Library for nice GEM effects?

Brian Duff

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Apr 14, 1995, 3:00:00 AM4/14/95

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Is there a programming library (for C or Basic) which provides procedures
for 'fancy' GEM bits, like popup menus, windowed dialogues and the like?

I've been programming a library myself, but ran into a few difficulties
(for instance, when a windowed dialogue is moved off screen, the input
fields fail to work properly. I suspect there's a problem in my
customised form_do, any ideas?), and it would be easier to use a
pre-programmed library which is almost certainly going to be more
bug-free and compatable than anything I'd do.

I had XAES (I think..) but couldn't get it to compile in the C compiler I
have (I should think about getting TurboC, I think), and from the demo
program, It looks far from finished (the menus in the demo program are
very odd..)

I'd be grateful if anyone knows of a library that I can get from an FTP site.

Thanks,

Brian

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Sander Stoks

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Apr 18, 1995, 3:00:00 AM4/18/95

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In <3mm7u8$h...@calvin.st-and.ac.uk> b...@st-and.ac.uk (Brian Duff) writes:

>Is there a programming library (for C or Basic) which provides procedures
>for 'fancy' GEM bits, like popup menus, windowed dialogues and the like?

Try Enhanced GEM. It's on a.a as EGEM, and it's great.

Regards,
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Ben Gilbert

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Apr 25, 1995, 3:00:00 AM4/25/95

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In <3mm7u8$h...@calvin.st-and.ac.uk> b...@st-and.ac.uk (Brian Duff) writes:
> >Is there a programming library (for C or Basic) which provides
procedures
> >for 'fancy' GEM bits, like popup menus, windowed dialogues and the
like?
> Try Enhanced GEM. It's on a.a as EGEM, and it's great.
> Regards,
> --

Also, check out Gem++ if you want to do C++ programming (I guess GNU is
currently the only compiler which supports this on the Atari, but it's
used a lot for MiNT/X - ish type stuff. It's also on atari.archive as
gem++19.zoo in the Programming directory. This is by Warwick Allison and
was used for GEM Nethack, for example (cool game!).

Regards,

Ben Gilbert bgil...@natinst.com
Software Engineer, LabWindows/CVI
National Instruments Austin, TX

Dirk Hagedorn

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Apr 28, 1995, 3:00:00 AM4/28/95

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In article <3mm7u8$h...@calvin.st-and.ac.uk>,

Brian Duff <b...@st-and.ac.uk> wrote:
>Is there a programming library (for C or Basic) which provides procedures
>for 'fancy' GEM bits, like popup menus, windowed dialogues and the like?

SysGem, Enhanced GEM, Magic (!= MagiC, Mag!X).
EGEM is freeware and the whole sourcecode is distributed.

SysGem is shareware (round about 40 DM) and is my absolutly favorite 'cause
it's so easy to use. I'm not sure if there's an existing english version
of SysGem.

>I'd be grateful if anyone knows of a library that I can get from an FTP site.

Urgs, that's a problem. I think all the libs are available via FTP, but I
don't know where you can get them, sorry.

Frank Baumgart

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May 12, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/12/95

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e80...@pbhrzx.uni-paderborn.de (Dirk Hagedorn) wrote:
>Urgs, that's a problem. I think all the libs are available via FTP, but I
>don't know where you can get them, sorry.

ftp.uni-paderborn.de:/pub/atari/lang/c/sgem123c.zip
where else? :-)

Bye,

Frank