ANNOUNCEMENT: The **NEWEST** RelLib has just been raised!!!

[Lachie Dazdarian]

What I could really use and appreciate is a SETUP proggy like the one with DirectQB which allows you to pick the routines you need for your current project and then the SETUP porgramm spits out the library with the routines you've picked. I mean it could be very usefull. Doing it manualy(merging OBJ files) is a nightmare.

Also are there any RelLib XMS horizontal scrolling demos/examples available? I could really use that since some projects currently spining in my head require it.

Cheers!

[Adigun A. Polack]

To Lachie:

A rather **splendid** Monday to you!!! !

As for the _possible_ building of the setup program that is reminiscent of what ye olde classic lib DirectQB already has, I believe that is a WONDERFUL idea, man, to even say the least!! ! That way now, it would surely save builders all of the hassle and frustration of even bothering to try to build it manually. I believe you on that one! !

Also, as for the RelLib XMS horizontally scrolling demos/examples being available so far, no. One thing is, I don’t even know fully how to use XMS myself ( :normal: ), other than on *some* of the graphics/sprite routines on Future.Library. So don’t expect me to give you any of these examples soon until I *REALLY* learn XMS. However, you have brought up an interesting point, though, so way to go for you! !

I thank you truly much for your real good ideas on a future version of RelLib, Lachie. See you later and God’s fiery all-eternal blessing!!! !!



DELIGHTFULLY EMPOWERING YOU ON YOUR IDEAS FOR RELLIB,


Adigun Azikiwe Polack
One of the Founders of “Aura Flow”
Webmaster of the AAP Official Homepage
Official Founder of the “QuickBASIC Caliber Programming Compo”

[oracle]

Can we have RelXMSPut? :lol:

[relsoft]

Can I have a monitor?

Actually, making relxmsput would mean rewriting *all* of my xms routines from scratch. Unless this would work...


.386
.stack 100h ;<<<<<<<< not sure here( see below)
.data
:
:
:
.code

Public RelXmstoBase
Push BP
Mov bp, sp

endp



;;;;<<<<<<<here's the prob>>>>>>

I want to use my new progging style since mode7
I dont need a stack declaration here.


public relXmsput uses ds si es di,\
Blah..........

end p


is combining two different coding ways in one module legal?

Blitz?, Sterling?, anyone?

[oracle]

Anyone: I dunno

Peter van Zwol posted about it at auraflow. Check it out

[relsoft]

okay...

[Sterling Christensen]

Sure, you can mix them. You mean like this, right?

Code:

public blah1
blah1 proc, parameter1:word
   mov  ax, parameter1
   mov  ax, [bp+6]   ; read parameter1 into ax (again)
   ret
blah1 endp

Yeah, you can do it both way in the same module if you like.

All it does (in the above example) is prepend "push bp/mov bp, sp" at the top, translate parameter1 into [bp+6], and translate ret into "leave/retf 2"

leave takes 3 cycles on a Pentium, while "pop bp" takes only one, but other than that the two syntaxes do the same thing. Besides, the leave thing is easy to avoid:

Code:

public blah1
blah1 proc, parameter1:word
   mov  ax, parameter1
   mov  ax, [bp+6]   ; read parameter1 into ax (again)
   pop  bp
   ret  2
blah1 endp

If you want to see the code that masm is generating for you, use the /Fl (generate listing) and /Sa (maximize source listing) command line switches.

Code:

ml /Flfilename.lst /Sa /c filename.asm

[Blitz]

Sure it is, and you don't need to declare a stack, there's only one stack in a program and that's qbs. So your stack declaration does nothing.

[oracle]

C'mon then rel... PvZ and me need it

[relsoft]

As I said, I had to raise funds to buy a new monitor. ;*(

Sterling and Blitz ty. ;*)