Pixie???

I see pixies mentioned in the graphics.library autodocs v53.15.

My question: What are Pixies (in the Amiga sense)? Are they sort of like sprites?

Hi Steady,

In which functions did you see them mentioned ?

Regards,
AmiDARK

It's at the bottom of graphics.doc in the autodocs, under the sub-category of pixie.

Hi,

In my 53.20 SDK, in the Autodocs/graphics.doc.
Nothing related to pixie for me.

made a search in all Autodocs files ... nothing related to pixie ...

EDIT :
But, I've found in Include/include_h/interfaces.h
a struct PixieIFace{ .... }
It's an interface ...
There are also referencies in :
Include\interfaces.xml
Include\include_h\Graphics.h
Include\include_h\inline4


Regards,
AmiDARK

Strange.

I got it from the minimal 53.15 download but I can't remember when I downloaded it.

If it isn't in use in any serious way, it doesn't matter. I had just never herd of it and my curiosity was piqued.

@Steady

Since the interface isn't documented in any way apart from what little information is in the header files I would assume that it's for system use only (ATM anyway).

I remember someone saying it was abandoned eventually being not that useful or something like that. Pixie interface is part of the graphics library.

Cool. At least I know not to bother about it, at least for now.

As their name implies, Pixies must be magic sprites of sorts.

As with anything wrapped in magic we don't know what it does nor how it does it, unless it does absolutely nothing, but it's really tempting to find out so maybe I'll give it a quick try to put my curiosity at ease and solve that mystery at long last




[edit]
Meh, no luck, I tried and gcc returned:

error: 'struct GraphicsIFace' has no member named 'NewPixieField'

and then a quick scan of the ASCII strings inside graphics.library revealed that none of the pixie functions are implemented (yet?).

/me puts his magician costume back in some old wooden chest.

@AlexC

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That's because they aren't in the "main" interface.

You need to get and use the "pixie" interface instead:



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You won't find any such strings unless OS4 developers forgot to strip the library before releasing it.

@salass00

These ASCII string are from error messages to be printed out by printf() or similar.

They better not get stripped

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More likely IExec->DebugPrintF(). At least that's what the library skeleton code generated by idltool uses.

From what you wrote before it sounded like you expected to find function symbols inside the executable and didn't find any which is why I said they would most likely be stripped.