Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Documentation

On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 18/12/12 11:15, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: I applied the patch, thank you ! While we are at it, here is another patch for fpdoc - lying around for a while. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=23425 Yes, I had looked at it, but

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Documentation

On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 18-12-2012 0:58, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: There are other issues with the FPDoc Editor dialog though. Off the top of my head: As I think I said last year, there's also Laz DE/Lazarus Documentation Editor. As long as we're suggesting improve

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetTableNames in TSQLConnection / Postgresql

On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, John wrote: TSchemaOption = (soPrependSchemaName,soIncludeSystemObjects); TSchemaOptions = set of TSchemaOption; Procedure GetTableNames(List : TStrings; Options : TSchemaOptions = []); I am not interested in schema information, but I can imagine some people are (the o

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetTableNames in TSQLConnection / Postgresql

On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Ludo Brands wrote: On 17/12/2012 10:45, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, LacaK wrote: Yes. May be, that I was not clear. My suggestion was 3+ fields in query: SCHEMA_NAME, TABLE_NAME, SCHEMA_TABLE_NAME (SCHEMA_NAME || '.' || TABLE_NAME) But o

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetTableNames in TSQLConnection / Postgresql

On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, LacaK wrote: But original question AFAIU was about: what should GetTableNames return (schema query can return multiple columns, but what column use when fill list of table names)? GetTableNames return list of table names into TStrings. Now only TABLE_NAME is returned. Jo

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetTableNames in TSQLConnection / Postgresql

On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, LacaK wrote: michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote / napísal(a): On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, LacaK wrote: 2) The simple way to get the schemas would be to simply 'select ... schemaname||'.'||relname as table_name ... from pg_stat_user_tables. This would be a change ONLY to the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Brook 1.0 - A new framework for web was born

On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 15/12/2012 21:22, Sven Barth wrote: Maybe because the authors prefered inline comments instead of fpdoc's XML files... A shame, because the more detailed the documentation, the more it obfuscates the code. eg: Documentation Insight, a pop

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetTableNames in TSQLConnection / Postgresql

On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, LacaK wrote: 2) The simple way to get the schemas would be to simply 'select ... schemaname||'.'||relname as table_name ... from pg_stat_user_tables. This would be a change ONLY to the sql in pqconnection. (If worst comes to worst, I dare say could create my own pqconn

Re: [fpc-pascal] Registers in loops

On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 14 Dec 2012, at 09:26, patspiper wrote: On 13/12/12 21:51, denisgolovan wrote: Hi all Recently I discovered that fpc refuses to use registers in my loops even with optimization turned on (-O1,-O3 used). With the asm code commented out and withou

Re: [fpc-pascal] G+ community for Free Pascal and Lazarus

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi Everybody, Google created a new Community feature in Google+. Below is a link to a community dedicated to Free Pascal and Lazarus. https://plus.google.com/communities/114860965042324270757 If you are on Google+, feel free to visit and join. T

Re: [fpc-pascal] Property alias

On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Krzysztof wrote: Hi, Interfaces can have aliases for functions: Function MyOtherFunction : Integer; Function IMyInterface.MyFunc = MyOtherFunction; Can normal object have aliases for properties? For example, TControl.Caption. I would like to publish this property i

Re: [fpc-pascal] Coping a DataSet

On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, silvioprog wrote: Guys, Is "Assign" method implemented for dataset in FPC? No, it is not. Datasets differ wildly in how they access and store data. Michael. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://

Re: [fpc-pascal] BSD

On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Somebody's suggesting we ought to be at least looking at BSD. What's the preferred variant from FPC/Lazarus's POV: OpenBSD, FreeBSD etc.? I think Marco mainly uses FreeBSD. Michael. ___ fpc-pascal mail

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: cannot make debugserver

On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 07/11/2012 22:13, bsquared wrote: I like the tiOPF based Logging. Nice work. It is the most reliable logging framework I know. For example, the dbugintf unit in FPC has major issues when used under Windows. If you generate many messages p

