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Article #41660Re: Info on display hardware wanted
From: Patrick Daly
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 19:04
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 19:04
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I have seen responses to this info request, and I expect it will be very helpful to me as well since I was thinking of writing an application to run with various graphics cards. Thanks. I would like to ask a realted question: When I look at various games and applications that run on PC's, I get the impression that the application writers invent their own homebrew user interface system. That is, the pop-up menus and dialogs, etc appear to be custom built rather than implemented through some standard set of library routines. The only standard software that I am aware of (although never seen or used) is Microsoft Windows, which I EXPECT has these user interface features. However, I also expect MSW is used to manage MULTIPLE programs running under DOS in different windows whereas what I want is a somewhat SIMPLER set of UI tools (popups, dialogs, etc) that I can use within a SINGLE application on the PC. Does such a library exist ? Price ? Thanks in advance.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!masscomp!daly From: daly@masscomp.ccur.com (Patrick Daly) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Info on display hardware wanted Keywords: pc video display ega vga cga hercules Message-ID: <9371@masscomp.ccur.com> Date: 5 Feb 90 19:04:57 GMT References: <445@hitech.ht.oz> <7158@latcs1.oz.au> Reply-To: daly@masscomp.UUCP (Patrick Daly) Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation, Westford MA Lines: 21