Re: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit v0.7-rc1 for FPC 2.4

2010-03-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Roland Schaefer het geskryf: > > level, I'd say using DFB is sort of on a par with using Xlib, only > easier to handle. Besides the init procedures it acatually feels more This is what I understood about directfb too [the little that I read about directfb]. > I'm maintaining FPC-bindings for DF

Re: [fpc-pascal] Error: Illegal qualifier in converting Delphi unit

2010-03-14 Thread Frank Church
Your suggestion worked - what is the secret? Does the array[0..0 have some relevance here?] On 14 March 2010 23:01, Howard Page-Clark wrote: > On 14/3/10 6:11, Frank Church wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> I am trying to compile the TVersionInfo component by Anders Melander >> at http://melander.dk/ar

Re: [fpc-pascal] Error: Illegal qualifier in converting Delphi unit

2010-03-14 Thread Howard Page-Clark
On 14/3/10 6:11, Frank Church wrote: Hi guys, I am trying to compile the TVersionInfo component by Anders Melander at http://melander.dk/articles/versioninfo/. It defines the structure below type TTranslationRec = packed record case Integer of 0: ( LanguageID: WORD;

Re: [fpc-pascal] including libraies ?

2010-03-14 Thread Paul Nicholls
- Original Message - From: "Terry A. Haimann" To: Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 9:11 AM Subject: [fpc-pascal] including libraies ? I tried to write a little utility to submit a command to the At Facility. The code to do this is as follows: program TestPrg; Uses Classes, Process; V

[fpc-pascal] including libraies ?

2010-03-14 Thread Terry A. Haimann
I tried to write a little utility to submit a command to the At Facility. The code to do this is as follows: program TestPrg; Uses Classes, Process; Var i:Integer; Cmd, Pre, Post, StrVar, SwStr:String; MyProcess: TProcess; SOut, EOut, StdStrLst: TStringList; Begin StdSt

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit v0.7-rc1 for FPC 2.4

2010-03-14 Thread Roland Schaefer
On 14.03.2010 19:01, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >> You may want to look at directfb instead of working with the >> framebuffer directly. > > That is actually what I was going to look at first. As far as I > understand DirectFB is bit higher level than /dev/fb directly, so > should make implementatio

[fpc-pascal] Error: Illegal qualifier in converting Delphi unit

2010-03-14 Thread Frank Church
Hi guys, I am trying to compile the TVersionInfo component by Anders Melander at http://melander.dk/articles/versioninfo/. It defines the structure below type TTranslationRec = packed record case Integer of 0: ( LanguageID: WORD; CharsetID: WORD); 1: ( Translation

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit v0.7-rc1 for FPC 2.4

2010-03-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 14 March 2010 13:33, Henry Vermaak wrote: >> >> if you manage to make fpGUI usable for framebuffer devices you will >> win a nice niche (Small console applications or even hand held like >> devices where X server is overkill) > > This would be very nice, indeed. Well, that is the plan for fpGU

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit v0.7-rc1 for FPC 2.4

2010-03-14 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 14 March 2010 10:04, Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior wrote: > > if you manage to make fpGUI usable for framebuffer devices you will > win a nice niche (Small console applications or even hand held like > devices where X server is overkill) This would be very nice, indeed. > i want to enhace my cur

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit v0.7-rc1 for FPC 2.4

2010-03-14 Thread Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior
found some code to work with framebuffer on linux (/dev/fb) but im stuck at changing video modes and etc... its not as easy as i thought (you cant just say "i want 800x600") and pixel manipulating is similar to the old DOS/Vesa1.2 ways... im checking your code for the low level core routines, if