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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

1327.0. "Programming Standards?" by POBOX::ANDREWS (How come nobody told *ME*?) Wed Apr 13 1988 00:37

    I am have just started learing to program using 'C' and am wondering
    if there are some sort of standard ways of doing common functions.
    
    Examples:
    
    Opening a screen, opening a window, creating menus, creating requesters
    (string, file, one that accepts numeric values, etc.)
    
    I've looked at the source of a few programs, and no one does it
    the same.  I realize that this is mostly a matter of choice, no
    one way is better or worse than another, but for a beginner, it
    is very confusing.
    
    If there is no real standard, how about suggestions for places to
    look at good, (well commented, whatever YOU think is good) code.
    
    					Rob
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1327.1Some Standard(?) ExamplesTHRUST::RILEYWed Apr 13 1988 10:235
    The is a book called (I think...) "Inside the Amiga with C".  I
    found it at the Memory Location.  It gives good examples of doing
    all of the standard things, e.g. opening windows, etc.
    
    
1327.2FF #107 may helpBARDIC::RAVANWed Apr 13 1988 12:5014
    And isn't there a Fish Disk with Intuition coding examples?
    Um, just a minute.... I brought in an AC today...

    Yep, FF #107 contains a directory named ProSuite.  The description
    says:

	"Suite provides example code for facilities such as FileIO
	 requester, Xtext, DoRequest, and tutorial on how to program
	 the Amiga."

    And wasnt' Commodore supposed to release a disk of coding examples
    by Intuition's original author?  Whatever happened to that?

    -jim
1327.3ELWOOD::PETERSWed Apr 13 1988 15:3213
    
    
    	Many of the lower number Fred Fish disks contain many good 
    programming examples.  
    
    Look at
    
    MVCAD3::user1:[amiga.ff05]
    MVCAD3::user1:[amiga.ff107]ProSui.arc	Prosuite ARC
    
    
    		Steve Peters
    
1327.4ProSuit by a ProTLE::RMEYERSRandy MeyersWed Apr 13 1988 15:4016
Re: .2

>    Yep, FF #107 contains a directory named ProSuite.  The description
>    says:
>
>	"Suite provides example code for facilities such as FileIO
>	 requester, Xtext, DoRequest, and tutorial on how to program
>	 the Amiga."
>
>    And wasnt' Commodore supposed to release a disk of coding examples
>    by Intuition's original author?  Whatever happened to that?

Yep.  They gave a copy of it to Fred Fish and he released it on,
let's see, disk 107. :-)

ProSuite is written by Intuition's author, R. J. Mical.