this may be a very newbish post, but i need some help over here... two questions, first and second
i'm working on a program that needs to run totally separated from windows (utopically)... currently i'm running it from windows' dos console, but i don't know how to instruct the video card directly, no need for anything complicated, just being able to pinpoint each pixel and to draw and color that pixel, and it must be done as directly as possible...
anyone out there can give a pointer?
i've looked for this information everywhere, but found only directX and such...
now second, i need the classes' methods to be able to get any kind of data (not just to polymorph, but to be able to handle anything to drops by)... right now i'm working with inheritance, all of my objects being a subobject of a control class called ZS and is working fine as far as methods are concerned (they are able to receive any type) but what i'm aiming at is an alghorithm to make methods able to recognize their 'incoming' by interaction afterwards, this is that the class' method first receives a subtype of ZS but then internally analyses the type to determine what it is exactly...
any ideas?