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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Help with windows SDK!!
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.045307.18834@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 18 Dec 90 04:53:07 GMT
References: <1990Dec9.204159.4199@csuf3b.CSUFresno.EDU>
Organization: DKW Systems Corporation, Dallas, TX
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In article <1990Dec9.204159.4199@csuf3b.CSUFresno.EDU> davidw@csuf3b.UUCP (David Warness) writes:
>Hello Netters!!
>   1) Is it possible to hidden page animation?  I have a few programs that
>      I would like to write in windows that would need this feature.
>      If not, does anyone know of any little tricks where this could be 
>      simulated?

You can load bitmaps into memory, and draw to memory bitmaps so it would be
possible to do hidden page animation.

>
>   2) Is it possible to write a program that can run in dos and in Windows?

It's not really possible to do what you want in one program since a Windows
program depends on the entry point being WinMain and a DOS program depends
on main.  There isn't a convenient (or possible) way to make a program that
could support the two different styles of entry.
-- 
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