OK, maybe for later.

I will play with the "saveformtobitmap" thing and try to make it work without 
using capture-screen but like you noted with the 2xbuffer.

And for msegui for framebuffer, I suspect that Martin thought about it and it 
should be done easy once you get his trick.

Fre;D

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De : vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
Envoyé : vendredi 4 août 2023 17:11
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Objet : Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Save forms to bitmaps?

Yeah, without a window manager... again, look at Allegro how it handles so 
called windows... in those bitmaps, the user must draw also the "window 
controls", not only the content of the window that are the widgets...

And I see your last reply... yes, is a huge task beyond a single person... 
Well, for one that knows well the internals, it will be easy at least to "draw 
a blueprint" for the future work to be done (that would have been Martin)...

I see the console frame buffer stuff as a solution for old machines without 
good video drivers or for the embedded world where you can't fit an X server 
but your app would have enough memory to run... but not an emergency or a vital 
thing... We are not yet there... Right now it might be practical for small 
software tools but not for big database applications with huge scroll-able 
tables, etc... Similar to the kind of graphical applications I do right now 
using OpenGL, which I prefer...

On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 5:52 PM vasi vasi 
<funl...@gmail.com<mailto:funl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Look at how Allegro works in console unsig the frambuffer... Yeah, is about 
showing forms in the framebuffer without X11... Remember, what you see in X11 
is not the drawn form... is the already drawn bitmap :P

On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 5:23 PM Fred vS 
<fi...@hotmail.com<mailto:fi...@hotmail.com>> wrote:

Hello Vasi.

Ha, ok, it is new jungle for me this framebuffer console concept.
I will study it.

Is it about run a graphic application just from terminal, after boot, without 
loading X11?
Nice if it is that but what about the forms if there is no window manager?

Fre;D

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De : vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com<mailto:funl...@gmail.com>>
Envoyé : vendredi 4 août 2023 15:58
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<mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>>
Objet : Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Save forms to bitmaps?

Is about running graphical applications based on LCL and MSEgui outside 
X-Window, in framebuffer console...

MSEgui already uses a double-buffer mecanism in painting the final bitmap on 
X-Window and Windows... as far as I understand... So, I will not go on top 
level trying to get forms saving to a bitmap... the mechanism is already 
present at the base of the MSEgui... just change the destination...

On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 2:25 AM Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk 
<mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>>
 wrote:
Hello Fred,

you wrote on Thu, 3 Aug 2023 18:38:56 +0000:

> There is a topic on Lazarus forum about save forms to bitmaps with MSEgui:
...
> https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui Unfortunately, at the moment,
> unlike LCL, MSEgui is not able to save forms to bitmaps, which is

You did bring this up before, and you might remember that I investigated
it a bit, finding that the designated functions aren't implemented.

> something very important for MSEgui. Much more important than it is for
> LCL.

Hm. I don't see much neccessity for that, especially as screen capture
programs exist in masses. Didn't you find some solution using such an
approach yourself?
...
> Is it possible to save forms to bitmaps?

Well, the last thing I could achieve without delving deeply into writing
additional drawing code was a program creating a bitmap of the, still
empty, form rectangle, filled with black color.

> Sure with a capture-screen and select a position it is possible but it
> seems they want something else.

Who are "they"? Are "they" important for msegui's persistance?
If so, it MIGHT be useful to tackle the chore...

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