Re: Neil ain't so bad afterall...some explanation still needed
Pete Wrote:
>You need to know that Neil is free, and written in someone's spare time to
>benefit other Euphoria programmers. There are also other libraries
>available, such as Hawke''s TrueColor lib (originally Chris Street's), or
>Mic's Mode19 lib, and can't forget Hollow Horse's mode19 lib too. Other
>libraries may be easier to use or even faster in some cases (where's your
>benchmarks, Hawke'?) but Neil offers the most features as far as I've seen.
none are needed Pete :)
I've said at least a dozen times, on this listserv, in public, that Neil *is*
capable of faster truecolor mode displaying than TrueEU...
at least on the vid cards I have access to.
it really shines, btw, when you ensure vesa2.0 compliance (like,
with univbe) and you begin accessing the linear modes that
TrueEU cannot (yet)...
as Talvitie (sp?) said, he was looking for a well documented,
very easy to use, truecolor mode library that had respectable
speed, and that is exactly why i wrote TrueEU in the first place...
Neil, in it's latest incarnation, may be easier to use now, as
I have not played with it for 2 or 3 updates...
I don't think i can eek out much more speed from TrueEU
but I've been toying with the idea of taking both libraries
and using the best of each to make the EU truecolor mode
issue a thing of the past... a library that is simply the fastest,
yet retains ease of use (assuredly), is well documented,
and has all the fun features everyone wants like virtual
screens, targa, jpg, easy mode switching, circles, polygons,
arcs, fills, scaling, textures, triangles,mouse stuff...
my only problem lies in time factors...
i'm working a lot of overtime, trying to build a house, keep
up with my 19 month old daughter and i want to "finish"
EUServer first...
coding time is just so very limited for me right now...
I believe I can/could do a good job of coding "TruNeil"
if i can ever get a chance to tinker :)
--Hawke'
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