I'm a newbie trying to port an old turbo pascal program to FreePascal in linux. My reasons for doing this is old Pentium 233 motherboards are getting harder to keep running and I need be running on more modern hardware.. It's a massive program and I just don't have time to re-write the whole thing, that's why freepascal seems like a good solution. I have it working fairly well on windows, but I'm trying to get away from windows, and get it working on linux instead. I've managed to get free pascal installed on an Ubuntu x64 virtualbox VM and I can run the IDE, but I'm having difficulty getting it to work. I have several issues I just don't know how to solve
1. graph unit issues. In my windows port I'm able to use graph unit, in linux there is no graph unit in the x86_64-linux folder. It does exist in i386-linux, but I can't seem to compile my program for 386. In the windows version I have an option to use 80386, in linux I do not. I have tried to use the other graphic units found in graph under x86_64 linux. I was able to successfully compile with ptcgraph, but everything is blue, I figure it is using more colors than my old 16, so I changed a few colors to larger numbers and sure enough I can get other colors... so I could do global searches and replaces to solve the color issue.. but I have other issues with ptcgraph and/or linux. If I try to use ggigraph, I cannot even compile it. It says "Error while linking" and it references the END. Line at the end of my main program.. I don't know why, there is nothing wrong with that line and it compiles with ptcgraph just fine. 2. I can't get my fonts to work with ptcgraph. I was using the turbo pascal graphic fonts, I was able to get them working in windows, but not in the linux version. I'm not sure if it's an issue with ptcgraph or linux or how to even start to figure out the problem. 3. with ptcgraph, I have no control of the keyboard. When I run from the compiler, I must pop up the terminal window on top of my graphics window to be able to use the keyboard, however if I try to run the compiled program on it's own, I don't have a terminal window.. and I just have no control over the program.. I have my graphic screen, but it ignores the keyboard, and I can't do anything with it. The windows version also has the Dos window, but it allows it to remain behind the graphic window and my keyboard still works. 4. not full screen. For some reason I can't get it to be full screen in linux at all.. Its always in a window. The windows version is ALMOST full screen, I would like to get rid of the windows bar across the top and make it truly full screen. I don't need a way to minimize it or to use any windows controls, when I'm done with it I can just close it and be back in windows. Any suggestions on how to either use the original 'graph' unit or how to change to something else and retain functionality? All I want to do is make my program look and operate the way it did on DOS with turbo pascal. I don't want to redesign the entire thing. The windows version is close but as I mentioned I would love to get rid of the windows bar across the top of the screen and make it truly full screen. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
