PlanetPrefs.nib
Watch planets wander about space, dance, bump into each other, and explode... The neat extras come into play if you move the cursor to the upper right corner of the window. When you do so, the Preferences panel comes on! To install - just put the PlanetView.o and the PlanetView.nib file in your BackSpace object directory. (Type make install...) Credit: BackSpace is way cool! Thanks, Sam. Bugs :-) If you keep the the cursor in the upper right corner, the number of planets will 'count down'. The documentation is pretty thin. If the inspector 'seems to be there' but you can't do anything with it, try re-activating it. Comments: There's no way to dynamically set planet size (or 'space size'). I've hacked on this until it was pleasing to me... Instance drawing is cool! I've also converted SwarmView to instance draw... Faster, but with some flicker. If there's enough interest I'll re-send it (my apologies to the gentleman from adobe, I no longer have your mail, or diffs...). Plea: I love programming. Especially on the NeXT. Hire me. Pay me poor wages. Let me make you money. Make me program on the NeXT. (buy me the Concept docs while you're at it :-) Kurt Werle frsvnsvn!kurt@crash.cts.com p.s. Shameless advertising: Check out TotalChaos!! A Chaos viewer with a decent interface.
Watch planets wander about space, dance, bump into each other, and explode... Most of PlanetView was done by Kurt Werle (frsvnsvn!kurt@crash.cts.com). I thought his idea had promise, but it was kind of flickery and slow, so I reworked it into this. I changed it rather extensively, so you probably shouldn't blame Kurt if you don't like it. I removed his inspector kludge and put in a BackSpace 3.0 inspector panel. I'm sure this thing could be much faster with the right performance tweaks to drawing. I might get around to this someday... -sam (backspace@next.com)
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