Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-12-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
es working and had a look at how some of them work, > and It's very impressive! Thank you. It all came about, me wanting to understand how desktop GUI's actually work. In the end I spent a good part of 15 years developing it. lol Regards, Graeme __

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-12-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
t. It's nuts! The only saving grace, is that downloads/dependencies all pull from a Maven Central Repository, making that part painless. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-12-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
work. All example applications and demos should then compile with the following syntax: fpc @extrafpc.cfg .lpr Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 20/11/2024 14:46, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal wrote: > Show me a raw source file that doesn't depend on any IDE at all written > in FPC, something I can compile from the command line using *only* FPC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FpGUI#Example_program [mic drop] G. ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
(AggPas). Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
For example: cd /docview/src fpc @extrafpc.cfg docview.lpr >  What's the point of claiming FPC can do gui apps > if it can't do them w/o third party support? You've got to learn to read mate. ;-) Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pa

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
bit dated, but MSEide & MSEgui in action: http://geldenhuys.co.uk/~graemeg/videos/mse_demo.mpeg All these have been around for 15+ years. I believe there used to be a FPC wiki page listing these and many many more like these. Regards, Graeme _

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
27;t look very hard that. :-) https://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui Both of those can do what Lazarus does (ide & gui framework). I'm very happy the FPC compiler is kept as a separate project. It makes project like the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Sub-millisecond time measuring

2024-06-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
ven without the Lazarus package file. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Sub-millisecond time measuring

2024-06-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
't be hard to add higher precision for MacOS too - you just need the correct system call. EpikTimer's code is pretty simple to follow, if you wanted to take a look. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lis

Re: [fpc-pascal] Running FPC in the browser...

2023-11-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 10/22/23 11:20, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: > As a consequence, this means FPC can now be run in a browser. > See the screenshot at Well done to everyone involved. That is amazing, and yes, I can think of many possibilities this could be used for. Regards, -

[fpc-pascal] Choice of exceptions to use?

2023-06-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
were not in the allowed range. Initially I was leaning towards the Range exception, but now I'm thinking that maybe the Argument exception is more appropriate (based on the descriptions seen in the linked docs). What's your thoughts? Regards, Graeme

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

2023-05-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 5/1/23 18:55, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote: > I just tried, and had no problems. It took about 40 seconds to clone and > checkout the `main` branch. The download seemed to be just over 200MB. Just tried the Gitlab repo too - same result. No proble

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

2023-05-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
71), pack-reused 718027 Receiving objects: 100% (718390/718390), 211.33 MiB | 6.32 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (575104/575104), done. > ---- Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal mail

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

2023-05-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
- Can the OP post the exact clone command and error output Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Backtrace

2022-01-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 2022-01-03 23:45, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2022-01-03 13:28, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote: I’m curious if there is some way, perhaps with some directive or something to force a debug backtrace to happen, but without an error. Christo already offered you a solution, but to offer

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Backtrace

2022-01-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
and evaluate local variables and such. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Improved FPC JSON-RPC support

2021-12-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 2021-12-29 13:56, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote: I did the load test multiple times, and the results were consistent. It should go without saying, my testing methodology could be flawed. ;-) G. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Improved FPC JSON-RPC support

2021-12-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
le vs a 121KB XML file, which represents the exact same 1000 rows of a database table. Interestingly (and surprising to me), Firefox managed to load the XML in about half the time (172ms) compared to the JSON (386ms) file. I did the load test multiple times, and the results were consisten

Re: [fpc-pascal] Improved FPC JSON-RPC support

2021-12-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 2021-12-29 11:22, wkitty42--- via fpc-pascal wrote: i'm sorry... what is WST? googling https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Web_Service_Toolkit G. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mail

Re: [fpc-pascal] Improved FPC JSON-RPC support

2021-12-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
ct that the compiler should know that TIntf2Impl type implements TInterfacedObject? Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC & Lazarus moving to gitlab

2021-07-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 04/07/2021 9:12 pm, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal wrote: > I recommend on the long run to switch to git. Once you switch, you'll never want to go back. ;-) Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC & Lazarus moving to gitlab

2021-06-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 22/06/2021 7:54 pm, fpc-devel via fpc-pascal wrote: > Graeme will be happy finally :) LOL - years in the making, but it's finally happening. :-) Well done for everybody that contributedto make this happen. I know it's not easy - I have had my fare share of SVN conversions to

Re: [fpc-pascal] FTP support gone - switch to HTTP ?

