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From: Michael Dorl
Date: 2003 Nov 29, 08:17 -0600
From: Michael Dorl
Date: 2003 Nov 29, 08:17 -0600
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.
