zech@leadsv.UUCP (Bill Zech) (02/02/90)
In article <311@lennon.austek.oz>, chomes@lennon.austek.oz (Charles Homes) writes:
.> Some good books on IBM PC graphics are;
.>
.> Programmer's Guide to PC and PS/2 Video Systems.
.> Richard Wilton
.> Microsoft Press
.>
.> Programmer's Guide to the EGA and VGA Cards.
.> Richard F. Ferraro
.> Adison-Wesley
.>
.> I prefer the first, but I recomend both texts.
I have both books, and I have found MANY typographical errors
in Ferraro's book. Lots of sentences contradict others, mention
wrong values, etc. Although the book offers lots of good information,
you must read it very critcally. This book was not very well proofed.
-Billdaly@masscomp.ccur.com (Patrick Daly) (02/06/90)
I have seen responses to this info request, and I expect it will be very helpful to me as well since I was thinking of writing an application to run with various graphics cards. Thanks. I would like to ask a realted question: When I look at various games and applications that run on PC's, I get the impression that the application writers invent their own homebrew user interface system. That is, the pop-up menus and dialogs, etc appear to be custom built rather than implemented through some standard set of library routines. The only standard software that I am aware of (although never seen or used) is Microsoft Windows, which I EXPECT has these user interface features. However, I also expect MSW is used to manage MULTIPLE programs running under DOS in different windows whereas what I want is a somewhat SIMPLER set of UI tools (popups, dialogs, etc) that I can use within a SINGLE application on the PC. Does such a library exist ? Price ? Thanks in advance.