[MiNT] current gradients hacks (1-18-cur)

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Helmut Karlowski
<helmut.karlowski@ish.de> wrote:
>
> I've added a quick hack to load a gradient-file at runtime:
>
> $echo -n "#\$#0<filename>" >/pipe/alert
>
> Works, but only newly created windows are affected, and old memory is
> not freed. Don't know if this is useful.
>
> $echo -n "#$" re-reads the xaaes.cnf, but of course gradients are not
> affected by this.
>
> -Helmut
>
I was just reading henks AHCM text, says its used in XaAES, check the
functions it has, may help with freeing both initial GRD (for load new
GRD) and your piped GRD (preview and unload)

depending on what you have already done, you could bind any
preview.grd to window/form named xa_preview (presuming you can still
use the original gradient sets), then preview app can generate
preview, or if code is lite, XaAES could generate it (maybe support
both?)

Paul
I'm currently waiting for the next daily build, so testing will be a while..