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPCUnit checking Single values

On Fri, 2 Nov 2012, ik wrote: Hello, I'm trying to check Single value. I'm doing the following: a := 1.1; b := 1.1; CheckEquals(a, b, Format('val %f does not equal %f', [a, b])); It reports an error, one of them are 1.1 and the other is 1,10 . I know about the possible drifts of floating p

Re: [fpc-pascal] Subversion Client/Server Source

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Andrew Brunner wrote: On 10/24/2012 09:01 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: Well, the http transport uses WEBDAV. So search for the WEBDAV protocol, and you're set ? Michael. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.fr

Re: [fpc-pascal] Subversion Client/Server Source

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Andrew Brunner wrote: On 10/24/2012 08:36 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: Why not use the library version of SVN ? This is how Tortoise does it, as far as I know. I think the focus then would shift to wrapping a library to hook into server over HTTP. I would s

Re: [fpc-pascal] Subversion Client/Server Source

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Andrew Brunner wrote: Hi there, I'm exploring the possibility adding support for version control in the Aurawin project. I'm needing resources to subversion client/server source to estimate how much time it will take. Does anyone know of official protocol for implem

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboPower FlashFiler for Free Pascal

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Sven Barth wrote: Am 23.10.2012 15:24, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: Hi, Yeah, a catchy title! ;-) I want to know if anybody here has ever used FlashFiler in Delphi. Was it a good product, and do you think it would be worth the effort porting it to Free Pascal? Or is Fla

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboPower FlashFiler for Free Pascal

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Yeah, a catchy title! ;-) I want to know if anybody here has ever used FlashFiler in Delphi. Was it a good product, and do you think it would be worth the effort porting it to Free Pascal? Or is FlashFiler simply too old and outdated. I ma

Re: [fpc-pascal] releasing commercial components as PPU files

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Vincent Snijders wrote: 2012/10/22 : On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Vincent Snijders wrote: I am more optimistic than Michael. Because the same source is used, the CRC is the same and no recompile is done. It also depends on the date of the .ppu ? I don't think so. But I

Re: [fpc-pascal] releasing commercial components as PPU files

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Vincent Snijders wrote: 2012/10/22 Graeme Geldenhuys : On 2012-10-22 14:36, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: I am not sure whether they use the binary release of fpc, or if they compile their own for e.g. windows. If it is the latter, you're in problems. Anybody fro

Re: [fpc-pascal] releasing commercial components as PPU files

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-10-22 14:15, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: That will most probably not work, although maybe -Ur may provide a solution. Isn't -Ur a default compiler option in official releases? So a 'make all' in the FPC 2.6.0 source directory sho

Re: [fpc-pascal] releasing commercial components as PPU files

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Many Delphi components are sold as "full source code", or slightly cheaper (or as trial) as compiled *.DCU files for a specific Delphi version. Could this work with FPC too? Can I release commercial components as PPU files for say FPC 2.6.0

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpmake compiles the same unit multiple times

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-10-17 11:17, Jonas Maebe wrote: fpmake does not know about unit dependencies, Ah OK. Thanks for the explanation. So if I ordered my units better in the fpmake program, then that might reduce the multiple compiling too. If you spe

Re: [fpc-pascal] fphttpclient close connection?

On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, waldo kitty wrote: i've noted that fphttpclient has a DefaultTimeout of 15 minutes... how can i close the connection after all data is received? That should happen by itself ? Keeping the connection open is currently not supported. The DefaultTimeOut is definitely n

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using database-specific functionality with TSQLConnector

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Hi list, IBConn:TIBConnection; ... IBConn:=TIBConnection(FConn.ProxyConnection); IBConn.UserName:=FConn.UserName; IBConn.Password:=FConn.Password; IBConn.DatabaseName:=FConn.DatabaseName; ... IBConn.CreateDB; Is that the best/easiest way? Would

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Assigning pointer address

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Tomas Hajny wrote: IIUC, size PtrUint varies by architecture, which is more or less the point of PtrUint. Having this variation documented as Darius suggested above makes things much clearer, because the programmer may be working on one platform and programming for another

