Re: [HPX-dev] Success!

[Leonard <le...@ea...>]

Hey

I almost thought this thing had died :P oh well
Anyway, this sounds good...  once I sort things out, i'll try and learn C.

But then again... sorting things out could take a while... sad...

Cheers

Leonard


At 05:02  20/07/00 , you wrote:
>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
>