2021-05-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 18/05/2021 11:49 am, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > I don't think we need to mention any specific clients (and why did your > list not include Filezilla? :P ) +1 on both counts. :-D Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] FTP support gone - switch to HTTP ?

2021-05-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
he whole world is going HTTP crazy and thinks everything should go over it, including the kitchen sink. So yes, it would be nice if FTP access can still be left in place. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org ht

Re: [fpc-pascal] [fpc-devel] Nested function closures

2021-04-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 29/04/2021 8:00 am, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-pascal wrote: > FPC does not. > Delphi does: If only FPC would have strived to be Delphi Compatible. ;-) :-P Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] [fpc-devel] Nested function closures

2021-04-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
ot ideal, but more as a last resort. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] [fpc-devel] Nested function closures

2021-04-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
C always being one step behind, and Embarcadero doesn't always make the best decisions for the language either. [Please don't take this as a rant - it's not intended that way. It's just me being late to the party and asking some quest

Re: [fpc-pascal] [fpc-devel] Nested function closures

2021-04-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
tuff with a and b, then // return some integer. end ); Yes, I stole the "->" symbol from another language simply to separate the parameters from the function body. Replace that with any Pascal-like symbol. Regards, Graeme __

Re: [fpc-pascal] Background info on Generics in FPC

2021-04-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
and the "it's more Pascal-like syntax" make sense. Thanks everyone for your answers. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Abstract classes ignored

2021-04-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
to crash at runtime, because follow the broken Delphi compiler is more important! *shrug* Such decisions really make me worry about the future of FPC. It ends up being NO better than Delphi, so why bother using FPC then. Stick to Delphi instead. Regard

Re: [fpc-pascal] Abstract classes ignored

2021-04-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
Fix your code instead. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

[fpc-pascal] Background info on Generics in FPC

2021-04-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
sage of the keywords `generic` and `specialize`. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___ fpc-pascal mail

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pull request for fphttpclient.pp in git mirror repo

2021-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 16/03/2021 9:29 pm, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal wrote: > For none git users, githup offers patch/diff Ah yes, I forgot to mention that. Thanks Martin. G. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin

[fpc-pascal] Pull request for fphttpclient.pp in git mirror repo

2021-03-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
/pull/18 Review instructions: From your project repository, check out a new branch and test the changes. git checkout -b billyeatcookies-patch-1 master git pull https://github.com/billyeatcookies/freepascal.git patch-1 Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicode chars losing information

2021-03-09 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
fact that data may be *silently* lost during encoding conversions? That doesn't seem like a safe default behaviour to me. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicode chars losing information

2021-03-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
s. Naming these methods in a logical way is key, as they become self-documenting. No need for 10 web pages explaining how to work with a [unicode] string. FPC (and Delphi) really need to get with the times. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pasc

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicode chars losing information

2021-03-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
d know you are using UTF-16 (the default encoding of said type), so why not include the required units implicitly. It doesn't make sense otherwise. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicode chars losing information

2021-03-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
as trying to imply, the "Place of Interest" (aka MacOS CMD symbol) is within the BMP, thus only takes up 2 bytes encoded as UTF-16, and should be able to be represented in FPC's Unicode Char type. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic routines for both dynamic array and other collections

2021-02-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
class that has a static method Arrays.asList() which returns a List container. So yes you can quickly get a container, but arrays are still just arrays. ;-) Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Windows Defender considers fp.exe a malicious program

2021-02-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
ame at work for our Java, iOS and Android projects. Those projects generate 1000's of files while compiling etc. We know they don't contain viruses, so why let the virus scanner scan then. On Android machines it made a massive difference for compile speed too. Regards, Graeme -- fp

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to handle fpc.cfg on Ubuntu with 3.0.4 and 3.2.0 co-existing?

