Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-22 Thread Paul Breneman
On 03/21/2016 10:41 PM, donald.ped...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi Paul, I would suggest checking this out: http://castle-engine.sourceforge.net/engine.php https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/wiki/Build-Tool My app isn't a game, so not sure that is of much help to me, but thanks

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-22 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
2016-03-17 15:17 GMT+01:00 Paul Breneman : > I would suggest checking this out: > http://castle-engine.sourceforge.net/engine.php > https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/wiki/Build-Too > Small correction, the link should be: https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/wiki/Build-Too

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-21 Thread donald . pedder
iginal Message - From: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" To: Cc: Sent:Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:17:06 -0500 Subject:Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC I would suggest checking this out: http://castle-engine.sourceforge.net/engine.php https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/wiki/Build-

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-20 Thread Ingemar Ragnemalm
Maciej Izak wrote: Well, yes, it works fine, but you still need a Java part otherwise a lot of APIs cannot be accessed. In particular APIs that require creating interfaces. I can confirm too :) But for completeness, surely you do NOT have to write the Java (JVM) parts in Java, but you can

[fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-19 Thread donald . pedder
Hi all,    I was on this list years ago, and then fell off at some point for some reason, but back again now. :-)    Having written for DOS all those years ago, I am now just getting into making smartphone apps, and it would be good to be able to use my old friend FPC for it. :-) I have some fami

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-19 Thread donald . pedder
Hi Michael,    I remember your name from when I was here before. > I can send a URL for the articles if you want. That would be great. I would love to read them (I am at the soaking-up information stage :-) ). thanks,  Donald. - Email sent using Optus Webmail ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-19 Thread Maciej Izak
2016-03-17 14:58 GMT+01:00 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho < felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com>: > Well, yes, it works fine, but you still need a Java part otherwise a > lot of APIs cannot be accessed. In particular APIs that require > creating interfaces. > I can confirm too :) > > > even is possi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-19 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:08:01 +0100 (CET) Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > - Use the Android SDK, using the JVM compiler. > I have written several articles on how to use the latter approach; > I wrote a real-world app with it. But you don't own a smart phone and have never heard of 'long click' like

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-19 Thread Maciej Izak
2016-03-18 10:57 GMT+01:00 Ingemar Ragnemalm : > >> But for completeness, surely you do NOT have to write the Java (JVM) > parts in Java, but you can write that too in FPC, right? I mean, using the > FPC JVM compiler. But you need to interface JVM and native code like you do > with Java code. Pr

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-19 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, donald.ped...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi all,    I was on this list years ago, and then fell off at some point for some reason, but back again now. :-)    Having written for DOS all those years ago, I am now just getting into making smartphone apps, and it would be good t

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-19 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:29:23 +0100 (CET) Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > Obviously they are not so essential as you seem to think ? You are right, they are not. They are only useful to access strange chars like "0"-"9" or "!@#$%&*?/ etc." which are not often used in passwords or user names. But of

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-19 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Reimar Grabowski wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:49:50 +0100 (CET) Michael Van Canneyt wrote: But, I do have an emulator, and plenty of people in the building do have a smartpone :-) Amazing, eh ? :) Not really. But it's amazing that you wrote articles and a real-world

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-19 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Reimar Grabowski wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:08:01 +0100 (CET) Michael Van Canneyt wrote: - Use the Android SDK, using the JVM compiler. I have written several articles on how to use the latter approach; I wrote a real-world app with it. But you don't own a smart pho

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-19 Thread Paul Breneman
I would suggest checking this out: http://castle-engine.sourceforge.net/engine.php https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/wiki/Build-Too Lots of links here: http://turbocontrol.com/devoptions.htm ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.fre

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-18 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Maciej Izak wrote: > 2016-03-17 11:08 GMT+01:00 Michael Van Canneyt : >> - Use the NDK, and then basically you're writing a native Linux >> application. >> You can try to use the Android SDK through some JNI tricks; but I am >> unsure how well this works. > >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-18 Thread Maciej Izak
2016-03-17 11:08 GMT+01:00 Michael Van Canneyt : > - Use the NDK, and then basically you're writing a native Linux > application. > You can try to use the Android SDK through some JNI tricks; but I am > unsure how well this works. > I can confirm that works very well, even is possible visual

Re: [fpc-pascal] Smartphone apps in FPC

2016-03-18 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:49:50 +0100 (CET) Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > But, I do have an emulator, and plenty of people in the building do have a > smartpone :-) > > Amazing, eh ? :) Not really. But it's amazing that you wrote articles and a real-world application and in the process never stumbl