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From:	Carl Wainwright <CWainwright AT cware DOT co DOT uk>
To:	"'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Beginner's graphics question
Date:	Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:41:25 -0000
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Hi

Well I guess you have emailed this to allegro AT mail DOT canvaslink DOT com which
is the allegro mailing list, you may have got a bigger response. But I
will tell you that you either use the GUI functionality in allegro, or
you should goto the allegro web site and look at useful links or
utilities 

www.tulula.demon.co.uk		I think this is the correct address.

There are several other GUI addons which allow multi pop-up boxes like
in windows. I cannot remember all of them by name.
There is also a library called Winallegro which is a windows type
library to allow windows applications to be written (you need stuff like
direct X and Visual C++ dll's os somthing like that)

Carl

P.S. I have a zipped document that gives a tutorial on GUI which I could
send to you by request (HTML)

> ----------
> From: 	Bob Carper[SMTP:bcarper AT csi DOT com]
> Reply To: 	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
> Sent: 	Thursday, November 05, 1998 03:27
> To: 	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: 	Beginner's graphics question
> 
> I have been trying to figure something out for the last month or so by
> myself with no luck.  I have been learning C over the last few months
> so I'm a beginner.  I have a program that I wrote that I use for
> shipping that I would like to put in some "pop-up boxes" (correct
> term?).  My program uses structures to contain customer info so all I
> do is type in the customer number.  It then asks things like the the
> ticket number, number of packages, package weight,etc.  It then uses
> that info to print bill of ladings and labels.  Not tricky except for
> the math on the weight and the zip code address.  I have customers
> that have one account number and multiple shipping addresses.  I would
> like a "pop-up box" to ask which address to ship to.  
>  
> I have downloaded Allegro and gone over the docs and examples without
> finding out exactly what I want..  My question is do I have to use
> graphics to achieve this or is there some simple function I could
> use?  How do you retain the screen under the "pop-up box"?  That is
> why I think I need to use graphics but I'm probably wrong.  I'm
> willing to start at the beginning of learning graphics if that is
> what's needed, but I'd like to do that at a later date.  I'd
> appreciate any help in the right direction.
>  
> BTW, DJGPP and RHIDE are great compared to MSVC that I was trying to
> learn on.
>  
> Bob
> 

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