Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > Oops! I meant Firebird RDBMS, not Firefox! Yes, but the interface API is accessible in plain C. It would be suicide for Firebird to change that to C++. Michael. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@li

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Oops! I meant Firebird RDBMS, not Firefox! regards Nataraj On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Nataraj S Narayan said: >> I have used the Ruby wrappers of this called FxRuby on Arm-linux >> boards. Aint crashed or given a problem. But the calend

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:52 AM, wrote: > > I cannot reach the link > http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ > > Could you please check ? I restarted the firewall. Please try again. I've had other users connect to the news server this morning (web and nntp interface), so it should work. I can access

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Nataraj S Narayan said: > I have used the Ruby wrappers of this called FxRuby on Arm-linux > boards. Aint crashed or given a problem. But the calender widget was > missing till Foxlib 1.6. Otherwise neat stuff. > > C++ ought to be good aint it? Even Firefox RDBMS was writ

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread duiliofoschi
Graeme, I cannot reach the link http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ in your sign. Could you please check ? Thank you Duilio 2009/2/2, Nataraj S Narayan : > Hi Graeme > > http://www.fox-toolkit.org/ > > regards > > Nataraj > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys > wrote: >> On Mo

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi Graeme http://www.fox-toolkit.org/ regards Nataraj On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Krishna wrote: >> >> Custom drawn with a Windows 2000 look on all platforms. > > Do you have a link to FoxLib? A quick google search did not revea

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > > Plz have a look at http://www.fox-toolkit.org/. Thanks for the link, I'll take a look. As Michael said, we haven't seen anybody request support for Fox Toolkit in Lazarus yet. Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
You mean its just another one out there? I have used the Ruby wrappers of this called FxRuby on Arm-linux boards. Aint crashed or given a problem. But the calender widget was missing till Foxlib 1.6. Otherwise neat stuff. C++ ought to be good aint it? Even Firefox RDBMS was written in C++? rgar

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Krishna wrote: > > Custom drawn with a Windows 2000 look on all platforms. Do you have a link to FoxLib? A quick google search did not reveal a obvious choice. As for the Windows 2000 look. I am planning on implementing the LCL-fpGUI widgetset during 2009. fpGUI

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi Well, I don't think its a wrapper because i did use it without gtk installed. Plz have a look at http://www.fox-toolkit.org/. regards Nataraj On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Krishna wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys > wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Na

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > Hi > > I have had a good time with FoxLib Gui, calling from Ruby. Why is that > there isnt an integration of Fox in Lazarus/Fpc ? Because no-one has made a widgetset based on it. This is also the first request ever. Given that it is written in C

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Krishna
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Nataraj S Narayan > wrote: >> >> I have had a good time with FoxLib Gui, calling from Ruby. Why is that >> there isnt an integration of Fox in Lazarus/Fpc ? > > I don't know FoxLib. Is that a custom drawn

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > > I have had a good time with FoxLib Gui, calling from Ruby. Why is that > there isnt an integration of Fox in Lazarus/Fpc ? I don't know FoxLib. Is that a custom drawn toolkit or a wrapper for other toolkits like GTK, Win32 etc? If it'

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi I have had a good time with FoxLib Gui, calling from Ruby. Why is that there isnt an integration of Fox in Lazarus/Fpc ? regards Nataraj On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:43 PM, duilio foschi wrote: >> wow! There is a whole world to explor

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-02 Thread duiliofoschi
my mouth is wide open for surprise and refuses to close :) Thank you Duilio 2009/2/2, Graeme Geldenhuys : > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:43 PM, duilio foschi > wrote: >> wow! There is a whole world to explore ! > > :-) And it doesn't stop there... you even have a choice of GUI > toolkits you ca

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:43 PM, duilio foschi wrote: > wow! There is a whole world to explore ! :-) And it doesn't stop there... you even have a choice of GUI toolkits you can use with Free Pascal. LCL is not the only one, there are custom written toolkits as well - all implemented in Object Pa

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-01 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
if you have any questions about lazarus and lcl there're special mailling list: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=StaticPage&file=index&sURL=maill ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepas

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-01 Thread duilio foschi
wow! There is a whole world to explore ! Thank you Duilio 2009/2/1 dmitry boyarintsev : >> what is LCL ? >> A research in the net brought 'Le Crédit Lyonnais', but I doubt that >> this is the correct anser :) > > LCL stands for Lazarus Component Library, see this page for more details > http://w

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-01 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
> what is LCL ? > A research in the net brought 'Le Crédit Lyonnais', but I doubt that > this is the correct anser :) LCL stands for Lazarus Component Library, see this page for more details http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation If you want to create a delphi-like visual compon

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-01 Thread duilio foschi
Dmitry, what is LCL ? A research in the net brought 'Le Crédit Lyonnais', but I doubt that this is the correct anser :) Thank you Duilio 2009/2/1 dmitry boyarintsev : >> No, chances are very low. It's a component which will most-probably >> depend on several vcl-internals with which the FCL i

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-01 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
> No, chances are very low. It's a component which will most-probably > depend on several vcl-internals with which the FCL is incompatible. > Because the FCL has to deal with several widgetsets and OS'es. While > Delphi's vcl is windows-only. Chances depend on how component is actually implemented.

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-02-01 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op zaterdag 31-01-2009 om 21:43 uur [tijdzone +0300], schreef dmitry boyarintsev: > > Or (still better) which chances are that the code of TProfGrid would > > compile with FPC ? > chances are very high, since FPC supports delphi dialect > {$ifdef fpc}{$mode delphi}{$h+}{$endif} No, chances are ver

Re: [fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-01-31 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
> Or (still better) which chances are that the code of TProfGrid would > compile with FPC ? chances are very high, since FPC supports delphi dialect {$ifdef fpc}{$mode delphi}{$h+}{$endif} you also need to learn about LCL (Lazarus analog of delphi VCL library) and Lazarus itself. just start from

[fpc-pascal] absolute beginner

2009-01-31 Thread duiliofoschi
I am an old goat for what concerns Delphi, but I am an abolute beginner re FPC. One simple question: is there around any (free or commercial) grid component like TProfGrid (www.profgrid.com) for FPC ? Or (still better) which chances are that the code of TProfGrid would compile with FPC ? Thank