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Assigning pointer address

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, dhkblas...@zeelandnet.nl wrote: fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org [5] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal [6] Nah, I wasn't thinking about letting fpdoc predict anything. Instead though it would be nice to introduce something th

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Assigning pointer address

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 1-10-2012 13:55, dhkblaszyk-47ckw973qwsgtviba+r...@public.gmane.org wrote: On 1 okt '12, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, dhkblas...@zeelandnet.nl

Re: [fpc-pascal] Assigning pointer address

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, dhkblas...@zeelandnet.nl wrote: Hi Tomas, Thanks for clarifying. I will use PtrUInt to store the pointer address in. BTW: the documentation it says not to use PtrInt because it's signed and therefore smaller than a pointer (as in max value). Also there seems to be an er

Re: [fpc-pascal] Getting fpcunit test results into a database

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 28-9-2012 10:43, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-09-28 09:18, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Is there existing code available for getting fpcunit test results into a database? No, but the Test Listener interface makes such an addition very eas

Re: [fpc-pascal] DOM, XMLRead, XMLWrite - cwstring requirement

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-09-28 10:01, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: I'm also not sure how using cwstring unit would affect fpGUI apps that use UTF-8 inside AnsiString containers. (just like LCL does) It all depends on the XML. Sorry, I'm not very versed

Re: [fpc-pascal] DOM, XMLRead, XMLWrite - cwstring requirement

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-09-28 09:41, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: XMLRead uses it, yes. Umm, so how would that affect applications that normally use UTF-8 packed in AnsiString? Like fpGUI and LCL based applications. It depends on the encoding of the XML

Re: [fpc-pascal] Getting fpcunit test results into a database

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Hi list, Is there existing code available for getting fpcunit test results into a database? Otherwise I'm thinking of writing an XML importer that gets the test results and imports them into a database... handy for regression testing, I'd think.

Re: [fpc-pascal] DOM, XMLRead, XMLWrite - cwstring requirement

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Somebody in the fpGUI support newsgroup raised an issue when using BOM, XMLRead units under Linux. Does the use of the DOM, XMLRead and XMLWrite units in FCL (from FPC 2.6.0) require the use of cwstring under Linux? XMLRead uses it, yes. We

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: SDFDataset users!?

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 25-9-2012 10:11, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 24-9-2012 18:43, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 24-9-2012 17:22, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: SDFDataset users!?

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 25-9-2012 10:16, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: I'd suggest: 1. adding a readme as indicated in my other mail so that users and developers do not fall into the same trap

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: SDFDataset users!?

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: That is indeed another approach that doesn't require specs nor docs. Unfortunately only available to those that have the keys to kingdom :) Well, I think that trying to let TSDFDataset conform to certain "SDF" specs is trying to do some unjustifi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: SDFDataset users!?

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 24-9-2012 18:43, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 24-9-2012 17:22, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9sb0a-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote:

Re: [fpc-pascal] SDFDataset users!?

On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Hi list, There are some bugs open for sdfdataset, e.g. 22894 Sdfdataset: empty file with FirstLineAsSchema reports Recordcount 1 instead of 0 22882 SDFDataset .AllowMultiLine does not support multiline import I've written a test suite to check s

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Firebird: bulk insert performance: suggestions?

On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 7-9-2012 13:12, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: then the transaction is started (if it is inactive) and the query parameters are filled (using Query.Params.ParamByName, but I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Firebird: bulk insert performance: suggestions?

