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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Beginner question, revisited(maybe)
Message-ID: <801@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 91 16:01:31 GMT
References: <38607@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <38607@cup.portal.com> Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes:
>
>I'm trying to ease into Amiga programming and am beginning to realize that
>my current documentation and resources are woefully inadequate.  For one
>thing, I never made it to KS/WB 1.3, much less 2.0.  Can I still obtain
>1.3 and 2.0 disks AND MANUALS from somewhere?  I haven't been able to find
>'em via mail-order from anyplace with an ad in AmigaWorld...  

You can get the full 1.3 Native Developer Kit from CATS in the US.

>Anyway...  I'm trying to do the simplest of simple things: open a window
>and draw a line in it.
> [ stuff deleted ]
>My code opens a Window, grabs the pointer-to-RastPort value from the .RPort
>field of the Window struct, then does one of two thingsither of which 
>works):
>  a) Calls DrawBorder() 
>  b) Calls Move() and Draw()

Could it be you just forgot to SetAPen() before this? Perhaps all these
lines were actually drawn, but in background color?

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