Re: Taking Snapshots

[Sven N. Thommesen]

At 05:45 PM 4/2/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Hey!
>
>Well, I got fed up with Sven's needling [grin] and hacked xwd so that

Halleluja !
The squeaky wheel finally got a little grease!

>it's callable as a subroutine.  It's relatively painless to compile it
>as a library, link it with Swarm, and put a method in, say, the
>observerSwarm that is called at whatever frequency you'd like.
>
>It's not in distributable form, yet.  For instance, the xwd package
>still tries to do a link when you make it and you have to create your
>own libxwd.a with an ar rvs command.  But, if anybody's got ants in
>their pants, I can send it to them.
>

Well, don't know 'bout them ants -- but I'd like some, anyhow ...

>I doubt this is the way we should really go.  XWD files are pretty
>large (105583 bytes for 80x80 default zoom heatbugs).  Plus, we're
>trying to move *away* from X if possible, not towards it.  So, I've
>started looking into HDF and AVS.  Mind you, however, that this is
>still not high priority.  The hackish stuff is so simple that it can
>never be considered high priority.  And the long-term stuff ties in
>with our general data visualization problem and our portability
>problem, both of which are superceded by ||-Swarm, the Manual, and the
>Alpha port.
>
>glen
>

Well, we humble peons out here gratefully take whatever
crumbs come our way ... :-)

Thanks, Glen
Sven



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