To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 06:02:08 0000 From: "nimrod a. abing" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: jmszczap82 AT adelphia DOT net X-Sent-Mail: off X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: Re: Newbie question... X-Sender-Ip: 208.160.246.197 Organization: QUALCOMM Eudora Web-Mail (http://www.eudoramail.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Language: en Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Wed, 10 May 2000 03:31:31 Justine Szczap wrote: >Hi, > I'm trying to learn Djgpp and Allegro. Can someone please help me out by >giving an example of how to use the palette routines. The examples that come >with Allegro aren't too in-depth. Thanks... >- JS > Do you have the latest Allegro WIP? No? Download it now! http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro and go to the Work in progress page. Tis pretty stable even at WIP stage. Make and install the library and the docs. Oh, and be sure to remove any previous installation of Allegro before installing the new one. Now read the info docs that came with it. The docs also come in .rtf, .txt, and .html format. Join the Allegro Mailing List and post any more Allegro related problems there. Or better yet, go to Allegro.cc http://www.allegro.cc. To learn more about DJGPP, read the DJGPP FAQ (if you don't have it, download it from simtel or where ever you got your copy of DJGPP). C programming is a different topic altogether and you need a book for that or you can find so many tutorials on the net. Using the Gnu Utilities (The entire DJGPP toolset) requires knowledge from the info files so read them as well. The first time I used DJGPP, it was about _a_month_ before I actually programmed something with it. It's been six months since that, and I'm still knee deep in reading the docs. Don't be intimidated by the amount, a tremendous amount, of reading. You need it. And besides, discovering and doing things on your own *is* the fun part in programming. Also, download RHIDE. If you've worked with Borland/Turbo C before, you'll be right at home with RHIDE. Again, it's available from simtel. I was a newbie (and still am to extent) and all you have to do is read, read, read. It pays off in the end. --- nimrod_a_abing http://www.geocities.com/n_abing Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com