[fpc-pascal] Drawing window out line

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Tomas Hajny wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 09:55, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> mokashe.ram wrote:
>  .
>  .
>> it's probably safe to assume that your instructor is reading this
>> mailing list with interest, perhaps he'd like to fill in what operating
>> system etc. your code's supposed to run on since you've not told us >:-)
> 
> In the first thread (coming from "different person" ;-) ), there's been a
> post via Nabble (before the poster subscribed to the mailing list) where
> he stated that the target was Win32. This e-mail never appeared on this
> list because it went to the moderation queue as part of the spam
> protection efforts and it was apparently deleted by one of the moderators
> by mistake (either me or Jonas).

That's one of the problems when people use gmail: hints such as their 
real timezone are removed. One person pretending to be two, or asking 
similar questions as different threads, can happen if they don't 
appreciate that the etiquette in a mailing list differs from that of 
IRC: in the latter case one sometimes needs to ask multiple times as the 
user population "churns".

Going back to the earlier message:

 > note : we can not use Video and CRT Unit both in single unit. i want
 > to use CRT unit only.

Perhaps somebody would like to confirm this, but my understanding is 
that Video and CRT can't be used in the same /program/, not just the 
same /unit/. Unless there's a very good reason, I'd have thought that 
using FreeVision would have been the best way to go, since this already 
knows about things like window outlines and stands a reasonable chance 
of having already sorted out e.g. codepage selection issues.

However since this isn't CIX I think we need to answer the question as 
posed- once it's in a sufficiently-concise form that we have a chance :-)

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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