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- FRACTINT for OS/2 Presentation Manager
-
- PMFRACT release 2.0 uses the fractal calculation engine of FRACTINT for DOS
- release 15.1. As such, there is more function in that code than is
- currently exposed to the user in the Presentation Manager interface
- that I have written. This is because my interest was in learning
- OS/2 Presentation Manager and SAA/CUA user interfaces, as well as
- the pretty pictures, and I have learned about as much as I can tolerate
- for the time being. However, I expect to get the "bug" again and intend
- to pick up PMFRACT again in the near future. For the time being,
- this is my list of where I will probably be heading next.
-
- - 3-D and 3-D Overlay - The code to do much of this is in the fractal
- engine code and just not exposed to the user interface, mostly because
- I have written as may dialog boxes as I can currently tolerate.
-
- - Color Cycling - This is mostly a Presentation Manager limitation at the
- moment. Palettes don't change on the basic 16-color VGA OS/2 systems.
- Hotter hardware, like the 8514/A display card, support palette changing,
- but the results are neither particularly fast or particularly pretty
- (you change the physical palette for everybody without any notification).
- Future OS/2 levels are supposed to have palette manager support, much like
- what is now in Windows 3.0, and I will readdress this issue then.
-
- - Real OS/2-style Help - PMFRACT started to grow when OS/2 1.1 was the
- current version, which did not have a documented Help system.
- So, I wrote my own called SMPLHELP (Simple Help system).
- OS/2 1.2 and 1.3 (and I assume 2.x and x.x in the future) do,
- but I have not yet learned it. This I intend to address soon as an
- excuse to learn about the OS/2 1.2 and up Help system.
-
- - Release 16.0 fractal engine - This I will probably address as soon as
- I can get the code.