OK, this might be a heretical thing to write to the GRX list, but...
Given how GRX-unfriendly recent versions of windows are, does it make sense to move to something else, like SDML? Does anyone here have experience with Pascal and SDML, and can provide a comparison of GRX vs SDML under GPC? How easily do they interface?
There are a lot of graphics routines I'd like to write (and many I have written), but having Win upgrades (which I'm forced to make at work) render my programming useless is discouraging. I'm anxious to find a route that will last into the future.
waveringly, Toby
Peter Williams wrote:
I have just begun trying to use GRX. I can compile everything OK using Djgpp. However I am having difficulty running the test programs demogrx and bccbgi on my Windows XP and W2000 machines. I have read the very useful information given in the correspondence by Toby Ewing #185 and Mariano Fernandez #351. I have tied setting
SET GRX20DRV = STDVGA
then running demogrx 640 480 4.
This works fine on my XP machine. But not on my W2000 laptop.
The bgi test program does not work on either XP or W2000. Should it not be modified to take command line arguments for its parameters like demogrx? Although, this would not help for the W2000 laptop, I suspect.