Re: [fpc-pascal] Help getting started with FPC

2007-11-30 Thread Ingemar Ragnemalm
Jonas Maebe wrote: If you want something more akin to Think Pascal, you may want to try LWP, which is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lightweight-ide Thanks, Jonas! I think that is what Edward needs. BTW, the latest version is at http://www.ragnemalm.se/lightweight It i

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help getting started with FPC

2007-11-30 Thread Edward Kearns
Because of all the help I got, especially from Jonas Maebe, I successfully opened and ran successfully in LIghtweight IDE the Pascal program I had developed over several years in Think Pascal. NOW I can modify it, as I had desired. Ed ___ fpc-pasc

Re: [fpc-pascal] streaming file from zip into my app

2007-11-30 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Freitag, den 30.11.2007, 23:09 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > On 30/11/2007, Marc Santhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But I still have questions about the code. Do I understand correctly > > that Graeme contributed the de-/compression code but it still has to get > > integrated and u

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help getting started with FPC

2007-11-30 Thread Edward Kearns
>> Note that the above is not a valid Pascal program. This is the correct version: Program HelloWorld; begin writeln('hello'); end.>> Thank you, thank you! I had a case of the dumbs, mixing languages. I was about ready to give up and redo my Think Pascal program in Basic, since I tho

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help getting started with FPC

2007-11-30 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 30 Nov 2007, at 23:20, Edward Kearns wrote: Program HelloWorld; begin print "hello" end. Note that the above is not a valid Pascal program. This is the correct version: Program HelloWorld; begin writeln('hello'); end. and I'm told No main program found. Can not build. What ex

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help getting started with FPC

2007-11-30 Thread Edward Kearns
>> Where do I go to create my main file in LWP? Anywhere you want. Just make sure it starts with a program header (such as "program helloworld;"). Jonas>> Here's what I wrote: Program HelloWorld; begin print "hello" end. and I'm told No main program found. Can not build. What ex

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help getting started with FPC

2007-11-30 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 30 Nov 2007, at 22:46, Edward Kearns wrote: If you want something more akin to Think Pascal, you may want to try LWP, which is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lightweight-ide I did try LWP, and when I opened New Skel, and Compiled, and Ran, all I got were error message

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help getting started with FPC

2007-11-30 Thread Edward Kearns
>> If you want something more akin to Think Pascal, you may want to try LWP, which is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lightweight-ide Jonas>> I did try LWP, and when I opened New Skel, and Compiled, and Ran, all I got were error message. Where do I go to create my main fil

Re: [fpc-pascal] streaming file from zip into my app

2007-11-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 30/11/2007, Marc Santhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But I still have questions about the code. Do I understand correctly > that Graeme contributed the de-/compression code but it still has to get > integrated and used by the component? We used the zlib (de)compression units from the tiOPF

Re: [fpc-pascal] streaming file from zip into my app

2007-11-30 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Freitag, den 30.11.2007, 16:21 +0100 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > What de- and encoding is it, are you talking of character sets or > > encryption? > > I was referring to compression. It should be trivial to implement, but I > never got around it. So if you have interest and want to patch it

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help getting started with FPC

2007-11-30 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 30 Nov 2007, at 19:49, Edward Kearns wrote: I am new to FPC, and can't get started. I have used Think Pascal, and I seem to have quite a hurdle here. Someone else told me that I need to start XCode first. I did that, then I chose a template (FPC Carbon Application 2.2.0). Then I didn't

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help getting started with FPC

2007-11-30 Thread Chris Kirkpatrick
I suggest you look at the FPC/Lazarus Wiki http://wiki.freepascal.org/ for ideas to get you started. It may be easier to start programmng using either the FPC IDE which comes with the FPC package, or the Lazarus IDE which can be used either to produce Windowed GUI applications or simple Pascal

[fpc-pascal] Help getting started with FPC

2007-11-30 Thread Edward Kearns
I am new to FPC, and can't get started. I have used Think Pascal, and I seem to have quite a hurdle here. Someone else told me that I need to start XCode first. I did that, then I chose a template (FPC Carbon Application 2.2.0). Then I didn't know how to enter code, so I opened start.pas,

