Re: Colouring for the IIgs Complete Pascal Source Code Released

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Sep 18, 5:35 am, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Thank you for sharing your source code with us (I mean the thousands
> of IIgs programmers on Earth and Mars)
>
> Though my last Pascal line of code was written twelve years ago, I am
> still able to read it and I have been surprized by the FloodFill
> routine that you wrote which I believe is already existing as a call
> of the QuickDraw Aux tool set (SeedFill with the help of CalcMask)
>
> What do I get wrong there?
>
> Regards,
>
> writeln("antoine")

Antonie,

You are correct sir - in fact, if you look closely, 'Colouring for the
IIgs' can use either SeedFill or my own floodfill routine. There is an
option in the configuration file to turn on Seedfill use. The reason
why I don't use Seedfill by default is this - when you click to fill
an area with Seedfill, the computer sits there 'thinking' for about 10
seconds or so, and then "Hey Presto!" the area is filled. Having
tested both routines with kids (and thats who I'm trying to target my
program at  ;-)  ), they seemed much happier being able to see the
floodfill as it happens.

I have done some work on a prototype floodfill routine that gets rid
of the dependence of Quickdraw as Quickdraw is sloooooow.
Unfortunately, other projects have taken precedence at this point.

I'm just glad that one of the multitude of IIgs programmers had the
time to check out my source code. Now if only I can lure someone new
to start coding on the IIgs...   ;-)

Cheers,
Mike