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The following entry in the Free Pascal contributed units was modified:

Name         : WinGraph
Author       : Stefan Berinde
Email        : sberinde at math.ubbcluj.ro
Homepage     : http://math.ubbcluj.ro/~sberinde/wingraph
FTP site     : http://math.ubbcluj.ro/~sberinde/wingraph/wingraph.zip
Version      : 0.8
Date         : 2006-09-09
Category     : Graphics
Supported OS : Win32
Description  :
WinGraph comes from the "WINdows GRAPHics unit". It is a unit written in Pascal for graphics programming under Win32. The source code is compatible with Free Pascal 2.0.4 and Delphi 7 compilers. This unit is intended to be a replacement of the standard Free Pascal's Graph unit for Win32 operating system. The later is highly compatible with the legacy BP graph unit for DOS, but, at the same time, it is slow and not very usable. In WinGraph all routines are implemented using Win32 GDI API calls (no VCL). So this offers good speed, quick coding, a certain degree of compatibility with BP graph unit and several extensions specific to Win32 GDI system. It also initializes the OpenGL driver for doing more complex graphics and allows mixing the WinGraph and OpenGL drawing routines. After calling the initialization routine the unit starts a dedicated thread and a GUI window for drawing. You can add keyboard and mouse support to your graphical program by using specific units WinCrt and WinMouse (included). Be aware that the unit is not entirely BP compatible.