Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/08/17/16:00:16
Hi Hans-Bernhard,
Thank you for the information I will look at PDCurses,
Books for PC Dos seem to be difficult to find (interupts and uses,one
for djgpp how to
use segment offset) there is plenty of
code around for dos but finding some explanations of why seem
to be trying, my tutorial for information is "The IBM PC Programmers
Guide to C"
by Matthew Probert
Regards
Steven
Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
>
> > If you know of a book that would serve me well I would be
> > very interested to find more information on windowing type programs
> > similar to rhide to get me started.
>
> That strongly depends on whether you just want to learn how this type
> of programming can be done on PC/DOS platforms in C, or whether you
> want to learn somewhat more general techniques. For the former, any
> lowlevel programming book about PC should do --- I'ld use "PC intern",
> but that's mainly because it's in German, originally.
>
> For the more general case, you're in for a harder search, as
> portability has rarely been regarded an important thing, in that
> field, except for Unix terminal-driving libraries, like the dreaded,
> but actually quite useable 'curses'.
>
> Thus, I'd suggest you either dig into the WWW under the topic of
> TurboVision (the system RHIDE is actually programmed in, originally
> from Borland), or Curses. There's a curses implementation for DJGPP,
> too (PDCurses), so you can experiment with it.
> --
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
> Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
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