Hi Tim, Yes I understand where you are coming from and it would be ideal to have it work that way. The difficulty we all faced was the enormity of the task before any workable solution was reached. I guess I would rather have a working cut down version that full functionality in potential. The other thing that I have done a lot of work on is animation scripting. I have done a number of zooms and I am experimenting withy different paths around and across the Mandelbrot set to generate Julia set animations. This is fun. The code is not too difficult and maybe it can be ported to the code that Rich is producing. The idea that I had with using my case as a base is it is easier for task segmentation. A number of functions could be spread out amongst the team and each of us port a function or two into the WIN32 code and we all watch as the WinFractNew grows before our very eyes :) like the growth of the deep zooms before math coprocessors. Anyway, the interest that we all have in the final outcome should keep us going. Thanks guys, Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------- Paul de Leeuw Computers NSW Central Coast, Australia Email: pdeleeuw@deleeuw.com.au www: < http://www.deleeuw.com.au> ABN 72 360 822 562 ---------------------------------------------------------- What you attemped is devilishly difficult because you have to understand, and basically re-implement, everything. As you have said yourself in the past, you were limited by your knowledge of the legacy code. A more literal port has it's own challenges, but has the advantage that it leverages the original code better, and if the effort succeeds with the new compile environment, then you have a working feature complete (albeit ugly) program that can be refactored incrementally. This isn't a debate, because the practical outcome determines if the porting approach works. Rich has yet to prove his port will work :-) Yours worked fine, but had a reduced feature set (plus some attractive new features - e.g. true color). We shall see. Tim _______________________________________________ Fractdev mailing list Fractdev@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractdev