Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation strangeness

2010-04-03 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:36:56 +0200 (CEST) mar...@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) wrote: > The refered documentation (on the FPC community server) is from 2006: > > Reference guide for Free Pascal, version 2.2 > Document version 2.0 > August 2006 Yep... But that is the manual which is on-line at the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation strangeness

2010-04-03 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 03 Apr 2010, at 22:48, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > I must agree. PDF's looks good on paper, but is terrible to search on > screen (very slow) That depends on the PDF reader. Searching is virtually instantaneous on Mac OS X with its default PDF reader (but it's indeed fairly slow with at least

Re: [fpc-pascal] Reference Counting

2010-04-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 April 2010 21:01, Werner Van Belle wrote: > > Type >   TReferenceCount = Class That is the same as... TReferenceCount = class(TObject) > var >   Test    : TReferenceCount; >   Pest    : TReferenceCount; > begin >   Test:=TReferenceCount.Create(); ...snip... >   Test:=nil; This caus

[fpc-pascal] Inotify low-level functions

2010-04-03 Thread Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak
Hi there, Some time ago (2 years, actually) I needed to implement inotify support for FPC; never got around to contributing... well, the time has come. :) As far as I can tell, the Inotify Linux kernel interface hasn't got decent support in FPC yet, right? So, here are my questions: - where s

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation strangeness

2010-04-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 April 2010 20:36, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > The PDF is mostly good for printing, nothing else. I must agree. PDF's looks good on paper, but is terrible to search on screen (very slow), hyperlinks/cross-linking is not always available, no context sensitive help integration from IDE's etc.

[fpc-pascal] Reference Counting

2010-04-03 Thread Werner Van Belle
Hello Dear Freepascal users, I'm a newbee to object pascal. I did however program in turbo pascal. The past couple of days I learned that there exist a variety of classes/object systems in freepascal. Now, I already figured out that the generic class generators are that what we are looking for, wh

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation strangeness

2010-04-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: > > http://sayamindu.randomink.org/conv_guide/ch01s02.html > > I am aware of the ligature problem; The main problem is that it requires > re-configuration of tex4ht to fix it. I did it once, maybe an update > destroyed this work :/ The refered

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation strangeness

2010-04-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 April 2010 18:10, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > The good news is that the PDF documentation is correct, and > is still - as it always been - the preferred format. On a side note: The INF version of the Language Reference is also correct. Just a few more sections to complete, then I'll make

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation strangeness

2010-04-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 3 April 2010 17:33, John Coppens wrote: I was using the Pascal reference manual, and found that 'fi' was replaced by some strange character... Modifiers came out as Modi???ers etc. This seems to have happened all over the document at: Clearl

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation strangeness

2010-04-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 April 2010 17:33, John Coppens wrote: > > I was using the Pascal reference manual, and found that 'fi' was replaced > by some strange character... Modifiers came out as Modi�ers etc. This > seems to have happened all over the document at: Clearly the export as HTML from LaTeX doesn't support

[fpc-pascal] Documentation strangeness

2010-04-03 Thread John Coppens
Hi people, I was using the Pascal reference manual, and found that 'fi' was replaced by some strange character... Modifiers came out as Modi�ers etc. This seems to have happened all over the document at: http://community.freepascal.org:1/docs-html/ref/ref.html This is just a little frustrati

[fpc-pascal] Re: More memory leaks and other problems: request for review of probably stupid mistake

2010-04-03 Thread Jim
On 31-3-2010 20:47, Flávio Etrusco wrote: >> If you still want to use records, before the Dispose(APResultRecord) >> set the ansistring fields to '', this will garantee that the reference >> is freed. >> >> > Or call Finalize() on them. > > Flávio > > Dear José & Flávio, Thanks for the tip