Re: [Glgui-dev] abstract rendering & more

[SiO2 S. <si...@ne...>]

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From: "sfranke" <sf...@us...>
To: <glg...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Glgui-dev] abstract rendering & more


> > Make sure you don't forget about "LoadFromMemory()" style functionality.
For
> > example, I may have some data in my own file format (e.g. a Quake3 pk3 -
AKA
> > zip - file), so I would want to load the data into memory myself and
pass
> > the data to the GUI handler as a pointer.
>
> Yup.  Might be another day before I get to that.  Do you have any ideas
> for a format?  I was thinking a nice simple ascii format like quake3's
> shaders would be nice, especially until we have a resource editor.

Ascii, ascii, ascii. ;-)

> [sample implementation]
> > I haven't looked at it yet. Have you put together another zip
distribution
> > yet?
>
> No, I would have to make a release everyday to keep up with all the stuff
> I'm adding.  I'm trying to aim at a fairly complete functionality level
> before I make a full release.  That will include multi-platform demos and
> better documentation.  Or maybe I could release another little sample just
> for win32 with what's in CVS this weekend.

Most projects that I have seen produce weekly zip distributions. If you
could manage that then it would be nice. :) I still haven't installed WinCVS
yet...

Regards,

Keith Harrison
SiO2 Software.
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