Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/08/16/16:30:16
Steven Watson <steven DOT watson AT ntlworld DOT com> wrote:
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> the tutorial is the
> first I have seen that has taught me about windowing/screen modes ect ,
Aha, so it's not exactly a C tutorial, but a 'lowlevel screen access in
text mode' tutorial, at least in the way you use it. That's a different
situation, then.
> If you know of a book that would serve me well I would be
> very interested to find more information on windowing type programs
> similar to rhide to get me started.
That strongly depends on whether you just want to learn how this type
of programming can be done on PC/DOS platforms in C, or whether you
want to learn somewhat more general techniques. For the former, any
lowlevel programming book about PC should do --- I'ld use "PC intern",
but that's mainly because it's in German, originally.
For the more general case, you're in for a harder search, as
portability has rarely been regarded an important thing, in that
field, except for Unix terminal-driving libraries, like the dreaded,
but actually quite useable 'curses'.
Thus, I'd suggest you either dig into the WWW under the topic of
TurboVision (the system RHIDE is actually programmed in, originally
from Borland), or Curses. There's a curses implementation for DJGPP,
too (PDCurses), so you can experiment with it.
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