Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Huang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Programming HELP PLEASE!!! Message-ID: <49205@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 19 May 91 00:53:33 GMT References: <00948C2E.77DC7D20@Eagle.oscs.montana.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Huang) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 22 In article <00948C2E.77DC7D20@Eagle.oscs.montana.edu> ieeug330@Eagle.oscs.montana.edu (Mark Wistey) writes: >In article , SHBOUM@MACALSTR.EDU writes: >>some suggestions my way about how to do real text under GS/OS. Not the slow >>graphical text, but the good old fasioned text that has been with us all >You can do text with TextTools, toolset $0C. Actually, text is nearly as >easy under GS/OS as under regular ProDOS - it's just against Apple's >"guidelines". (i.e. there's no way to easily set up a menu bar, and mouse >movements can't automatically become text cursor movements.) If you really >do need fast text, you'll have to use the old familiar routines into bank 0 >instead of using TextTools, which means they have to be "shadowed" from >$FFF800 to $00F800; there's a bit somewhere to do this, but I can't remember >right offhand. Ack! TextTools is very slow (unless you have the FasText init). The GS/OS console driver is pretty nifty, and it's relatively fast. -- David Huang | Internet: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | "Help! My ganglion is UUCP: ...!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!daveh | stuck in some chewing gum!" America Online: DrWho29 |