ascal wrote:
On 17/11/2024 17:48, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal wrote:
I've done
searches on google, and asked on this list, and everything I can turn up
shows nothing as relates to building an FPC app with a GUI w/o using
some IDE or other.(mostly lazarus), so if you could kindly point
denhuys via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 17/11/2024 17:48, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal wrote:
But the problem is (as I've repeatedly stated on this list) is that if
one doesn't use lazarus for their IDE, then building anything other than
basic command line programs is nearly impossible.
I guess
On 11/17/2024 12:57 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
Am 16.11.2024 um 16:42 schrieb Marcos Douglas B. Santos via fpc-pascal:
FPC and Lazarus are as unified as is sensible. We keep them different
by *choice* so that users don't think that they *have* to choose
Lazarus if they don't want to.
I'd like to point out that the main reason for using Lazarus is for ease
of use when programming, keeping track of source files and the like.
Unfortunately, Lazarus is not very user friendly to screen reader users,
and (as far as I know), it never has been.
That eliminates a small but signifi
No, the original post has the correct program, dropping a ";" in that
spot is incorrect syntax.
The problem comes in because there is an open comment, but no close
comment. If you add the closing } the compiler behaves properly.
On the other hand, I do understand that once the "end." is enco
On 1/7/2024 1:09 PM, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-pascal wrote:
Am 07.01.2024 um 13:21 schrieb Ingemar Ragnemalm via fpc-pascal
:
Just for comparison, I fired up Think Pascal and made Hello world!
Plain Hello world, closes so quickly that you don't have time to see
it: 4625 bytes.
Including
For what it's worth, the hello world program in powerbasic
(https://www.powerbasic.com) comes to a whooping 7,168 bytes. That's the
console version, not the gui version, that's a bit bigger, but by not
much more. I have an epub reader I've been working on for a few years,
on and off, and that
I too would like this system if possible.
On 10/27/2023 6:19 AM, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Liam Proven via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 08:57, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal
wrote:
It might interest you that I ported the Oberon-0 compiler, from the
book Compiler Constru
I'm not exactly sure what the end goal is, but Microsoft has API calls
for text to speech. I don't know if they have any for the language
you're using, but if they do, sending the text to the speech routines is
fairly straightforward in FPC, In fact, there was a discussion about
that very thin
Also, for what it's worth, your code works fine on fpc 3.20.
On 6/26/2023 11:04 PM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
I appreciate the help with this. I'm still confused.
In my original post, I already had CoInitialize, CoUninitialize; and Unit
ComOBJ, Unit Windows and Unit ActiveX I wa
Hmm, ok, apparently something changed in the way FPC handles objects
between 3.31 and 3.20 (the version I'm using).
Thought I had 3.22, but .
I guess it could be a sapi version difference too, but I don't know how
to check that.
On 6/26/2023 11:15 PM, James Richters wrote:
When I run the c
On 6/26/2023 6:26 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, James Richters wrote:
I tried to make your example into a FPC program without Lazarus:
{$mode objfpc}{$H+}
uses
comobj;
var
SavedCW: Word;
v: OleVariant;
begin
v:=CreateOleObject('SAPI.SpVoice');
v.S
On 6/26/2023 3:51 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
Try changing the selected voice to 0 instead of 1.
Yeah, already tried that, didn't help any. *grumble*
Because I use a screen reader, I have multiple sapi voices installed,
(though I rarely use them), but I haven't played with
Thank you, this one works for me with a command line compile. I
compared the two programs, and the line that asks for the voices is the
culprit.
I'll have to do some digging to see why that line breaks the runtime
execution.
But at least I can make it work now. I'd always used powerbasic w
Does the form code do something different than the command line? When I
try to run this code, I get an unhandled exception error.
Any idea how to fix?
On 6/26/2023 1:54 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jun 2023, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
I gave up on doin
On 6/18/2023 6:53 AM, Bernd Oppolzer via fpc-pascal wrote:
The compiler is a self-hosting compiler (like most Pascal compilers, I
believe) and up to 2011
there were many exits from loops bye putting a label after the loop
and using GOTO
(because of the absence of BREAK). Similar use of GOTO
On 6/18/2023 1:04 AM, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
I don't remember break NOT being in Pascal. How did you exit a loop
otherwise, goto? Break is common in basically all languages now. Can't
think of a language I've used without it.
