior to Mandelbrot2.
>
> Mandelbrot 640 had a full main menu and seemed to be working correctly.
>
> I have a stock ROM 3 GS running System 6.0.1.  The behavior of the pro-
> grams did not change by shift-booting, so it's not an init or DA problem.
>
> BTW, the version number on all of these programs is 2.1.  Just out of
> curiosity, I ran the version of Mandelbrot II I have on my hard disk.
> It is v 2.2 and runs correctly in all modes, as far as I can tell.
>
> I don't know what happened, but you have some really weird graphics going
> on in v 2.1.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mike