first let me say: IT IS VERY DANGEROUS MODIFYING FDF FILES THROUGH G FILES! ok, now after that... I'm pretty sure you can buy the user documentation from Sherill-Lubinski. You'll want the complete document for SL-GMSDraw Dynamic Graphic Editor, including info about the g files. fdf files are proprietary to Foxboro (basically have a funky header). However, standard sl-gms files are _very_ similar to fdf files. So I would not bring Foxboro into your reasoning with SL, otherwise they will point you to Foxboro. If you are that interested in getting the information... off of <http://www.sl.com> SL Corporation -- Corporate Headquarters 240 Tamal Vista Boulevard Corte Madera, CA 94925 USA 415.927.1724 415.927.8416 fax email contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] warning: Even with the documentation is won't be an easy feat to modify g files from fdf files. I was also very interested in the g files. The main goal I wanted to accomplish was to change normal text to rectangle (aka background) text. [Funny thing about not knowing whether you have bad connections or not.] Even when you know the pattern it's very difficult. The USER_DATA fields are incremented in a specific manner. Adding your own field is very complicated. Also positioning objects is complicated. If you position it wrong, you could crash your whole machine (ie put it too far off, and FoxView tries to allocate too much memory). remember: IT IS VERY DANGEROUS MODIFYING FDF FILES THROUGH G FILES! good luck! --- Sascha Wildner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'll probably get a lot of no's here, but anyway: > > Does anyone here have information about the details > of the GML language used in the .g files (aka > FoxView display dumps) produced with > /usr/fox/wp/bin/tools/fdf_g or > /usr/fox/wp/bin/tools/m1g? When I called > Sherill-Lubinski asking for a language description > or something like that their reaction was rather > cool redirecting me to Foxboro as the vendor of > their product. > > From what it looks it's a general description > language for graphics with the Foxboro specific > stuff coded into the userdata fields. > > In my opinion it would be very nice to have some > sort of language description. Does anyone know if > such a document (or better yet, a BNF grammar) > exists? > > > Sascha Wildner > erpicon Software Development GmbH > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
