home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
FishMarket 1.0
/
FishMarket v1.0.iso
/
fishies
/
376-400
/
disk_399
/
prettywindows
/
prettywindows.doc
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1992-05-06
|
3KB
|
75 lines
PrettyWindows v1.0
by Thom Robertson
7/14/90
For the last couple of days I have been perusing all the neat games and
stuff in the Fred Fish disk collection. One thing became painfully clear
to me. There are many adventure games out there which are ALL text, and
the Amiga implementations are very plain. This is not necessarily a bad
thing, nor am I saying that the programmers are dumb. However, I can't
help but think that even a little prettying-up would do wonders for any
text adventure game (and, for that matter, many utilities, too).
PrettyWindows is a set of LATTICE C 5.04 routines designed to make a text
window more presentable. They can be easily inserted into your code, and
will automatically adjust to any size or depth of window.
The Demo
Run the file called "Demo" from your Workbench screen (or CLI on the WB
screen). This shows you what is pretty about the three different types of
window PrettyWindows makes.
My Policy
PrettyWindows V1.0 in its entirety is freely redistributable, and can be
used in any application, so long as:
Credit for PrettyWindows is given somewhere in the documentation AND the
source code, and
You write me and share with me what you are doing with it.
Tech Stuff
The three routines, pwindows1, pwindows2, and pwindows3 are designed to be
called AFTER you have opened a window. Each routine clears the screen to
any color and put a nice border in the window. Therefore, you can easily
think of PW as a rather special ClearWindow routine.
The window should be BORDERLESS, title-less, have no border gadgets (close
window, front/back, sizing) or a dragbar. If you don't have a routine that
creates such a window, my makewindow routine can, so use that.
PrettyWindows can't work with a console window (at least, I don't think it
would be a good idea). Write text to the window with the graphics
primitives Move() and Text(). Remember to SetDrMd() to JAM1.
Note that the Images in pwindows2 have data which is declared "chip". This
is a LATTICE C 5.xx convention which insures that the data will be loaded
into CHIP RAM. If your compiler doesn't have this, you probably have a
command line "-" argument for your compiler that will put the data into
CHIP RAM. Also note that pwindows2 won't use any other background color
besides 0 (usually black). This is because the Intuition DrawImage command
will set the rectangle of the Image to 0 all the time. It's possible to
get around this (I usually use BitMaps instead of Images anyway), but I was
just lazy.
If you have any questions, please write or call me. I would love to help
put together or modify a neat game or utility. My address as of 7-14-90
is:
Thom Robertson
803-C Autumn Circle
College Station, TX. 77840