On 04/18/2017 10:13 AM, Jon Foster wrote:
On 04/18/2017 04:38 AM, Paul Breneman wrote:
On 04/17/2017 08:42 PM, Jon Foster wrote:
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You have to copy the app to "/data/tmp" as that is usually the only
place on Android with a Linux file system that all users have access to.
You can't look in there so you kind of have to fly blind. :-) "Terminal
IDE" makes this easier, assuming you have a compatible Android version,
since it provides the Linux file system space, term emulator and easy
access.
This was what I thought Paul was looking to do. FreeVision might work
depending on a number of variables... but I'm not familiar with it. Most
Android terminal apps would provide some kind of VT100 like emulation so
you may have to force FreeVision to output for that emulation. If it
tries to use a "termcap" through normal means it probably will crash.
Thanks Jon *very* much for the details that you shared! I hope to get
time to get back into this soon and I'm sure that your notes will help.
The last problem that I had *three years* ago was that I failed to get
the mouse to work in the text mode IDE (I did have a keyboard and mouse
that worked in Android). The mouse is not absolutely required for the
simple programs I'd like to do.
Regards,
Paul
The "mouse" will more than likely be unavailable. Most people don't think
"terminal" and "mouse". Still if you can find an Android terminal app
with "gpm" or xterm style mouse support it could work. I've never used a
"text mode" mouse in Linux. I can't think of any terminal based programs
I use that offer mouse support. :-) And then you could always download an
OpenSource terminal app and hack it to provide that support. The "xterm"
man page documents its mouse protocol, which is probably the defacto
standard.
THX - Jon
I should also mention that PascalGUI is probably the most mature
FPC+term+editor app that I know of. Its been a while but it seems they've
added some nice touches. I had been using "Pascal Develop" since I could
download the source and alter its compile target. But it doesn't provide
proper terminal emulation and came packaged with FPC 2.6 pre v3 beta, which
was good at the time since 3 hadn't been out yet. :-D I patched and added
many FPC units to his original set, which I think he released.
--
Jon Foster
JF Possibilities, Inc.
j...@jfpossibilities.com
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