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Date:      Wed, 25 Jun 2003 07:43:27 +0000
From:      Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>
To:        Eric Jacobs <eaja@erols.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Drawing graphics on terminal
Message-ID:  <20030625074327.A14493@armor.free.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20030616151024.0616e1e4.eaja@erols.com>; from eaja@erols.com on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:10:24PM -0400
References:  <200306162015.06836.nakal@web.de> <20030616151024.0616e1e4.eaja@erols.com>

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On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:10:24PM -0400, Eric Jacobs wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:15:06 +0200
> Nakal <nakal@web.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > recently, I found vidcontrol and played a bit with it. I have been 
> > looking for documents about how to output pixels (graphics) on the 
> > terminal.
> 
> See /usr/share/examples/libvgl
> 
> > I could not find any. Before I give up, I want to ask here, 
> > if it is possible to do that. What I want to do is to port my 
> > applications from Linux-framebuffer to FreeBSD, but I am also thinking 
> > about making a graphical installer for FreeBSD (eye-candy is always 
> > nice to attract new users).
> 
> I've been thinking about that too. The big question I have is whether
> it's a good idea to use a toolkit with a more restrictive license
> (GPL, LGPL, MPL), which would make it a lot easier, or come up with

Evas (from enlightement project) has a nice licence.

-- 
Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org



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