And you are working on Raspberry Pi, too. Very cool. Again, please keep us posted. Joel Longanecker wrote: > 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> >> >
