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From: mikem@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: VIO, KBD and MOU calls.
Summary: good by VIO
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.232452.22853@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 23:24:52 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.105427.8068@kingston.ac.uk> <1991Jun12.164928.23952@ingres.Ingres.COM>
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Reply-To: mikem@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Michael MacFaden)
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Oh, found another reference to why Vio, Kbd, and Mou are going away:
Charles Petzold wrote back in August of 1990 (PC Magazine Environments Column)
and sayd these functions were "tightly linked to PC Hardware" as OS/2
becomes portable, these routines would be a confusing. Better to
use C runtime library or PM calls.

If you need a good primer on doing text in PM, here are my references:
Petzold, Charles. Programming the OS/2 Presentation Manager
PC Magazine V8N17 (Oct 17, 1989) The Marriage of Text and Graphics 1  
PC Magazine V8N18 (Oct 31, 1989) The Marriage of Text and Graphics 2  

regards,
~
Michael R. MacFaden    IBM Palo Alto     Marketing Systems
mikem@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com, macfaden@paloic1.vnet.ibm.com 
disclaimer:  what I write above is not necessarily my employer's opinion