fpwm
lazarus / 39-Graphics

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jma_sp · 2017-03-23 13:56

Hello,

I have downloaded latest version of fpwm from sourceforge and compiled
under Linux Debian 64bit and Lazarus 1.6 / FPC 3.0.0.

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Free_Pascal_Window_Manager
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fpwm/?source=directory


It give me an error:

Compile Proyect, Target: fpwm: Output Code 256, errors: 1 hints: 4


fpwmrotated.pas(406,34) Error: Illegal type conversion: "ShortString"
to "Pchar"

The other hints are:

fpwmgeneral.pas(65,17) Hint: Local variable "sAct" does not seem to be
initialized

fpwmgeneral.pas(21,6) Hint: Unit "xlib" not used in fpwmgeneral

xproto.pas(74,6) Hint: Unit "x" not used in xproto

xproto.pas(74,9) Hint: Unit "xmd" not used in xproto

I have tried adding a variable pchar_text: pchar;

and use it to convert text to pchar with:

pchar_text := StrAlloc (length(text)+1);
strpcopy (pchar_text,text);

So now this can be passed as a pchar to XDrawImageString (.....
https://sourceforge.net/p/fpwm/code/HEAD/tree/fpwmrotated.pas

The question is if some one is maintaing this project and can fix it.

Once  fpwm load someone can run idesk for icons.

Regards.

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Thaddy · 2017-03-23 16:51

The hints you can simply -for now -  ignore, but you should make sure
you compile the units in {$mode objfpc} and {$H+}.

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Graeme · 2017-03-24 15:05

As far as I remember the initial version worked fine (some years ago),
which used fpGUI as the toolkit. That code can still be found in the 
"oldfpwm" directory.

https://sourceforge.net/p/fpwm/code/HEAD/tree/oldfpwm/

They then did a total rewrite from the ground up, but I don't think
they actually completed the rewrite. I might be wrong, it was many
years ago.