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- From: act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Andrew Turner)
- Subject: Re: Windows programs and text output HELP!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.214914.9427@csc.canberra.edu.au>
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- Organization: University of Canberra
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 21:49:14 GMT
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- jcp29389@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (I Spike - Therefore I Am) writes:
- >is there any way to display text in a window besides using TextOut?
- Well er, yes.
- >perhaps even a way to display formatted text, or is the window always in
- >graphics mode therefore making me to create my own functions for displaying
- >such text and updating the current position (even working with newlines)?
-
- You might want to look at Barry Kaulers book 'Windows tm Assembly Language
- and Systems Programming', Prentice Hall, ISBN 0 13 020207 X. That's
- assuming you're not a purist however. If you really must he even shows and
- tells how to access video memory from protected mode! Disk included. Besides
- being a book for the non-purist it also provides an excellent look at
- Windows tm and DPMI internals and all with lots of documented assembler. A
- perfect compliment to Undocumented Windows.
-
- --
- Renrut Werdna Probable-Possible, my black hen,
- She lays eggs in the Relative When.
- She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now
- act@ss.canberra.edu.au Because she's unable to postulate how
-