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Subject: Re: C Graphics Tutorial
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On Mon, 12 May 2003 20:27, Katinka Mills wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pischelletto [mailto:pischelletto2000@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Monday, 12 May 2003 2:43 PM
> > To: Katinka Mills
> > Cc: freebsd-questions
> > Subject: Re: C Graphics Tutorial
> >
> > > I am not after making great 3D Graphics or any stuff
> > > like that, just simple
> > > graphics like make the screen blue, put a boarder
> > > around etc etc.
> >
> > try to use allegro or sdl, there are very popular
> > multiplatform graphic library.
> > On the official site you can find also many links
> > to various tutorial.
> > http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/
> > http://www.libsdl.org/index.php
>
> From what I see, these are ment for running under X
>
> all I want to do is make a program that uses graphics like "sysinstall"
> does, nothing flash.
>

I believe cusrses/ncurses may be what you want -- but no geometrical shap=
es.

Take a look at:
#  man ncurses

Malcolm