Re: [fpc-pascal]Direct writes to console buffer

2003-08-02 Thread James Mills
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:52:57AM -0400, L D Blake wrote: > In reply to your message of August 3, 2003 > > > I'm trying to port some old Turbo Pascal programs to Windows 32-bit > > console utilities. They write directly to the screen buffer, which in > > the DOS world an array of Word starting a

Re: [fpc-pascal]Direct writes to console buffer

2003-08-02 Thread L D Blake
In reply to your message of August 3, 2003 > I'm trying to port some old Turbo Pascal programs to Windows 32-bit > console utilities. They write directly to the screen buffer, which in > the DOS world an array of Word starting at ptr(SegB800,0) (for a color > display) or ptr(SegB000,0) for a mono

[fpc-pascal]Direct writes to console buffer

2003-08-02 Thread Rich Pasco
I'm trying to port some old Turbo Pascal programs to Windows 32-bit console utilities. They write directly to the screen buffer, which in the DOS world an array of Word starting at ptr(SegB800,0) (for a color display) or ptr(SegB000,0) for a monochrome one. Now, as Windows console utilities, I do

[fpc-pascal]Windows programming strategies....

2003-08-02 Thread L D Blake
In the process of learning about windows programming in FP I've been looking at a lot of source code (some of which reads like Klingon secret code) and I'm beginning to wonder if there is a general strategy for programs that use multiple pop up windows performing different functions like setting op

Re: [fpc-pascal]Cross-Compiling

2003-08-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
> > get them precompiled from the fpc website. They are part of the fpc > > binary distribution for your target os. > > Thank you for this information, I now have more of an insight of how > it's done :) Severely bored people may also watch http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq.pdf which explain

Re: [fpc-pascal]Cross-Compiling

2003-08-02 Thread James Mills
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:45:00PM +0300, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > James Mills wrote: > > >How are you guys goins with crosscompiling ? > >I'd like to be able to cross compile from Debian/Linux to various other > >platforms... Or have you been crosscompiling the other way ? > > > First of all, you