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Re: Any interest?
From: Gordon Talge
Date: 2003 Nov 30, 19:37 -0800
From: Gordon Talge
Date: 2003 Nov 30, 19:37 -0800
Michael Dorl wrote: > > As an exercise in learning Microsoft c++ and windows programming, I wrote a > small application to > reduce a set of sights. It's assumed that the sights are all taken from > the same location (my back > porch does not move). > > The sights are read from a file and can be edited, printed, saved, etc. > > The program calculates the two possible locations for each pair of sights. > > The equal altitude circle for each sight is drawn to a meta-file and the > meta-file can be displayed in a > pop up window. You can select an area of the display and zoom in on it to > get an idea of how the sights > agree and at what angles the circles intersect. > > The .exe file is about 120KB, the source code is about 250KB. I used > Microsoft c++ version 6.0. I'm willing > to share both with anyone who will give me some constructive > feedback. This is a work in progress. Sounds good, but you need to dump Microsoft take up GNU/Linux. Try out the gcc and g++ complier collection all for free. "Free" as in Freedom and "Free" as in Free Beer. http://www.gnu.org and http://www.debian.org -- Gordon -- ,,, (. .) +-------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo------------------------+ | Gordon Talge WB6YKK e-mail: gtalge AT pe.net | | Department of Mathematics http://www.nlmusd.k12.ca.us | | Norwalk High School Norwalk, CA | | (o- Debian / GNU / Linux | | //\ The Choice of the GNU Generation | | v_/_ .oooO | | - E Aho Laula - ( ) Oooo. - Wider is Better - | +-------------------------\ (---( )-------------------------+ \_) ) / (_/