From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 77918 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2018 02:40:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 77895 invoked by uid 89); 4 Mar 2018 02:40:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*UA:14.0, H*x:14.0, H*c:NHxtPHrt, BASIC X-HELO: sonic308-13.consmr.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Received: from sonic308-13.consmr.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (HELO sonic308-13.consmr.mail.gq1.yahoo.com) (98.137.68.37) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 04 Mar 2018 02:40:22 +0000 Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic308.consmr.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with HTTP; Sun, 4 Mar 2018 02:40:20 +0000 Received: from smtp103.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (EHLO RayPC) ([67.195.15.62]) by smtp406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (JAMES SMTP Server ) with ESMTPA ID ce32c87edfa4f3617aaf963fe71cdc99 for ; Sun, 04 Mar 2018 02:40:16 +0000 (UTC) From: "Ray McAllister" To: Subject: Getting into C++ Downloading gcc. Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 02:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: <000001d3b362$2c515150$84f3f3f0$@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2 Hi, I'm totally blind. I do most of my programming in BASIC, but I use C++ now and then, actually, for drawing fractals. I code graphics. I've been using Dev-C++ because it's the only thing I can find compatible with my screen reader. I don't like how I can't set up a char array bigger than 1400 by 1400 as I might want to make a fractal bigger than that. I have the computer fill an array with the fractal data for colors, and then it writes a bitmap file with the data and I can access that through BASIC or just show it to a friend. All Dev-C lets me do for array size is 1400 by 1400 in an array, and that's using chars. I'd use Booleans, but I need to include color data for each pixel. I wonder if GCC would be better with that. I also need to knowk, please, how and where to download GCC, the latest version. I'm not finding info on that. In addition, when I run the dev-c++ programs from bASIC, a window comes up on the screen saying so. Is there a way, in GCC, to prevent that? Thanks, Ray McAllister.