[HPX-dev] Success!

[Ian S. <ia...@st...>]

Hey dudes.

Believe it or not, I've done the little project I set out to do (Re:
[HPX-dev] Something to do). I know everyone's totally forgotten this HPX
thing but heck this is beginning of session and there isn't much to do so I
thought I'd give it a try-- and took me 2 days or so to do but I've done it.

All it does is switch your video mode to 640x480 with 16 bit colour and then
blanks the screen. Pressing esc will quit and return to your normal video
mode.

I used C with the OpenGL and GLUT (the OpenGL utility toolkit), along with
the (ack) Micro$oft Visual C++ compiler. I will probably try to port the
GLUT library to Borland format later. The code should also work on the
different flavours of Unix if you have an OpenGL implementation and GLUT
installed.

Anyway I've attached all the files you'll need to start coding except that
you'll probably need the Visual C/C++ compiler as well as OpenGL installed.
OpenGL should already be installed in all but the oldest Win95 systems. The
files are as follows:

- chmode.exe        win32 binary of my little program
- chmode.c          my source
- glut32.lib        place this in your %VC%\lib directory (%VC% = visual c++
dir)
- glut.h            place this in your %VC%\include\GL directory
- glut32.dll        place this in your %WIN%\system directory (%WIN% =
windows dir)

If you're not interested in coding at all then you can just put glut32.dll
in your system directory, and then run chmode.exe to check it out.

That's it. Tell me if you guys are still interested in this thing.

Aq@home