Re: [fpc-pascal] Status of Lazarus

2005-10-18 Thread Daniel Franzini
RS232 is a standard for serial communications. It sets up voltage levels for logical 0 and 1, timming and waveforms that devices should provide to receive/transmit data. A few weeks ago i built up and got worked a simple RS232 device: a (old) terminal connected to the pc just for sending and receiv

Re[2]: [fpc-pascal] Status of Lazarus

2005-10-17 Thread Alexey Pavluchenko
Hello Felipe, Monday, October 17, 2005, 1:08:00 PM, you wrote: FMdC> On 10/17/05, David Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't have a USB interface in the DOS version--just RS232. I was >> hoping I could find others who could point the way on the USB issue. FMdC> What is RS232?? Standa

Re: [fpc-pascal] Status of Lazarus

2005-10-17 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 10/17/05, David Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have a USB interface in the DOS version--just RS232. I was > hoping I could find others who could point the way on the USB issue. What is RS232?? Well, if you are already good at other hardware interfaces you may even learn how to

Re: [fpc-pascal] Status of Lazarus

2005-10-16 Thread David Chandler
...I am really interested on knowing how to access USB on lazarus code and, even better, how to create the USB hardware interface. I don't have a USB interface in the DOS version--just RS232. I was hoping I could find others who could point the way on the USB issue. How is your software li

Re: [fpc-pascal] Status of Lazarus

2005-10-16 Thread Lukas Gebauer
> > How about file transfer across the internet from within the program? > > At least, there are plenty of units for this one ;-). > > Synapse is cross platform, and the main FPC sockets unit is crossplatform. > Synapse and any synapse wrappers out there, are a bit higher level than > programmin

Re: [fpc-pascal] Status of Lazarus

2005-10-15 Thread L505
> How about file transfer across the internet from within the program? At least, there are plenty of units for this one ;-). Synapse is cross platform, and the main FPC sockets unit is crossplatform. Synapse and any synapse wrappers out there, are a bit higher level than programming with the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Status of Lazarus

2005-10-15 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
> At this time I have a imense amount of tasks to do already, but I am > really interested on knowing how to access USB on lazarus code and, > even better, how to create the USB hardware interface. How is your > software licensed? > > I am thinking about starting a "Hardware Access" section on the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Status of Lazarus

2005-10-15 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Hello, On 10/15/05, David Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am starting to get into Lazarus, as recommended by others on this > list, but I wonder about its limitations, given that it is still in Beta > release. I wouldn't say it is in Beta. The latest lazarus (0.9.10) is very stable. I rec

[fpc-pascal] Status of Lazarus

2005-10-15 Thread David Chandler
Thank you all who responded to my initial inquiry. Your responses were helpful. I am starting to get into Lazarus, as recommended by others on this list, but I wonder about its limitations, given that it is still in Beta release. I have a large DOS era shareware astronomy program written in