On Thu, May 31, 2001, Ben Chess wrote:
Hi Ben,
> We've decided to help develop Plucker to be our next FlingIt.
Cool!
> There are three main things that we would like to add to Plucker:
> MacOS 8/9 compatibility,
Great. We need a Mac user (and developer) to add this, so your help
will be much appreciated.
> form support,
That will open up a whole new range of possibilities for Plucker.
> and additional simplicity.
Making things "simple" has not been our main objective so far ;-)
We have concentrated on making it "powerful" instead.
> Admittedly, this is my first open source project. I understand the
> terms of the GPL and I've made sure that the rest of HICE does as well.
OK.
> They've given me the go-ahead, so here I am. Thanks, it's great to be
> here. :)
You're welcome aboard ;-)
> Given the opportunity, I'd love to have the code I write a part of the
> real Plucker source code.
Well, if you add support for forms then I can *promise* you that
it will be added to the main version.
> Here's a small sticky part: in the classroom we'll be titling it FlingIt.
Fine with me.
> it will be a last-minute cosmetic change.
And a simple one. You can take advantage of the language support
(yes, it can be used for other things than just adding support for
new languages:) It's just a matter of adding a new resource file
(e.g. flingit.rcp), including 'flingit' as a supported "language"
in the configure file and then run
make ICONTEXT="FlingIt" viewer_flingit.prc
You can rename the prc file to whatever you like afterwards.
However, for it to be that easy you probably need a Linux/Unix system.
I don't know how you would build it on a Mac. Everything is very Unix
oriented. I know it is possible to build it on a Windows system, but
I don't know how much manual work that involves (if any).
I guess Dirk can help out with that (if you choose to use a Windows
system instead of trying to get it to build on a Mac).
> Anyways, I thought I should let you know that we're here.
If you are not already subscribed to the mailing list you should
remember to do that, too.
/Mike
