[Oberon] Oberon for a C++ user.

[Pablo Cayuela]

Anyone in the list besides authors want to try linux version of BB? It
seems that no one is listen but Lars, though he does not want to install it
because of Russian text somewhere.
Give it try!

http://gitlab.molpit.org/blackbox/freenix




On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Skulski, Wojciech <
skulski at pas.rochester.edu> wrote:

> Lars:
>
> > I'm not a component pascal blackbox expert and I could be mistaken, but
> so
> > far from reading the help, for example finding mouse x y coords after a
> > click, seems to require message handling code.
>
> I recommend to look at the actual example. The gory detail becomes
> apparent when actually doing some mouse handling and the screen graphics.
> Dig into it. You will learn how it is done. I recommend looking at the
> graphics package Gr which I wrote about fifteen years ago and I still use
> it occasionally.
>
> http://www.zinnamturm.eu/downloadsDH.htm --> scroll down to Gr, download
> and install the package, read the documentation, exercise the menu items
> (without even understanding what kind of scientific problem it is
> addressing), and finally open the code and read through it.
>
> Gr will show you quite a few nontrivial techniques. IMHO it is an ideal
> package to study because it is relatively small, but it is not a demo. It
> is a serious piece of software for doing serious work. It has been used by
> students, engineers, and by myself.
>
> At the same time Gr is sufficiently non-ideal to demonstrate a somewhat
> messy design of the real life software motivated by real life needs.
>
> As a final remark, I do believe that for its purpose (waveform display) Gr
> is more robust, faster, and better suited than a lot of widespread mainline
> graphics software accompanied by thick books. Till recently I thought that
> Gr was a closed chapter. I am now changing this assessment. Comparing some
> popular graphics software with Gr I am coming to the conclusion that within
> its application area Gr is better suitable despite being frozen for some
> fifteen years.
>
> The only concern that I have about Gr (or any other BB software) is lack
> of Linux port. But I have heard that Wine works, though I never used Wine
> myself.
>
> Thank you,
> Wojtek
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