[fpc-pascal]Svga

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Martyn Ranyard wrote:

> At 10:40 AM 9/23/02 +1000, James Mills <prologic at useoz.com> wrote:
> >Concerning Svga, and the graph unit and anything really to do with
> >graphics...
>
> <snip>
>
> >PS: I know root access is probably needed as the svga library accesses
> >the memory that probably requires root access (I think this is correct),
> >but there has to be a better way...
>
> yes, svgalib requires root, and is no longer maintained, and quite often
> leaves machines in graphics mode if they crash.
>
> Am I hallucinating or did somebody mention that they had bindings for SDL
> translated?  SDL does not need root, and works well as far as I can tell
> and will work in a window for X.  AND it's cross-platform.

I think you can find them in the contributed units.

Michael.