Topic: BGI for Windows? YES! GUI for DOS?YES!And more...
Author: ad398@cfn.cs.dal.ca (Stepan S. Vartanov)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 01:53:41 GMT Raw View
This library make possible lot of things. Example - using common code for
BGI (DOS) and Windows GDI. BGI fonts, filled, with rotations and so on
are supported (See paragraph "KNOW-HOW.GRAF" below).
Available on:
garbo.uwasa.fi (DOS section)
oak.oakland.edu // Simtel/msdos/cplusplus/knowhow4.zip
x2ftp.oulu.fi
and some other sites.
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knowhow4.zip - Borland C++ SDK, mostly DOS, but also Windows, source codes.
GUI and much more.
Brief description:
KNOW-HOW 4.x is the SDK for Borland C++ 3.x or upper. It includes:
GUI, screen SFP fonts, PCX, Scripts and macroses. DOS
Debugging tools for any situations, including hang-up. DOS
Common code for GDI & BGI. Scroll,Zoom, rotate of image. Filled BGI fonts.
Basic-like language, incl. BGI/GDI interpreter, DOS, WINDOWS
Vector pictures editor: maketing BGI, GDI and so on graphics.
PCX pictures editor (Paintbrush-like, but could be incl. to your program. Print manager: graphical print in DOS on different printers
Shell for Borland Paradox Engine 3.01, view and edit tables.DOS.
Business & scientific diagrams, Line,Markers,Bar, 3d-Bar, Stacked bar...
Long description:
KNOW-HOW 4.x (Library in source codes (Borland C++ 3.x) includes the following tools:
Graphical Users Interface KNOW-HOW.Interface
LJ fonts (SFP) screen output,
PCX support, GUI, multiple overlapped
windows, Scripts and macroses. DOS
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Debugging tools for any situations, KNOW-HOW.DEBUGGER
including hang-up. DOS
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Using common code for any graphics library. KNOW_HOW.GRAPHICS
It is realized now for BGI and Windows GDI.
It is not difficult to add few lines of code
to use any other library.
Scrolling, Zooming, mirror reflection of
vector image, rotations and even complex rotations
of image. BGI fonts could be rotated too,
filled BGI fonts are also available. DOS, WINDOWS
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Basic-like language KNOW-HOW.SLANG
Multi-file programs, FOR, IF and so
on operators. User could derive from
Slang the child class with new
operators to access functions of
his concrete package. DOS, WINDOWS
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Additional (and very powerfull) feature is available if
KNOW-HOW.GRAPHICS is used together with KNOW-HOW.SLANG. Child
classes of SLANG could have additional operators, so
KNOW-HOW.SLANG.GRAPHICS is the BASIC with access to drawing tools
of KNOW-HOW.GRAPHICS. It provides to user the possibility to load
graphical "resourses" (DOS or Windows or other, if user add some code)
in run-time. There are very many applications of this tool, like
run-time changeble GUI, maketing (without stage of compilation) of BGI,
GDI and so on applications, vector drawing tools (KNOW-HOW.VECTOR is the ready-to-use product of this type, included). Together with BASIC math. functions it could also be used for data plotting, spreadsheet and so on. DOS, WINDOWS
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Vector pictures editor KNOW-HOW.VECTOR
Child of the Slang class. Simple and
flexible KNOW-HOW.GRAPHICS interpreter
with KNOW-HOW.INTERFACE window system
in DOS.
Very powerfull tool for maketing BGI,
GDI and so on graphics.
Few libraries are included, like chemical
formulas or electronic schemes. Print support
on different printers is available
(with KNOW-HOW.PRINT) in DOS.
Designed as class in KNOW-HOW
hierarchy, and could be included to
your DOS applications with no coding.
DOS
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PCX pictures editor KNOW-HOW.DRAW
Edit and print of PCX color and B&W
images. All standart image-editing
functions. Designed as class in KNOW-HOW
hierarchy, and could be included to
your DOS applications with no coding.
DOS
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Print manager KNOW-HOW.PRINT
Create on disk virtual screen of
any size, show, scroll on screen or
print it's contents on different
printers with any deformation. Could
load PCX images to the buffer or save
buffer or part of it as PCX image. DOS.
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Shell for Borland Paradox Engine 3.01 KNOW-HOW.DATASHELL
View and edit tables and querries in
Paradox-like style. Execute multi-table
QBE querries. Print reports in user-defined
form. Classes for any (not only Paradox)
tables support. DOS.
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Business and scientific diagrams KNOW-HOW.GRAF
Line, Markers, Line-and-markers,
Bar, 3d-Bar, Stacked bar graphs...
DOS