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Re: Toolbox Guide for Dummies



Jim wrote:
On Sep 6, 5:38 am, limtc <thyech...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just to show you what an 8 year old can do with Complete Pascal - that
probably quite hard to do with Applesoft + ICONIX - he just uploaded
his latest program "Apple IIGS", which is a drawing of Apple IIGS
using QuickDraw - all by his own.

On 9 6 ,   2 59 , magnusfalkirk <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:


As I said your site is incentive for me to finally get around to
learning to program, I just need to make the time to do it. I've als
got a copy of MD Basic, along with docs, that I need to play around
with. I wonder if it would be possible to use ICONIX with that to
access Super Hi-Res Graphics on the GS in a Basic program?



Excellent site!
Here's another question,
I appreciate how dead-simple the graphics routines you've demonstrated
are.
I'm used to assembly where I had to manually start all the toolsets...
a nice chunk of code!
It's nice just to be able call Graphics(320); to get hacking on
QuickDrawII !
I'd like to be able to load a PIC file from a paint program to a port
and grab from it..etc.
That should consist of using the memory manager to create a handle and
all that.... so
Is using the memory manager tool calls as easy here as the graphics
routines seem to be
or am I going to have to start all the toolsets manually... like the
code in Programmer's Introduction book?

Thanks for all the hard work!!

Actually, this brings up the general question of how easy or
difficult it is to use binary files, random text files, etc.,
in Complete Pascal...

"Real programs use files."  ;-)

-michael

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