From: "Matthew Bentley" <mrb8 AT waikato DOT ac DOT nz>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Freeware graphics library for everybody!
Date: 11 Mar 1998 11:48:46 GMT
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Hi everyone,
	I've written a free-ware C++ graphics library called EZVGA, which I have
recently (I.e. in the past month) ported to DJGPP, and is now on all the
SIMTEL.NET mirrors under the v2tk directory if anybody wants to download
it.

The beauty of the library lies in it's simplicity : there are no project
files needed, no external libraries needed - the only thing the programmer
has to do to use the functions of the library is to type 
'#include <ezvgadj.h>' at the start of their' program.
	Basically the library is geared towards novice programmers or intermediate
graphics programmers (Who might want to look at the source code & learn a
few tricks) - it is no way near as all-encompassing as something like
allegro, but like I said, it's beauty lies in it's simplicity.
	The library only supports mode 13h, but in this mode is about four times
as fast as allegro on mode 13h (Well, at least it was with the stuff I was
working with, anyway). 
For the DJGPP version it uses the near-pointer enabled technique to
directly access the screen, a fact of which programmers should be aware of
if they intend using it for any particularly weird memory stuff. Here is a
list of the functions within the library :

box
circle
cls
ellipse
getmousepos
getpic
getpix
line
loadbld
loadpcx
loadraw
mousebuttons
mousecursor
mouseinit
putpic
putsprite
putpix
savebld
savepcx
saveraw
setallpals
setborders
setpal
vgaexit
vgainit

The library itself is only 27k (ezvgadj.h), and has only one bug as far as
I know thus far (This is that PCX files -saved from- EZVGA can be read by
EZVGA, but not by only programs - I can't figure this one out).

If you're interested, download it from one of the Simtel.NET mirrors under
v2tk
E.g.  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2tk/ezvga14.zip
- about 350k zipped, pkunzip into your DJGPP directory using the -d option
to recurse the sub-directories - this includes the demo for the library,
which is kinda cute :)

A list of some Simtel.net mirrors is on DJ Delorie's site at
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/getting.html

Cheers,
Matthew Bentley

-- 
"We are like the clouds - forever changing but remaining of the same
essence"