palvarez@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Pablo Alvarez) (04/09/91)
I am a beginning Mac programmer, and I have a program which runs with the ANSI library, in a text-only, mainframe-like format. I would like to add some graphics to it, and as far as I can tell, in order to do that I need to use "real" Mac code, and the MacTraps library. So my questions are: Are there any incompatibilities between the two libraries? Ideally, I would like to just add a graphics window, and keep all the input and program functions on the console window. What problems am I likely to run into while trying to do this? Thanks for your patience with a beginner -- Pablo R Alvarez (palvarez@ucsd.edu)
Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English) (04/09/91)
Pablo Alvarez writes in a message to All
PA> I am a beginning Mac programmer, and I have a program which
PA> runs with the ANSI library, in a text-only, mainframe-like format.
PA> I would like to add some graphics to it, and as far as I can
PA> tell, in order to do that I need to use "real" Mac code, and
PA> the MacTraps library. So my questions are
I don't know why you can't switch to using the Think Class Libraries... Of course,
if you insist on using console I/O on a bitmapped machine, be my guest, but
things will look much nicer if you go the other route.
Lawson
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Internet: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.orgrgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez) (04/10/91)
Dear Pablo, My Think C Programming Guide is a HyperCard stack which teaches Think C programming. Among the code examples built into the stack is one which does just what you asked for: it allows the programmer to do simple graphics yet to keep a "console" window open for stdio-type text I/O. The stack just appeared in comp.binaries.mac, and is also available via anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu (directory: info-mac/source/c). I can also send you a copy by disk. The shareware fee is $15. Incidentally, the stack also comes with additional (more complicated) libraries of Think C/C++ source for 3D wireframe graphics and for experimenting with a simple text-only user interface management system. Ralph Gonzalez (rgonzal@chowder.rutgers.edu)