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From: jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: GS/OS Strings in Orca/C?  How?
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.200743.24625@ee.ualberta.ca>
Date: 12 Jan 91 20:07:43 GMT
Sender: news@ee.ualberta.ca
Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering
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Can anyone tell me how to properly put GS/OS class 1 strings into Orca/C
programs?  I have the GS/OS Ref, which says next to nothing about using C
with GS/OS, and the Orca/C manual says something to the effect that since
C provides file access functions using the stdio.h library, it shouldn't be
necessary to use GS/OS.  Hah.  Well I want to anyways.

Also, when writing desktop programs in Orca/C, has anyone managed to get
a simple desktop program running without using Orca's startdesk() and 
enddesk() functions.  Mine just hangs.  Basically, all I do is start up
the Tool locator, Memory Mgr, Misc tools, Quickdraw, draw a message on the
screen, and shut down the tools in the opposite order.  After all the calls
have been made (I verified this with a little asm{} routine that stuffs a
char into the top left text screen corner) the system hangs.

Thanks.

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    Jerry Penner	alberta!bode!jpenne	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada