jefu@nmt.edu (Jeff Putnam) (05/18/91)
Help! I have a Next and am trying to figure out how to build simple applications that draw graphics on the screen. I have the example code in /NextDeveloper and a copy of some technical docs, but am still having trouble figuring out just how to handle things. (I'm not exactly a beginner in this area too :-( having programmed X windows, Sunview, NeWS, and a few other systems.) What I'd like is for a couple kindly souls to send me (mail!) a couple of simple (that is, they do one or two things) applications that show 1) how to set up a simple window that displays a bitmap (that is, I have a 2D array of points I can map to colors and want to display them.) 2) how to set up a window and draw a line in it. 3) how to set up a window and draw colored points in it (I'll be computing points incrementally and want to draw them as they are computed. However, unlike mandelbrot, the points will not be computed row by row.) 4) How to connect these things to the interface builder. I (being a "bear of very little brain") learn best from simple applications that I can generalize and learn one new thing at once - and I find most of the examples provided rather too complex. Does Next have any plans to build a C++ interface to NextStep? I find Objective C doesnt match my programming style very well. -- jefu@jupiter.nmt.edu -- Jeff Putnam, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM