sg1q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Simon Peter Gatrall) (07/22/88)
In reply to some talk about reading bitmaps from PS printers, John Gilmore (gnu@hoptoad.uucp) wrote about new PS features that will be available in NeWS >The three primitives in NeWS that Sam might have been talking about are >copyarea, writecanvas, and writescreen. Copyarea copies the region >outlined by the current path, to a position (deltax, deltay) from >its current position. Writecanvas writes the current canvas to a >file. Writescreen writes the current canvas to a file, including >bits from canvases that lie on top of the current canvas (e.g. a >screendump). There's also a readcanvas which reads in a rasterfile, >and an imagecanvas which images the bits from one canvas onto another. I'm very curious if copyarea will provide for mode of copying, ie xor, bic, etc. This would make it easy to achieve all kinds of neat effects that would be a pain to do now. The only problem with all of this bitmap stuff is that it starts to reduce the portability of the code. Oh well! -Simon Gatrall sg1q+@andrew.cmu.edu
knute%bink@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Knute Christensen) (12/10/88)
How do I access the NeWS bulletin board?
apollo@ecf.toronto.edu (Vince Pugliese) (01/09/89)
now that several firms have announced X terminals
i was curious to know if a similar type of thing is
going to occur with respect to NeWS. if anyone knows
anything either e-mail or post as you see fit.
thanks in advance
vince pugliese
apollo@ecf.utoronto.edu
apollo@ecf.toronto.edu
mws@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Michael W. Stalnaker) (01/11/89)
Vince; Can you give me an idea as to who has announced X terminal? I'm looking for bit-mapped terminals (NeWS or X) in general, and any info you can give me would be helpful.... Thanks in Advance. Mike Stalnaker mws@aplvax.jhuapl.edu
mwm@violet.berkeley.edu (Mike (With friends like these, who needs hallucinations) Meyer) (12/05/89)
Does anyone have NeWS running on a DECstation (aka PMAX)? If so, I'd like to know about it. <mike -- Kiss me with your mouth. Mike Meyer Your love is better than wine. mwm@berkeley.edu But wine is all I have. ucbvax!mwm Will your love ever be mine? mwm@ucbjade.BITNET
steve@UMIACS.UMD.EDU (12/16/89)
I've got a NeWS 1.1 port that mostly works on a DECstation. The mono code is right except for an off-by-one in the line code and a shift-one-to-the-left on the mouse. The color code still needs a lot more work. If you want it, and are willing to live with the bugs, and can show me a NeWS 1.1 educational license, it's yours. Other bugs may exist; I don't use NeWS myself, so I haven't banged hard on the code. -Steve Spoken: Steve Miller Domain: steve@umiacs.umd.edu UUCP: uunet!mimsy!steve Phone: +1-301-454-1808 USPS: UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
steve@UMIACS.UMD.EDU (12/18/89)
Let me clarify something from the message I sent out recently: it now looks like there is only an Educational NeWS 1.0 license, and that NeWS 1.1 sources were shipped on the basis of that license. As such, if you've got a NeWS 1.0 license and no NeWS 1.1 license, and you want a copy of my hacks (and that's exactly what they are!) to put NeWS on a DECstation, drop me a line and we'll try to work something out. -Steve "I used to be a hacker, now I'm just a lawyer" Spoken: Steve Miller Domain: steve@umiacs.umd.edu UUCP: uunet!mimsy!steve Phone: +1-301-454-1808 USPS: UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742