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From: agray@eriskay.axion.bt.co.uk (Andy Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: sozobon with gemfast libraries
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Date: 6 Mar 89 09:01:45 GMT
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Has anyone tried writing programs with Sozobon in conjunction with the GEMfast
libraries yet? If so, have any problems with the AES library come to light. I
have just cobbled together a quick program which has stood on it's head. The
main problem seems to be within the 'form_alert' usage

	#define NO_DEFAULT 0
	...
	appl_init();
	...
	switch(form_alert(NO_DEFAULT,"[1][Hello World][SHOW|PRINT|CANCEL]")) {
	case 0:
		/* show */
		break;
	case 1:
		/* print */
		break;
	case 2:
		/* cancel */
		break;
	default:
		/* how does this get invoked? */
	}
	...
	appl_exit();

	This cameo example should return 0, 1, or 2 according to the selected
option. Hitting 'PRINT', however, inevitably returns 2, 'CANCEL' defaults etc
!!!. The main text string is irksome, apparently not handling the text bounded
by '|' properly. I'm sure these problems would have been noticed during
testing, so where have I gone wrong. (The Megamax manual quotes that the text
message can contain '4 lines of 32 characters each' and in the following line
'5 lines of 32' characters. The DR GEM-AES manual states '5 lines of 40
characters' the total not exceding 200 characters.)

	What did I, rather than GEMfast, do wrong?

	Andy Gray

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