Use a variable, set the variable when you hit an exit c
This is interesting, because it's the first time I've ever seen "break"
as a valid command in pascal, and I've been using pascal since the
mid/late 80s. All kinds of dialects too, and I've never seen break as a
keyword. C, Python, Perl, sure, even shell scripts, but pascal? Never
seen it used
Depending on the compiler *not* to overwrite local variables is most
certainly the wrong way to go with this. You really should create
either a global record/object, or use functions to pass around the
information you need. Expecting the operating system to keep local
variables after the area
Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Mon, 1 May 2023 14:25:28 -0400, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal
wrote:
You could just add the line:
#!/bin/bash
to the first line of your script, then just call the script from your
program.
Alternatively, you could call the bash command, and pass the command
As mentioned in another post, you'll need to run a shell, (whether it be
bash or another system provided shell), in order to process the
commands. If you run the commands directly, there is no shell
interpretation, and the | which passes the output of one command to the
input of the next one w
Gcc has already been ported to the propeller II, (and it runs on the
original propeller too), so porting other languages should be
"relatively" easy. I've not made the attempt to port anything yet
though, mostly because I've been out of the propeller world for a couple
years, and now that the
I know of no way to obtain the pause key status under windows. I can
get the scroll lock status, but not the pause key, never did figure that
one out. Windows uses it though, I don't know if it's a standard thing,
or something I have installed, (though if it is an installed program, I
haven't
I'm not positive, because I've never used them, but I'm pretty sure
variables configured as const, can't be changed once they're defined.
If that's your intent, then feel free to use them, but it sounds like
you're trying to make variables (not constant values) last for the whole
program, with
Generally, raspberry pi devices connected to other devices will (by
default) use python for their programming. The python libs have all the
setup and tear down code built in. You can use C as well, so I see no
reason why FPC couldn't be used. It's probably going to take some work
though. Yo
On unix (and all of it's derivatives, everything is a file, including
connections to other systems. You can treat it like a file, and in
(most) circumstances, it will operate just as if it were a local file.
Some devices require special handling, but for the most part, if it's
listed as a fil
If you're not opposed to copying files anyhow, why not setup a script to
do the compile for you on the pi?
You just need to setup your pi with ssh keys, then use scp to move the
files, ssh to do the login, then just run the shell script to do the
compiling.
If you configure the ssh keys prop
I'm using FPC 3.2.0, though I doubt anything changed in the most recent
releases, though I'll try those if folks think it's worth doing so.
What I ran across yesterday while doing a search for other things was
some posts about updating a single line in a file using free pascal.
The solutions
When I installed fpc on my raspberry pi, I compiled from source, but
that was when the pi was relatively new. I'm fairly certain there's a
release for the pi. If the orange one has an arm processor, the release
for the raspberry should work on the orange as well.
On 10/21/2022 6:19 PM, Terr
for it to finish and
then close it.. well, that's just not asynchronous.
James
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Adding a backslash (\) before each space should do
Adding a backslash (\) before each space should do the job nicely. I
have had similar issues on linux and windows with some commands, and
adding the escape characters to the filename almost always fixes the
problem. The only time it didn't, was when the filename started with a
dash "-" charac
But, if that (eventually) leads to the highest one, and that's all
that's desired, why not just use the whole expression variable :=
pred(f.Count) instead of the whole loop?
Wouldn't that accomplish the same thing?
Why the loop?
On 9/10/2022 3:44 PM, Thomas Kurz via fpc-pascal wrote:
If you
There actually is a 64-bit version of xp, but it's not compatible with
very much. Apparently, it didn't have an emulator in it, so running
32-bit software wasn't something it did by default. I never did figure
out if it could be made to run 32-bit software or not, I just gave up on
it, (more
If there's some sort of a configuration file, just write out the
time/date info at the time of leaving the input, then when that routine
gets called again, grab the current time/date, and perform a
comparison. That should allow you to bypass any roll overs of any kind
(unless it goes past the
On 10/16/2021 6:06 PM, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:
Meanwhile the strace outputs stuff like this to the screen:
strace: Process 6360 attached
strace: Process 6361 attached
strace: Process 6362 attached
strace: Process 6363 attached
strace: Process 6364 attached
strace: Process 6365 attached
I don't know how much it will help, but windows has a similar command to
linux ifconfig, only on windows it's called ipconfig.
