Re: [fpc-pascal] Freevision etc.

2017-05-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 04/05/17 20:30, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: The record that Dialedit generates to represent initial or extracted dialogue box values has alignment and/or packing problems. There's a comment in the source that the FreeVision sources expect dwords while the author using a debugger believed that

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freevision etc.

2017-05-04 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 04/05/17 11:30, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Is anybody currently using Freevision dialog(ue)s? I've got some very odd problems transferring initial values onto the screen and getting stuff back, at least some of which appears to be platform-specific (comparing x86_64, i386 and arm, all Linux).

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freevision etc.

2017-05-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-04 13:52, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > All this fails if the needed libraries are not available You are indeed correct of course. Below is the output as seen on a server that has no X11 related libraries installed. $./osmail -h Shared object

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freevision etc.

2017-05-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 4 May 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-04 13:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: text-mode console or over something really crude like telnet... and I hope you're doing that for fpGUI since you keep telling us how good it is :-) As I said, I do that often in my own (and

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freevision etc.

2017-05-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-04 13:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > text-mode console or over something really crude like telnet... and I > hope you're doing that for fpGUI since you keep telling us how good it > is :-) As I said, I do that often in my own (and commercial) applications that use fpGUI. The fpGUI

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freevision etc.

2017-05-04 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 04/05/17 12:00, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-04 12:03, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:>> I've not used Freevision/Turbovision before, but am experimenting with>> James Clarke's DialEdit as an experiment to see whether I can create a>> fallback user interface for use if an interactive

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freevision etc.

2017-05-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-04 12:03, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >> I've not used Freevision/Turbovision before, but am experimenting with >> James Clarke's DialEdit as an experiment to see whether I can create a >> fallback user interface for use if an interactive program is running in >> a shell session. The

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freevision etc.

2017-05-04 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 13/04/17 10:00, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've not used Freevision/Turbovision before, but am experimenting with James Clarke's DialEdit as an experiment to see whether I can create a fallback user interface for use if an interactive program is running in a shell session. The Lazarus side of

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freevision etc.

2017-04-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 13/04/17 10:00, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: My first problem is that there's a name clash between the Freevision and LCL variants of some units. I appear to be able to use something like uses Objects, Views in '/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.0.2/units/arm-linux/fv/views', Dialogs in