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Using the WinBGIm Graphics Library with

Visual Studio 2005/2008

September 2009

Description:

This page provides a mechinism for using the WinBGIm Graphics Library from Visual Studio 2005/2008.

Additional documentation for the WinBGIm graphics library is available at www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/bgi.

Installation Notes:

In order to use the WinBGIm graphics library, you need to download the following file onto your machine

(preferably to the desktop, where you can easily access it):

For Visual Studio 2005: BGI.zip

For Visual Studio 2008: BGI2008.zip

For Visual Studio 2010: BGI2010.zip

After downloading, pleaseright-clickthe file and select "Extract Here" to unpack the files. The newly created

directory, called BGI, includes all thefiles we'll need (including the WinBGIm Libraries and a pre-set project

already set up to use them) in order to create a graphics program in Visual Studio. You should now change the

name of this directory to a name for your own project, such as First-Sample.

Note: If you're using the Visual Studio Express Edition, you will need to install a number of other libraries beforeyou can use any of the BGI functions. In order to do this, go to

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/and install the Microsoft "Platform SDK"

(Software Development Kit). This kit includes a number of libraries allowing you to use Windows features that

aren't automatically included in the C++ language. Once you have the SDK installed, the WinBGIm Library

should work on your machine.

To write a program that uses the graphics library, open Visual Studio and select "File => Open =>

Project/Solution", and open the "winbgi-solution" file from the directory that you created for your project. You

may add other files to this project (right click in the Solution Explorer window and choose Add), such as this

main program that opens a graphics window and draws a small circle. Notice that the graphics.h file issurrounded by quotation marks in the include directive:

#include "graphics.h"

int main( )

{

initwindow(400, 300, "First Sample");

circle(100, 50, 40);

while (!kbhit( ))

{

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