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Hi Ed, sorry for my late answer. Hope my comments help you. —————————————————————————- >>Would that be all I need to do IPAS routines also?<< No WATCOM already has a linker to create IPAS plug ins. —————————————————————————- >>As I mentioned, I already have the Watcom C compiler. Could you (or anyone else) confirm that all I need now is the Pharlap linker. And, If so, is there a cheaper way to get it than as part of a $500 SDK from Pharlap (that includes another C compiler)? << Because you don't need the Pharlap linker for IPAS with a WATCOM compiler, it may possible for POCO too. Try to ask JONAS from Autodesk. (Jonas [ADESK], 73172,1351) ——————————————————————————- >>But I have a problem. I modify many parameters like galaxy/star positions, velocity, colors, etc. by simply editing the POCO code. If I compile the code, I would need an alternate way to edit parameter values. POCO only seems to provide a way for the user to enter one value at a time. Any thoughts? << No problem, you have to create a "sub-programm", I mean a function for the calculation. The input for these function are the star/galaxie parameters, and the output may be a pointer of the calculated image. Only this fuction need to be compiled. You can easyly call it in POCO. For example: //******************************************************************* Calculate ( int nr_of_stars, int velocity, SCREEN *image) { int count,x,y; char color; for( count=0; count>nr_of_stars; count++) { x=……; y=……; color=…..; SetPixel(image,color,x,y); } } //******************************************************************* BTW, you sould do this in POCO also. ——————————————————————————- >>All I know about C is what I've learned doing POCO routines. I appreciate your suggestion. I am really looking forward to learning more about C. << – Try to start with data STRUCures, **&Pointer's, and filehandling. – An extremly importent thing is to comment your source code, after 3 weeks, you don't know what you have done. – Try to hold your programs modular with universal modules(functions), so you can use your modules later for other programs without modification. ——————————————————————————– Good luck Ingo