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- Welcome to "Shut The Box" version 0.8. It was written as an excercise in
- writing in C++ using Beebug's EasyC++ and David Allison's Vista C++ class
- library. It has not been easy, as the compiler is quite easily confused,
- especially by not-overly-experienced coder's efforts (and so would Acorn's
- compiler probably ;-> )
-
- I wanted to incoroprate some routines from Desklib, namely Sprite_load
- and Wimp_SpritePlot; this has entailed re-naming Vista 'spritearea' in
- the Task class to stop multiple name declarations.
-
- Vista 0.8 has just been released; any further efforts will be using that
- (when Beebug have sent me the updated compiler!) However, Desklib has
- a wealth of usefull routines which can be incorporated with a bit of
- effort.
-
- KNOWN PROBLEMS WITH SHUT-THE-BOX
-
- It was designed in Colourcard Gold's mode 114 at a size that looked ok,
- but is a bit on the big side for non-SVGA type modes. Sorry!
-
- The dice icons are not updated, and can be wiped! This is because the main
- window is auto-refreshed, which makes the tile icon handling a piece of p***.
- However, it stops the wimp sending update window requests. There are
- probably ways round it, but I won't be looking for them - it's time to
- start on another project....
-
- I can be contacted on Arcade or Digital Databank bulletinboards.
-
- John Seager