Re: [fpc-pascal] How to use OpenGL 2.0 fatures

2009-05-09 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
Hello Lord Satan uses ...gl, glext... ... if not Load_GL_version_2_0 then begin writeln('OpenGL 2.0 is not supported'); Halt; end; ... Load_GL_version_2_0 function is declared at glext unit. you should call it before calling ANY 2.0 OpenGL function. also check out functions result,

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpselect does not work on linux

2009-05-09 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
> How can I find out if a socket connection in a nonblocking mode is > established? according to the man page, you're doing correct path: http://linux.die.net/man/2/connect i did use non-blocking connection for both Linux and OSX, and it did work as described: by "selecting" sockets for writting.

[fpc-pascal] RTL deprecated functions

2009-05-09 Thread fpclist
Hi guys Are there replacements for the deprecated CreateShellArgV and FreeShellArgV functions and procedure that are currently defined in genfuncs.inc? Regards Nino ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.o

Re: [fpc-pascal] A question or two regarding the FPC

2009-05-09 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Sat, 9 May 2009 10:08:50 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:24 AM, "Vinzent Höfler" > wrote: > > > > Actually, you should answer one simple question for yourself: If > > your life really depended on the system, would you still trust it? > > In that case we should a

[fpc-pascal] How to use OpenGL 2.0 fatures

2009-05-09 Thread Lord Satan
Hi all, I am trying to use FPCs OpenGL bindings instead of my own under Linux. But just replacing my bindings with the FPC ones does not seem to be enough as I get a segfault. GDB shows that using a OpenGL 2.0 core function crashes my program. I have seen that there are extension loading routines

Re: [fpc-pascal] When is FPC 2.2.4 docs available?

2009-05-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > I updated them. > I just unzipped them from the set that is distributed with FPC 2.2.4. Excellent. Thanks Michael. ;-) Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI

Re: [fpc-pascal] When is FPC 2.2.4 docs available?

2009-05-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2009/5/9 Gabor Boros : > Hi, > > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.2.4/docs Thanks Gabor. That still leaves the documentation on the web server outdated (the main port of call to most users). But at least now I have the latest docs. :-) Regards, - Graeme - _

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpselect does not work on linux

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Rainer Stratmann wrote: > >Select does *not* tell you if a file descriptor is writeable or readable. > >It tells you if the read/write operation will block. > >This is something subtly different. > This is interesting for blocking mode. > But since you can switch to nonbloc

Re: [fpc-pascal] When is FPC 2.2.4 docs available?

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > FPC 2.2.4 has already been released a while back, but the > documentation available for download (PDF files) are rather old. Could > new docs be generated and made available for download. Not everybody > has the skills or package dependenci

Re: [fpc-pascal] -Opentium3 Error

2009-05-09 Thread Lord Satan
On Sat, 9 May 2009 16:03:35 +0200 Jonas Maebe wrote: > Your reply was just as unnecessary to such an aside. You are absolutely right. I sincerely apologize and will refrain myself from commenting on windows in the future. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text

Re: [fpc-pascal] -Opentium3 Error

2009-05-09 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 09 May 2009, at 15:36, Lord Satan wrote: On Sat, 9 May 2009 21:02:03 +0800 Lou James wrote: By the way,Win7 RC is great. [snip] No need to reply. Your reply was just as unnecessary to such an aside. This sort of discussions are not welcome on this list. Jonas FPC mailing lists adm

Re: [fpc-pascal] When is FPC 2.2.4 docs available?

2009-05-09 Thread Gabor Boros
Hi, ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.2.4/docs Gabor Graeme Geldenhuys írta: Hi, FPC 2.2.4 has already been released a while back, but the documentation available for download (PDF files) are rather old. Could new docs be generated and made available for download. Not everybody has the

Re: [fpc-pascal] -Opentium3 Error

2009-05-09 Thread Lord Satan
On Sat, 9 May 2009 21:02:03 +0800 Lou James wrote: > By the way,Win7 RC is great. Yeah, and pigs can fly. http://www.infopackets.com/news/software/windows_tips/2009/20090507_windows_7_users_warned_over_filename_security_risk.htm http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/05/r2e-microsoft-intel-

Re: [fpc-pascal] -Opentium3 Error

2009-05-09 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op zaterdag 09-05-2009 om 20:44 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Lou James: > Then,open the shortcut and type in my code.Then, when I try to > compile it,it may popup a error says something about "-opentium3". And > stop compiling.The only way to correct this error seems to be that I > must open the

Re: [fpc-pascal] -Opentium3 Error

2009-05-09 Thread Lou James
Oh,it seems so I upgrade my fpc to 2.2.4 in the Ubuntu OS,but forgot windows. By the way,Win7 RC is great. 2009/5/9 Jonas Maebe > > On 09 May 2009, at 14:44, Lou James wrote: > > Then,open the shortcut and type in my code.Then, when I try to compile >> it,it may popup a error says something

Re: [fpc-pascal] A question or two regarding the FPC

2009-05-09 Thread Lee Jenkins
fpcl...@silvermono.co.za wrote: The dentist's reply was that this was a special version of windows specifically designed to run medical related critical software. Not being an offensive character, I gave him the benefit of the doubt. While he was attempting to start the 'tooth profiling' Pr