2021-02-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
t when they launch MSEide, it configures the FPC version macro via a ide command line parameter. MSEide starts up instantly, so even closing and reopening the IDE with a different FPC version enabled is super fast. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pasca

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to handle fpc.cfg on Ubuntu with 3.0.4 and 3.2.0 co-existing?

2021-02-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
aybe only for occasional command line compilation of small test programs). My IDEs always explicitly define which FPC executable I want to use. My IDEs never reference the one in ~/bin/ Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to handle fpc.cfg on Ubuntu with 3.0.4 and 3.2.0 co-existing?

2021-02-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 06/02/2021 10:28 am, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: > No, you don't. I think my fpc.cfg has not changed in many many years. Same here. My last modification date on that file is 2013. :-) Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to handle fpc.cfg on Ubuntu with 3.0.4 and 3.2.0 co-existing?

2021-02-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
y Windows VMs too, when I need to support multiple FPC versions. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___ f

[fpc-pascal] Two versions of freemem() - are they equal

2020-12-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
Hi, Do both these method yield the same result, or is one better (performance, safer?) that the other? procedure FreeMem(p:pointer;Size:ptruint); procedure FreeMem(p:pointer); Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net

Re: [fpc-pascal] TCustomStream still using LongInt and not Int64

2020-12-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
Libraries/Sydney/en/System.Classes.TStream.Read64 Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation bug - Language Ref - Ordinal types

2020-12-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 27/12/2020 4:53 pm, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote: > > According to this HTML page: >https://freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu4.html Oh wait, the table I was looking at is titled "Integer constant type mapping", so it's how the compile maps constants to a

[fpc-pascal] Documentation bug - Language Ref - Ordinal types

2020-12-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
According to this HTML page: https://freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu4.html The data types Byte, Word and Cardinal (LongWord) has the following ranges: 128..255Byte 32768..65535Word 2147483648..4294967295 Cardinal (longword) Those should be 0.. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI

Re: [fpc-pascal] heaptrc unit troubles with New() & Dispose() calls

2020-12-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
using the memory leak), I'll file a bug report. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

[fpc-pascal] TCustomStream still using LongInt and not Int64

2020-12-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
ide; ... end; As this class extends the TStream class, I guess the issue relates to TStream too. eg: Why would you have GetSize(): Int64; or GetPosition: Int64; but when you read data, it is limited to the Longint type? Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using F

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
mposed_character Hope that helps. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepasca

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
he FreeVision Text IDE. Here is a screenshot of the Text IDE from back in 2008, but it has been around a LOT longer than that. :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Pascal#Integrated_development_environments Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit usin

[fpc-pascal] heaptrc unit troubles with New() & Dispose() calls

2020-12-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
() on the variable that was allocated. Normally FPC is pretty good at pinpointing where a memory leak was caused, so I was just curious why it didn't work so well this time round. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepasca

Re: [fpc-pascal] Daily docs

2020-11-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 28/11/2020 11:40 pm, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: > The total size of the generated documentation is 1.3 Gb, roughly 280.000 > files, so a lot of identifiers. Wow, that has grown a lot in recent times. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-

Re: [fpc-pascal] I'm working on automated Help Output for console apps

2020-11-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
some work required to get what you want. ;-) Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pa

Re: [fpc-pascal] I'm working on automated Help Output for console apps

2020-11-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 20/11/2020 6:51 pm, Bart via fpc-pascal wrote: > I know, and there he can see how this capability is detected, hence my > reference to the compiler. Thanks, that's good to know. I'll definitely give it a try too. Regards, Graeme __

Re: [fpc-pascal] I'm working on automated Help Output for console apps

2020-11-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
ross-platform it is. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepas

Re: [fpc-pascal] I'm working on automated Help Output for console apps

2020-11-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 20/11/2020 7:04 am, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > a way to convert the > option list to TConsoleApplication's argument handling so that one doesn't > have to declare that twice. Oh, I really like that idea. I'll make sure to include both of those mentioned. Rega

