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From: Scott.Maxwell@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Please make my life just a tiny bit nicer
Keywords: pdc help screen window dammit
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Date: 4 Jul 90 03:39:37 GMT
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     A long-time user of AmigaBASIC, I'm finally moving up to C (stop cheering
and just pay attention!). Specifically, I'm using PDC v3.33, which I finally
got working this afternoon.
     But one of the things I can already tell I'm going to miss about BASIC
(even buggy ol' AmigaBASIC (gee, thanks, MicroSoft)) is the powerful screen-
and window-handling routines. What I'm looking for is something that will
allow me to open screens & windows in C with the same ease AmigaBASIC
provides. Something like:

#include <easygfx.h>
...
SCREEN(320,200,5,LORES,NOLACE); /* Open a 320x200, 5-bitplane, etc. screen */
WINDOW(0,0,100,100,RESIZE,DRAG); /* Open a 100x100 window at the top left-hand
                                    corner, with the indicated options */
PLOT(x,y,kolor); /* Plots point (x,y) in color # kolor, of course */

     Is there a set of header files in the PD that will allow this? Or,
perhaps, some PowerWindows-like PD program? (I'd really prefer the former
option, if this beggar can be a chooser.) Or, maybe, if someone would just
mail me some (commented) routines that do all the above and work under PDC
(the Manx/Lattice code I've tried doesn't seem to work because the header
files don't exist under PDC -- and I don't know what to do about it). Thanks.

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Scott Maxwell (CSMAXWEL@ECUVM1.BITNET or Scott.Maxwell@samba.acs.unc.edu)