Re: [fpc-pascal] streaming file from zip into my app

2007-11-30 Thread dhkblaszyk
> What de- and encoding is it, are you talking of character sets or > encryption? I was referring to compression. It should be trivial to implement, but I never got around it. So if you have interest and want to patch it please do, I will apply it. Darius

Re: [fpc-pascal] Libc and 2.2.0

2007-11-30 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: Hi, after I upgraded fpc 2.0.4 -> 2.2.0, I can't find unit Libc => can't use Synaser and RS232. I use Kubuntu 6.10 and I'm not a programmer (I am electronics). Any advise? Try synasnap, it includes synaser and supposedly doesn't use libc (I say "supposedly" j

Re: [fpc-pascal] Capture HeadTrace output to file?

2007-11-30 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Freitag, den 30.11.2007, 15:00 +0100 schrieb Marc Santhoff: > Am Freitag, den 30.11.2007, 13:45 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > > On 30/11/2007, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > ./something >& out.log > > > > > > > That didn't work... > > Maybe you use another sh

[fpc-pascal] Re: Heaptrc unit is awesome

2007-11-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 30/11/2007, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had 522 memory leaks!! [hiding in shame] But after enabling > Heaptrc and 1 hour later, fpGUI is now totally memory leak free! :-) I forgot to mention. In my defense.. 512 of those leaks were from a pre-built linked-list qu

Re: [fpc-pascal] Capture HeadTrace output to file?

2007-11-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 30/11/2007, Marc Santhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For sh and maybe bash getting stdout and stderr in the file > > ./something 2>&1 out.log > > should do. I didnt test, but getting stderr only may work like this: I use bash and the above doesn't work... Henry's example of ./something > lo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Capture HeadTrace output to file?

2007-11-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 30/11/2007, Henry Vermaak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ./something.sh > log.txt 2>&1 will redirect both stdout and stderr to > log.txt. a useful trick... > Thanks Henry, this also works. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free P

[fpc-pascal] Heaptrc unit is awesome

2007-11-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I had a suspicion that fpGUI was leaking some memory. After activating Heaptrc I got a bit of a shocker. I needed to log the output to file because it was *very* long. [Yeah I know, nothing to be proud of]. I had 522 memory leaks!! [hiding in shame] But after enabling Heaptrc and 1 hour

Re: [fpc-pascal] streaming file from zip into my app

2007-11-30 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Freitag, den 30.11.2007, 09:04 +0100 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to unzip one file from a zip archive and use it directly as > > input for something else (sax or self written parser). > > > > Since the unzip package form the "extra" dir only writes to disc files: > > > >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Capture HeadTrace output to file?

2007-11-30 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Freitag, den 30.11.2007, 13:45 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > On 30/11/2007, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ./something >& out.log > > > > That didn't work... Maybe you use another shell than Marco (that's [t]csh), you could look at the man page for your in the pa

Re: [fpc-pascal] Capture HeadTrace output to file?

2007-11-30 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 30/11/2007, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/11/2007, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ./something >& out.log > > > > That didn't work... ./something.sh > log.txt 2>&1 will redirect both stdout and stderr to log.txt. a useful trick... > > > Regards,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Capture HeadTrace output to file?

2007-11-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 30/11/2007, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > RTFM for the log=... use > http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/heaptrc/environment.html > Thanks Darius and Vincent. I'm new to heaptrc and just tried it out. For some reason I didn't even think to look for docs... My bad. Rega

Re: [fpc-pascal] Capture HeadTrace output to file?

2007-11-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 30/11/2007, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ./something >& out.log > That didn't work... Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Re: [fpc-pascal] Capture HeadTrace output to file?

2007-11-30 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: Hi, If I compile a project the -gh (Heaptrc unit), how to I capture the output generated when I quite the application to a file? I tried the normal: $./text > out.log But that doesn't work... the out.log is empty. RTFM for the log=... use http://www.freepascal.o

Re: [fpc-pascal] Capture HeadTrace output to file?