[fpc-pascal] I'm working on automated Help Output for console apps

2020-11-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
ation * indicates required parameters === (3) DocView v1.0 Do something useful with an input file * -f,--file The file to be processed -h,--help -v,--versionPrint the version of the application * indicates required parameters Please report issues at http://exam

Re: [fpc-pascal] Graphing library

2020-11-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
included with FPC at the time. If not, it is available in the fpGUI's code repository. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _

Re: [fpc-pascal] Graphing library

2020-11-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
ons have no dependencies on graphics libraries or GUI systems, so is perfect for console of server side rendering. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp __

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpcres now supports compilation of RC files

2020-08-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 12/08/2020 8:16 pm, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > Thanks to the work of Martok the fpcres utility is now able to compile > RC files into RES files. Awesome, been waiting about 15 years for that. :-) Fantastic contribution. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platfo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Worse performance with 64bit binary

2020-07-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 25/07/2020 5:42 pm, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > Missed optimization. I fixed it in trunk. Damn that was quick! Nicely done. :-) Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/gra

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC for Win64

2020-07-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
a local problem, but either way, I didn't trust them since. So I compile my own native 64-bit version (just like I did for Linux and FreeBSD). Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://t

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 3.2.0 released!

2020-06-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 20/06/2020 11:03 am, Marco van de Voort wrote: > Finally, the Free Pascal 3.2.0 release is available from our servers and > from sourceforge. Well done to everybody that contributed. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pasca

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 3.2.0 released!

2020-06-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 20/06/2020 10:59 pm, Tomas Hajny wrote: > They have the same size, it's just the SF webpage shows the size > differently from the FTP listing: Don't the FPC team generate SHA1 or MD5 checksum files for all official release files? That might be useful going forward. R

Re: [fpc-pascal] Implementing a simple tcp/ip connection

2020-05-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 28/05/2020 4:49 pm, Marco van de Voort wrote: > Though in general, I would > just use Indy. +1 Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Zoned date/time conversions

2020-05-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

[fpc-pascal] Zoned date/time conversions

2020-05-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
zone information? Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to implement a simple tcp/ip connection?

2020-05-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
the > Delphi components were event driven. Indy devs explain it here. Blocking is not evil. https://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/en/showarticle.php?id=4 Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: htt

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to implement a simple tcp/ip connection?

2020-05-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
plement and loads of examples available. SVN: svn.atozed.com Git (mirror): github.com/graemeg/indy Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com

[fpc-pascal] FormatSettings in library vs application

2020-04-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
igit month} function OgFormatDate(Value : TDateTime) : string; var S : string; begin FormatSettings.ShortDateFormat := '-mm-dd'; Result := DateToStr(Value); end; Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.

Re: [fpc-pascal] New release of MSEide.

2020-04-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
his baby is not abandoned, and still lives on! :-) Keep up the great work Fred, and everybody else. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/gr

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreeVision Resources?

2020-02-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 13/02/2020 3:37 pm, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works! Brilliant tag line by the way! So true these days. :-D Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.o

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to rebuild an fpc package

2020-02-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 12/02/2020 1:33 pm, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > Note that it will automatically rebuild and install all packages that > depend on fcl-db. Very nice. This makes things so much easier. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-

[fpc-pascal] TProcess and zombie processes in *nix systems

2020-01-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
nging around in *nix systems? Is there any option in TProcess to prevent that? ie: I want to launch a new application in a separate OS process and then forget about it. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] "Hello world" syscalls

2020-01-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
just two calls to futex. Clearly a very slow syscall compared to the others. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 17/11/2019 10:31 pm, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > Stated purpose was special handling in the Bing search engine. Either way, that's a pie in the face for Embarcadero. :-) Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepa

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
e search data generated - via fpdoc? What storage format does it use? I remember years ago I found a JavaScript search engine that could be integrated with fpdoc's HTML output, but that storage format was JavaScript (if I remember correctly) and was huge. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cro

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 17/11/2019 10:22 pm, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > Even Microsoft asked official permission to use our website as pascal > reference. For what need? VS Code? Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
ever was involved in that! Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.o

