graphics/gracula 3.0_1 DragonFly

Graphic Counter Language compiler/interpreter

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
Categories: graphics
Package size: 79.1 KiB, 228.2 KiB installed

Description

Graphic Counter Language is a powerful programming language for the creation of graphic and textual counters and timers. These can be used on the web, as well as in graphic application programs (such as XWindow applications) which can call the GCL interpeter internally and have it create a counter or a timer.

Gracula is the compiler/interpreter for Graphic Counter Language, developed under FreeBSD, though usable on any Unix system.

For details about the language, visit GCL home page (www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/) as well as Count Gracula's Gallery (www.whizkidtech.redprince.net/gcl/gallery) which contains a number of sample GCL scripts and showcases various counter designs.

GCL requires no configuration files. All you provide is graphic images and simple scripts. Optionally, you may link the images directly into the gracula executable. GCL can also receive input from external programs. A sample program is included (sec2000). It allows the creation of GCL counters to display the number of seconds (or minutes, hours, days) left till the Year 2000.

Gracula is written in C and highly optimized for speed which makes it work reliably even on the busiest web sites.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

DragonFly

graphics/gracula

3.0_1

FreeBSD

graphics/gracula

3.0_1

OpenBSD

graphics/gracula

3.0p0

Install

Binary package:

pkg install gracula

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/graphics/gracula && make install clean

Dependencies

Required by 1

www/g-gcl

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

Please read the file /usr/local/share/doc/gracula/README
        to learn how to use Graphic Counter Language (if you haven't
	installed WITHOUT=DOCS).

        An introductory tutorial, and a GCL FAQ, can be found at
        http://www.whizkidtech.redprince.net/gcl/
        You should read both to take full advantage of the power
        of Graphic Counter Language.

        Also, sample scripts and graphics are available from
        Count Gracula's Gallery,
        http://www.whizkidtech.redprince.net/gcl/gallery/

===>   NOTICE:

The gracula port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing