Svgalib-GPC is a set of graphics units for GNU-Pascal. The units are the
rewriting of data contained in the header include files included in the
Svgalib distribution, in a manner which make it easy for Pascal
programmers to use Svgalib without needing to rewrite prototypes.
Most units just contain the prototypes for using Svgalib functions, with
some adjustments regarding Boolean return values and CString stuff. The
keyboard units (raw and normal mode) yet are rewritten using TFDD
capabilities (and thanks to Frank for the explanation) and they seem to
work well.
I think the package is alright but I haven't tested it out much. So
current status is neither of alpha, beta, gamma, delta, YOU have to tell
me :-)
The full library is distributed under the GNU LGPL. For details read the
file COPYING.LIB contained in the tarball.
Svgalib-GPC needs the latest alpha version of GPC, because of the TFDD
stuff, and it's not that portable, in fact I think it's useable for
Linux/x86 only, but it might work under other systems with svgalib4ggi.
If you're going to test it for me, please tell me about the results.
There are not good demos in the tarball to show you the capabilities of
this all, and I'm not spending much time coding new features or demos. I
think I'll improve this just if I get feedback and requests :-) Just
because I enjoy only if people use what I code :-)
If you have to report bugs, suggestions, requests, write to me at this
address girardi(a)keycomm.it
The site where you can find a bit more details about the units and
download the current tarball is:
http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~nicola/
Thanks to: Frank Heckenbach for help with TFDD stuff and for getting me
to release this and Peter Gerwinski for the account on agnes.
Have fun :)
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Hi, everybody!
This is to announce the release of PENG 2.1. PENG is an Integrated
Development Environment written in and for GPC.
PENG was written completely in Pascal and created using GPC. It is
well suited for editing and compiling Pascal programs with GPC,
though its functionality is not Pascal specific, and it can just as
well be used for writing C, HTML, TeX, Texinfo, E-Mail or any other
ASCII based format. PENG was developed and tested mainly under
Linux/x86, but also under DJGPP and Solaris.
The main web site of PENG is <http://fjf.gnu.de/peng.html>. It
contains more extensive information about PENG, including the
complete documentation in HTML format, as well as download
facilities and a pointer to the PENG mailing list. The mailing list
is the recommended place for bug reports and requests about PENG.
The main changes since PENG 2.0 are the following. They are
documented in more detail in PENG's online help.
- Some minor bug fixes and improvements in some details
- Made some aspects of the "look and feel" easier and more
consistent
- PENG also accepts long options on the command line now
- PENG's example tools and variables are now built into PENG, and
their documentation was merged into the PENG manual. The built-in
tools and variables can be dumped to a file with the `-d' or
`--dump-tools' option, and their automatic use can be suppressed
with the `-N' or `--no-builtin-tools' option, so PENG's tools and
variables remain fully customizable.
- Support for progress messages and a progress bar while running
tools
- Lex highlighting for different languages, case sensitive or
insensitive
- Speeded up the opening of info files without tag tables
- `<ALT>-<SPACE>' (non-breaking space) now also works under X11 and
DJGPP.
- Deleting words with `<CTRL>-<T>' now also works in string input
boxes.
- Easier and better customizable color selection
- Menu `Options/Editor' split into two menus (`Options/Editor1' and
`Options/Editor2') because it was growing too large
- New option to show the line numbers in the text editor (menu items
`Options/Editor1/Line numbers', `Options/Editor2/Line number
width', `Options/Colors/Editor/Line number')
- New tool output redirections `#p', `#P' ("parallel")
- Under Linux, PENG now recognizes shifted function keys if you have
new keytables (e.g. console-data-1999.xx.xx) which come with
recent versions of the distributions. However, if you still have
the old keytables and PENG doesn't recognize, e.g., `<SHIFT>-<F1>'
anymore, you'll have to upgrade them if you need shifted function
keys (the change doesn't affect other keys, so PENG will be far
from unusable even with the wrong version of keytables).
Note, there are some changes which could require a few users to do
some manual changes, but should be beneficial to most. First-time
PENG users do not need to care about the following:
- The names of the automatically loaded config files have changed.
They are now `/etc/peng.conf' and `~/.peng' under Unix. Under Dos,
they are `peng.ini', either in the directory `$DJDIR\etc\' (if
DJGPP is installed) or in the directory where `peng.exe' is
installed, and `peng.cfg', either in the directory `$HOME' (if you
set the environment variable `HOME') or in the directory where
`peng.exe' is installed.