On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: For my Dutch postcode program https://bitbucket.org/reiniero/postcode with an embedded Firebird 2.5 database, I allow users to read in a CSV file with new or updated postcode data. I use sqldb, FPC x86. I'd like to get your suggestions on speed imp

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Delphi's anonymous functions in Free Pascal

On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Arioch wrote: From personal experience, when i first time saw how pascalish is closures implementation in Delphi i just admired the ease in which that concept was fused into the language of very different style built upon very different ideas. It was so elegant when rea

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Delphi's anonymous functions in Free Pascal

On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Arioch wrote: If the new features conform to the readability [snip] But afterall i am quitting on that. Since FPC are lacking closures i am sure here are mostly people who personally dislike them. I wanted to document why closures are good and do matter. Hopefully i

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Delphi's anonymous functions in Free Pascal

On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Arioch wrote: Ralf A. Quint wrote At 12:09 AM 8/30/2012, michael.vancanneyt@ wrote: They are IMHO a negation of what pascal stands for. If your programming +1 Well, the same should be told about everything modern pascal is. Open and dynamic arrays, pointer math, o

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Delphi's anonymous functions in Free Pascal

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Arioch wrote: Florian Klämpfl wrote This is the prototypical way to run a function over each element in a collection, returning the results. (map (lambda (x) (+ x 1)) '(1 2 3)) -> (2 3 4) I still don't see why this cannot be done by procedure variables: one can eas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unit testing aid...

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Martin wrote: On 22/08/2012 18:08, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Hi, for those that do unit testing, I committed a small tool "pas2ut" which analyses a unit, and creates a unit with a number of (empty) test cases. Obviously, the unit should be compileable (well, at least

Re: [fpc-pascal] Easier fpmake

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Tomas Hajny wrote: On 22 Aug 12, at 19:03, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Hi Michael, As you know, FPC uses fpmake to compile everything in packages. As I've been steadily improving fcl-passrc for fpdoc, (it's now almost on par with the compiler, barring errors and assemb

Re: [fpc-pascal] TSQLDBLibraryLoader committed for SQLDB

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Ludo Brands wrote: There are more problems: the library name is not cross-platform, so the project will no longer be cross-platform. Which is a far more serious problem, IMHO. (and one which would exist even if I had followed your suggestion of implementing the property in

Re: [fpc-pascal] TSQLDBLibraryLoader committed for SQLDB

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Ludo Brands wrote: (In the IDE: drop, set connector type from picklist, maybe change library name, set to enabled). I'm having some problems using this in the IDE. The picklist is empty. Probably something missing in procedure TSQLDBConnectorTypePropertyEditor.GetValues

Re: [fpc-pascal] TSQLDBLibraryLoader committed for SQLDB

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Ludo Brands wrote: After recent discussions about which library to load when loading DB client libraries, I changed the default names for Firebird, MySQL, Postgres. That was well in time ;) Thanks. Another little bug and patch in http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id

Re: [fpc-pascal] Possible RTFM question: is there something like an IsRootPath() function?

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Bart wrote: Hi, Does fpc have a function that determines if a given paths is the root (e.g. '/' in Linux, 'F:\' in Windows)? I could not find such a thing. There is no such function. Michael. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-p

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpdoc executable both in bin and utils\fpdoc - but not fpdoc.css

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Tomas Hajny wrote: $PREFIX/share/doc/fpc-$fpcversion/ Seems like the reasonable thing, yes. Actually, the file is more a configuration file for fpdoc than its documentation, isn't it? From this point of view, shouldn't SysUtils.GetAppConfigDir serve as the most reasona

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpdoc executable both in bin and utils\fpdoc - but not fpdoc.css

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] michael.vancanneyt wrote on Tue, 14 Aug 2012: There is no discussion that fpdoc.css should be distributed. The only question is: where should we put it ?