Hope this helps.
On 9/10/2021 3:03 AM, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:
Is there a way to enumerate the active adapters on a Windows computer with their
IPv4 and MAC
Although not likely in this case, I am visually impaired, use a screen
reader, and find the Lazarius IDE nearly unusable. Of course, I've not
touched it in years, because my first attempt at using it failed
miserably, so for me, I simply use notpad, pico, nano, or text edit
(depending on what
Heh, how very cool. I wasn't aware powershell could do such things.
All kinds of new things learned in this thread. Thanks for that.
On 6/17/2021 5:08 AM, Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal wrote:
10 kb of Powerbasic ... you're cheating, it's pascal here ;-)
You can do this with just 1kb of Power
Thanks for the sample. For what it's worth, I got the executable down
to just 10K using powerbasic version 6, I suspect that's as small as it
can get, since I did have to include a winbase.inc that comes with the
compiler to get the function call of the GetTickCount64 call. But then
again, I
If you didn't have the configuration setup as required, you could still
spawn a second process to kill and restart your process as well, this
works too, but Michael's suggestion is probably much cleaner, and in all
likelihood, is probably the preferred method, but I know folks struggle
with the
On 5/19/2021 9:53 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote:
On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 14:36, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal
wrote:
No doubt your sleep code works just fine.
I'm not saying the sleep command doesn't work.
I'm saying the sleep command doesn't release unused cpu cycles for other
ll
around solution.
On 5/19/2021 6:02 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Tue, 18 May 2021 18:37:38 -0400
Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal wrote:
Apparently, you can release cpu cycles, but it's with the sched_yield
(section 2 in the man pages), not the sleep command on linux.
What sleep comman
Apparently, you can release cpu cycles, but it's with the sched_yield
(section 2 in the man pages), not the sleep command on linux.
So, apparently, the sleep is still using full system recourses, even
though it's just waiting. You apparently have to release cpu time with
the sched_yield comma
I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure the sleep command in linux does
not behave the same way it does in windows.
As you know, in windows, a sleep command (even if delivered with a
parameter of 0) gives up time slices to other programs on the system.
This does not appear to be the case on lin
The -dev part of the package is necessary for the headers used for
compiling, any target system running the finished product will not
require the -dev version of the packages to be installed, since they
won't be using the header files directly.
On 5/17/2021 6:20 PM, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal
On 5/6/2021 7:54 AM, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Wed, 5 May 2021, Nico Neumann via fpc-pascal wrote:
Indy has support for OpenSSL 1.1.1, just not officially (yet).
See https://github.com/IndySockets/Indy/pull/299
THe SMTP server I use requires SSL on port 465.
I have only ever use
On 4/18/2021 11:55 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 17/04/2021 10:09 pm, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
but Delphi compatbility is more
important here, thus the default is a warning and not an error.
How is this beneficial? The compiler should help the developer, but here
it wa
You can always convert the number to a string, then format it
accordingly. It's probably not the solution you want, but it will do
the trick.
On 4/3/2021 11:43 AM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
I'm looking for a way to format numerical data in a string so that everything
ends up align
How it's done in FPC I don't know, but in other language tools I use, it
requires a resource file with spefic information in it. I can never
remember all the details, so I have to keep a template resource file
around with the required information in it, and change it for each
program work on.
On 12/22/2020 11:43 AM, Markus Greim via fpc-pascal wrote:
Wow..
Programming languages I worked with in the last 40 years:
12. SPIN
When you say spin, I'm assuming you're talking about the parallax
propeller boards programming language. The propeller 2 is coming out
shortly (already o
I don't know what non native english speakers are taught, nor can I
address the folks across the pond, but here in the Us at least, has
denotes currently exists, while had indicates past tense, I.E. no longer
exists. Combining the two is where it gets dicy, and is generally
avoided for syntact
I'm not sure it works properly on windows.
When I modify this to start two threads, and print out messages based on
their start/stop times, as well as a message inside the thread, I get
both ending messages before I get only a single printout from within the
threaded function. This seems to i
There's also bzip2 and chm (though I don't really consider that an
archive format). I don't see anything for arj or rar though, both of
which I use extensively. Perhaps I'll see what I can do about those
two. arj should be easy enough, since unarj source is available, it
should be convertabl
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