Here are some links to some older XForms FreePascal Units and Demos. http://www.sytekcom.com/eng/Freepascal_XForms_Units.html http://www.sytekcom.com/eng/Freepascal_XForms_Demos.html I will be delighted to update the web pages to the newer, much better FreePascal Units that includes the image library and FreePascal 3.0. The indentation is a mess on the HTML because I have tab spaces set to 4 chars on my editor (motif NEdit, nice syntax highlighting) but it always converts to 8 copying it to HTML. The blue background (or yellow) is reminiscent of the cheap tissue paper used by programmers in olden days. Simply 1) select all 2) copy 3) paste to your editor 4) comment out the cursorfont.inc or dig it out of the FreePascal XForms Unit source. This was an older FreePascalCompiler and a rather messy stab at XForms 1.0.93 (IIRC) The FPC 3.0 and XForms 1.2.4 are both improved. FreePascal has a program (h2pas) that converts headers to pascal. Then I use NEdit to rename all the case sensitive C variable names, types, enums, structs, pointer stars, etc. to much easier to read names. A pointer to a FL_Form C structure reads p_FL_Form_Record. The Form with added objects is itself a Record. I don't recommend others replace their ignorance of C with this trick, so I don't push it. Iznogoud wrote: >> I got my ultra-top-secret (because nobody would or should care) >> FreePascal translation of the XForms-toolkit C headers working pretty >> well. The image library translation is fun. Aside from the many image >> format functions, raw 32 bit packed color arrays or raw 8 bit >> Red/Green/Blue Pascal arrays make a nice framebuffer that displays on an >> XWindow Canvas. Like old fashioned DOS in high resolution with >> animation, too. >> > Rick, please look up github and what it does and share your (top-secret) > code as an example. There can never be too much information about anything, > really. > > I am on a consulting project that requires some GUI on top of scientific > software and has to only run on Unix (Linux really). I got a head start so > that I can get the example on Github (for all to see) before I am on that > payroll. > > Motif is not free for commercial software; I would seek another toolkit to > do this. > > >> Holy hell, Motif hasn't died a well-deserved slow and painful death yet??? >> > Motif is not dead. AMTEC's TecPlot just recently sqitched from Motif (over > 20 years now) to something else (looks similar but is not). But there is > still a lot of software that uses Motif, not just legacy software. I recall > SDRC's I-DEAS (a CADD package from the 90s) had a Motif look, and it was > running on windows over Xwin32. Oh, those were great old days. Rick is not > the only old guy around! > > I'd use Xt straight up but I figured I really like the CDE (from IBM) and > the MWM look of Motif. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >