[attn:Clive Pottinger] CelX Visual Guide

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[attn:Clive Pottinger] CelX Visual Guide

Post #1by Malenfant » 20.10.2005, 21:50

http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/creat ... er/CVG.zip

This is pretty useful, but I'm wondering if there's also just a straight text (word, PDF, whatever) version of this? I think it might be easier to read/refer to than going through the menu within Celestia for each item on the lists...

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Post #2by cpotting » 21.10.2005, 04:53

Sure.

Information on Lua programming found at
http://www.lua.org/docs.html

and the scripting guide by Harald Schmidt at
http://celestia.h-schmidt.net/celx-summary-latest.html

are the two best resources I found.

As I noted in the readme, the Guide is, in fact, intended to be used in conjuction with the written documentation available. It's real intention is to provide visual examples of calls and snippets of code.
Clive Pottinger
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Post #3by Malenfant » 21.10.2005, 05:06

cool. thanks!

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Post #4by BrainDead » 21.10.2005, 11:01

cpotting wrote:As I noted in the readme, the Guide is, in fact, intended to be used in conjuction with the written documentation available. It's real intention is to provide visual examples of calls and snippets of code.

And, this Guide does an excellent job of providing a dummy (i.e.-ME)
with pre-made examples which can be compared and studied while trying
to learn the language.

Thanks again Clive. I'm slowly but surely learning what gives with
CELX. Have also got some REAl utility out of Hank's wikibook at
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Simple_CELX_Scripting for anyone
else who's serious about CELX.
Brain-Dead Bob

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Intel Celeron 1400 MHz CPU
Intel 82815 Graphics Controller
OpenGL Version: 1.1.2 - Build 4.13.01.3196
Celestia 1.4.1

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Post #5by cpotting » 21.10.2005, 21:37

Malenfant wrote:cool. thanks!
BrainDead wrote:Thanks again Clive.


My pleasure.

(I know asking for money is a violation of the GNU public licence, but what if I asked for donations of chocolate-chip cookies...?) :D

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Post #6by alphap1us » 22.10.2005, 12:37

Hi Clive,
Asking for money for a product is in no way a violation of the GPL. You are free to charge for whatever, you want as long as, roughly, you share the source for any changes to a GPL'd collection of code that you make. You may want to do some googling to learn more about the specifics of the license, as it can sometimes be very confusing.

Cheers,
Joe

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Post #7by BrainDead » 22.10.2005, 20:53

alphap1us wrote:Hi Clive,
Asking for money for a product is in no way a violation of the GPL. You are free to charge for whatever, you want as long as, roughly, you share the source for any changes to a GPL'd collection of code that you make. You may want to do some googling to learn more about the specifics of the license, as it can sometimes be very confusing.

Yeah, but I bet it'd be a real bitch to share chocolate chip cookies
with all of the other contributors. :wink:
Brain-Dead Bob



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Post #8by cpotting » 23.10.2005, 04:22

alphap1us wrote:Hi Clive,
Asking for money for a product is in no way a violation of the GPL. You are free to charge for whatever, you want as long as, roughly, you share the source for any changes to a GPL'd collection of code that you make. You may want to do some googling to learn more about the specifics of the license, as it can sometimes be very confusing.

Cheers,
Joe


Thank you,

I took a quick look at the GPL and the FAQ, and I CAN charge a chocolate-chip cookie fee :D !!!

Now, I just have to figure out how to adapt PayPal... :?
Clive Pottinger
Victoria, BC Canada


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