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Topic: Oddities since latest release |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 3
Views: 2074
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Forum: General Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2024 12:30 pm Subject: |
I have long found having FTN95.CHM on the desktop as Paul suggests to be a good thing anyway. The same can be said for CWPLUS.enh and FTN95.enh, although they need to be read in Notepad.
Eddie |
Topic: WinAPI function of free disk space left |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 8
Views: 3827
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2024 1:54 pm Subject: |
Well, Dan, If you are afraid that you are approaching your disk limit with the general run of things in your work, you can keep a check by interrogating 'Properties' for any disk in the File Explorer. ... |
Topic: Recent changes in get_opengl_mouse_state@ ? |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 3
Views: 5965
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Fri May 24, 2024 9:48 pm Subject: |
Dan,
Why I don't use OpenGL:
(1) I can't find a user guide to OpenGL written in plain English
(2) Ordinary ClearWin+ graphics are good enough for what I do.
Why I don't crave multiprocessing:
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Topic: OpenGL and mouse position |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 5
Views: 5551
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 9:06 pm Subject: with exq |
Steve,
John Horspool was a regular and fantastically helpful contributor to this forum until shortly before he passed away from cancer. He made his living from a finite element stress analysis syst ... |
Topic: OpenGL and mouse position |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 5
Views: 5551
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 4:14 pm Subject: |
Ah. John Horspool. RIP. |
Topic: Plate flexure code |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 4
Views: 5011
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Forum: General Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:14 am Subject: |
John,
The reference is in my original post. I have a copy somewhere, but can't find it. I'll look again. I'll send you the files via WeTransfer.
Best regards
Eddie |
Topic: Plate flexure code |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 4
Views: 5011
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Forum: General Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:11 am Subject: |
Hi Lester,
If you send me a PM (private message) then I'll send you the whole shebang via WeTransfer. I used Dropbox for a long time, but they changed the way it was used and I couldn't get on with ... |
Topic: Plate flexure code |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 4
Views: 5011
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Forum: General Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 3:55 pm Subject: Plate flexure code |
Nearly 50 years ago, I shared an office with a structural engineer*, who saw the following paper and asked me if I would program up the method for him. At the time, I was using the then current Swanse ... |
Topic: How this error even can appear? |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 13
Views: 13276
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Forum: General Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 4:26 pm Subject: |
Dan,
The devilry that you so often encounter is probably the result of the satanic rituals implicit in your programming style.
A sprinkling of the following holy water may help:
Keep the subp ... |
Topic: Clearwin based message for warnings/infos |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 21
Views: 24956
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 8:37 pm Subject: |
Well that's probably the mistake Dan made as well as I did.
Fortunately, I already knew where to look!
Eddie |
Topic: Clearwin based message for warnings/infos |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 21
Views: 24956
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:46 pm Subject: |
Dan,
Paul is right about the 'Format code reference' in the FTN95.CHM file, although I couldn't search successfully for %ld in that file. As for Dan's comment about the instructions being in C, tha ... |
Topic: Clearwin based message for warnings/infos |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 21
Views: 24956
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2023 6:13 pm Subject: |
You could always use %ld with traffic signal colours , and as you can use the option blinking to call attention to it.
Eddie |
Topic: %pl is wonderful |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 11
Views: 14270
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 1:10 pm Subject: |
Hi Ken,
I see from a 'history' in an old program that I got my first contouring algorithm working in May 1976. It was for nodal values in a finite element program. It took me a while longer to be ... |
Topic: %pl is wonderful |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 11
Views: 14270
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2023 7:35 pm Subject: |
Kenneth, I think that your sentiment is fine, but your scope is a little limited. Instead, the whole of FTN95 and ClearWin+ is wonderful !
Nice plots, by the way.
Eddie |
Topic: Query about making a free graphics library DLL available |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 7
Views: 20449
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Forum: General Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2023 11:28 am Subject: |
In principle, I'm interested.
As far as OpenGL is concerned, I have looked in vain for a comprehensible guide, but can't find one. Dan, how about writing one?
Eddie |
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