[fpc-pascal] keyboard shortcut issues under Linux and FP IDE
Hi, Anybody know how one can temporarily (for the duration of running the FP IDE) disable the virtual console keyboard shortcuts under Linux? Example of the problem: If I want to close a Window, the standard shortcut is Alt+F3 in the FP IDE, but that is intercepted by Linux and rather switches me to the 3rd virtual console login. :-/ Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
[fpc-pascal] XPCOM and freepascal
Dear list, I wonder if it's possible to develop extensions (aka Add-Ons) for Firefox (or in my case Thunderbird). I'm totaly unfamiliar to the stuff right now. But the advantage I could think of is 1) I don't know C++ and 2) it is easy to cross compile code for different platforms. Writing extensions without javascript needs XPCOM bindings. I saw that there're some for using the gecko rendering engine in Firefox. Is there a more general thing to access XPCOM? Anybody has experience with this? I'm a total C++ noob. Any help would be appreciated. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] XPCOM and freepascal
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Johannes Nohl wrote: Dear list, I wonder if it's possible to develop extensions (aka Add-Ons) for Firefox (or in my case Thunderbird). I'm totaly unfamiliar to the stuff right now. But the advantage I could think of is 1) I don't know C++ and 2) it is easy to cross compile code for different platforms. Writing extensions without javascript needs XPCOM bindings. I saw that there're some for using the gecko rendering engine in Firefox. Is there a more general thing to access XPCOM? Anybody has experience with this? I'm a total C++ noob. Any help would be appreciated. Try looking at the gecko integration package. It is meant to do the opposite (integrating gecko in your app) but it also uses xpcom, and you should get ideas from that. Michael. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] XPCOM and freepascal
>> I wonder if it's possible to develop extensions (aka Add-Ons) for >> Firefox (or in my case Thunderbird). I'm totaly unfamiliar to the >> stuff right now. But the advantage I could think of is 1) I don't know >> C++ and 2) it is easy to cross compile code for different platforms. >> >> Writing extensions without javascript needs XPCOM bindings. I saw that >> there're some for using the gecko rendering engine in Firefox. Is >> there a more general thing to access XPCOM? Anybody has experience >> with this? I'm a total C++ noob. >> > > Try looking at the gecko integration package. It is meant to do the opposite > (integrating gecko in your app) but it also uses > xpcom, and you should get ideas from that. Thanks Michael, I already found that. You may find there the relationship between XPCOM C++ bindings for Gecko and how to use them in fpc app. In my case i'm interested to access the adressbook in Thunderbird. Even if I would get along to find the right functions I have no idea how to process returned data. I guess you have to be a very good C++ developer for that as well. But that's ways over my skills, I think. Thanks for your help. Johannes ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] XPCOM and freepascal
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Johannes Nohl wrote: I wonder if it's possible to develop extensions (aka Add-Ons) for Firefox (or in my case Thunderbird). I'm totaly unfamiliar to the stuff right now. But the advantage I could think of is 1) I don't know C++ and 2) it is easy to cross compile code for different platforms. Writing extensions without javascript needs XPCOM bindings. I saw that there're some for using the gecko rendering engine in Firefox. Is there a more general thing to access XPCOM? Anybody has experience with this? I'm a total C++ noob. Try looking at the gecko integration package. It is meant to do the opposite (integrating gecko in your app) but it also uses xpcom, and you should get ideas from that. Thanks Michael, I already found that. You may find there the relationship between XPCOM C++ bindings for Gecko and how to use them in fpc app. In my case i'm interested to access the adressbook in Thunderbird. Even if I would get along to find the right functions I have no idea how to process returned data. I guess you have to be a very good C++ developer for that as well. But that's ways over my skills, I think. I don't think so: everything is done using interfaces, and as soon as you have the definition of an interface, the rest should not be a problem. The main problem is to get the interface definitions. I think they provide an IDL file, and you'd have to produce a pascal file from it. As I remember, there should be an idl-pascal on the net somewhere. Michael. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
[fpc-pascal] implicitly linking FPC-generated .dll from Visual Studio
First, let me declare my ignorance of MS development and Visual Studio in general. I've got a FPC-generated .dll file I want to implicitly link with in a Visual Studio (Visual C++) project. If I understand what I'm reading, I have to have a "import library" .lib file which corresponds to my .dll. I don't see an obvious way to create this file using FPC directly. Can anyone with experience using FPC-generated .dll's in VS help me out? So far my googling has turned up some MS tools (dumpbin.exe and imp.exe) which I can use to generate a .lib file from a .dll file (although in kind of a roundabout way), and I've also come up with ImpLib (http://implib.sourceforge.net) which has some tools (dll2def and fasm) which will generate a .def file and then a .lib file. Do I have to turn to third party tools to do this, or is there an easier way to generate what I need with FPC? What about the next step (actually using the .dll in Visual Studio)? I realize this message is more about VS than FPC, so I apologize if it's offtopic. Thanks, -SG -- This email is fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Seth Grover sethdgrover[at]gmail[dot]com ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
[fpc-pascal] Re: source code UTF8 with BOM problems ?
what platform do you develop, what are your target platforms? English: Most commonly, Linux and Windows, both 32 bits. I want to use Unicode-UTF8 with linux and want to use Win-1252 with Windows. My question is: Is my decision right? Spanish : Lo más común, linux y windows, ambos 32 bits. Deseo usar Unicode-UTF8 con linux y deseo usar Win-1252 con Windows. Mi pregunta es : ¿Es adecuada mi decisión? ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
