On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 15:46, dsimcha <dsimcha@yahoo.com> wrote:

== Quote from Philippe Sigaud (philippe.sigaud@gmail.com)'s article

> Out of curiosity, as I don't know DFL, why do you draw everything as text in
> a scatterplot instead of using small rectangles or lines?

This is to give customizability as to what the points look like.

Maybe you can encapsulate the drawing in a small function that would draw a specific shape and let the user discriminate with an enum?

enum PointShape {circle, square, cross, ...}

Is it possible to cache a small drawing in DFL, to reuse it at will?

> This made me laugh:
> /**Hack around ddoc issues.)*/
> void dummy() {}
> Do you have a missing ')' parenthesis somewhere?

Probably. I was getting weird DDoc behavior until I added this, but I can't find
the missing ) so I just hacked around it.

Try line 1022 and lines 1988-1990.

For one big file, this irked me so much that I almost wrote a small script that would find docs comments and count parenthesis and brackets in them. But I found the culprit before that :)

As for bitmaps, I have a small module that load 24 bit RGB .bmp as ubyte[3][][] to manipulate them and write an ubyte[3][][] on disk, but it's quite brittle. You indeed need a generic way to save a form to disk as an image.

Philippe