Need recommendation re Windows Applications reference material

[WSinc]

Hello Steve;

I want to write some application software which does animation using Windows.

I was looking thru the literature, and could not find anything referring to the Intel compiler, just the old Compaq Visual product. I don't know if the interfaces would be the same.

Can you recommend anything that would be a good reference work in this area? Hopefully something more recent.

Thanks; Bill S.

[TimP]

Steve mentioned that he would be on vacation. Most of the Compaq Visual Fortran extensions have carried over to current Intel Fortran for Windows, possibly with minor changes in USE file names. If you find a reference on CVF useful, you should be able to look up the capabilities you are interested in, or refer to the porting guide, to determine how to proceed.

[TimP]

Perhaps needless to say, you may get more timely responses to Windows questions on the Windows forum.

[Ron_Green]

Definitely bring this up on the Windows Forum.

It's not clear if you aregoing to use a third-party library, OpenGL, or ?? to do the animation. If you are using a third-party library that was built for CVF, you should be able to use IVF but make sure to use the /iface:cvf compiler option.

perhaps some more details on what particular animation library you intend to use would be helpful to Wendy.

ron

[WSinc]

Sorry, I should have clarified this request (question).

The application was already written in an older version of Fortran. It used a graphics library that didNOT make use of Windows application calls.

So what I am looking for is something that will show me how to port this application to IVF. Probably the only changes needed will be the calls to the graphics routines. All the other stuff has been thoroughly tested.

Or something that will tutor me on the graphics calls at least.

This seems like a question more for Fortran users, rather than Windows users in general, since I won't need to usee C++ or Visual Basic for the time being. Unless I have to give up the Fortran entirely.

Thanks; Bill Sinclair

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Norman Lawrence's book "Compaq Visual Fortran: A Guide to Creating Windows Applications" is still good and applicable to IVF. This illustrates the use of the Win32 API for doing user interface and graphics. However, for your purposes you might be better off to look at a commercial library such as GINOMENU or perhaps the open source pgplot library.