[comp.sys.mac] Help with Graph 3d

icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) (07/15/89)

Greetings,
     I'm desparate.  I have spent Megabucks calling people all over to
get nowhere.  What I really need is as much information as possible on the 
Graph3D unit included with turbo and lightspeed pascal for the Macintosh.
Borland said that Graph3D is licensed to them from Apple and that Borland
has no documentation.  Apple was clueless.  BMUG cut me off.  APDA was
likewise ill-equiped.  Can someone please tell me how to get info on 
what each of the routines in Graph3 do, and all how to use them?  Thanks.


Please reply to icsu8165@caesar.cs.montana.edu, as I'm posting this
for him...

levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) (07/17/89)

In article <1868@caesar.cs.montana.edu> icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
|     I'm desparate.  I have spent Megabucks calling people all over to
|get nowhere.  What I really need is as much information as possible on the 
|Graph3D unit included with turbo and lightspeed pascal for the Macintosh.

I can't help you with those products.  What I know about is a library
called Graf3D included with MPW.  Quoting from the 3.0 beta manual,
appendix G (My 3.0 Real manual is at home),

  "Graf3D is a set of QuckDraw calls used to produce three-dimensional
  grpahics, by providing a fixed-point interface to QuckDraw's integer
  coordinates.  This appendix describes these routines and their use for
  both MPW Pascal and MPW C."

The appendix is 13 pages long and describes the structures / RECORDs,
types, and function and procedure calls.  I also probably have on my
disk the MPW C ".h" file.  My Pascal is TML and it also includes the
interface file.  While I would be glad to if Apple says it's OK, I
doubt I can legally send you any of this stuff (though the interface
files are available from the Apple FTP site or any of the other
archives which carry the Apple material).  You might be able to get
what you need from APDA (that is without having to buy MPW).

Hope this is of some use.

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turk@Apple.COM (Ken "Turk" Turkowski) (07/19/89)

In article <1868@caesar.cs.montana.edu> icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>Graph3D unit included with turbo and lightspeed pascal for the Macintosh.

Graf3D is documented in the back pages of the MPW C reference manual.
I believe that I also saw it in the Pascal and assembler manuals, but I
don't have any of them available now.

Contact Apple developer support for a copy.
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