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From: Markus Gebhard <ukgh@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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Subject: Re: New Version released - TONS of suggestions
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:30:56 +0200
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Stuart Moore wrote:
> I know you said you didn't want to release the source code for Jave, but are you
> able to release the source code for just the circle drawing object(s), so people
> could try different algorithms for them but wouldn't affect the rest of the
> program?

It is a lot of work to build a simple interface to Jave so other people
can integrate their own algorithms. I have thought about that idea
before but I will not provide such kind of 'plugin' interface in the
near future.
But for a circle drawing algorithm you do not need to have an interface
to Jave. You can write a simple programm without graphical user
interface: You get the dimension of the circle as parameter (for example
19,10) and you print out the result to the standard output, for example:
       _____       
    .-'     `-.    
  .'           `.  
 /               \ 
;                 ;
|                 |
;                 ;
 \               / 
  `.           .'  
    `-._____.-'    
That is no big deal. And if the algorithm seems to work it is no problem
for me to integrate it into Jave.

Anyway, I will try using the line algorithm to improve big circles...
But there are more improtant things to be done before.

Markus