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From: manes@xanth.UUCP (Mark Manes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Advanced use of AmigaBasic
Message-ID: <3519@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 02:54:04 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 22 02:54:04 1987
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In article <18613@bbn.COM> cosell@bbn.com.UUCP (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>
>I'm doing some AmigaBasic hacking and it is mostly all working out fine.
>BUT... I"m quickly running into the boundaries of what's easy to do.
>Are there any reference books or journals or the like discussing advanced
>use of AmigaBasic.  For example, the kinds of problems I've been trying
>to program around include:
>  a) how do you set up gadgets from Basic

Hmmm... Why not save yourself alot of work in trying to deal with those
silly bmap files and just draw boxes and use mouse read commands to 
do its thing.  Yep, fake it.


>  b) Is it possible to set up a program so that when it is started
>the dumb "Amigabasic" screen doesn't pop up AT ALL.

No.  Not with AmigaBasic.  I am using the Absoft compiler, Absoft is 
promising in their next major release that it will allow you to specify 
what type of window you want opened, if any.

>  c) Is there some way to package up an amigabasic program so it is callable
>from the CLI *AND* can get at its command-line args?

Nope... :-(

>  d) Can you set up an AmigaBasic program so that it can be started
>by the one-=click-on-this-icon-then-shift-doubleclick-on-the-program-icon
>hack.

Another nope :-(

>  /Bernie\
>
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