It's fine to include the web page. No problem.

MJL

smellenbergh wrote:

> Chris Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote:
>
> > In article <396419CD.2C632411@nospamthanks.hotmail.com>, Pabs
> > <pab### [at] nospamthankshotmailcom> wrote:
> >
> > > It is not all that complex an app - you could propably rewrite it in
> > > an hr or two for the Mac (if standard low level & stream I/O libs
> > > exist on the Mac) Sorry Mark I didn't mean any offense but it is true
> > > :)
> Yes, those libs exist on the Mac, but for some mysterious reason(s) I
> could not get the following to work:
>  fscanf(FileNum," %d , %d , %d \n", &XDim, &YDim, &ZDim);
> The value of XDim was placed somewhere randomly in memory and not in the
> location of XDdim. And before you ask: XDim is a 2 byte integer. I
> actually didn't change anything in the source, except for the
> windows/mac specific parts. Hmmm, I did rewrite the SaveFile() function
> a bit so that fopen/fwrite are used there too.
>
> But when I use this:
>     float a,b,c;
>     fscanf(FileNum," %f , %f , %f \n", &a, &b, &c);
>     XDim=a; YDim=b;ZDim=c;
> everything is working.
> Two possibilities:
> 1) I'm doing something wrong but I can't see what (I never used fscanf
> or scanf before)
> 2) There is an error in the standard c libs of CodeWarrior (My guess)
>
>  > Probably true, for someone who knows what they are doing...however, I
> am
> > very inexperienced with file I/O. I have never written a program that
> > used binary files, for example. And the only program I have written that
> > takes file input was a particle simulator :-), which took a simple scene
> > description as input. (standard C and C++ functions are available with
> > all major development environments, BTW.)
> Well, you probably never bothered to take a look at the PowerPlant
> framework.
> Especially to make such a simple application as df3Maker is, you will
> find it easy to use. I had everything converted in about 15 minutes but
> I had to search for that fscanf bug and that took me quite a bit longer
> ;-)
> The only bit that is a bit more complicated is the part were you make a
> full path out of a FSSpec.
>
> I did a bit off cut and paste for that, it was already in MacMegaPov.
> I should rewrite that bit, using more of PowerPlant but for some reason
> I never get round to it.
>
> Ok, you can download a small archive here:
> http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh/makedf3.sit
> It contains the CW project and a ready to run application. I also added
> the df3Maker internet page. Allowed?
>
> Perhaps one day I add the function to make a df3 file out of 2or more
> tga files. An explanation can be found at:
> http://users.skynet.be/egelie/
>
> Just look for the eruption entry for the irtc competition 'landmarks'.
>
> Yvo Smellenbergh
> --
> e-mail:sme### [at] skynetbe
>
> http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh

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