Re: [fpc-pascal] -Opentium3 Error

2009-05-09 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 09 May 2009, at 14:44, Lou James wrote: Then,open the shortcut and type in my code.Then, when I try to compile it,it may popup a error says something about "-opentium3". And stop compiling.The only way to correct this error seems to be that I must open the "fp.cfg" file and manually delet

[fpc-pascal] -Opentium3 Error

2009-05-09 Thread Lou James
Hi, This is a problem troubles me for a long time.You should know I'm a student in high school and I use Free Pascal to solve some algorithm problem. Sometimes,when I set a new enviroment(school's computer always clean up after restart)--that is,to set the Properties of the shortcut "Start In :"

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpselect does not work on linux

2009-05-09 Thread Rainer Stratmann
>Select does *not* tell you if a file descriptor is writeable or readable. >It tells you if the read/write operation will block. >This is something subtly different. This is interesting for blocking mode. But since you can switch to nonblocking mode every operation will return immediately. Here

[fpc-pascal] When is FPC 2.2.4 docs available?

2009-05-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, FPC 2.2.4 has already been released a while back, but the documentation available for download (PDF files) are rather old. Could new docs be generated and made available for download. Not everybody has the skills or package dependencies to generate the PDF documentation themselves. >From the

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpselect does not work on linux

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 9 May 2009, fpcl...@silvermono.co.za wrote: > According to the FPC rtl.pdf version 2.2.2 Doc version 2.1 of June 2008, page > 165, states, and I quote: "Description:FPSelect checks one of the file > descriptors in the FDSets to see if its status changed." I'll change it to something c

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpselect does not work on linux

2009-05-09 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
hello Rainer, do you check the socket's writability by fpFD_ISSET(sck, fds) ? thanks, dmitry ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpselect does not work on linux

2009-05-09 Thread fpclist
According to the FPC rtl.pdf version 2.2.2 Doc version 2.1 of June 2008, page 165, states, and I quote: "Description:FPSelect checks one of the file descriptors in the FDSets to see if its status changed." //- On Saturday 0

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpselect does not work on linux

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Jonas Maebe wrote: > > On 09 May 2009, at 09:38, Rainer Stratmann wrote: > > >To find out if a nonblocking socket has connected I use the following piece > >of > >code: > > > >With windows that works, but with linux I get alwas the result that the > >socket > >is writable.

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpselect does not work on linux

2009-05-09 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 09 May 2009, at 09:38, Rainer Stratmann wrote: To find out if a nonblocking socket has connected I use the following piece of code: With windows that works, but with linux I get alwas the result that the socket is writable. function is_writable_socket( sck : integer ) : boolean; var

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpselect does not work on linux

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Rainer Stratmann wrote: > Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:17 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt: > > On Sat, 9 May 2009, Rainer Stratmann wrote: > > > To find out if a nonblocking socket has connected I use the following > > > piece of code: > > > > > > With windows that works, but with

Re: [fpc-pascal] A question or two regarding the FPC

2009-05-09 Thread fpclist
Hi Graeme You have a point. About two months ago, I had to visit the dentist because one of my filings was playing up. The diagnosis was that an old silver filing was leaking and needed to be replaced. Becase of all the hype about mercury poisoning caused by silver filings (which from my knowl

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpselect does not work on linux

2009-05-09 Thread Rainer Stratmann
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:17 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt: > On Sat, 9 May 2009, Rainer Stratmann wrote: > > To find out if a nonblocking socket has connected I use the following > > piece of code: > > > > With windows that works, but with linux I get alwas the result that the > > socket is writabl

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpselect does not work on linux

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Rainer Stratmann wrote: > To find out if a nonblocking socket has connected I use the following piece > of > code: > > With windows that works, but with linux I get alwas the result that the > socket > is writable. > > function is_writable_socket( sck : integer ) : bool

Re: [fpc-pascal] A question or two regarding the FPC

2009-05-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > For example , in an airplane  fall-down  many years before ( approximately > 110 deaths ) it has > been found that in the automatic pilot software an error situation used a > STOP statement . During landing it caused release of control

Re: [fpc-pascal] A question or two regarding the FPC

2009-05-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > For example , in an airplane  fall-down  many years before ( approximately > 110 deaths ) it has > been found that in the automatic pilot software an error situation used a > STOP statement . During landing it caused release of control

[fpc-pascal] fpselect does not work on linux

2009-05-09 Thread Rainer Stratmann
To find out if a nonblocking socket has connected I use the following piece of code: With windows that works, but with linux I get alwas the result that the socket is writable. function is_writable_socket( sck : integer ) : boolean; var fds : tfdset; tv : timeval; begin {$ifdef linux}

Re: [fpc-pascal] A question or two regarding the FPC

2009-05-09 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
fpcl...@silvermono.co.za wrote: Hi guys, Over the last few years, I have written hundreds of thousands of lines of object pascal code that compiles successfully using the FPC and Delphi. To date, I have not encountered any problems with the code generated by the FP Linux compiler. I don't hav

Re: [fpc-pascal] A question or two regarding the FPC

2009-05-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:24 AM, "Vinzent Höfler" wrote: > > Actually, you should answer one simple question for yourself: If your life > really depended > on the system, would you still trust it? In that case we should all be very worried. Many critical systems out there run on Windows - we as