Dear Free Pascallers, I'm wanting to convert a Turbo Pascal program to fpc, to run (ultimately) under linux, although I'm actually developing on a mac, and using virtualbox to run ubuntu. The program in question is a relatively large non OOP program which makes substantial use of BGI graphics. I'm wondering what would be the best/easiest way of achieving this?
I tried using the graph unit & svgalib under a virtualized ubuntu, but even the simplest test program (InitGraph, putpixel, CloseGraph) produces a runtime error 216. Even if I got this working, I get the feeling that directly bashing the graphics hardware in such a primitive way is not the best way to go. Ideally I would like to be able to just open a large window that I can use as a bitmap for all my graphics drawing, ideally using graph unit syntax compatible functions. What's the simplest way to do this - I tried looking in the documentation but don't really know where to start. Do I need to use 'Lazarus' if I want to open a window? I've no experience with Delphi or Object Pascal so that whole aspect of fpc is completely alien to me. Many thanks in advance for any help, Simon _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