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpdoc executable both in bin and utils\fpdoc - but not fpdoc.css

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Tomas Hajny wrote: On Tue, August 14, 2012 15:15, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 14-8-2012 14:40, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 14-8-2012 13:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpdoc executable both in bin and utils\fpdoc - but not fpdoc.css

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 14-8-2012 14:40, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 14-8-2012 13:50, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9sb0a-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Rei

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpdoc executable both in bin and utils\fpdoc - but not fpdoc.css

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 14-8-2012 13:50, michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9s...@public.gmane.org wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 14-8-2012 11:34, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: in packages\fcl-res\xm

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpdoc executable both in bin and utils\fpdoc - but not fpdoc.css

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 14-8-2012 11:34, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: in packages\fcl-res\xml) but not in the bin directory. IIRC, fpdoc picks up fpdoc.css when generating HTML/CHM output. Shouldn't fpdoc.css be also p

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpdoc executable both in bin and utils\fpdoc - but not fpdoc.css

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 14-8-2012 10:43, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 14-8-2012 10:31, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 14-8-2012 9:46, michael.vancann...@wis

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpdoc executable both in bin and utils\fpdoc - but not fpdoc.css

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 14-8-2012 10:31, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 14-8-2012 9:46, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 12-8-2012 10:35, Reinier Olislagers wro

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpdoc executable both in bin and utils\fpdoc - but not fpdoc.css

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 14-8-2012 9:46, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 12-8-2012 10:35, Reinier Olislagers wrote: In my (Windows) SVN fpc installs, I can find the fpdoc executable both under the bin directory

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpdoc executable both in bin and utils\fpdoc - but not fpdoc.css

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 12-8-2012 10:35, Reinier Olislagers wrote: In my (Windows) SVN fpc installs, I can find the fpdoc executable both under the bin directory as well as utils\fpdoc However, I've only found fpdoc.css in utils\fpdoc (and a different one in package

Re: [fpc-pascal] WeekDay outdated?

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: I am not able to use this function: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/dos/weekday.html nor can I find it in the sources. Does it still exist? If yes, how to use it? Which unit? DOS does not work.

Re: [fpc-pascal] strlen and nil

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:21:05 +0200 (CEST) mar...@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) wrote: In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said: What does strlen return on nil? The FPC function strlen is implemented via FPC_PCHAR_LENGTH. The documentation doe

Re: [fpc-pascal] Initialization of class field

On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Krzysztof wrote: Hi, I'm reading about variable initialization (http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse22.html) . Can I initialize class field too? Like in Java: type TMyClass = class private FSomeField: Integer = 123; end; I always initialize this in overrid

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generating templates with FPTemplate

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Luciano de Souza wrote: Michael, Your example is very clear. I am not very good to understand source codes. But this style seems to be very good and logical. It's really wonderful: FPC owns units for everything! Well, I use FPC for everything. So, I need tools for ever

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generating templates with FPTemplate

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, luciano de souza wrote: Hello all, I am trying to create an example with the FPTemplate unit. Firstly, I wrote a hypothetical unit template. [snip] I am not successful in filling up the template. If I do writeln(source.template), the answer is an empty string. If I d

Re: [fpc-pascal] Inter-process communication, a cautionary tale

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: No need to apologize, I'm just curious where you got your info from. The implementation has been the same since day 1, which means your statement puzzles me. So instead of re-inventing the wheel, maybe have a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Inter-process communication, a cautionary tale

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I was reminded of this when somebody was asking about portable signalling APIs the other day, but I think it's also relevant to discussion of e.g. how to pass a key

Re: [fpc-pascal] Inter-process communication, a cautionary tale

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I was reminded of this when somebody was asking about portable signalling APIs the other day, but I think it's also relevant to discussion of e.g. how to pass a keyword to a help viewer. I am obviously aware of the fact that FPC has an IPC unit

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: RE : Database problem on Solaris SPARC

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On a side note: My quoted paragraph doesn't mention FreeBSD, but I have successfully ran Firebird Server & clients under FreeBSD 9.0 on x86, and there are FreeBSD downloads on the Firebird website for 2.1.x and o

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: RE : Database problem on Solaris SPARC

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, On 16 July 2012 12:29, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Yep, and there's a 2.1.4 download at http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/firebird-2-1-4-builds-for-solaris-intel-x86-32-and-64-bits-available-12615/ On a side note: My quoted paragraph does

Re: RE : [fpc-pascal] Database problem on Solaris SPARC

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: [Nod], understood. Hit a slight snag here with trunk FPC + trunk Lazarus: Target OS: Solaris for SPARC Compiling sqldblaz.pas Compiling registersqldb.pas registersqldb.pas(58,3) Fatal: Can't find unit ibconnection used b

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to write text to the console?

