>However, I've been away for a very long time, and have forgotten most of >my QL-related programming knowledge, having become fat and lazy with my >bash shell and gcc compiler. Therefore, I'm asking you what tools you >think I should take advantage of and what tools to avoid. I have to build >a software library from scratch, which I am sure will make the traders >happy ;)
All of the C68 stuff should be OK (Dave Walker's website). There are a few good assemblers about, including the QMac (I think I've got the name wrong...anyone remember the correct name?) from Quanta. Most of the C tools have pointer utilities. C68, QMenu, QPTR and Easyptr all have these. >Also, the way I am writing my mail client will practically require an 80 >column width, and reasonably 25 rows. What suggestions do people have to >do that, make it functional, and not be a screen hog? Try to allow it to use higher resolutions where available. See the file DISPLAY.ZIP (display_cde) in the software downloads part of my website for commented assembler source I used to write the hires display handler extensions). It might be worth you contacting Jonathan Hudson and Richard Zidlicky too, as they have both been involved in various ways with TCP/IP, email etc for QDOS. Richard is on this list, Jonathan's email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Hudson did start work on porting a small TCP/IP system (free sources he got for an embedded controller device IIRC) but I don't know how far he got with it. -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
