C Intuition Help

[plasmab]

I'm looking to try and create basic Intuition application on its own screen and draw some labels. I've gone through some examples i've found and created a screen and a window (presumably i cant stick things directly on the screen?) What i'd like to be able to do now is:- 1. Draw labels on that window with various fonts.2. If possible make the window "headless".. unsure of the amiga term but no title bar or buttons.. just overlayed on the screen. Very familiar with C and Amiga just dont know Intuition at all.

[mark_k]

I think you can render directly to the Screen (i.e. not need to open a window) if you want. Pass a pointer to the RastPort field of the Screen structure to various graphics.library routines like Text(), Move(), Draw() etc.

You can also open a borderless backdrop window to cover the whole screen if you need to use Intuition stuff like gadgets etc. Specify the WFLG_BACKDROP and WFLG_BORDERLESS flags in the Flags field or your NewWindow structure.

[plasmab]

Thanks. Will give it a whirl and report back .

[thomas]

You can indeed draw directly to the screen, but be aware there will be no clipping. If you draw past the right edge of the screen, it will appear on the left and vice versa. While this might still be funny, it's dangerous to draw beyond the top or bottom border because you will hit memory you don't own.

Also you won't receive any user input. With only a screen you can only wait a while and then close it. If you want to react on user input you need a window.

Maybe you like the attached example. It opens a screen and a window and display mouse coordinated when the mouse is moved with a font loaded from disk.

[pipper]

Also look into the SA_Quiet and SCREENQUIET tag/flag when opening the screen.

[plasmab]

Thanks all. I compiled that C up but it didnt work, no output and stopped. But i got the gist of what it was doing.

[thomas]

Then you did something wrong becasue it does work. I wouldn't publish a demo without having it tested.

[plasmab]

Compiled ok. Just silently didn’t do anything. I did notice it’s requesting more bitplanes than a standard Amiga has. I dropped that to 3 but same behaviour. I’ll dig in later.

EDiT: I did notice there are no braces around the else clauses which sets my code OCD off big time.... seen so many bugs caused by that over the years.