forums.silverfrost.com

Little-Acorn · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 111 Location: San Diego

I've been using Windows-type message boxes, edit boxes, buttons etc. with the Silverfrost Ftn95 compilers quite successfully.

Can the SCC C compiler do those things too, in C or C++? While running in either Plato or from a command line?

PaulLaidler · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:45 am Post subject:

Yes you can use ClearWin+ with SCC but there are a few differences so the FTN95 ClearWin+ documentation is not always sufficient on its own.

There was a manual available at one time but I cannot see it in the Silverfrost downloads.

SDBG and SCION are both written in C/C++ with ClearWin+.

Two points to emphasis. 1) variables in a winio call are passed as pointers and 2) string arguments may need an added length to be passed.

Here is a samples..

LitusSaxonicum · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 6:28 pm Post subject:

Paul,

PaulLaidler · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 7:25 pm Post subject:

I had forgotten about CWPSCC.HLP and this can still be found in the FTN95.exe folder. This contains everything that was in the old manual.

I don't have the same problem with old .hlp files. Once the driver has been downloaded from the Microsoft website they work OK for me.

For some time I have been aiming to convert the old .hlp files but this takes time even with suitable software to ease the process. For the moment other things are more pressing.

Little-Acorn · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 111 Location: San Diego

(oops, duplicate post, sorry)

Little-Acorn · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 111 Location: San Diego

I have that CWPSCC.HLP file in the directory on my system that holds scc.exe. I just tried looking at it with Microsoft Word, but got gibberish, maybe it's encoded or compressed?

How does one look at it and/or copy/print it?

davidb · Joined: 17 Jul 2009 Posts: 560 Location: UK

You need to download and run windows help reader for vista (winhlp32.exe).

Once you have installed this you just double-click on the .HLP file to view it.

Here is the link to it on Microsoft's support, make sure you get the Vista version.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607
_________________
Programmer in: Fortran 77/95/2003/2008, C, C++ (& OpenMP), java, Python, Perl

Little-Acorn · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 111 Location: San Diego

Paul this example works! Thank you - it is invaluable.

Time for a few dumb questions:

1.) The first three "int" statements (and the stuff that comes after them in curly braces) define functions, not classes, correct? And each returns an integer value, correct?

2.) "get_mouse_info(x,y,f)" is a built-in function, correct? Is it a macro found in windows.h ? Most importantly, is it documented anywhere? I couldn't find it in the HELP section for SCC.

3.) What does the statement "#pragma windows" do? Is it documented anywhere?

4.) In the statement that begins 'winio("%aw%pv%^gr', I understand that the '400,400,cb_mouse' defines the width and height of the child graphic window and the callback function. But what does the "&mdi" do?

LitusSaxonicum · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 1:09 am Post subject:

Once that help reader is installed, SCC.HLP is also readable from Plato. CWPSCC.HLP, however, has to be started separately, and when you do, you are launched into the early days of Clearwin - when it was nowhere near as comprehensive as it is today. The file is also incomplete, as the potentially interesting "National language independence" section isn't there.

It makes an interesting read even for the Fortran programmer.

[Edit] As CWPSCC.HLP is hopelessly out of date, you may also need to read the FTN95 instructions for Clearwin as well, and translate them into the C equivalents.

Eddie