Hi Guys,
If fractint gets ported to WxWindows, that would not prevent you or Paul de Leeuw or anyone one else from making a Win32 GUI for fractint. There is no reason why there couldn't be more than one GUI front end, just as there's a X and a DOS front end now.
I guess that the main problem I have with FRACTINT is that the code is complex in structure. There are so many dependencies on optimisations for speed that go back to early versions of FRACTINT. It is very hard to use separate bits of the code in isolation. I would love to merge all of the FRACTINT functionality into MANPWIN but I find it difficult to pull out individual pieces of code to migrate across. There are so many variables which are globals and trying to find where they are initialised and exactly what they do is very difficult. This is why I have been floundering a bit. If the code could be more modularised (a horrendous task) porting would be simplified immensly. (Just my 2 cents worth :o) Regards, Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------- Paul de Leeuw Computers Central Coast Australia Email: pdeleeuw@deleeuw.com.au www: <http://www.deleeuw.com.au> ABN 72 360 822 562 ----------------------------------------------------------