Re: [fpc-pascal] Add API to official documentation search

2019-11-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
elp files and their Tables of Content at runtime, supports advanced searching, bookmarks, inline annotation and more. Details on integrating Docview in various IDE's and editors: http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/docview_ide_integration.shtml Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-p

Re: [fpc-pascal] Git mirror

2019-10-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 29/10/2019 6:20 am, denisgolovan wrote: > Looks like Graeme's FPC git mirror stopped syncing with svn. I fixed it at 08:00 this morning. It's all in sync again. There was a new contributor to SVN that wasn't in my name list. It happens ever now and again. Regards, Graeme

Re: [fpc-pascal] DirectoryExists on FreeBSD , problem

2019-10-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 26/10/2019 11:24 am, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Do you have a mailing list archive link where the topic originated > from. No worries, I found it. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] DirectoryExists on FreeBSD , problem

2019-10-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
;ll update my FPC 3.3.x and take a look at this later today. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___ fpc-pas

Re: [fpc-pascal] DirectoryExists on FreeBSD , problem

2019-10-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
ch context. I run FreeBSD 10, 11 and 12 and unsure of the bug being referred to. I'll happily investigate further. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public P

Re: [fpc-pascal] DirectoryExists on FreeBSD , problem

2019-10-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
't need to worry about encoding/decoding text. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-

[fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.4a fix for MacOS back ported?

2019-10-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Anybody know if the MacOS Library Path fix for MacOS will be back ported to the 3.0.4 fixes branch? Currently the bug tracker only marked it as fixed in the 3.3.1 branch. https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=36198 Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit

Re: [fpc-pascal] Catalina upgrade changes

2019-10-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/10/2019 8:46 am, C Western wrote: > Actually, thanks for posting this here - it did contain generally useful > information. +1 Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/c

Re: [fpc-pascal] Calculating Pixels to represent 3D coordinates

2019-09-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing_(graphics) Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@list

Re: [fpc-pascal] Very vague gettickcount64 description?

2019-09-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
27;s there is no guesswork as to what the user expects when calling them, and it's 100% cross-platform. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _

Re: [fpc-pascal] Very vague gettickcount64 description?

2019-09-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
ion of the platform's minimum resolution after a few samples and avg result. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation generation

2019-08-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 18/08/2019 10:43 am, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > One wonders why these README files are created. No-one seems to read them > anyway. Yeah, I've been wondering that same thing for years. Maybe we should create a README.1st file. :-P Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cro

Re: [fpc-pascal] Initial support for Custom Attributes

2019-07-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
GetStormtrooper([TPathParam('id')] id: string): TStormtrooper; [TPOST] function CreateTrooper(trooper: TStormTrooper): TStormtrooper; end; Just my observation. Your mileage may vary. ;-) Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pasc

Re: [fpc-pascal] Initial support for Custom Attributes

2019-07-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
ews! Well done to everybody involved in bringing this to FPC. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___ fpc-pascal maillis

Re: [fpc-pascal] Developing a mini ERP / web based development

2019-07-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 07/07/2019 11:09 am, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > There exists a branch with them and it's "just" a matter of integrating > them into trunk. Nice, that will be a real game changer! Thanks for the info Sven. Regards, Graeme _

Re: [fpc-pascal] Developing a mini ERP / web based development

2019-07-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
in > Write('Hello Darius. I'm Brook on the Chromebook! :-)'); > end; > > initialization > THello.Register('/hello'); > ... > > If you run a Brook application containing these lines above, just navigate > to "/hello" to get th

[fpc-pascal] tiOPF is looking for a new project maintainer

2019-05-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
hould go to the fpc-other mailing list. Regards, - Graeme - -- My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Convert codepages back to UTF8

2019-05-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 27/05/2019 2:13 pm, Martok wrote: > there > will be data loss due to (sometimes unexpected) internal conversions, Surely that must be a bug then. Converting anything to a UTF-x encoding should be lossless as Unicode is the only standard that supports ALL languages. Regards,

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