On 1 nov, 08:54, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:54:27 -0700 (PDT), Jaime Buelta > <jaime.bue...@gmail.com> declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.general: > > > shouldn't be heard. Talks a guy that programmed a GUI on Motif using C > > (plain old C) in 2003 and takes almost forever (one year and a half), > > Lucky you... > > I emulated a Ramtek 9300 (think that was the model) graphics engine > using GKS (for display lists, and ability to turn "layers" on/off > without regenerating all the data) on top of plain DECWindows/Xt > library, with no layout utility. Around 1990 (I date it by the fact > that, on return from the 7 week two site deployment of the application, > I decided my old cameras had gotten too burdensome, and bought a Canon > EOS 10s, 35-105 & 100-300 lenses, and a photo vest that I could wear > onto the flights) > > Emulation was needed as the data generation program had to have > minimal changes -- we replaced the Ramtek library with a package that > formatted the Ramtek instructions as text strings, sent them via VAX/VMS > mailboxes to the emulation program... Oh, and the main data generation > program really was a set of some 50 programs that were invoked in > "random" order, each drawing certain data elements onto a single window > -- so there had to be a common graphics application to maintain the > window... > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG > wlfr...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
Hahahaha, I souposse that I must consider myself EXTREMELY lucky... ;-) Anyway, each tool has its time, and we should try to use more-or-less adequate and available tools of our time... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list