Re: [fpc-pascal] Be careful of too many features

2022-05-30 Thread Brian via fpc-pascal
On 5/30/22 14:59, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote: Hi all, In 1984 I started my programming career with Whitesmith Pascal, Sorry for the off-topic post, folks, but this just opened a wound from my distant past... :( I was a couple of years ahead of you, Steve, but at least in 1982 on the P

[fpc-pascal] Linux Yad

2021-06-06 Thread Brian via fpc-pascal
Has anyone called Yad (linux file manager) as an external program form a main program ? If so can you provide an example of how to do it and retrieve the selected file name? Thanks Brian -- Sent from: http://free-pascal-general.1045716.n5.nabble.com/ ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] 50 years of Pascal, by the the author himself

2021-05-12 Thread Brian via fpc-pascal
On 5/12/21 3:51 PM, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote: On May 12, 2021, at 12:30 PM, Ralf Quint via fpc-pascal wrote: Thought this was kind of interesting, though it leaves short of mentioning the later Object Pascal evolution and thus Delphi and FreePascal... Isn't Free Pascal and Delphi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Sending Hex codes over TCP/IP

2020-09-13 Thread Brian via fpc-pascal
Use Ararat Synapse . http://synapse.ararat.cz/doc/help/ Unit blcksock Class TTCPBlockSocket Then send and receive byte arrays using : Public function SendBuffer(Buffer: TMemory; Length: Integer): Integer; override; Public function RecvBuffer(Buffer: TMemory; Len: Integer): Integer; override;

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to implement a circular buffer object in pascal?

2020-09-08 Thread Brian via fpc-pascal
>Bo, > >Most of the users on this forum have never interfaced with hardware , as you >can see from the responses. Those who have interfaced with hardware have >developed circular buffers which they know work , and they reuse them again >and again. I did this about 10 years ago when working on a P

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to implement a circular buffer object in pascal?

2020-09-07 Thread Brian via fpc-pascal
Bo, Most of the users on this forum have never interfaced with hardware , as you can see from the responses. Those who have interfaced with hardware have developed circular buffers which they know work , and they reuse them again and again. I will describe in general terms the structure a circul