From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ASCII GUI
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 04:34:59 GMT
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On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:31:02 +0100, "Jon" <lennier AT online DOT no> wrote:

>I'm fairly new to programming, and have just started writing a
>program in DJGPP which uses an ASCII GUI. The problem is that, it
>redraws the GUI very slow. Even on my 850 MHZ Athlon
[snip]
>So, do anyone know of a better way to draw up ASCII graphics
>without using the gotoxy and cprintf?

If you don't want to use Turbo Vision (the TUI engine that powers
RHIDE and SETEdit), you might want to try maintaining an offscreen
copy of video RAM and blitting that in with ScreenUpdateLine().

C:\>info libc a ScreenUpdateLine

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