Hi, Please excuse these basic questions from an FLTK newbie.
The context of the questions is that I've tried to build the example code from Bjarne Stroustup's Programming Principles and Practice Using C++ (PPP) book. ( http://www.stroustrup.com/Programming/ ) This code uses FLTK for its GUI examples. A link is provided ( http://www.stroustrup.com/Programming/FLTK/ ) to FLTK-1.1.9 sources, to build that version to be linked with the relevant example code. In attempting to doing this I've experienced slight problems, and am seeking advice on these. What I tried to do was simply a build of the FLTK lib on Ubuntu 12.04, and on a Raspberry Pi ( http://www.raspberrypi.org/ ), running its current Debian wheezy os (Raspbian), and w/ their default g++, 4.6.3 for both of these, IIRC. The problems include: 1) In building the supplied FLTK code, there is a conflict found with an installed file, /usr/include/dirent.h . 2) A few simple, compilation problems in the example code that were easy to fix. Problem 1) above was encountered with or without an (1.3) version of FLTK separately installed on the machine. This was worked round by not attempting to build the (PPP) supplied source for FLTK, but just using the 1.3 versions available in the relevant distros. Of course this left the GUI code being build against a lib that it was not written for. ;-( But there were no huge issues seen with the results, apart from those covered below, which might be unrelated to this change. In running the built example code, there was a problem related to closing the example window. Several of the samples have a "Next" button which worked - at least reasonably - reliably to effect closing. But the window's 'x' or close on its menu seemed to result in the app's looping. Is this to be expected? I've seen references saying that windows under FLTK, Fl::run() does not return until all of the windows under user control are hidden or closed. Is this related? Finally, on the Raspberry Pi's display, the lines are over-thin, and the colours (colors ;-)) are somewhat poor. I _expect_ that these issues might be related to use of a different screen, and in any event could be addressed by slight tweaks to the example code, rather than being related to FLTK version changes - but if anyone has first-hand experience of this, I'd appreciate their comments. I haven't yet looked at the rendering of text. Can anyone advise an FLTK newbie on the best way to address such issues in this code? So, any advice on any of these issues would be appreciated. And, ideally, I'd like to hear from people who may have tried to build the PPP examples on a recent Linux system. TIA, Alec -- Alec Ross _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list fltk@easysw.com http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
