----- Original Message ----- From: Dimitar Zhekov jimmy@is-vn.bg To: alexbodn@012.net.il Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:44 AM Subject: Re: contribution
i have a small contribution to make for grx: it's a conio emulation. it
What do we need this for? GRX works in graphics mode and has a sufficient set of functions to change modes, display text in color etc. I see that the files attached #include <conio.h> - that will only work with some (not all) MSDOS and WIN32 systems, and will fail with all Unix-es.
E-gards: Jimmy
conio is a well-known screen text api, that supports lots of software packages, of them i dare enumerating turbo-vision and d-flat windowing systems.letting those packages act natively in graphics mode using grxio, will allow extending those windowing systems support for graphics objects. like tvbgi? the same, bgigrx has been made to support existing code relying on bgi. the mode changing functions have not [yet] been implemented, because there really is enough support for them in native grx, while they are not too cardinal for conio. i have purposely not included conio.h, to demonstrate that any system that provides conio in text mode may be used in graphics mode through grxio. text mode conio (thus conio.h) might be found on various dos systems, netware, linux, and the hard part of porting software is providing functionality, not copying the include files (which are open even on comercial systems). anyway, a very good conio implementation is free, and included in djgpp.
re-gards, alex