#C-Help
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Hello everyone.
I am just starting out with programming on the AMIGA in C (I have
experience with C on my old H89). I have had my A3000 since June 91.
Anyway, are there any programs out there or maybe books you could
recommend to me that would aid me in programming? I registered my DICE and
have played with it but I just don't get the hang of these windows, and
push-buttons and all the other GUI?
James Thompson
Thompson Engineering
AutoPiloting from Michigan
James,
The best books are probably the ROM Kernal Reference (RKM) Manuals from
Commodore published by Addison Wesley. These are the technical reference
manuals put out by Commodore, and as such, are not the most reader
friendly of books, but one in particular should help you: AMIGA ROM Kernal
Reference Manual:Libraries, 3rd Edition. This one gives many code
examples and attempts to explain the programming concepts rather than
simply listing the functions with their parameters.
Sadly, however, third party books on programming the amiga are in short
supply. One that I found years ago and was a help to me was Inside the
Amiga with C, John Berry, SAMS publishing, but, I'm afraid that it is too
dated now.
Another tool that you should get to help you is GadToolsBox. This program
is available here on compuserve. What it does is allow you to visually
draw your graphical interface, buttons, windows, menus, et.al., then it
will automatically generate the code for you. Not only will this help you
get a leg up on writing a program, but you can examine the output code to
see just how to do those same things manually.
Hope this helps
Bill
BTW GadToolsBox is developed with DICE