Thanx guys!!
You need to use a drawing library to write to your video card, but with Standard C, you are writing to whatever is specified in stdio.h
Some graphics interfaces that I know of are GDK, Mesa, Open_GL, GDI, Directx.
I have never seen a drawing library, nor have I ever used one! Do you know where to get pertinent information about one?
What software architecture are you using (Microsoft, Linux, Unix, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD)?
I am using Microsoft Windows 98SE with Borland Turbo C++ 4.5 if that helps!!
Than your looking for a Borland GDI library. It stands for Graphic Device Interface. Look in the help section. Unfortunately on a vendor platform like Microsoft you have to pay a lot of money in order to be able to program. On my operating system (Linux) I have free tools that are powerful and up to date.
Where would i find help and advice on how to use a GDI library, any good websites for instance? Or shall I just search on something like google?
Try searching the compiler help for either GDI or BGI. I used a Borland compiler long time ago and come to think of it, graphics were done through BGI. I have no idea where to look for information about it.
Thanks anyway!! I will try and find some!!
Does anyone else know where to look maybe?
No luck so far! Anyone know a good place for looking for libraries?
Simple DOS graphics (not the sucky BGI graphics):
http://www.brackeen.com/home/vga/index.html
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