[Oberon] Oberon for a C++ user.

[Aubrey.McIntosh at alumni.utexas.net]

I have this Ubuntu version:

amcintosh at aubrey-OptiPlex-760:~$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:
core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:security-4.0-amd64:security-4.0-noarch:security-4.1-amd64:security-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty


I downloaded the .deb and installed it, without checking whether the
supporting libraries were already installed or not.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Pablo Cayuela <pablo.cayuela at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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