- Since PENG's example tools and variables are now built into PENG,
if you installed the `pengrc' file before, please delete it now,
to avoid confusion. If you made changes to the file, you might
have to extract them to a new config file.
- Since the documentation of the built-in tools was merged into
PENG's manual, if you installed pengtools.info before, please
delete it now to avoid confusion.
- The `viewdvi' script is no more needed. Its functionality has been
included into the respective PENG tools itself. If you installed
the script before, you can delete it now, but you can as well keep
it if you like. If you made changes to the script, you'll have to
change the respective PENG tools now.
- PENG's color selection has been extended. On the one hand, there
are more colors to choose, so you can customize your colors in
more detail (e.g., different colors for the main menu and submenus
if you like). On the other hand, most colors now can be unselected
(and many are unselected by default), and PENG will automatically
use the next appropriate one then. E.g., the colors for the main
menu are unselected by default, and PENG will use the same colors
as for submenus by default. Similarly, the backgound color of most
items in the text editor now defaults to that of normal text, so
you can change the background in a single place rather than having
to change several items. More details can be found in the online
help for `Options/Colors'.
While all this will make your color selection easier and better
customizable, it might change your previous color selections
slightly because of unexpected influence of the "next" color
mechanism. This should be easy to correct by setting the right
colors.
Furthermore, this change required slight changes to PENG's config
file format. You can convert your old config files with the script
below. If you don't want to do it (e.g., because you don't have
awk and you're too lazy to install it ;-), you can load the old
config files and ignore the warnings. You will lose your color
selections, nothing more.
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# == 0 ]; then
echo "$0: no arguments given" >&2
exit 1
fi
if test -z "$AWK" ; then
for AWK in gawk nawk awk ""; do
if type $AWK 2>&1 | grep 'not found' > /dev/null 2>&1; then
:
else
break
fi
done
fi
if test -z "$AWK" ; then
echo 'No awk found.' >& 2
exit 1
fi
for a do
if [ ! -f "$a" ]; then
echo "$a does not exist"
elif [ `grep -c '^ProgramVersion="[^"]*", 6' "$a"` != 1 ]; then
echo "$a is not a PENG config file, version 6"
else
$AWK '
/^ProgramVersion=/ { sub ("=.*", "=\"PENG config converter\", 7") }
/^Color Progress message=/ { sub ("^Color Progress message=", "Color Activity message=") }
/^Color Editor Non breaking space=/ { sub ("^Color Editor Non breaking space=", "Color Editor Non-breaking space=") }
/^Color/ { c = $0;
sub ("[^=]*=", "", c);
x = c;
sub (",.*", "", c);
sub ("[^,]*,", "", x);
sub (",.*", "", x);
if (c + 0 >= 0) c = sprintf ("%i, %i", c % 16, c / 16);
if (x + 0 >= 0) x = sprintf ("%i, %i", x % 16, x / 16);
sub ("=.*,", "=" c ", " x ",")
}
{ print }
' < "$a" > "$a.conv"
mv -f "$a.conv" "$a"
echo "$a converted"
fi
done
Have much fun with PENG,
Frank
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Frank Heckenbach, frank(a)fjf.gnu.de
http://fjf.gnu.de/
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Hello,
the list archive at should be working again now.
The URL is
http://www.gnu.de/archive/wilma.cgi/gpc
and
http://www.gnu.de/archive/wilma.cgi/gpc-announce
respectively. Now the pages also come in gpc signature colors. :-)
Currently, the search option is working fine. If you find it broken,
please email me at <anja(a)drewitz.de>. Please don't mail a copy to the
gpc list because I let procmail move all mails with To: gpc... and
Cc: gpc... to a separate folder and would not see your mail for a
long time.
Best wishes,
Anja
Hi All
Binaries for Solaris 8 (Sparc and Intel) are now available on:
http://math.uwb.edu.pl/download/solaris8/
ftp://mizar.uwb.edu.pl/pub/misc/solaris8/
Hope someone uses it
--
.
Mariusz Zynel
Institute of Mathematics | phone: +48 (85) 745 75 52
University of Bialystok |
Akademicka 2 St | mailto:mariusz@math.uwb.edu.pl
15-267 Bialystok |
Poland | http://math.uwb.edu.pl/~mariusz/
