Re: [femm] addcontour, bitmaps and other LUA bits

["nasrul" <nasrul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

where can I get this LUA?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Cornelius" <robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <femm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 3:55 PM
Subject: RE: [femm] addcontour, bitmaps and other LUA bits


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> >When drawing contours in the post-processor if you left click it picks
the
> >nearest point so it must know how to do it somehow - now I'm confused!
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> Ah, I meant in the lua bits. In the user interface there are two separate
> commands when in contour mode, left button and right button. One adds new
> contours, one selects based on node positions. LUA currently only has the
> add function.
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> >Well the list could be endless but:
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> >I never (well hardly ever) use windows bitmaps (BMP) because they are so
> >big, nearly 1.5M for a normal sized window dump. I usually use TIFF which
> >only needs about 150k for the same dump and it can be compressed even
> >smaller. However, if you are trying to make animations then probably the
> >easiest form is GIF, which is also small in native form, smaller than
TIFF
> >I think. The only problem I have found with GIFs is that they tend to
have
> >a speckled background in what you would think should be white.
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> >You can of course convert from one form of bitmap to another. I use
> >IrfanView to do this because its small, fast, can handle batch
conversions
> >and is FREE!
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> >For inclusion in a document I usually use metafiles so the EMF copy in
FEMM
> >is useful.
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> Any idea where I can get specifications on the file format for EMF. I
think
> it would be nice to use the 'more basic' bitmaps and a good efficient
> picture like metafiles (and as these are the two options Dave has provided
> anyway for copying to clipboard !). I think it wouldn't be unreasonable if
> you require other formats to use an image editor with a batch convert
> facility.
>
> Robin
> robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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