2007-11-30 Thread dhkblaszyk
> [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] >> Hi, >> >> If I compile a project the -gh (Heaptrc unit), how to I capture the >> output generated when I quite the application to a file? >> >> >> I tried the normal: $./text > out.log >> >> But that doesn't work... the out.log is empty. > >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Capture HeadTrace output to file?

2007-11-30 Thread Marco van de Voort
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > Hi, > > If I compile a project the -gh (Heaptrc unit), how to I capture the > output generated when I quite the application to a file? > > > I tried the normal: $./text > out.log > > But that doesn't work... the out.log is empty. ./someth

Re: [fpc-pascal] Libc and 2.2.0

2007-11-30 Thread Marco van de Voort
> after I upgraded fpc 2.0.4 -> 2.2.0, I can't find unit Libc As Ido already said, unit libc is linux/x86 only, since it is a Kylix compability unit (and Kylix only runs on linux/x86). So no other architectures on Linux, no FreeBSD, no OS X. See also sections 2.3 and 6 in http://www.stack.nl/~mar

Re: [fpc-pascal] PROCESS_ATTACH on Linux?

2007-11-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to convert a Windows DLL to a "lib" file for (Debian) Linux. > The DLL uses PROCESS_ATTACH and PROCESS_DETACH (DllProc). Is there an > equivalent feature in FreePascal on the Linux platform? No. Linux does not support this.

[fpc-pascal] Capture HeadTrace output to file?

2007-11-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, If I compile a project the -gh (Heaptrc unit), how to I capture the output generated when I quite the application to a file? I tried the normal: $./text > out.log But that doesn't work... the out.log is empty. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpc-pas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Libc and 2.2.0

2007-11-30 Thread ik
The libc unit does not arrive with FPC 64bit... On Nov 30, 2007 12:29 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > after I upgraded fpc 2.0.4 -> 2.2.0, I can't find unit Libc => can't use > Synaser and RS232. > I use Kubuntu 6.10 and I'm not a programmer (I am electronics). > Any advise? > Peter Lebdus

[fpc-pascal] Libc and 2.2.0

2007-11-30 Thread lebduska
Hi, after I upgraded fpc 2.0.4 -> 2.2.0, I can't find unit Libc => can't use Synaser and RS232. I use Kubuntu 6.10 and I'm not a programmer (I am electronics). Any advise? Peter Lebduska ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://l

[fpc-pascal] PROCESS_ATTACH on Linux?

2007-11-30 Thread be
Hi, I am trying to convert a Windows DLL to a "lib" file for (Debian) Linux. The DLL uses PROCESS_ATTACH and PROCESS_DETACH (DllProc). Is there an equivalent feature in FreePascal on the Linux platform? Thanks Bernd___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pasc

[fpc-pascal] INCLUDE directive syntax

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Running 2.2.0 on Win-32 and Linux is it possible to have an absolute (fully-qualified) path as the parameter of a $INCLUDE directive? I've been trying to include a file from elsewhere on the /usr/local tree and find I can only do that using ../../.. (and so on) which gets somewhat tedious and ha

Re: [fpc-pascal] streaming file from zip into my app

2007-11-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 30/11/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can have a look at TZipFile > (http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/ZipFile). The only problem still with > it is that it does not support decoding / encoding. But the basis is there > already. You can access a zipfile as if it's a f

Re: [fpc-pascal] streaming file from zip into my app

2007-11-30 Thread dhkblaszyk
> Hi, > > I'd like to unzip one file from a zip archive and use it directly as > input for something else (sax or self written parser). > > Since the unzip package form the "extra" dir only writes to disc files: > > Is there any alternative source for writing from zip to a stream instead > of a fil

Re: [fpc-pascal] streaming file from zip into my app

2007-11-30 Thread dhkblaszyk
> Hi, > > I'd like to unzip one file from a zip archive and use it directly as > input for something else (sax or self written parser). > > Since the unzip package form the "extra" dir only writes to disc files: > > Is there any alternative source for writing from zip to a stream instead > of a fil