How to get Graphics.h to work on windows 8

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Before you ask me to use a more modern compiler I have no choice but to use Turbo C++ 3.0 because of the education board in India.This is for my 12th grade project therefore using my normal IDE(Dev C++) is not an option.I need to get the graphics.h functions working but I keep getting an error which says BGI error: Graphics not initialized (use initgraph) The path to the file is correct and I have all the required files I heard that BGI will not run on a 64bit OS Is this true? Is there another way to display basic graphics I am open to alternatives as long as they work with TC 3.0.Please help me out.

Posted 1-Oct-13 8:42am

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Updated 1-Oct-13 8:44am

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I just had to reinstall the emulated version of TC3 but I don't recommend ever using it as it is a pain in the backside.

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CPallini · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-01T09:01:00

Solution 1

You may try WinBGIm[^]. Bit dated, but source code is provided, hence you might adapt it to your (system) needs.

You may also use DosBox, see "Installing Turbo C on Windows 7 64 bit ~ DosBox"[^].

Posted 1-Oct-13 9:01am

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Member 10309493 1-Oct-13 15:04pm

Thank you for the quick reply.I got Graphics.h working but I need to know if there are any alternatives to using graphics.h

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Oct-13 15:39pm

Oh... Use anything but Graphics.h! Don't torture yourself and waste your time. This kind of learning is not so useful learning, however, it can teach you how not to write graphical interface, but where to learn hot to make good ones? :-)

But I don't know if you have something better, in terms of commercial products. Do you have any compilers for Win32?
Or can you switch to Linux, where everything is open-source and there are decent UI frameworks: GTK+, Qt, and more?

—SA

Member 10309493 1-Oct-13 15:45pm

I don't really have an option right now as this is for my 12th grade project which is evaluated by an examiner from the government so I am FORCED to use turbo c++ 3.0 in a dos emulator :( I normally use dev C++ for all my projects and assignmets.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Oct-13 17:33pm

Then your alternatives are poor. You could also use direct video card access (its emulation), really useful exercise of instruction-set level (assembly) with C++, but I'm not sure it's in your interests. But would be more useful...
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Oct-13 15:35pm

5ed, but... I'm really sorry of OP. Using very old technology for learning can be a good idea; it depends on that technology. But to be useful, it should be something reasonably good. This is, as I understand, all Borland BGI. It was used when there was virtually nothing else on the PC market, and I'm sure Borland people understood well how much of trash it was.
—SA

Abhinav Gauniyal 1-Oct-13 17:46pm

Sir , There is a poor education system in India. Most of us dont even get know about other compilers before the college.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Oct-13 18:07pm

You are probably the first person from India who mentioned about this problem. Everything is relative. In US and on CodeProject, I met a number of highly qualified engineers from India, and I learned one of the narrow fields of physics (thing film phenomena) from one Indian world-class leading scientists. The problems I spotted, in part, due to CodeProject, as not weakness of education (I did not learn any computing before the last year in the University, so what?). It looks like in some schools some parts of educations is just fake. Do people pay a lot of money for education? They pay, and get the fake in return, I can tell by some school assignments people sometimes shared. But what's the problem with Indian languages? I am tired to explain to inquirers from India how to write in different Indian languages on different system. How come I can do it but they cannot? And I had to explain that some use Devanāgarī in righting, not Hindi, Marathi or Nepali (in particular), and so on. Can a software developer be so ignorant about one's own culture? Indian culture worth way more respect...
—SA

Member 10309493 2-Oct-13 1:50am

On the Issue of our bad education It's just that the computer science curriculum has not been changed since It's inception but they're switching over to python in a couple of years but that is way after I pass out of highschool.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Oct-13 2:01am

I don't think that particular languages or technologies learn formally at school make great difference (and Python is a pretty good thing). In real life, a successful engineer needs to know several languages and technologies anyway, and, more importantly, learn them during all the life. Fundamental education is much more important. There is a common misconception that mathematics is not really used in real-life programming, but the thing is: people without proper background often fail to think properly, even though formally they do the same work.
—SA

Member 10309493 2-Oct-13 2:12am

Thankfully our Math and Science curriculum are pretty good.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Oct-13 2:18am

That's great. And the skills in fundamentals and fundamental study allows to learn anything independently or in collaboration with colleagues. In decent workers, most knowledge is generated by people during their life, not under formal education, which can be critically important but can be rather be considered as a kind of a trigger.
—SA