From: xenophon AT atl DOT mindspring DOT com (Derek Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Big problems with GRX2.0
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:29:04 GMT
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hedley AT inferno DOT cs DOT bris DOT ac DOT uk (David Hedley) wrote:

>I have recently made the jump from DJGPP 1.x to version 2.01. For the last
>year I have been developing a graphical application under the old version
>of DJGPP, and I was rather hoping that the later version of the GRX library
>would fix a few bugs and be generally better. I was sadly mistaken. The new
>library is missing much of the functionality of the old one not to mention
>one scrap of documentation detailing the changes. I have since tried reverting
>to the old version of GRX, however that seems incompatible with the new
>version of DJGPP. I am thus faced with downgrading to DJGPP 1.x and/or
>seeking a DJGPP2 compatible graphics library.

>Is there a later version of GRX that works properly? (I have contacted the
>author but to no avail). If not, can someone recommend a replacement
>graphics library? All I need is somethine simple to provide basic
>drawing functions.

GRX20 works great for me, and I've done a lot of work with it.
Still, though, there are other libraries to choose from - people
seem to like jlib abd allegro a lot.

Derek Owens