From: Matthew Mastracci Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: dual monitors Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 21:09:12 -0600 Organization: The University of Calgary Lines: 41 Message-ID: <5tdn6c$geq@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mmastrac AT acs2 DOT acs DOT ucalgary DOT ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Brad Fidler wrote: > I have recently added a second monitor and hercules mono display > adapter to my system. What I would like to do is use this dispay as > kind of a debugging/program info monitor, while my main monitor has graphics > I could dump program stats and info to the second monitor to help see whats > happening to variables etc. Sending ASCII text to the mono card isnt hard > but I was wondering if anyone knew of any sources for something a > little more robust that has some basic formatting features maybe like printf, > that supports or could be modified to work with a mono card? What about writing directly to the mono address space? You can get everything you'd need from that (bold, blink and underline). Maybe writing your own mono stream class? That way, you could do something like: mout << "This is " << underline << "really" << underlineoff << "cool!" << endl; > I have looked in the DJGPP sources and in the sources for RHIDE > ( it has dual monitor debugging support, doesnt it? ) but so far have had > no luck in finding anything useful I use RHIDE's dual monitor feature all of the time. In the version I have, there seem to be a few small bugs (like getting stuck on the mono screen after the program terminates), but I think these are fixed in the recent versions. It's pretty much the same as how Turbo C/Pascal/Debugger used to work for me. > ' C is just a wrapper for assembler ' Are you a C or C++ guy? ;) But don't forget: ' Assember is just a wrapper for microcode ' /\/\att /\/\astracci mmastrac AT acs DOT ucalgary DOT ca GCS/GE d- s+:+ a--- C++++ UA P+ L E-- W+ N++ o K+ w+ O M- V PS++ PE++ Y+ PGP t+++ 5+++ X++ R++ tv+ b+++ DI++++ I G++ e h r* z?