I know. I figure if I read it all, maybe I can get it out of my system. Last night I was dreaming it MSPA motif all night. When my alarm rang this morning I tried to capchalogue my pillow in an attempt to eject the alarm from my sylladex.
--- James On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 07:42:47PM +0000, Mike Caron wrote: > Look, it's best to get MSPA out of the way now, so that you're not stuck > reading it at 4am, knowing that you have to get up in three hours, but you > can't go to bed because Andrew Hussie just introduced *another* new, > interesting character! > > My name is Mike, and I read MSPaint Adventures. > > "Hello Mike!" > ------Original Message------ > From: James Paige > Sender: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > ReplyTo: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Ohrrpgce] box taxonomy > Sent: Feb 8, 2010 1:53 PM > > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:02:20AM +1300, Ralph Versteegen wrote: > > On 8 February 2010 17:50, James Paige <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have been tracing the evolution of box drawing functions in the ohr > > > biosphere. > > > > > > == allmodex.bas == > > > > > > rectangle > > > fuzzyrect > > > drawbox > > > > > > == common.bas == > > > > > > edgebox > > > edgeboxstyle > > > center_edgeboxstyle > > > centerbox > > > centerfuz > > > > > > emptybox (like drawbox but with thickness, uses rectangle) > > > > > > (Have I missed any?) > > > > > > ---- > > > > > > I was feeling overwhelmed by these, but having sorted them out a little, > > > I fell better. I am going to work on adding support for drawing boxes of > > > all kinds on frames. > > > > > > While I am at it, I might give the edgebox derivatives less crappy > > > names, and maybe eliminate some of them entirely (centerbox and > > > centerfuz, I am lookin' at you!) > > > > > I (still) feel overwhelmed by the number of box functions. I > > definitely think we need to get rid of some. In my experience > > centerbox/fuz usually seem to make code harder to modify. > > My plan is that *eventually* the centerbox cruft will be replaced by > slices that use the appropriate anchors and alignment if they need to be > centered. In the short range, I will probably convert centerbox and > centerfuz calls into center_edgeboxstyle calls (after giving it a much > shorter and craptacular name) > > > I take back anything I ever said about not providing overloads for > > allmodex graphics functions to draw onto a frame. > > My plan was to implement those on the weekend. Instead I spent almost > the whole two days reading mspaintadventures.com ... dang you Mike! > > --- > James > _______________________________________________ > Ohrrpgce mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org > > > > -- > Mike Caron > _______________________________________________ > Ohrrpgce mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org > > _______________________________________________ Ohrrpgce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
