--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Troesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I would love to see PowerPro go open source. > > I think it would be an excellent learning resource to find > out exactly how you made powerpro so efficient, and memory light.
Sorry, but no. Why? 1. Its got so many interal design problems now, that anyone attempting to learn it and change it would need a lot of support from me which I am not interested in providing. In fact, there are certain key sections, like bar drawing and menu processing, that I fear touching myself. 2. I don't think there is anything more of significant to be done. If someone thinks of something, a plugin could be used. 3. There does not seem to be any more significant bugs. Since I told Sheri I'd do a new packaging for the new regex plugin, I will look at fixing any significant bugs found before then. As for learnign from the code: there is nothing particularly elegant about it; in fact, there is a lot of ugly code similar like that big case statement in the win plugin. I'm always open to explaining to any programmer how PowerPro does stuff; none of the techniques are original and all can be found by a web search or looking at a standard Windows programming text book.
