[fpc-pascal]BGIDriv and BGIFont units?

Jeff Weeks jweeks at rci.rutgers.edu
Fri Aug 20 19:59:08 CEST 2004


Code here :

http://community.freepascal.org:10000/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl? 
msg_id=0000qd&topic_id=14&topic=Developing%20for%20Windows

shows units called BGIDriv and BGIFont.

Is this true, do they work and how do I get them?

Gracias!

Jeff

On Aug 20, 2004, at 10:07 AM, Jeff Weeks wrote:

> Anyone ever use this unit?  Just wondering if it works better....
>
> http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~knapp/graphix_old/gxhome.html
>
> Jeff
>
> On Aug 4, 2004, at 8:12 AM, John Coppens wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:35:14 +0200
>> Jonas Maebe <jonas at zeus.ugent.be> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 3 aug 2004, at 06:34, John Coppens wrote:
>>>
>>>> I more or less gave up on using graph - it's a bit of a headache to
>>>> have
>>>> the video switch modes, particularly while debugging. I don't know  
>>>> if
>>>> there is a more elegant solution, apart from trying to open a new
>>>> window
>>>> with a gnome-canvas in it or so.
>>>
>>> The best solution would be an SDL-based graph unit, I think. Nobody's
>>> working on that though, afaik.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jonas
>>
>> Hi Jonas.
>>
>> I did a 'client-server' type of thing. On the Pascal-side it looks  
>> like a
>> Graph-compatible library. But instead of switching modes, it starts a  
>> new
>> window, with a gnome-canvas in it. The 'graph' lib then sends its  
>> graphic
>> commands through a pipe to the new window.
>>
>> It is far from usable (many things are missing) but the idea has  
>> several
>> pluses (in my opinion):
>>
>> 1) The 'remote graph' can be called from other programs as the  
>> interface
>> is just the pipe. I could even be called from bash... (never tried)
>>
>> 2) The gnome canvas has nice anti-aliased graphics, and the resulting
>> plots _do_ look very nice.
>>
>> As I said, it is far from complete (eg. no fonts yet) and not very  
>> stable
>> either. One thing I haven't found yet is a way to save the  
>> gnome-canvas to
>> a graphics file (I just made screen shots).
>>
>> With the experience I had later with gnome-print library, I could  
>> image
>> that this could also be combined somehow.
>>
>> Is there interest in this?
>>
>> John
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