I sent this to Edward, who asked me to repost it here. It's about screen shots of the old ancestor to GF4, still running in a DOSBOX virtual DOS machine. As a reminder, back then DOS graphics mode had a resolution of 320 X 200 pixels across the screen.
"Just for laughs, here is a screen shot of the old version running in DOSBOX. It's called "gstat" here instead of "gf2" because I had two versions with a somewhat different but overlapping set of functions in each. Gstat had curve smoothing, gf2 had the FFT routine. By "old" I'm talking circa 1990. Notice the noisy damped sine wave, just like we created in our Zoom tour of gf4. The gf2 screen shot shows a log-log view of the FFT of the damped sine wave, again just as we did in our tour. Back then I didn't have the button window. All functions except the curve generators were dispatched from menus, most with keyboard accelerators. I couldn't afford the screen real estate for a button window! - although my windows manager would have had no trouble supporting one. The curve generation panel could be disappeared to make more room for the curve. As I mentioned during our tour, the upper and lower scale labels on the vertical axis were actually calculator boxes if clicked on. Gf4 doesn't have that! The label "random noise" was generated by the program and would become the file name if the curve were saved. The label is a clickable single-line edit box. All graphics elements on the screen except for graphics primitives were provided by my windows manager. The font was an 8 X 8 pixel fixed width font provided by the TurboPascal graphics package. The half-tone effect in the background was a texture provided by the TurboPascal graphics package. I found I liked it a lot and made it the default, though it seems unconventional today (I still like it, though). Not gf4, but a recognizable ancestor. " On Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 6:16:28 PM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 8:51 AM tbp1...@gmail.com <tbp1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I've added a link and screen shot to GF4 on my home page >> <http://tompassin.net>. >> > > A suggestion: Announce gf4 on the python announcements list > <https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-announce-list.python.org/>. > I would add links to the gf4 repo and your home page. > > Edward > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/78ed1441-9b44-45f3-a9ca-6857eece712en%40googlegroups.com.
