Re: [MiNT] gradients,FreeMiNT 1.18

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:00:18 , "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de> wrote:
> Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
>
> > > so simply speaking, you change gradients= to match the .GRD file
> > > (compiled binary)
> >
> > How is the binary produced? From a C file?
>
> Yes. Actually it's an .o-file.
>
> > This sounds complex... It's been a while since I looked at the gradient
> > stuff in XaAES, but IIRC each gradient is defined in a simple struct. So
> > it doesn't have to be more complex than creating an external application
> > to define the gradients, same them in a binary format and then load these
> > in XaAES. It would be a direct replacement of the compiled-in struct.
>
> gcc!
>
> > > I think Helmut has a good/working alternate solution, if XaAES is
> >
> > I don't know how Helmut's solution works. But if it requires gcc and make
>
> You need gcc or pure-c, not nessecarily make.
>
> > to compile the gradients then I think it's overkill... The gradients could
> > even be defined in a text file like the keyboard-tables, and compiled to
> > binary format using mktbl.
>
> To me the c-files for gradients are a lot easier to edit than the
> keyboard-source-files, so that would not help much apart of the additional work/error-source.
>
> -Helmut
>
>

I asked about a XaAES visual preview tool that could show widgets and
gradients, I wasn't at all interested in a tool that would generate
new ones. Will many people be creating new ones ?

However, if I was choosing way of defining a gradient and then converting
it to a binary format for Xaaes I might have chosen an xml format. In fact
XaAES could load the xml and generate the gradients itself on more powerful
hardware.

Regards,

Peter