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From: Erwin J. Prinz (ejprinz AT austin DOT rr.com)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 20:43:06 EST

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    Fellow Users of "magic":

I am running magic under Linux Mandrake 8.1 with XFree 4.1 and the
NVIDIA-supplied drivers. If I use the "magic -dX11" option, the various
modes have the correct pointer shape (cross, square, etc.), but when I
use "magic -dOGL" I get the beautifully blended colors, but the pointer
shape does not change when switching tools (e.g. box to wiring). I can't
run in 8-bit mode because my desktop needs at least 24-bits for beauty
and to impress the collegues who all run Windows.

I have 3 different NVIDIA cards (TNT2, Geforce 256, and Geforce 2 MX)
and I have the same issue for each card. I would like to debug this
issue and would appreciate if someone could point me in the right
direction.

Also, the redraw speed for either X11 or OpenGL driver is fairly slow
for large chips, and I am wondering if "double-buffering" the graphics
output would help? Is anyone working on moving magic to a state of the
art toolkit such as Qt? I would be interested in doing this, but don't
want to duplicate anyone else's work. Also, I am wondering if Jeff
Solomon's work will ultimately be incorporated into "magic" as he seemed
to have solved the speed problem (see his DAC paper and presentation at
http://videos.dac.com/videos/38th/31/31_2/index.htm

The pinnacle of achievement would be to also get Python to work as a
scripting language as it is more straightfoward for most people than
scheme. I would also like to tackle that using "swig" ( a program which
creates bindings of C programs for Perl, Python, etc.), and would like
to know whether anyone is already working on that.

Best regards,

Erwin Prinz

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