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Hope I got your attention with the subject ;) After having had help on the list I managed to write UTF8 text to the Windows Vista console using 2.6 However, my test program (see attachment) fails on trunk. See http://lazarus.freepascal.org/index

Re: [fpc-pascal] Should FCL documentation be splitted?

On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, leledumbo wrote: I would like to document some of the FCL, however the layout is still like the first time it appears in FPC. Current FCL are splitted into many subpackages, and since the number of units is HUGE (which I guess the same reason why the package was splitted) w

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unhandled exception from library crashes host exe

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Antonio Fortuny wrote: Le 27/06/2012 15:58, kyan a écrit : I am sure that this has been asked before but I couldn't find an answer. I am in the process of porting a large application consisting of an exe and many dlls from Delphi7 to FPC 2.7.1/Lazarus for Windows/WinCE

Re: [fpc-pascal] Windows Phone 8 + pascal

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Sven Barth wrote: it as native. I guess it is faster than .NET code because it is not managed. I thought that .NET allows non-managed code, too. Why does "COM-based + .NET-like metadata" imply that it's not native code? The core libraries are written in either C or C++

Re: [fpc-pascal] Windows Phone 8 + pascal

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Sven Barth wrote: Am 24.06.2012 22:59 schrieb "Juha Manninen" : On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Sven Barth wrote: I believe they'll mostly go through the WinRT, which is Microsoft's new API pet project. Thanks. I didn't even know about this WinRT. New technologi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Win64 SEH patch fixes some Firebird embedded bugs

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Just compiled FPC with -dTEST_WIN64_SEH and noticed that fixes bugs 17360 Firebird database exceptions don't generate EIBDatabaseError but a general exception on 64 bit windows 21581: Firebird embedded x64 Windows: CreateDB fails with an exception

Re: [fpc-pascal] Adding method dynamically to a class

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, ik wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:20 AM, wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, ik wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:33 AM, LacaK wrote: ** Class helpers would not help ? http://wiki.freepascal.org/**Helper_types They can,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Adding method dynamically to a class

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, ik wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:33 AM, LacaK wrote: ** Class helpers would not help ? http://wiki.freepascal.org/Helper_types They can, but there is a protocol that I'm trying to create that provides me information what to execute (out of white list). The thing

Re: [fpc-pascal] Adding method dynamically to a class

On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, ik wrote: Hello, Is there a way to tell in run-time that a specific function/procedure should belong to a class ? For example, let's say I have the following class: Type TTest = class procedure Foo; end; And I have also: procedure Bar; ... end; Is there a way to

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Playing sounds with standard components

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 9-6-2012 23:18, Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior wrote: You can use OpenAL or SDL... Found a framework that apparently uses SDL. Says it plays OGG and WAV. Haven't tried it.. https://github.com/freezedev/elysion SDL is so easy, it's hardly nec

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpimage blur

On Thu, 31 May 2012, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Hi, Is there a function to blur an entire fpimage or a rectangular area? Not to my knowledge. Michael. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/l

Re: [fpc-pascal] Catching math exceptions in a DLL

On Wed, 16 May 2012, Jonas Maebe wrote: OBones wrote on Wed, 16 May 2012: Using FPC, I'm writing a DLL that exports functions used by a given host process. In order to protect the host process, it is mandatory that all exceptions are trapped in the exported function You are probably runn

Re: [fpc-pascal] InstantFPC and argv

On Fri, 4 May 2012, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012, dhkblas...@zeelandnet.nl wrote: I'm creating a script to be executed by instantfpc when I noticed that paramstr(0) does not reflect the location of the script but the location of the cached executable. Is there a w

Re: [fpc-pascal] InstantFPC and argv

On Fri, 4 May 2012, dhkblas...@zeelandnet.nl wrote: I'm creating a script to be executed by instantfpc when I noticed that paramstr(0) does not reflect the location of the script but the location of the cached executable. Is there a way to alter this location programatically to the script lo

Re: [fpc-pascal] SQLDB: logging all generated SQL?

