[fpc-pascal] Question: OpenOffice and FPC?

2005-12-14 Thread Tiziano - Mekar Srl -
hi, Is here someone that knows if there is a way to take control of Opeoffice with FPC? Time ago I made something with Delphi and OpenOffice COM Bridge, it was an interesting and stimulating experience, mainly because OOffice is available on many platforms, but this is not true for Delphi and CO

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question: OpenOffice and FPC?

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Tiziano - Mekar Srl - wrote: hi, Is here someone that knows if there is a way to take control of Opeoffice with FPC? Time ago I made something with Delphi and OpenOffice COM Bridge, it was an interesting and stimulating experience, mainly because OOffice is available on

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question: OpenOffice and FPC?

2005-12-14 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 12/14/05, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I once wrote an article about using OpenOffice 1.1 and Delphi. > There were only 2 ways to control it: using Java or COM. COM is > just a bridge to Java. Currently it seems that there are Java, > C++, COM and Python bindings. None of the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question: OpenOffice and FPC?

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 12/14/05, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I once wrote an article about using OpenOffice 1.1 and Delphi. There were only 2 ways to control it: using Java or COM. COM is just a bridge to Java. Currently it seems that the

[fpc-pascal] AnsiStrings and Memory Management

2005-12-14 Thread Adrian Veith
Hi, two days ago i posted a comment about my experiences porting our database server to fpc. yesterday i tried to figure out where the speed differences between delphi and fpc come from. At the moment i stuck a little bit, because the results i get don't make any sense at the moment to me. An

Re: [fpc-pascal] AnsiStrings and Memory Management

2005-12-14 Thread Matt Emson
>(astonishing that ShortStrings are slower than AnsiStrings in this example in delphi). Not really. Delphi is silently upcasting your shortstrings to AnsiStrings in the background. You would probably have to recompile the VCL to get around this ;-) Hope that helps, M _

Re: [fpc-pascal] AnsiStrings and Memory Management

2005-12-14 Thread Peter Vreman
> >>(astonishing that ShortStrings are slower than AnsiStrings in this >> example > in delphi). > > Not really. Delphi is silently upcasting your shortstrings to AnsiStrings > in > the background. You would probably have to recompile the VCL to get around > this ;-) I've commited a few small fixe

[fpc-pascal] fpc 2.0.2 x_86_64 rpm´s

2005-12-14 Thread Marcus Roeckrath
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Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal 2.0.2 available

2005-12-14 Thread Koenraad Lelong
Florian Klaempfl wrote: Hi, FPC 2.0.2 is finally available for various platforms. 2.0.2 is mainly a bug fix release to 2.0.0 though also some little features were added. Get FPC 2.0.2 from http://www.freepascal.org/download.html or read the whatsnew.txt here: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/di

Re: [fpc-pascal] AnsiStrings and Memory Management

2005-12-14 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Adrian Veith wrote: > Hi, > > two days ago i posted a comment about my experiences porting our > database server to fpc. yesterday i tried to figure out where the speed > differences between delphi and fpc come from. At the moment i stuck a > little bit, because the results i get don't make any s

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc 2.0.2 x_86_64 rpm´s

2005-12-14 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marcus Roeckrath wrote: > > > > Hi, > > will there be x86_64 rpm´s available sson as they are provided for fpc > 2.0.0? No. The current FPC team decided to reduce the number of package types because it costs us too much