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| 2551.1 | Make your own window | CRLVMS::TREESE | Win Treese, Cambridge Research Lab | Fri May 12 1989 19:01 | 9 |
| You probably should create your own window for display if you're planning
to really use Intuition. The text window it creates is really just for
simply terminal-oriented Modula-2 programs.
Working with Intuition in Benchmark is almost just like in C -- and easier
if you purchased the simplified Intuition interface kit.
- Win
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| 2551.2 | | ADOMV1::MCGHIE | | Sun May 14 1989 22:53 | 11 |
| Thanks Win,
yes, I did by the simplfied Amiga library.
I think I came across something in the Amiga_tech notesfile the
other day though which indicated you could message the console driver
or something to get a window pointer back - somebody wanted to write
a change font program.
thanks again
Mike
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| 2551.3 | Fancy Coding | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Mon May 15 1989 21:09 | 19 |
| Re: .0
What you want to do falls into "advanced" Amiga programming.
Unfortunately, the Amiga folks made it a bit too hard in my opinion
to do what you want here, but there is support for it in the system.
Get the AmigaDOS manual published by Bantam. In the back, there is
a section on sending packets to AmigaDOS devices. Packets are Exec
messages that AmigaDOS uses internally to do I/O. For example, the
Read() AmigaDOS function send a packet to the device asking it to
read the data into the supplied buffer, and then waits for the device
to reply. "Device" in this context means an AmigaDOS device driver.
There are some packet types that do not correspond to a nice AmigaDOS
function. There is a report the name of your disk volume packet that
if you send it to a CON: window handler will return a pointer to
the console.device window used for the window in question.
I've written C code to do this stuff. It takes about 2 pages of code.
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| 2551.4 | Get Amiga Transactor | WJG::GUINEAU | | Wed May 17 1989 14:28 | 7 |
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Better yet, get this months Amiga Transactor. John Toebes and another guy wrote
a very extensive list of ALL known DOS packets and some good examples
on thier use. They plan on actually implementing a file system in next
months installment - lending to device driver writers knowledge!
John
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| 2551.5 | | ADOMV1::MCGHIE | | Thu May 18 1989 02:40 | 19 |
| re: .3
Thanks Randy,
I'd found an example of getting the CON: packet in
a C program from one of the Fish Disks (thanks to whoever was
responsible for putting all of the FF disks on-line!). I haven't
tried it yet, but when I get some free time (this weekend I hope)..
re: .4
I have one copy of Transactor (it's not recent). I looked for it
in a few places in Mass. when I was visiting the other month, but
couldn't see any recent editions, so I thought maybe it'd gone
belly-up. Is there an address for subscriptions etc for Tansactor?
thanks
Mike
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