[fpc-pascal] Will kylix resurrect?

2009-09-11 Thread Corrado Valeri
I'm taking an interesting conversation in this feed comments: http://wings-of-wind.com/2009/09/11/kylix-2011/ but I dont know enough FPC to documents appropriately it's features and products done with it. Is there someone that can bring some interesting contribuites to discussion? bye all, Corrad

Re: [fpc-pascal] Multi-Threading and usage of Semaphors under FPC

2009-09-11 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 11 Sep 2009, at 16:40, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I had a previous discussion about Semaphores. Apparently my usage of them was not very good, because they were specific to the Linux system and Posix. Anyway, I was told it is better to use the ThreadManager. So how do I translate code as show

Re: [fpc-pascal] Will kylix resurrect?

2009-09-11 Thread Henry Vermaak
2009/9/11 Corrado Valeri : > > Is there someone that can bring some interesting contribuites to discussion? Yes, I'd like to suggest that we don't discuss it here. These discussions usually deliver a huge amount of unsubstantiated arguments from people that don't know a thing about cross platform

[fpc-pascal] Multi-Threading and usage of Semaphors under FPC

2009-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I had a previous discussion about Semaphores. Apparently my usage of them was not very good, because they were specific to the Linux system and Posix. Anyway, I was told it is better to use the ThreadManager. So how do I translate code as show below to using the FPC ThreadManager? I can see w

Re: [fpc-pascal] Will kylix resurrect?

2009-09-11 Thread Corrado Valeri
2009/9/11 Henry Vermaak : > Yes, I'd like to suggest that we don't discuss it here.  These > discussions usually deliver a huge amount of unsubstantiated arguments > from people that don't know a thing about cross platform development, > and are just a massive waste of time (in my opinion, of cours

[fpc-pascal] as keyword behaivor

2009-09-11 Thread Matthias K.
Hi, Its quite a while since i last used the "as" Keyword but it seems to be broke somehow. In the following code i've got a compiler error: Illegal parameter list in the line with the star, at the opening Brace. A Cast ( T8BSetObject(ASet).FSet ... ) works fine. -- type TBaseSet = set of Char;

[fpc-pascal] Re: as keyword behaivor

2009-09-11 Thread Matthias K.
Sorry for double post, just for correction On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Matthias K. wrote: > Hi, > > Its quite a while since i last used the "as" Keyword but it seems to > be broke somehow. > In the following code i've got a compiler error: Illegal parameter > list in the line with the star,

[fpc-pascal] Please Help with inifile in WinCE (ReadSectionValues into stringlist)

2009-09-11 Thread epergola
Hi I have a small translation file (pure ASCII DOS text) written in Win32. I copied it to the emulator with Activesync. The file contains one sections ('f') in this format [f] 'Language||idioma'. (etc.) (i.e. the English test on the 1st half, the Spanish translation on the 2nd half) In the WinCE