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GEM help needed over here, too

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From: Chris Parkin Lilley
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 13:04
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I have several queries regarding the ST and GEM. My major question is:

	How the heck do I get text into my GEM application windows??

I've managed to hack an example application so that it will make several 
windows and allow them to be moved around using the mouse, resized, fulled,
and closed. My next major requirement is to get text into the windows. How
do I do it? How do I change fonts? Please help -- it's getting urgent.

I'd also like to know more about operating the serial port. I tried to use
the stdio functions (I'm using MWC 3.?), like fopen(), but I kept getting
errors like `fundamental error' and `no error'. Eventually I resorted to 
using bios calls, but the program I've got still loses characters (presumably
because it's not running fast enough). Can I get at the port without going
through bios? Is there any way of installing an interrupt service routine and
persuading the serial device to interrupt when there's a character or when 
it's ready to transmit? That way, I wouldn't have to poll it.

Thanks in advance...

-Chrisl.
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Chris Parkin Lilley, CS1.2, BT Fulcrum, UK               chrisl@uk.co.bt.fulcrum
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From: chrisl@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Chris Parkin Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: GEM help needed over here, too
Summary: How do I do text?
Keywords: GEM, text, windows, aux:
Message-ID: <1989Nov27.130407.25447@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk>
Date: 27 Nov 89 13:04:07 GMT
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Reply-To: chrisl@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Chris Parkin Lilley)
Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.st
Organization: BT Fulcrum, Birmingham, England
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