[fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

[James Richters]

I was finally able to get this working, and now my keyboard issues are solved, so thank for the help and fix Nikolay!  I can't believe the performance increase using ptcgraph instead of graph, I am now even able to run my program on a tiny windows 10 tablet with no performance issues.  Also ptccrt solves some of the bugs with wincrt, mainiy that wincrt doesn't respond to any alt keys at all and not all of the crtl keys

What I finally realized was there was another set of PTC units with the default installation of Freepascal 3.0.2 that I needed to remove so the correct versions of the files could be found. 

Perhaps it would be a good idea to make note of this in the instructions?  

I ended up needing to remove:
H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\graph\ptcgraph.ppu
H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\graph\ptcgraph.0 
H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\graph\ptccrt.ppu
H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\graph\ptccrt.0 
H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\graph\ptcmouse.ppu
H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\graph\ptcmouse.0

And the entire folder  H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\ptc

Also I could not compile with a space in my FPC install directory, so a quick comment about that may be useful to someone.


James


-----Original Message-----
From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-bounces at lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of James Richters
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 5:40 PM
To: 'FPC-Pascal users discussions' <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

>Just like you now use -FuSomePath to tell the compiler where to find units, you can use -FiSomePath to tell the compiler where to look for include files.

I've been trying to compile with Free Pascal Text IDE, I have no experience with compiling programs from the command line,  but this gave me an idea to try it from command line instead.

First, I thought I would start clean, and  I re-installed Free Pascal and left the directory structure alone, and just changed the drive to H: where I have a lot of room. I suspect it did not like the space I had in my directory name.
>From the new install of FPC 3.0.2 on my H Drive, I was able to successfully follow the instructions and I finally managed to compile ptcpas-code-715-trunk.

I was also able to compile the examples and they executed correctly.  So I used the command line used to compile one of the examples, and put the whole path of ptcpas in and I was finally able to successfully compile my test program with the following command line:
h:/FPC/3.0.2/bin/i386-Win32/ppc386.exe -Fuh:/ptcpas-code-715-trunk/units/i386-win32/ -FE. -FUh:/ptcpas-code-715-trunk/units/i386-win32 -di386 dual-key-screen.pas When I compiled It this way, I am now able to ALT-Tab from the graph window and when I return everything is fine,  so this proves the problem has been solved, but integrating the solution into my compiler is the problem.

I am trying to get it to work from the Free Pascal text mode IDE but when I add h:\ptcpas-code-715-trunk\units\i386-win32 to the list of unit directories in the Free Pascal text IDE and try to compile my program, I get:

PPU Loading H:\ptcpas-code-715-trunk\units\i386-win32\ptcgraph.ppu
║ PPU Source: ptcgraph.pp not found
║ PPU Source: graphh.inc not available
║ PPU Source: graph.inc not available
║ PPU Source: fontdata.inc not available ║ PPU Source: clip.inc not available ║ PPU Source: palette.inc not available ║ PPU Source: modes.inc not available ║ PPU Source: fills.inc not available ║ PPU Source: gtext.inc not available ║ Recompiling ptcgraph, checksum changed for ptc ║ dual-key-screen.pas(3,6) Fatal: Can't find unit ptcgraph used by KeyTestWin.p ║ dual-key-screen.pas(0) Fatal: Compilation aborted

How do I properly use the FreePascal Text mode IDE to use the ptcpas units I compiled?

My entries under directories > Units are:
H:\ptcpas-code-715-trunk\units\i386-win32
h:\FPC\3.0.2\units\$fpctarget
h:\FPC\3.0.2\units\$fpctarget\*
h:\FPC\3.0.2\units\$fpctarget\rtl

All other directories tabs are blank

Thanks for the help

James

-----Original Message-----
From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-bounces at lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Ewald
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 2:03 PM
To: FPC-Pascal users discussions <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] [FPC-Pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 23/05/17 19:50, James Richters wrote:
> *correction  to directory names:
> Now I got an error that it could not find graphh.inc So I copied all the .inc files from J:\Programming\FPC 3.0.2\units\i386-win32\ptcpas\ptcgraph\inc  to J:\Programming\FPC 3.0.2\units\i386-win32\ptcpas\ptcgraph because I have no idea how else to make it find them.

Just like you now use -FuSomePath to tell the compiler where to find units, you can use -FiSomePath to tell the compiler where to look for include files.

See `fpc -h`, under the section "-F<x> Set file names and paths:" for a list of other related switches.


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Ewald
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