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Article #2536Re: Windows programs and text output HELP!
From: Andrew Turner
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 21:49
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 21:49
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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
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel.anu.edu.au!csc.canberra.edu.au!news 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> Sender: news@csc.canberra.edu.au Organization: University of Canberra References: <C0Ez39.KsE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 21:49:14 GMT Lines: 20