On Wednesday 28 April 2004 6:46 pm, J Kotta wrote:
1. In the various file selection screens (e.g. loading par files), I can't get to other directories. There's no '..' like in DOS fractint, or any subdirectories. I could live with this except for...
Yes, subdirectories are broken in the current version of Xfractint. I don't know that they ever worked and can no longer recompile the last "official" release to see if it is due to something I did. Fixing this is at the top of my list.
2. How do you set default paths? I have a directory for pars, one for frms, etc. Xfractint seems to only look in the directory that I start it from.
Use an sstools.ini file File SSTOOLS.INI Command ========================================= PAR directory parmfile=<path> GIF files for reading filename=<path> MAP files map=<path> Autokey files autokeyname=<path> GIF files for saving savename=<path> Print file printfile=<path> Formula files formulafile=<path> Lsystem file lfile=<path> IFS file ifsfile=<path> Miscellaneous files workdir=<path> Temporary files tempdir=<path>
3. This par was posted to the list about a month ago by SherLock Merfy; I finally tried to render it today. It starts out fine, but fractint eventually hangs and I have to kill it.
Boundary tracing is broken in Xfractint. I have no idea why. Jonathan