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From: farren@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DPaint II brushes to C
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Date: Wed, 6-May-87 05:40:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  6 05:40:42 1987
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Reply-To: farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren)
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In article <1836@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes:
>   So please, take a little extra time and write code that will last.
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>The preceding was a public service message from the IFF POLICE !!!!!!   
>    (Hardcoding Seeks on IFF Files ????    Go ahead... Make my day.)
>                       BLAAAAMMMMMMMM !

When I did gi, it was a quick and dirty utility designed to do a quick
and dirty job, which it did quite nicely.  Considering that this was
long before Fish #1, and the only docs I had on IFF files at all were
a couple of Xeroxed sheets that said, basically, "There are chunks.
They have names.  An ILBM header looks like this: ", I refuse to
apologize for what I did way back in the stone age, 'specially since
it has helped so many others out along the way.  Lighten up.

I am now considering rewriting gi, to add in all of the nifty little
things people have been asking for, and the ones I want to put in.
What I have in mind for improvements right now are:

1. The ability to see what your image will look like with an arbitrary
   color set, after the bit-plane transformations have been done.

2. The ability to setup your image as sprites, with output of the
   appropriate structures for sprites.

3. The ability to transform an entire screen into data, so that back-
   grounds and such can be incorporated right into your routine.
   Mostly useful for title pages, etc.

4. The ability to have gi produce a directly linkable object file,
   so you don't have to wait for interminably long compiles of images.

5. The ability to read arbitrary IFF files (there. see?  I ain't
iggorant.)

6. A full intuition interface, much easier to use.

Anything else you'd like?  Please let me know.  All good suggestions
will be incorporated.



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                 "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
Mike Farren      that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
hoptoad!farren       Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"