murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) (09/28/89)
I am wondering if anyone has looked at the sources to Vibra, ( a recently posted program which simulates lines and sheets of linked harmonic oscillators)? It seems as though Fred Mitchell used either some homebrewed menu utilities or some commercial utilites. The functions that I refer to are SetMenu, SetMenuItem, SetSubItemMenu, .... These functions are I assume included through the Tools.h and probably linkedto an external library. Does anyone know where this library is? Is it commercial or PD? Fred Mitchell, since you wrote the vibra.c program, are you out there? Can you help? Thanks, -- Bill Murphy murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu
mitchell@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Mitchell - QA) (09/28/89)
In article <2593@pur-phy> murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) writes: >I am wondering if anyone has looked at the sources to Vibra, ( a recently >posted program which simulates lines and sheets of linked harmonic oscillators)? >It seems as though Fred Mitchell used either some homebrewed menu utilities >or some commercial utilites. The functions that I refer to are SetMenu, >SetMenuItem, SetSubItemMenu, .... These functions are I assume included >through the Tools.h and probably linkedto an external library. > >Does anyone know where this library is? Is it commercial or PD? >Fred Mitchell, since you wrote the vibra.c program, are you out there? >Can you help? Yes, I'm out there somewhere! :-) I have written a whole library of powerful tools to make Intuition programming easier. I have not yet release these tools (called the Mitchell/Ware Libraries) but plan to at some point in the future. The source was provided for the sole purpose of detailing the algorithm used to generate the 'waves' in Vibra. I'm afraid that if you want to make modifications, etc. that you will have to rewrite the menu section- which wouldn't be too diffucult, but just a pain! Sorry, folks. however, if I get more requests for the Mitchell/Ware Libraries, I will consider releasing them sooner. They contain tools for windows and requesters as well. Also IFF routines and BOB support.
rap@peck.ardent.com (Rob Peck) (09/28/89)
In article <2593@pur-phy> murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) writes: >I am wondering if anyone has looked at the sources to Vibra, ( a recently >It seems as though Fred Mitchell used either some homebrewed menu utilities >or some commercial utilites. The functions that I refer to are SetMenu, >SetMenuItem, SetSubItemMenu, .... These functions are I assume included >through the Tools.h and probably linkedto an external library. I have not looked at the Vibra sources myself, but I will always remember seeing the same kinda thing in an early FISH disk, either #14 or #16 in a program called PDTerm. Take a look at the menu tools in there. For most applications, they are QUITE sufficient. What impressed me MOST about the way the author himself used the menuing functions within his own source code was that you could actually SEE the structure of the menu by the indenting style that he chose to use. Look at it... I can't do it justice here just from memory. Rob Peck