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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Screen Handling packages!
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 15:23:56 -0500
Date: 2002-05-24T15:23:56-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uet8bbcotjog25@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3CEDD190.8A1E722A@easystreet.com

achrist@easystreet.com wrote in message
<3CEDD190.8A1E722A@easystreet.com>...
>If you are using the GNAT for DOS compiler, you might want to look at
>some of the graphics libraries that are available for djgpp.  These
>may provide a graphical (not text mode) UI, mouse support, some
widgets,
>etc, etc.  Most of these are in C or C++ and intended for games
>programmers, but it should be possible to talk to them from GNAT and
>they may give a much nicer UI than you can make happen easily in pure
>Ada.  I haven't done any DOS in about four years, so I can't say for
>sure what you will find, but there was still some large amount of games
>programming and UI support for djgpp back then.

The DOS Janus/Ada includes a text mode UI with basic mouse support. It's
not particularly hard to use them. There also is an unsupported graphics
library.

           Randy.






      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-24 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-22  9:11 Screen Handling packages! Henrik Quintel
2002-05-22 10:08 ` Holger Zwar
2002-05-24  4:29 ` Richard Riehle
2002-05-24  5:37   ` achrist
2002-05-24 20:23     ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
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