GFXterm - new test version

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robert.rozee Guru Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New Zealand Posts: 2440	Posted: 02:40pm 21 Feb 2025         homa said   Hi Rob, what an ingenious program! Especially for Linux [...] Unfortunately, as I get older, I always have to make the fonts a bit bigger, can you also adjust the status line? So far it stays in "micro" font :-( well, GFXterm has been around since 2017, when i wrote it using Delphi 5 for Windows. around 2020 i moved development to Lazarus/FPC and for a year or so it was Linux-only, after which i managed to get it going again (under Lazarus/FPC) for Windows too. throughout it has been available to forum members, and from 2023 onwards downloadable from GitHub. the status line has always been a problem to get 'just right', hence why it is of fixed size. suffice to say that the terminal screen consists of a number of elements and keeping them all tied together successfully is simplified by the status line not changing size (width or height) while GFXterm is running. if at all possible, i would rather avoid delving into that can-of-worms again! btw, i have the same age-related sight problem. i make things bigger on screen by buying progressively larger monitors. the current one is 27" and 1080p, and i've been keeping an eye out for a 32" 1080p monitor at a reasonable price for a while now. cheers, rob   :-) Edited 2025-02-22 00:43 by robert.rozee