Hi!

I want to write a little program for visualizing all moves of a CNC machine on LINUX.
Actually it would be more than sufficient when that what the good old "graph" unit of TurboPascal/DOS would be available, because all I need is simple pixel graphics.

With my change to FreePascal and Linux (which is many years ago), I were not able to do anything with graphics (was not really required), but now I have no alternate option.
.) Is someting available meanwhile? (and what?)
.) Is something for OOP programming out? Most my programs don't use classes so it should not force me to use them. Best would really be some kind of "graph" emulation.

Could you (if something _working_ is already available), please, leave me a link to it and - please - leave me a short example-source?

Thanks in advance.

mfg

Ing. Rainer Hantsch

You should take a look at the dokumatation in the units.pdf there is lot of "GRAPH" it is in chapter 8. It is just like the old days with TP6.0

Hi, Peter!

When nothing "dramatic" has changed (and I do not remember to have even heared about any attempt to get this fixed from Michael), the graph unit will still only be usable for DOS and (maybe) for windows, but not for LINUX.

Because I use a 100% Linux environment, this means in fact, that graph is not existing for me when it is not able to hook into X11 and simulate there somehow a graphics display. And exactly this does not work. :-/

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Peter Andersen wrote:
| You should take a look at the dokumatation in the units.pdf there is lot | of "GRAPH" it is in chapter 8. It is just like the old days with TP6.0

mfg

Ing. Rainer Hantsch

Here you are wrong :) It's working in linux that's for sure (i am using it) But that is on a svga console. Display 800x600 and 256 color.

Because I use a 100% Linux environment, this means in fact, that graph is not existing for me when it is not able to hook into X11 and simulate there somehow a graphics display. And exactly this does not work. :-/

Ok so what you ned is something that are easy as the graph unit but can run under X11 in a xterm or what. If this is what you are looking for then please let me know if you find anything. Because i have not found it yet :) But i am still seaching.

Use SDL if you want good modern library for 2d graphics (and some other things). Pascal bindings are available. I use jedi-sdl bindings (CVS version), they work perfectly with FPC under Linux, FreeBSD and Windows (and probably many other platforms too).

Michalis

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Peter Andersen wrote:

| Rainer Hantsch wrote:
| Here you are wrong :) It's working in linux that's for sure (i am using | it) But that is on a svga console. Display 800x600 and 256 color.

Well, this is actually useless because it only works on the local display. I would loose/miss all advantages of X11, i.e. to be able to oberate an applicatin over a network from anywhere.

| > Because I use a 100% Linux environment, this means in fact, that graph is | > not existing for me when it is not able to hook into X11 and simulate | > there somehow a graphics display. And exactly this does not work. :-/ |
| Ok so what you ned is something that are easy as the graph unit but can | run under X11 in a xterm or what. If this is what you are looking for | then please let me know if you find anything. Because i have not found | it yet :) But i am still seaching.

Yes, this is exactly what I am looking for.

What I wonder is that nobody found a way to open a X11 window redirect all this stuff from/to it, since I started with Linux and FreePascal. -- And this is more than 6 years ago.

All what would be required would be some kind of graphX unit, which actually takes over the keyboard, mouse and graphics handling and makes this stuff available through a set of procedures/functions/methods/vars. The result would be a "graph" unit for X11, without forcing me to start at zero with programming X.

Ok, I am not the right one to develop something like that, but isn't that astonishing? You can easily find (-> thanks to Ken Wright!) a full ncurses implementation (for developing text based apps), or full GUI stuff (as Kylix does), but nothing for OOP or procedural mode.

mfg

Ing. Rainer Hantsch

What about SDL?

Hello Rainer,

Thursday, September 29, 2005, 2:08:53 PM, you wrote:

RH> What I wonder is that nobody found a way to open a X11 window redirect all RH> this stuff from/to it, since I started with Linux and FreePascal. -- And this RH> is more than 6 years ago.

In addition to SDL which already was mentioned, you may also take a look at GRX:

http://grx.gnu.de

Though it only has gpc bindings it may be possible to port it to FPC as well.

I played this weekend a litte bit arround with grx. There is a graph unit for gpc.
After some hours, a kind of bgidemo seems to run in fpc/X-Windows. Ther are still some problems drawing characters in several angles and drawing polygons, but all other things seems (quiet fast!) to run. Its still a hack, but if there is somebody intersted in i may publish it. Theoretical it should alos work with WIN32 but i have not testet it yet.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Markus Greim

Why don´t you publish the results on the Lazarus wiki?

Note that since this is specific to a graphical library (or unit), you should create a new wiki page and put a link to in on http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Developing_with_Graphics

I would be interested in a Unit to output vector-
graphics possibly via postscript/ghostscript.

This gives very much better results than the old
raster
scan of Turbo Unit graph. I would like to draw maps, an also mathematical graphs.

Another approach might be through Kile and LaTeX.

Auch mit freundlichen Grüßen. Ich kann etwas Deutsch

verstehen !

Geoff Bagley.

http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Is it possible to "stream" the output of an FPC program into the input of the next like
the "C" people do on Linux ? They have "stdio.h" . I have never seem this done in Pascal.

E.G. prog1 | prog2 | prog3 etc. where "|" is the pipe for passing the results from one prog to he next.

Best regards,
Geoff

Geoff Bagley wrote

Is it possible to "stream" the output of an FPC program into the input of the next like the "C" people do on Linux ? They have "stdio.h" . I have never seem this done in Pascal.

Huh? As long as you don't use units like crt write(ln) and read(ln) works with the standard i/o handles.

E.G. prog1 | prog2 | prog3 etc. where "|" is the pipe for passing the results from one prog to he next.