From:	"Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Msnews@pineight.8m.com>
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"KNGARU" <kngaru AT aol DOT com> wrote:
> Whassapenin . . .
> Here's the deal . . .
>  I'm writing a program for a project in school, I want it to build shapes,
> eventually 3  dimensional shapes from a users input of x sides, x faces
etc.
> Don't try to understand it, it's hard for me to explain, anyway,  I
planned on
> using C++ since I know more about it than any other language.  Basically I
need
> to know how to use grx or whatever other library is better to draw a
horizontal
> line, vertical line . . . and am getting no help whatsoever from trying to
> decipher the code.  COMMENTS ARE KEY hint hint.

Ditch GRX. I haven't looked at GRX, but you'll probably like
Allegro better.
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/

> Also, since I am used to
> Borland, I'm having problems with some simple stuff like declaring strings
i.e.
> which string do I use: string.h, cstring.h, strings.h I realize they all
> probably do different things, but since there are no useful comments . . .
Any
> help would be appreciated. thanks

Open the header files to see what's inside.
Header files (unless they're obfuscated up the ass) are always
open source.


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