I consider a simple "RTFM" answer rude and worthless. I also don't like a simple "read
the VFAQ." One, it doens't help that much, and two, it does not help us work together
as
a community. With a few exceptions, I consider all of us to be friends on this board,
and new users should be welcomed.

As far as answering a questions, I don't mind "Read Section 5.4.2 of the Manual" or
"look at question 34 of the VFAQ". Those arent' so bad.

Josh

Simon Lemieux wrote:

> Hi,
>         have you ever asked a question about povray, a specific question and got the
> answer "Read the manual, that should answer your question" or "Try
> www.povray.org or www.irtc.org they got plenty of examples..." ??  I mean...  I
> know that already!  I'm actually pretty good at povray and I read a lot of the
> manual and looked a some of the examples!  This is a useless answer, why do
> people answer this kind of thing?  I've seen this here in povray's newsgroup
> server, but only a few times, while on MesaGL mailing list I see ONLY that kind
> of answer!
>
> I used to ask 5 specific questions about OpenGL, here they are:
> For my very simple program I need a few things such as:
>   -Loading JPEG (still looking for an official library...)
>   -Creating transparent textures
>   -Knowing the mouse's position at every frame
>   -Activation of a function when the mouse button is pressed
>   -Activation of another function when the mouse button is released
>
> I would have expected something like:
> >  -Loading JPEG (still looking for an official library...)
> I can't help you with that...  Never done this...
>
> >  -Creating transparent textures
> This is easy, you should read section 2.3 of the manual it explains this in
> detail, and if I can give you an hint try not to have textures over 256x256
> since some 3d cards do not support more!
>
> And so on...
>
> Instead I got:
> Take a look at www.opengl.org
>
> They have lots os example code to look at.
>
> ---------
>
> Am I stupid or what?  Did you see One example that does this?  I looked and
> found nothing, can you point me more directly?? Like
> www.opengl.org/examples/source/texture.html or something like that...
>
> I'm sick of this!  What about you?
>
> Simon
>
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