From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 22:30:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2656037B401 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postfix4-2.free.fr (postfix4-2.free.fr [213.228.0.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA4643FE0 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsouch@perso.free.fr) Received: from armor.fastether (nas-cbv-8-62-147-156-231.dial.proxad.net [62.147.156.231]) by postfix4-2.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 85162C1CB for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 07:30:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 14591 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Jun 2003 07:43:28 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 07:43:27 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu To: Eric Jacobs Message-ID: <20030625074327.A14493@armor.free.fr> References: <200306162015.06836.nakal@web.de> <20030616151024.0616e1e4.eaja@erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030616151024.0616e1e4.eaja@erols.com>; from eaja@erols.com on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:10:24PM -0400 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drawing graphics on terminal X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 05:30:50 -0000 On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:10:24PM -0400, Eric Jacobs wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:15:06 +0200 > Nakal 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