On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Good morning list, I vaguely remember somebody mentioning SQLDB has the option of dumping to a log all the SQL it sends to the database (in other words: logging all SQL sent to the database). Can somebody tell me if that functionality is there a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling from and to memory

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, OBones wrote: Hello all, I'm currently creating a build chain where FPC is the last step, the one producing a DLL for Windows, x86 and x64. In front of it in the chain, I have designed a generator that creates a program and a set of units from its own representation. Ri

Re: RE : RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: RE : RE : Re: SQLDB GetSchemaInfoSQL forindexesetc?

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Ludo Brands wrote: As for re-using existing terminology (schema data etc.), this is dangerous as it creates the expectation that the implementation conforms to a certain standard, which is what I want to avoid. (I don't believe I've ever used the word schema in connecti

Re: RE : RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: RE : RE : Re: SQLDB GetSchemaInfoSQL forindexesetc?

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Ludo Brands wrote: But adding some aliases and add new features such as octet_length should not be a problem (NUMERIC_SCALE exists in precision). And where exist NUMERIC_PRECISION then? This is used in databases like Oracle that use numerics. A number(10,4) has precis

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: RE : RE : Re: SQLDB GetSchemaInfoSQL for indexes etc?

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Proposal 1. As I'm interested in getting support for MS SQL Server and Sybase ASE into lazdatadesktop, I propose I'll go on with trying to make that work using the current sqldb structure. This will mean that a lot of code will go into n

Re: RE : [fpc-pascal] Re: RE : RE : Re: SQLDB GetSchemaInfoSQL for indexesetc?

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Ludo Brands wrote: Has anybody used this functionality in sqldb at all? No. For a simple reason: I implemented all this information in fpdatadict; I think it belongs more there, and definitely not in the basic data API. Some of the metadata are necessary in the bas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: RE : RE : Re: SQLDB GetSchemaInfoSQL for indexes etc?

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 19-4-2012 15:37, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 19-4-2012 15:02, Ludo Brands wrote: Ludo here I do not understand what do you want to say. may be, that my english is not so good ;-)

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: RE : RE : Re: SQLDB GetSchemaInfoSQL for indexes etc?

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 19-4-2012 15:02, Ludo Brands wrote: Ludo here I do not understand what do you want to say. may be, that my english is not so good ;-) Can you explain please what is your proposal regarding to stIndexes ? stIndexes is currently not implem

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: SQLDB GetSchemaInfoSQL for indexes etc?

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 18-4-2012 8:27, LacaK wrote: I don't have Delphi with dbExpress here, so can't test. I did some tests in Delphi XE with DBExpress and MySQL: for stTables column names are: CatalogName, SchemaName, TableName, TableType ('TABLE') So differen

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: SQLDB GetSchemaInfoSQL for indexes etc?

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 17-4-2012 10:36, Reinier Olislagers wrote: In sqldb, this: type TSchemaType = (stNoSchema, stTables, stSysTables, stProcedures, stColumns, stProcedureParams, stIndexes, stPackages); is used in the GetSchemaInfoSQL function: I noticed stIndex

Re: [fpc-pascal] SQLDB GetSchemaInfoSQL for indexes etc?

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: In sqldb, this: type TSchemaType = (stNoSchema, stTables, stSysTables, stProcedures, stColumns, stProcedureParams, stIndexes, stPackages); is used in the GetSchemaInfoSQL function: I noticed stIndexes, stProcedureParams and stPackages do not see

Re: [fpc-pascal] XML parser

On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Juha Manninen wrote: Hi I have a new job. Now I am looking for a proper XML parser for Delphi, for big XML files. The default Delphi parser, using MS DOM, chokes badly. 4 GB memory is not enough for it. Question: Does FCL-XML work with a new Unicode Delphi? I seriously

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