| At some point in time I have to wonder when people will go to use
free<br />| pascal at http://www.freepascal.org/<br />| <br />| They are
Delphi and turbo pascal compliant<br /><br />How is free pascal an
improvement over gpc in terms of graphics output?<br /><br />I searched
both the programmer's guide and the language reference guide for
&quot;graphics.&quot; I found nothing.<br /><br />| And lets face it, here
in the states pascal usage has dropped<br />| significantly since the the
infestation of java...<br /><br />Perhaps your intent was to post in the
&quot;Quo vadis GPC&quot; thread?<br />I plea for discussions of GPC that
have nothing to do with GRX be taken to that thread.<br />Thanks.<br /><br
/>| <br />| <br />| <br />| <br />| <br />| -----Original Message-----<br
/>|<br />From: gpc-owner@gnu.de [mailto:gpc-owner@gnu.de] On Behalf Of<br
/>| twixt@cstone.net<br />| Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:51 AM<br />|
To: gpc@gnu.de<br />| Subject: Quo vadis GRX?<br />| <br />| <br />| <br
/>| I would like to use Pascal to generate images in high resolution and
at<br />| least 24 bit color depth. There are links to a GRX library,
which<br />| provides<br />| 2d graphics, but the user manual there was
last updated in 2007, which<br />| suggests they are further behind than
GPC. I don't find any grx library<br />| in<br />| my Debian (Lenny) list
of available packages, using the search feature<br />| within aptitude.
Apparently I would have to compile GRX and then somehow<br />| get it to
work with Pascal. As a barely capable programmer, I do not<br />| look<br
/>| forward to this with glee. (BTW I am not asking for help, just making
a<br />| point.) In all the discussion about the future of GPC, I am a
bit<br />| surprised that no one seems to talk about graphics output. Did
I miss<br />| something? I do that a lot.<br />| <br />| How about
incorporating graphics<br />| output directly in Pascal? Is there much
interest in this? It seems to<br />| me<br />| that it would make Pascal
more attractive. It would be &quot;like POVray<br />| but even more
powerful&quot; as any general purpose programming language<br />|
naturally would be. Thanks for your time.<br />| <br />| <br />| <br />|
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