On 10/28/2002 8:23 PM, GREG EASTHOM wrote to JOHN WILSON:

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-> JW> The 11 card Celtic cross for the reading...
-> JW> The "Tree of life" in explanatory modules...
-> JW> The explanations devolve on the adjoining sepheroth.
-> 
-> What, all at the same time??? Maybe I'll just concentate on "Select the
-> card and draw it on the screen here--> ."
->
It's rapidly becomming a life-work...:-)

 
-> JW> -> Do you want the cards to overlap (C cross) and be reversible?
-> JW> ->
-> JW> I don't use want or need reversals...(There's always yin in
that yang :-)
-> 
-> So, no "2 of cups reversed" meaning something different than upright.

Right. That's 'guilding the lily' :-)



-> I guess there's no need for a routine to flip the card's display, then?
-> 
Right.

-> JW> And (to the question) No, Each card I want to display...with rolling
-> JW> text to the side or underneith...
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-> In a cross layout with the current card highlighted

No, that's a little much. I indicate the shape of the reading in a separate
module..but the reading will just (hopefully, eventually)


, or the cards in
-> a row beside each other, or one card per screen, or a small permanent
-> cross layout with a flashing box around the current card and a big
-> picture of the actual card below it, or.......?
->
Holy cow! That's for version 10.2! :-)
Neat idea, though...
No, I'm just thinking of one card at a time...with text involving the
reading, the position (And eventually, a minor excursion into
the user's astrological sign...if it's revelent to the above...

 

-> JW> ... AFTER I wrote an editor where I could
-> JW> -> manually draw and save a card.
-> JW> ->
-> JW> Holy cow. I AM impressed.
-> 

-> 
-> JW> (And about a thousand miles behind...
-> JW> I'm still enmired in writing the text (that appears slooowly :-)
-> 
(Defensably)...which is for emphasis. With colour changes, and delays
to make sure what is wrriten is r e a d. :-)

Are you ever in the False Creek area?
 

 

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