Re: [fpc-pascal] Can I make this with Free Pascal?

2008-09-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, markweber wrote: > > Thank you, guys. > > I preferred a lot the second wave of answers. You are master developers, but > many people are not, so you need to be patient as you were this time. > > You have given me useful advices. > > I have talked about this with other pe

Re: [fpc-pascal] Can I make this with Free Pascal?

2008-09-23 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, markweber said: > I have heard C++ is the best tool for nerds (whatever it can mean). Will you > crash me if I ask why should I prefer free pascal than C++ ? Remember I'm > beggining where you are a master. C++ is dangerously complex. And I think the previous waves have ma

Re: [fpc-pascal] Can I make this with Free Pascal?

2008-09-23 Thread leledumbo
C++: - debugging = nightmare (no further explanation needed) - separate compilation = less structured (both namespaces and header files? what for?), slow (uncompiled header needs to be parsed in EVERY compilation) - syntax = still strive for C's stupidness (everywhere declaration, sometimes forces

Re: [fpc-pascal] Can I make this with Free Pascal?

2008-09-23 Thread Frank de Groot / Rent-a-Geek
I have heard C++ is the best tool for nerds (whatever it can mean). Will you crash me if I ask why should I prefer free pascal than C++ ? C++ is the best tool for nerds. Object Pascal is the best tool for professional software developers. I leave it to the others to get into the details :-)

Re: [fpc-pascal] Can I make this with Free Pascal?

2008-09-23 Thread markweber
Thank you, guys. I preferred a lot the second wave of answers. You are master developers, but many people are not, so you need to be patient as you were this time. You have given me useful advices. I have talked about this with other people too. I believe to make a complex graphics software is

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help converting h-file

2008-09-23 Thread Henry Vermaak
2008/9/21 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There are some possibilities to increase the speed of your lazarus software: > > * Use gtk 1 > * Use Qt 4 (needs a commercial license for non-gpl software) > * Improving the fpgui interface to Lazarus and use that. You can test > the exis

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help converting h-file

2008-09-23 Thread Henry Vermaak
2008/9/20 Koenraad Lelong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: --8<-- > > Regarding my Arcom ( board : it's a Viper 400 M64 F32. I purchased the > Linux dev. kit with the LCD, which contains all you need to develop in > C. I'm using fpc :-). excellent. i've got a vulcan, which is big-endian (with fpu), and a qua

Re: [fpc-pascal] Can I make this with Free Pascal?

2008-09-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
markweber writes: I suppose you have seen the link I showed. Can I make a sofware like that, without to be a Computer Graphics super nerd, just using this fpImage? Food for thought... Even if you had libraries(built in or otherwise) that did all the "magic" you will still need to create the G

Re: [fpc-pascal] Building latest SVN

2008-09-23 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 23 Sep 2008, at 17:01, Roland Turcan wrote: It stops with message: systemh.inc(84,2) Error: User defined: Building trunk is only supported when using the latest release as a starting compiler. but it is uncomfortable to rollback to latest release to build up latest SVN. You don't have

Re: [fpc-pascal] Building latest SVN

2008-09-23 Thread Schatzl Thomas
Hello, > Von: Roland Turcan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello FPC-Pascal users discussions! > > It stops with message: > > > systemh.inc(84,2) Error: User defined: Building trunk is only > > supported when using the latest release as a starting compiler. This is intentional, otherwise it would be a

[fpc-pascal] Building latest SVN

2008-09-23 Thread Roland Turcan
Hello FPC-Pascal users discussions! It stops with message: > systemh.inc(84,2) Error: User defined: Building trunk is only > supported when using the latest release as a starting compiler. but it is uncomfortable to rollback to latest release to build up latest SVN. There must be "nicer" way, b

Re: [fpc-pascal] Serial port access on Darwin PPC

2008-09-23 Thread Brad Campbell
Jonas Maebe wrote: On 23 Sep 2008, at 14:24, Brad Campbell wrote: tios.c_cflag is used to obtain the baudrate constant, but it's not then cleared before or'ing the other constants into it. Strangely enough this works on linux x86, but breaks badly in MacOS PPC. Uninitialised data often caus

Re: [fpc-pascal] Serial port access on Darwin PPC

2008-09-23 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 23 Sep 2008, at 14:24, Brad Campbell wrote: tios.c_cflag is used to obtain the baudrate constant, but it's not then cleared before or'ing the other constants into it. Strangely enough this works on linux x86, but breaks badly in MacOS PPC. Uninitialised data often causes bugs like this.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Serial port access on Darwin PPC

2008-09-23 Thread Brad Campbell
Jonas Maebe wrote: On 23 Sep 2008, at 12:51, Brad Campbell wrote: Can any Mac people tell me why FHandle := fpOpen(Port, O_RDWR or O_NOCTTY); (Where FHandle is a longint and port is '/dev/tty.usbserial-A400379A') .. just locks up waiting ? No, I can't tell you why this happens. Does the sa

Re: [fpc-pascal] Serial port access on Darwin PPC

2008-09-23 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 23 Sep 2008, at 12:51, Brad Campbell wrote: Can any Mac people tell me why FHandle := fpOpen(Port, O_RDWR or O_NOCTTY); (Where FHandle is a longint and port is '/dev/tty.usbserial-A400379A') .. just locks up waiting ? No, I can't tell you why this happens. Does the same happen if you do

[fpc-pascal] Serial port access on Darwin PPC

2008-09-23 Thread Brad Campbell
G'day all, Can any Mac people tell me why FHandle := fpOpen(Port, O_RDWR or O_NOCTTY); (Where FHandle is a longint and port is '/dev/tty.usbserial-A400379A') .. just locks up waiting ? (I've tried it on two Mac PPC machines now, both cross-compiled from my linux x86 install, and compiled nativ

Re: [fpc-pascal] Can I make this with Free Pascal?

2008-09-23 Thread Jon
> Michael, you are time travelling a bit. Current time here is > 8:32 AM. I sometimes receive replies you posted before I get > the original message. Weird. I guess the mailing list caches the > messages somewhat before they are passed to everybody else, and > then does it ordered by time. > >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Can I make this with Free Pascal?

2008-09-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Michael Van Canneyt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael, you are time travelling a bit. Current time here is 8:32 > AM. I sometimes receive replies you posted before I get the original > message. Weird. I g

Re: [fpc-pascal] Can I make this with Free Pascal?

2008-09-23 Thread Aleksa Todorovic
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 08:46, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:38 PM, markweber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I have thought graphics software needed to deal with video card and so, and >> needed to make very powerful calculations. If you say it's a soft

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: xforms

2008-09-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Gaetano Di Stefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ldconfig -v > /usr/X11R6/lib: >libfltk.so.1.1 -> libfltk.so.1.1 >libfltk_gl.so.1.1 -> libfltk_gl.so.1.1 >libfltk_forms.so.1.1 -> libfltk_forms.so.1.1 >libfltk_images.so.1.1 -> libfltk