Call for contributions...

[Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire@seul.org>]

 > If you have been using Dr. Genius to create geometric figures, then
 > I'm interested in your contributions.  I would like to collect
 > figures to help us test thoroughly the new geometric engine Hilaire
 > has been working on.  The more sophisticated your figure is the
 > best it is.
 > 
 > This will help us to build an extensive test suite, help us to
 > improve the quality of the tool, and also this will be used to
 > demonstrate the capabilities of Dr. Genius.

The most,the better. Also when constructing a figure, if you get a
crash it's nice to send a report describing what actions cause the
crash (which geometric tools was used and which objects were selected)

 > As an example here's what I've been working on lately:
 > 
 >   I've been working on figures to test the "Locus" feature, and
 >   more precisely constructing various conics as geometric locus.
 >   I've constructed four figures that are showing:
 > 
 >      A circle as a locus.  A parabola as a locus.  An hyperbola as
 >      a locus (well four locus are necessary actually...).  An
 >      ellipsis as a locus (well two locus are necessary
 >      actually...).

I'm particulary interested by figure using locus as i still need to
work the locus algorithm and test it.


 > You can send me your contributions in two ways:
 > 
 >  * A file saved from Dr. Genius with the figure in it (please
 >  * specify
 >    the version of Dr. Genius you used to produce it).  See below
 >    there's a problem with the current CVS version of Dr. Genius.
 > 
 > or
 > 
 >  * A detailed step-by-step description of the figure you have
 >  * built,
 >    so that I am able to reproduce it.
 > 
 > A comment on what geometric property the figure may be illustrating
 > is welcome.
 > 
 > If possible try to use the latest release of Dr. Genius from CVS,
 > as this is what I'm using most of the time.  For now there is a
 > little problem when saving a figure with the current CVS version,
 > but I'm confident that Hilaire will fix it soon, and will let us
 > know.

Do you fetch the latest cvs version. I've been obliged to reverse to
libxml1 as Glade still use it. My switch to libxml was a bit premature
but I add a xmlinclude.h file to the distribution which will ease the
switch to libxml2 when possible.  If so, can you describe the problem
with the saving a figure because i don't notice it.

Hilaire