On 05/24/2017 06:14 PM, James Richters wrote:
I was finally able to get this working, and now my keyboard issues are solved,
so thank for the help and fix Nikolay! I can't believe the performance
increase using ptcgraph instead of graph, I am now even able to run my program
on a tiny windows 10 tablet with no performance issues. Also ptccrt solves
some of the bugs with wincrt, mainiy that wincrt doesn't respond to any alt
keys at all and not all of the crtl keys
It's great that it's finally working for you. And yes, ptccrt supports
most alt and ctrl key combinations, but if you find some key combination
missing, please report it - it is easy to add.
What I finally realized was there was another set of PTC units with the default
installation of Freepascal 3.0.2 that I needed to remove so the correct
versions of the files could be found.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to make note of this in the instructions?
I ended up needing to remove:
H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\graph\ptcgraph.ppu
H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\graph\ptcgraph.0
H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\graph\ptccrt.ppu
H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\graph\ptccrt.0
H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\graph\ptcmouse.ppu
H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\graph\ptcmouse.0
And the entire folder H:\FPC\3.0.2\units\i386-win32\ptc
Also I could not compile with a space in my FPC install directory, so a quick
comment about that may be useful to someone.
Yes, the ptcpas compilation instructions in INSTALL.txt are from the
time when ptcpas wasn't included in the fpc distribution, and haven't
been updated since then. This usually isn't a problem, since most people
use the version that comes with fpc. Only when I add a new feature, or
bug fix is there a need to update it. Eventually, I'm going to commit
these changes in fpc trunk and they will be included in the next version
of fpc as well, so most people will get these updates this way.
James
-----Original Message-----
From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of
James Richters
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 5:40 PM
To: 'FPC-Pascal users discussions' <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org>
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?
Just like you now use -FuSomePath to tell the compiler where to find units, you
can use -FiSomePath to tell the compiler where to look for include files.
I've been trying to compile with Free Pascal Text IDE, I have no experience
with compiling programs from the command line, but this gave me an idea to try
it from command line instead.
First, I thought I would start clean, and I re-installed Free Pascal and left
the directory structure alone, and just changed the drive to H: where I have a
lot of room. I suspect it did not like the space I had in my directory name.
From the new install of FPC 3.0.2 on my H Drive, I was able to successfully
follow the instructions and I finally managed to compile ptcpas-code-715-trunk.
I was also able to compile the examples and they executed correctly. So I used
the command line used to compile one of the examples, and put the whole path of
ptcpas in and I was finally able to successfully compile my test program with
the following command line:
h:/FPC/3.0.2/bin/i386-Win32/ppc386.exe
-Fuh:/ptcpas-code-715-trunk/units/i386-win32/ -FE.
-FUh:/ptcpas-code-715-trunk/units/i386-win32 -di386 dual-key-screen.pas When I
compiled It this way, I am now able to ALT-Tab from the graph window and when I
return everything is fine, so this proves the problem has been solved, but
integrating the solution into my compiler is the problem.
I am trying to get it to work from the Free Pascal text mode IDE but when I add
h:\ptcpas-code-715-trunk\units\i386-win32 to the list of unit directories in
the Free Pascal text IDE and try to compile my program, I get:
PPU Loading H:\ptcpas-code-715-trunk\units\i386-win32\ptcgraph.ppu
║ PPU Source: ptcgraph.pp not found
║ PPU Source: graphh.inc not available
║ PPU Source: graph.inc not available
║ PPU Source: fontdata.inc not available ║ PPU Source: clip.inc not available ║
PPU Source: palette.inc not available ║ PPU Source: modes.inc not available ║
PPU Source: fills.inc not available ║ PPU Source: gtext.inc not available ║
Recompiling ptcgraph, checksum changed for ptc ║ dual-key-screen.pas(3,6)
Fatal: Can't find unit ptcgraph used by KeyTestWin.p ║ dual-key-screen.pas(0)
Fatal: Compilation aborted
How do I properly use the FreePascal Text mode IDE to use the ptcpas units I
compiled?
My entries under directories > Units are:
H:\ptcpas-code-715-trunk\units\i386-win32
h:\FPC\3.0.2\units\$fpctarget
h:\FPC\3.0.2\units\$fpctarget\*
h:\FPC\3.0.2\units\$fpctarget\rtl
All other directories tabs are blank
Thanks for the help
James
-----Original Message-----
From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of
Ewald
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 2:03 PM
To: FPC-Pascal users discussions <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org>
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] [FPC-Pascal] FPC Graphics options?
On 23/05/17 19:50, James Richters wrote:
*correction to directory names:
Now I got an error that it could not find graphh.inc So I copied all the .inc
files from J:\Programming\FPC 3.0.2\units\i386-win32\ptcpas\ptcgraph\inc to
J:\Programming\FPC 3.0.2\units\i386-win32\ptcpas\ptcgraph because I have no
idea how else to make it find them.
Just like you now use -FuSomePath to tell the compiler where to find units, you
can use -FiSomePath to tell the compiler where to look for include files.
See `fpc -h`, under the section "-F<x> Set file names and paths:" for a list of
other related switches.
--
Ewald
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