Hi Graeme,
I know how those things can get away from you, I recently saw a memory photo
on Facebook from 2008, the photo taken in my kitchen and it shows a missing
piece of molding that belongs on the left side of my oven and it's 2024
now, and that dang thing is STILL not installed... it's si
Hi James.
On 29/11/2024 01:11, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
> I'm intrigued by FPGUI, I'm trying to build FPGUI on Windows 10, and I'm
> having some difficulty. When I follow the instructions from Install.txt I
> get this:
>
> R:\fpgui_src_1.4.1\fpgui-1.4.1\src>build
I just got back f
Am 01.12.2024 um 14:37 schrieb Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal:
On Dec 1, 2024 at 2:23:08 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal
wrote:
Here's how Free Pascal types map to Unicode terminology:
WideChar = UTF-16 code unit
UnicodeString = UTF-16 encoded string
WideString = UTF-16 encoded string. On Wi
Indeed you CAN print Unicode characters, but not with the normal windows
command prompt, nor with powershell, that is where the problem is, not with
FreePascal. But if you go to the Windows Store and download the free “Windows
Terminal” there you can get it to work.
When you run the windows t
On Dec 1, 2024 at 2:02:06 PM, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> They call that "Unicode", which is plain nonsense. In the real world, one
> can not stuff 21-bits
> into 16-bits.
>
> For heaven's sake, let's stop talking about so-called "Unicode" and
> inste
On Dec 1, 2024 at 2:23:08 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> Here's how Free Pascal types map to Unicode terminology:
>
> WideChar = UTF-16 code unit
>
> UnicodeString = UTF-16 encoded string
>
> WideString = UTF-16 encoded string. On Windows it's not r
James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote on 1/12/24 8:36 am:
I decided to try to fix this myself, and I'm happy to say I got it working!
Well done!
I then went on to figure out that X11 is a Linux thing, but I'm on Windows.
X11 (X Window System) was originally a UNIX thing (macOS,
FreeBSD/OpenB
On Sun, 1 Dec 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Nov 30, 2024 at 11:54:21 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
sorry but it’s not really part of the compiler, just something that
generates commands it feeds to the compile right?. aren’t ne
