On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, John Coppens wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:19:56 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) > Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, John Coppens wrote: > > > > > Hi all... > > > > > > I've been needing quick & dirty graphing capability, and I'm missing > > > the old graph library. I know - I have the graph lib working, but the > > > frequent swaps in and out of X11 are not really very comfortable. > > > > > > As is, I have not found any elegant solution to the problem. I'm that > > > needy I am considering implementing some kind of graph lib that > > > actually opens a new window under X11 and uses that window to plot - > > > still maintaining compatibility with the ol' graph lib. Maybe in some > > > kind of client/server relation. It would be nice to have the text > > > window still active... Does something like this exist? Sound > > > interesting? > > > > This exists. Try the ggigraph unit. It is a graph unit that uses GGI to > > do the actual drawing. It will open an x-window under X11, but will work > > with svgalib when on the console. Maybe also the framebuffer, I don't > > know that. > > Hi Michael... > > Thanks for the info. I installed libggi and libgii, as these were > necessary to link ggiGraph. Made a small test program, but it doesn't > seem to recognize or accept any of the driver resolutions. I tried with > the normal D8bit, D16bit (and several other) graph driver constants, all > return moderange hi = lo = -1. > > I nosed around in the ggi sources, where other constants are defined, but > these are not visible from ggiGraph. [cut] > > I cannot find much progress in fpGFX 'cept some reference to its being > 'really beta'. It would not work in a 'graph' way anyway. > > Is there any example code for ggiGraph lying around to start testing? No. in principle, the unit should work like any graph unit. Looking at the ggi docs, I would say you need to set a GGI_DEFMODE environment variable. I tried running it, but the first draw statement crashes the program. No-one is maintaining ggigraph at the moment. Feel free to debug it and send us patches; it would be good to get it working again. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
