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Small favour to ask (FPC bugreport) (Developers)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 10.01.2009, 10:00

In FPC 2.2.2 is this issue partialy fixed.
If IDE starts in resolution 80x25 everything is fine. But if it starts in another resolution, like 80x50 (so the mode switch from 80x25 must be performed) mouse cursor is hidden.
The same problem appears when you in IDE in mode choose dialog change the resolution.

It is bad that IDE sources are rather a mess because it doesn't always use the terminal (VIDEO, MOUSE and KEYBOARD) units and on some places it use own variants of these routines. (So if you fix some bug in terminal units it doesn't always fix the IDE)

Some attention should be paid to "speed" of FreeVision, especially reactions to mouse actions. Did you try to select some block of text by mouse?
And why the copying and pasting of the selected text is so slow? (Here is strange that it in FreeDOS it is significantly slower than in MS-DOS 7.1 or in Windows98 - I don't know why)

And the chronical pain is the Graph unit for DOS. There are some steps backwards in FPC 2.x.x
Source of Graph unit from FPC 1.0.10 can however still be after few changes compiled and used in FPC 2.x.x but you have to set the calling convention into OLDFPCCALL.

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Complete thread:

• Small favour to ask (FPC bugreport) - marcov, 08.01.2009, 22:36 (Developers)
  • Small favour to ask (FPC bugreport) - Laaca, 10.01.2009, 10:00
    • Small favour to ask (FPC bugreport) - marcov, 10.01.2009, 13:56
      • Small favour to ask (FPC bugreport) - Laaca, 10.01.2009, 16:45
        • Small favour to ask (FPC bugreport) - marcov, 10.01.2009, 17:00
  • Small favour to ask (FPC bugreport) - Laaca, 10.01.2009, 10:08
  • Small favour to ask (FPC bugreport) DONE ! - DOS386, 12.01.2009, 14:10