Re: [fpc-pascal] Freepascal newbie [Attn] Nikolay Nikolov

2004-11-26 Thread Ron Weidner
> > > No serious reason, I just didn't know OOP and I > wanted to learn that :) Thanks for the info ... BTW just to learn something new is as good a reason as any to do anything in my book. :) > Later I discovered the wonders of multiplatform > programming - I ported the X11 code later and it

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freepascal newbie [Attn] Nikolay Nikolov

2004-11-26 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
Ron Weidner wrote: Nikolay, Why did you translate openPTC instead of some of the other available choices? What advantages does openPTC offer over SDL or Allegro? Do you have any (Linux) demos/games written with openPTC that I can take a look at? What do you think about tinyPTC? No serious reas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freepascal newbie [Attn] Nikolay Nikolov

2004-11-26 Thread Ron Weidner
> I translated it from C++ in 2001 and it's good > enough for me. :-) It provides graphics output, > keyboard input (key presses and releases) > and high res timers. If that's what you want - > then it may do the job :) > However it doesn't do mouse input (yet) and > sound output (there are s