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From: rjung@sal4.usc.edu (Robert  allen Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEM programming
Keywords: GEM
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Date: 6 Oct 88 15:00:18 GMT
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In article <596@sdcc15.UUCP> pa1132@sdcc15.UUCP () writes:
>Just a question about Laser C:  Do they use standard windows, or
>they also create some pusedo-GEM windows?  If so, are those
>pusedo-GEM windows also used by the programs created in Laser C?
>From the review I see on magazines for Laser C, their windows indeed
>look different.  Also, does Laser C's labrary contain routines to
>support scrolling within windows?

  Laser C's GEM-based shell does, indeed, use their own windowing routes
(at least it looks that way to me). Similarly, they use their own file
selector, and other custom dialogues.

  HOWEVER, this applies to the shell only. The programs YOU create will use
standard GEM windows and GEM dialogues -- Unless you expend the extra energy
to write your own window handler routes.

  As for scrolling, that's another thing for the programmer to sweat over
(What do you want, it's _only_ a compiler  B-)

						--R.J.
						B-)

P.S. I've no affiliations with Megamax (or anybody else) except as a satisfied
customer (bring on LaserDB!).

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