[net.micro.amiga] Next Amiga Tutorial

crunch@well.UUCP (John Draper) (12/24/85)

   I have almost finished a particular phase of my Menu/Requester
tutorial.   I am at a point where I have to decide whether it is
enough.   It's pretty long now,  slightly longer than the Gadget
tutorial,  but packed with a lot of useful information for those
writing programs for the Amiga.

   Being the Host of the Programmers Network,  and as a courtesy to
the WELL,  I post my tutorials there FIRST.   Then within 3 days,  I 
post on USENET,  because its non-commercial and of interest to
a lot of Usenet sites involving the Amiga.   The WELL is a
USENET site, and most people on usenet already know about the
PN,  I will usually avoid talking about it unless someone mails
me a request via their UUCP Mail facility.   I usually send them
a prepared brocure.

   A few days later,  I will post my tutorials to BIX,  and DELPHI,
or other systems requesting the information.

  The pern owning the Amiga I'm using is going to want it back very soon.
So, I should be posting my tutorial within 3 days now.   I have been
pioneering in developing new example programs using Custom Requesters,
and have simplified Menu creation that avoids a lot of pre-initialized
structures cluttering the source code.   The code will compile on the
Manx Compiler soon to be released, and also the Lattice.   I also have
example code showing how to put image gadgets in your custom requesters.

  Eventually,  I will be hammering this "do nothing" program into doing
just about every Intuition and Rom kernal function.   Then people can
"Hack it up" into whatever they want it to do.   If anyone else wants to
help out,   just send your "code fragments" to the UUCP address at the
end of this message.   My next tutorial will be "sound generation and
music".   I will be writing FFT or IFT routines and building up
a nice library.   Anyone out there want to help??   Is there a good
FFT program in net.sources??   I would like to put together a nice
"sound construction set" program that allows one to set up 128 envelope
points per harmonic, and handle at least 64 harmonics.   I think that
it wouldn't be that hard to put something like that together.

   I have been working 6-10 hours a day for 3 weeks on the menu article,
and hope my efforts will encourage others to post their Amiga learning
experiences.   I have taken a few weeks off and spent them learning the
Amiga,  and hope that others can continue after I have to return the
Amiga.

   And special thanks to Dave Lucas at Amiga who put up with calls to
his home to answer some trickey questions and carefully copying down
the errors in the manual I spotted.

Regards:
John Draper    WELL: crunch
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