Re: directx or opengl

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Listen kid, I didn't get anything wrong. You had answered the fellow's
question just fine. I was providing other information which I thought might
be of interest to the general community. But apparently, you are one of
those people who feel they have to prove themselves to the world by arguing.

I don't use DirectX to draw simple shapes. I use it to model Geographic
information in 3 dimensions, based on GPS data in a small aircraft, combined
with USGS Geographic terrain and land cover data, FAA General aviation
airport data, weather data, travel information data, and aircraft instrument
data, in real time. It's an app that uses Indigo services (now known as
Windows Communication Foundation), was developed for the NASA SATS program,
and was demoed in Danville VA last March (about a year ago).I didn't write
the Indigo services, but I wrote every last scrap of the rest of it, all by
my lonesome. Bill Gates liked it when he saw it at the Microsoft Science
fair in October of 2004.

But what the heck, I'm just an ignoramus who doesn't know what tools to use
for what sort of purpose. On top of that, I thought that the OP ought to use
Direct 3D to draw simple shapes, rather than the System.Drawing and
System.Imaging namespaces, and was trying to "push him into it." Oh yes, I
forgot to add that I've also written an imaging library that uses those
namespaces to perform filtering on various types of images, create images on
the fly using text and/or image files as sources, convert them to various
formats, read and parse TIFF files and read and parse GeoTiff files, as well
as convert to and from various Geographic projections to 3-dimensional
cartesian coordinates. Darn if I didn't forget to follow my own advice and
use DirectX for that! What was I thinking?!

It's true, I haven't been beta testing this stuff for the past couple of
months. I went to Redmond to a preview of Indigo in October of 2004. I had
beta 1 of Windows Vista (known as Longhorn back then) on a virtual machine
over a year ago, along with beta 1 (and every beta since) of Visual
Studio.Net 2005 too. But I'll be the first to admit, I don't know what the
heck I'm doing with it, or what the heck I'm talking about!

It isn't possible that you could have misunderstood what I was saying. No,
you certainly did explain to me where I "got it wrong." I'm so ashamed.
Please, don't chastise me any more. I'll just listen and learn.

--
Yours in disgrace,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
We got a sick zebra a hat,
you ultimate tuna.


"Willy Denoyette [MVP]" <willy.denoyette@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Kevin Spencer" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > Sorry, but you should read the OP's question first.
|
| This is tiresome. What I *should* do is my business. What I *did* do is
what
| I did. I provided some information that was not a direct answer to the
| question. So sue me.
|

What you did was suggest something based on a wrong assumption, I don't
care
what you *do*, I don't care wheter you use DirectX to draw simple shapes,
all I *did* was trying to explain where you got it wrong. Butn I see, I
just
wasted some time, no problem it won't happen again.

Willy.




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