[fpc-pascal]GraphiX unit?

[Jeff Weeks]

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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