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  Re: It's crazy, but I'm doing it...  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 14 Jan 2000 16:54:47
Message: <387F9CF0.E500305F@erols.com>
Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
> Ken Matassa <kma### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> : Oh, please, please, please, not Quick Basic. A binary please,
> : please, please. Maybe even for DOS?!???!!!
> 
>   But quickbasic creates binaries.

The real problem is the lack of mouse support in QuickBasic 1.1, which
means keyboard commands, which makes it very time-consuming to select a
point in order to make a triangle from it; right now the user has to
scroll through the other points in order to select the desired point, and then
find two more in order to define a triangle.

Since uploading the original version, I have added the ability to copy
the marked points.  In order to do this I also had to re-write the
point creation subroutine so that the previous hard-wired limit of
1000 was no longer in effect.  There was no error-checking in the
first version, so the user adding the 1001st point was in for a rude
lesson in frequent saves...

There are a couple more changes that need to be made.  Someday I'll
upload the results.

Regards,
John


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