Re: Baby X is bor nagain

On 11/06/2024 17:02, Bonita Montero wrote:

Am 11.06.2024 um 11:13 schrieb Malcolm McLean:
 

I've finally got Baby X (not the resource compiler, the Windows toolkit) to link X11 on my Mac. And I can start work on it again. But it was far from easyt to get it to link.
Can friendly people plesse dowload it and see if it compiles on other platforms?

 For large files it would be more convenient to have an .obj-output in
the proper format for Windows or Linux. I implemented a binary file to
char-array compiler myself and for lage files the compilation time was
totally intolerable and all the compilers I tested (g++, clang++, MSVC)
ran into out of memory conditiond sooner or later, depending on the
size of the char array.
I don't really see a necessity to have conversion for image formats
with such a tool as the conversion isn't needed very frequently and
you could save the image in the proper format yourself.
 

These are Baby programs. But they use a cut down GUI. So they need to get fonts and images into the program somehow. And so Baby X does that by converting to 32 bit C arrays which can be compiled and linked as normal. And for that, you need a tool. Writing a tiff file decoder is not a trivial exercise.
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Check out my hobby project.
http://malcolmmclean.github.io/babyxrc