<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hello Michael,<br><br>I agree Turbo C works well as does djgpp and John's binding. As I am not a programmer, Heinz Rath's code was simple enough to give me enough confidence to try writing some programs. So a pretty good first step for me. I am currently interested in working with my port of 4tH to GEM and playing with that. Thanks for the note about your library and the reference and I'll definitely take a look (though I'll need to work on my German!) as I've still not really addressed the issues you raised. <br><br>Thanks,<br>David Johnson<br><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 1/3/09, Michael Bernstein <i><pcgem@mbernstein.de></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Michael Bernstein <pcgem@mbernstein.de><br>Subject: Re: [GEM Development] GEM not
going forward... Comments?<br>To: "GEM Development" <gem-dev@simpits.org><br>Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 5:04 AM<br><br><pre>Hi david,<br><br>> The easiest starting point that I have found it to use the Pacific-C<br>> GEM bindings from John Elliott and the "text window" routine<br>(tw.zip)<br>> from Heniz Rath -- http://www.geocities.com/heinz_rath/<br><br>For the first step ok.<br><br>But i would suggest to use Turbo C. You can download the old compilers<br>from the museum from Borland for free. As a GEM library you can use my<br>library from http://www.mbernstein.de from the download section. My<br>library has the advantage, that the API is build after a standard set<br>by DR (!) and Atari for portable GEM development. This API was<br>published by the Geiß twins in the german book "Vom Anfänger zum<br>GEM-Profi". This book was a introduction in write GEM applications for<br>both Atari ST and IBM-PC!<br><br>I had taken a look at
the "text window" from Heinz Rath because i<br>liked the idea of a console window. For a first step ok. But i missed<br>some features. There was no buffering for automatic redraw of the<br>window. There was also no code present for handling of resizing. If<br>you resize the window to a smaller size, the slider should be used<br>and only the right parts of the text should be shown. But code for<br>this feature was also not present.<br><br>Best regards<br>Michael<br>_______________________________________________<br>gem-dev mailing list<br>gem-dev@simpits.org<br>http://www.simpits.org/mailman/listinfo/gem-dev<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>