On Jul 23, 11:44 am, Ryan Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Dos-Man 64<[email protected]> wrote:
> > I actually would have switched over to linux a while ago, but there's
> > been hardware-related issues, mostly with video cards and sound cards.
>
> When did you have these problems? These problems seem to be largely a
> thing of the past these days. At least at the kernel level.
Yes, it has gotten better, but I'm not your typical user :)
I've got an nvidia card 5200 GFORCE FX graphics gard. It spits out S-
VIDEO. I use a converter to convert this to A/V and run into my TV. No
monitors here. I've been using a TV for like 4 years now. Both of my
Ubuntu and Knoppix Live distros both hate it. I get a blank screen
when xwindows is finished loading. I'm going to have to pull out my
graphics card and find my monitor when I finally decide to switch over
permanently.
>
> > I've also written a lot software with VB, C, Delphi, etc. The idea of
> > not having these programs available to me anymore gives me the
> > shivers. Porting them over is not going to be easy. Command line
> > programming won't be a problem, but I don't have a lot of familiarity
> > with LINUX GUI programming. I know a little Java, but I don't like it.
> > I tried to download Kylix, but I couldn't find it. I'm hoping I will
> > be able to get free pascal properly configured. Might be able to make
> > some good things happen with that.
>
> Ya, Kylix appears to have been abandoned.
>
> In case you hadn't found it yet, Lazarus seems to be what you're
> looking for. Since it's part of freepascal, which you've already
> mentioned, this is probably old news to you
>
> http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/
>
Well, I have tried out lazarus for windows. It seems to work well. I'm
just not sure which files I need to download for the linux version.
> As for porting, you could look into wine. I don't mean just running
> them under wine, I'm refering to linking against the wine libraries as
> stand-ins for the windows libraries you would normally compile
> against.
Is Wine free, or something you have to pay for?
>
> There are some VB implementations in Linux as well. I've never looked
> into them, but you might have some luck there.
>
> For GUI programming the two main choices are Gtk and Qt. There are
> many others, but those are the main two. If you're looking to upgrade
> languages, there's Mono, which would provide some GUI capabilities.
> Given your apparent thoughts on .Net, I'm guess that's out of the
> question.
>
> ~Ryan
>
> --http://rmgraham.blogspot.comhttp://twitter.com/rmgraham
Yes, not just .NET, but Java I do not like also. So strict, and
doesn't even generate standalone exes. Yuk.
I'm an excellent C programmer, so I'm not anticipating having problems
writing linux software. I have written linux programs in the past
also, but mostly command line programs. It's just going to take a
while for me to learn the ins and outs of xwindows. I used to have a
book for Linux GUI programming. I think I got rid of it at some point.
I should have held on to that. Never get rid of a computer book. I
should have learned that by now.
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