Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: [Lazarus] Should TObject or TComponent have a Comment property?

2013-07-17 Thread Kenneth Cochran
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > Do you mean hovering over the component in the designer? > At the moment the hint shows only the caption and some common values. > It could be extended to show the help for the variable. Feel free to > create a feature request. > > I thin

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: [Lazarus] Should TObject or TComponent have a Comment property?

2013-07-17 Thread Alberto Narduzzi
On 17/07/13 00:56, vfclists . wrote: It is hardly for the end users sake unless the enduser is a programmer. we're talking about programming languages here, so that... whoever else shall an end user of a development tool/library be?!?!?!? X_X ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: [Lazarus] Should TObject or TComponent have a Comment property?

2013-07-17 Thread Alberto Narduzzi
On 17/07/13 00:56, vfclists . wrote: I completely disagree. It is the code that is the primary expression of intent not the comments. This is mainly accomplished through sensible identifier naming. I perfectly agree, a well formed name is worth a thousand words, in this context.

[fpc-pascal] Re: Sockets?

2013-07-17 Thread leledumbo
pascalgeek.blogspot.com/2012/06/encryption-decryption-and-asynchronous.html -- View this message in context: http://free-pascal-general.1045716.n5.nabble.com/Sockets-tp5715840p5715847.html Sent from the Free Pascal - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

[fpc-pascal] Sockets?

2013-07-17 Thread Timothy Groves
I have prayed to Google many, many times, but I still cannot find an answer (or, at least, an answer that compiles). I want to set up a dirt-simple network client/server pair. So simple that all I do is hurl bytes into a bucket, and they get transferred to the other side. Does anyone know of

Re: [fpc-pascal] Sockets?

2013-07-17 Thread Timothy Groves
On 13-07-17 11:16 AM, Rainer Stratmann wrote: You can use the sockets library for that. Examples of sockets programming are available in the internet, mainly in C, but you can see how it works with that. I found one that didn't compile. I managed to clean it up, somewhat poorly, enough for it

Re: [fpc-pascal] Sockets?

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Breneman
On 07/17/2013 10:16 AM, Timothy Groves wrote: On 13-07-17 11:14 AM, Michael Schnell wrote: Synapse makes handling of sockets rather easy. Thanks. I'll check that one out. Here is an easy way to try Free Pascal, fpGUI, and Synapse: http://www.ctrlterm.com/ ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Sockets?

2013-07-17 Thread Michael Schnell
Synapse makes handling of sockets rather easy. -Michael ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Sockets?

2013-07-17 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Good things to read: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Networking http://wiki.freepascal.org/lNet http://wiki.freepascal.org/Synapse none of those contain an example like you ask, however. But it should be easy to implement with either synapse or lnet. synapse might even be easier. -- Felipe Monteir

Re: [fpc-pascal] Sockets?

2013-07-17 Thread Rainer Stratmann
You can use the sockets library for that. Examples of sockets programming are available in the internet, mainly in C, but you can see how it works with that. On Wednesday 17 July 2013 17:09:58 you wrote: > I have prayed to Google many, many times, but I still cannot find an > answer (or, at leas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Sockets?

2013-07-17 Thread Timothy Groves
On 13-07-17 11:14 AM, Michael Schnell wrote: Synapse makes handling of sockets rather easy. Thanks. I'll check that one out. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: [Lazarus] Should TObject or TComponent have a Comment property?

2013-07-17 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 22:56:33 +0100 "vfclists ." wrote: >[...] > I have 2 main concerns here, a comment for the component itself which is > not particularly important and a comment for the component when I add it to > a form or data module. When I create a method I can add a comment to the > metho