Scott.Maxwell@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account) (07/04/90)
A long-time user of AmigaBASIC, I'm finally moving up to C (stop cheering and just pay attention!). Specifically, I'm using PDC v3.33, which I finally got working this afternoon. But one of the things I can already tell I'm going to miss about BASIC (even buggy ol' AmigaBASIC (gee, thanks, MicroSoft)) is the powerful screen- and window-handling routines. What I'm looking for is something that will allow me to open screens & windows in C with the same ease AmigaBASIC provides. Something like: #include <easygfx.h> ... SCREEN(320,200,5,LORES,NOLACE); /* Open a 320x200, 5-bitplane, etc. screen */ WINDOW(0,0,100,100,RESIZE,DRAG); /* Open a 100x100 window at the top left-hand corner, with the indicated options */ PLOT(x,y,kolor); /* Plots point (x,y) in color # kolor, of course */ Is there a set of header files in the PD that will allow this? Or, perhaps, some PowerWindows-like PD program? (I'd really prefer the former option, if this beggar can be a chooser.) Or, maybe, if someone would just mail me some (commented) routines that do all the above and work under PDC (the Manx/Lattice code I've tried doesn't seem to work because the header files don't exist under PDC -- and I don't know what to do about it). Thanks. ----- Scott Maxwell (CSMAXWEL@ECUVM1.BITNET or Scott.Maxwell@samba.acs.unc.edu)
bli@aludra.usc.edu (07/04/90)
In article <480@beguine.UUCP> Scott.Maxwell@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account) writes: >and window-handling routines. What I'm looking for is something that will >allow me to open screens & windows in C with the same ease AmigaBASIC >provides. Something like: [... example deleted ...] there are two libs that may do what you want. (those are link-time LIBS, not header files).. I am thinking specifically about GIMME.LIB which appeared on c.s.amiga.src some time ago, and GWIN.LIB, which is on a fish disk. (I never got GIMME.LIB to compile right... Don't remember what the problem was, I only tried once or twice... But GWIN.LIB is already compiled...) PS. If anyone has GIMME.LIB compiled for Aztec (32 bit), can you mail it to me? I'd appreciate it.