On May 1, 2007, at 11:24 PM, Thomas Cunningham wrote:

> Tim,
>
>> My point was that this should be a very clear choice.  Especially  
>> when
>> deciding between "as Ptr" and "ByRef as Ptr".  They're worlds  
>> apart.  On the
>> other hand, "as Ptr" and "as MemoryBlock" are practically equivalent.
>
> LOL, like sort of pregnant, I got it, I misunderstood you.
>
>> Some guidance:
>>
>>> float domain[2];
>>> float range[8];
>>
>> float is a 4-byte entity, so the equivalent MemoryBlocks are
>>
>> domain= new MemoryBlock(8)
>> range = new MemoryBlock(32)
>
> Right, I know this, I posted this,
>
>     aDomain = New MemoryBlock(2 * 4)
>     aDomain.SingleValue(0) = 0.0
>     aDomain.SingleValue(1 * 4) = 1.0
>
> <snip>
>
>> I honestly hope that is helpful.
>
> Absolutely yes, very much so! I'll copy this to my notes and digest it
> further, again, many thank you's for taking the time to reply. I  
> hope it can
> get my shading to draw correctly.
>
> And if I may press my luck, does any of this advice change when the
> MemoryBlock is of an unknown type? Such as,
>
> void *info
>
>
> Charles,
>
>> The sample code looks like it's passing an array of size 2 to
>> CGFunctionCreate to me...
>
> The code crashes for me if I pass 2. The notes indicate that  
> "Dimension of
> Domain is 1 and dimension of range is 4." The docs for this  
> function say,
> "An array of (2*domainDimension) floats ..." So, it is expecting 1  
> in this
> case. Ditto for the range, it should be 4.
>

Send me a reference to the sample code and I'll take a look at it.

Charles Yeomans
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