Thanks! If I have free time this weekend, I want to try and run the clock demo on my raspberry pi. Is there any specific demonstrations that anybody would like to see me try and put together using this? On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote: > Very nice. > > Several years ago when the vesa2 directly addressable framebuffer first > became available I made a similar effort with FreePascal. I didn't do > anything close to as nice as your screenshot. But it was fun constructing a > screen array and writing it to the /dev/fb0. I remember Thomas Dickey, the > great maintainer of NCurses, lynx, xterm, and other text applications, > surprised by framebuffer capabilities. > > I've never looked at SDL, but I think there are other framebuffer > windowing toolkits like it. > > Another fun thing on the console is to write control characters (man > console_codes) to the virtual terminal, which is all NCurses really does. > > I won't encourage FreePascal, but I like it because I can read it. C > variants always looked like chicken scratches to me. With FreePascal they > import headers from C libraries to use a lot of existing code. FreePascal > has a big sister, Ada. > > I do think it is a good idea to find alternatives to X for uses like you > describe. My recent opensuse 12.2 install removed a lot of non-plug and > play X support. Nobody can figure out how to use a serial port mouse > anymore, among many other changes. > > Keep us posted. > > > Joel Longanecker wrote: > >> Because C# is hard to beat as an applications language. >> >> The generics are easy to use. No forced type checking. Unicode strings and >> a decent string library right off the bat. Under the right conditions, I >> can run the same binary under windows and Linux without having to >> recompile, and I like that dynamic objects are completely optional, not >> forced. >> >> Mono also has one of the most comprehensive core libraries available. >> >> In my mind, there are more reasons to use Mono than there are reasons not >> to use it. >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Noah Markon<nmarkon at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm curious, why Mono? >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Joel Longanecker< >>> joel.longanecker at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello fellow area Linux users. >>>> >>>> This is my first root post on this mailing list, of which I have been a >>>> subscriber for a few months, so I hope I get this right. >>>> >>>> >>>> The last few months I've been developing a tool for using Mono at a >>>> lower >>>> level than it has been in the past. The general use case is to simply >>>> put >>>> it, is developing kiosk applications with Mono, and deploying them to a >>>> minimal Linux system. >>>> Right now, I'm using SDL as an interface to communicate with the frame >>>> buffer. (At some point, I would like to go lower and talk to the frame >>>> buffer and devices exposed in /dev/ without using SDL) The key >>>> component to >>>> this is exposing the frame-buffer as a System.Drawing.Graphics graphics >>>> context. (not using X11) >>>> >>>> The sample program I currently have written is a basic clock showing >>>> some >>>> simple effects (Drawing text, arcs, and using transparency and linear >>>> gradients) A screenshot of the sample application can be seen running >>>> under >>>> windows here: >>>> https://lh3.googleusercontent.**com/-rA2-96ysTLA/URB7-luv4lI/** >>>> AAAAAAAABxg/8BXEABOsrDI/s656/**Untitled.png<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rA2-96ysTLA/URB7-luv4lI/AAAAAAAABxg/8BXEABOsrDI/s656/Untitled.png> >>>> >>>> The project is located here, and is published under the BSD license. >>>> https://github.com/longjoel/**Sunfish<https://github.com/longjoel/Sunfish> >>>> >>>> Here are some of the potential use cases I see potentially being >>>> applicable. >>>> >>>> * Information Kiosk (weather, status dashboard, rss feed reader) >>>> * Car-puting >>>> * Industrial workstation (Zebra printers, Barcode scanners, RFID >>>> systems, >>>> GPIB Instrument communication) >>>> >>>> Thanks for taking the time to hear me out on this and give some >>>> feedback. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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