Re: [fpc-pascal] Executable with invisible window and IO enabled

2013-07-20 Thread Noah Silva
Hi, As an aside, back in my Delphi developer days, I noticed that you could use the console app type to compile GUI apps just fine, but that the console window would also pop up and you could use it to output quick and dirty debug messages with writeln. The main thing that bothered me back then w

Re: [fpc-pascal] Strings

2013-07-20 Thread Noah Silva
Hi everyone, Wait, I'm slightly confused. It seems people are talking about two different things: 1. Continuous memory as seen by the program running. 2. Actually physically contiguous memory. It was my understanding that strings and dynamic arrays are allocated as a single block, and thus from

Re: [fpc-pascal] Sockets?

2013-07-20 Thread Noah Silva
Hi, I'll second that,I use Synapse for any internet related things I need to do, and it seems to work great. Thank you, Noah Silva 2013/7/18 Michael Schnell > Synapse makes handling of sockets rather easy. > > -Michael > > __**_ > fpc-pascal mai

Re: [fpc-pascal] Getting the current Unit Name

2013-07-20 Thread Noah Silva
Hi Mattias, I have several different versions on different machines, so I will check it out. Thank you for the hint! Thank you, Noah Silva 2013/7/14 Mattias Gaertner > On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:13:42 +0900 > Noah Silva wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > In Delphi, there exists: TObject Class Functio

Re: [fpc-pascal] MAC window creation / Management / OpenGL

2013-07-20 Thread Noah Silva
Hi Kirill, There are two ways of thinking about your question: 1. Do it using the Lazarus libraries (i.e. Delphi style), and let the system worry about the nitty gritty details. 2. Do it using Mac OS libraries directly. It sounds like you want to know about #2. This isn't freepascal specific, an