chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (12/06/83)
Windows comes with a horrendously large and hopefully at least
partially readable reference-type manual, and one short sample
subroutine. (I know: I wrote all that stuff.)
If anyone has written a tutorial introduction and wants to give
it away I'd be glad to get a copy.
A good quickie sample program to look at is vmpic. I sent this
out to net.sources a while ago.
If you're into masochism, you could look at the source for the
window shell. It's largely unreadable because of the MPX file
mechanism. (If you're careful maybe you can read around that.)
I have a few other reasonably short hacks using windows if anyone
wants them:
- a terminal emulator (one terminal per window) (this is used as
the back end for the window shell) -- will only run under 3BSD
and later as it uses long names (easily fixed)
- the "toy window editor" written by Greg Johnson @ UWisc (subseqently
hacked slightly by me)
- a toy marquee program
Say, maybe I should send out my adventure compiler/executer. It's
an adaptation of the ancient Scott Adams stuff that can be found in
back issues of Cavortive, er, Creative Computing... and it uses windows.
(Used to use curses. Going to windows sure deleted a lot of code!)
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