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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v09i049: anaclock, analogue clock prog (part 01/02)
Message-ID: <76687@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 02:19:32 GMT
References: <2470@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Dec5.183751.2851@uwasa.fi>
Organization: 'twixt Dali and Dada
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me:
| >  Source and executable for a program that displays an analog clock
| >face on a CGA display.  Might work on EGA & VGA (I'll try it Real Soon
| >Now). I've included Turbo C cga.bgi and egavga.bgi files, at least one
| >of which is needed for the program to run.  The .bgi file may be in the
| >same directory as the program, or in the current directory, or in a
| :
| 
ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) <1990Dec5.183751.2851@uwasa.fi> :
| A comment for the would-be programmers.  Borland's graphics drivers
| can be included in the program code, and the user can (and should)
| be saved the hassle of needing the separate .bgi files.  The
| inclusion is unfortunately not very easy to do for the first time,
| but it certainly adds a bit of professionalism to publicly
| distributed programs (and many bits of code :-). 


True, I could have linked the driver in, at a cost of making the executable
bigger.  No big deal if this is the only program running that uses it;
but if one already has (or will have) some other program around that needs
the driver, then it is purely redundant%.

Also, which driver do you want me to link in?  CGA, since that's the only
one that I've tested or have any use for?  EGAVGA, because perhaps it
makes a more lovely display on systems that can support it?  Both?  If
that's possible I missed the fact in the documentation.  I dunno.
I went with flexibility.


% It might be a tad faster to have the driver linked in... but I wrote
this thing to make use of an otherwise idle pc screen.  I should worry
about shaving milliseconds?