PBVISION DEMO GRAPHICS

[Stephen Buckley]

Running the program

VISNDEMO.EXE

there is a very nice graphics example on the page

"GRAPHICS WINDOWS IN TEXT MODE" with the subtitle
"GRAPHICS DISPLAY IN TEXT MODE"

Does anyone know how to recreate the example?--how to open a
graphics file to display in PBVISION etc??

Stephen

PS
I have had a look at the tutorials and PBWORKSHOP examples and
there appears to be only examples of drawing balls etc-plus I
have not been able to get any of the WORKSHOP examples to run--I
keep getting the error message "not enough memory available to
run in the IDE". running a PIII??? [Pentium 3]

[Lance Edmonds]

The most likely question is probably "how much *conventional* memory does PB/DOS have available on your PC"? If you have not done so, make sure PB.EXE has EMS and XMS memory available.

How you do this will depend on your O/S. Foe example, you may only need to edit your PB.PIF file. Under Windows 2000, you may need to edit CONFIG.NT and AUTOEXEC.NT and REM out all the unnecessary device drivers, etc. If you are using plain DOS, then you'l probably need to add HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE to your CONFIG.SYS file, etc.

Regardless, you should still be able to compile the examples, but run them from the command-line rather than run them from within the IDE. If you need to debug the files for any reason, then you should be able to use PBD.EXE (the command-line debugger).

Finally, the tutorials that come with PB/Vision should give you more than enough information to create your own GUI displays...

I hope this helps!

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PowerBASIC Support
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[Anton Lasich]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Stephen Buckley:
[B]Running the program

VISNDEMO.EXE

there is a very nice graphics example on the page

"GRAPHICS WINDOWS IN TEXT MODE" with the subtitle
"GRAPHICS DISPLAY IN TEXT MODE"

Does anyone know how to recreate the example?--how to open a
graphics file to display in PBVISION etc??

Stephen - having used Vision extensively I can tell you that you will
not be able to do complex graphics! You are limited to monochrome
2 bit images which are treated as a string. I remember reading
in the original product before PowerBasic took over marketing of
the product, that the author offered a much better graphic
extension library. But, to try and contact the author is another
problem.

Anton

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[Stephen Buckley]

Humble apologies--I have found the bitmap bmp example program in
my c:\vision\examples directory [I must have been only looking
at the workshop examples].

Stephen

[Stephen Buckley]

[quote]Originally posted by Anton Lasich:
[b]

Originally posted by Stephen Buckley:
Running the program

VISNDEMO.EXE

there is a very nice graphics example on the page

"GRAPHICS WINDOWS IN TEXT MODE" with the subtitle
"GRAPHICS DISPLAY IN TEXT MODE"

Does anyone know how to recreate the example?--how to open a
graphics file to display in PBVISION etc??

Stephen - having used Vision extensively I can tell you that you will
not be able to do complex graphics! You are limited to monochrome
2 bit images which are treated as a string. I remember reading
in the original product before PowerBasic took over marketing of
the product, that the author offered a much better graphic
extension library. But, to try and contact the author is another
problem.

Anton

to Anton...

Now that is very interesting. I just tried a standard bmp and
it shows rubbish. So I'm going to look for a graphics viewer
that will convert a standard bmp file to the sort you mentioned
is necessary. Any clues??

Stephen

[Amos Vryhof]

Under DOS: NeoPaint

Under Windows: Paint Shop Pro, or ACDSee work nicely.

It would be nice if the PB String buffer was expandable into XMS.



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Amos

[Daniel Stasinski]

before PowerBasic took over marketing of the product, that
the author offered a much better graphic extension library.
But, to try and contact the author is another problem.

It's pretty easy to get in touch with me directly, but please
note that after a half decade of obsolesce, my interest in
PowerBASIC is purely nostalgic. I lost all the source code
for PB/VISION long ago.

Still, friendly inquires may be directed to [email protected]
and if I can help, I will do my best.

Daniel P. Stasinski http://www.disabilities-r-us.com

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