Re: [fpc-pascal] installing FPC 2.6.0 on OS/2

2012-01-14 Thread waldo kitty
On 1/13/2012 12:24, Tomas Hajny wrote: On Fri, January 13, 2012 16:48, waldo kitty wrote: [time passes] ok, i figured out how to compile with -s and then i ran the ppas.cmd file... it apparently has completed successfully... i do have a bright shiny new exe file... now to figure out what's wron

Re: [fpc-pascal] Postscriptcanvas

2012-01-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, David Copeland wrote: Hi, Is it possible to use the PostScriptCanvas unit in a non-gui program? If you are talking about the pscanvas unit of FPC: Yes, that is what it is for. Michael. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@l

Re: [fpc-pascal] installing FPC 2.6.0 on OS/2

2012-01-14 Thread Tomas Hajny
On 14 Jan 12, at 5:13, waldo kitty wrote: > On 1/13/2012 12:24, Tomas Hajny wrote: > > On Fri, January 13, 2012 16:48, waldo kitty wrote: . . > i use 4OS2 and both return the same path... > > >which as >209 rwx 1 bin 212992 Feb 23 2004 10:43:38 h:\fp\2.6.0\bin\os2\as.exe > > >which ld >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Postscriptcanvas

2012-01-14 Thread david . copeland
Micheal, Thank you. I was referring to LCL Postscriptcanvas unit which I use in GUI programs. When I tried to use it in a non-GUI program, it could not be found. Are these two really the same thing, or at least similar to use? If not the same, can you point me to any documentation or example code?

Re: [fpc-pascal] Postscriptcanvas

2012-01-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, david.copel...@jsidata.ca wrote: Micheal, Thank you. I was referring to LCL Postscriptcanvas unit which I use in GUI programs. When I tried to use it in a non-GUI program, it could not be found. Are these two really the same thing, or at least similar to use? If not the s

Re: [fpc-pascal] Postscriptcanvas

2012-01-14 Thread david . copeland
> > > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, david.copel...@jsidata.ca wrote: > >> Micheal, >> >> Thank you. I was referring to LCL Postscriptcanvas unit which I use in >> GUI >> programs. When I tried to use it in a non-GUI program, it could not be >> found. Are these two really the same thing, or at least similar

Re: [fpc-pascal] installing FPC 2.6.0 on OS/2

2012-01-14 Thread waldo kitty
On 1/14/2012 08:06, Tomas Hajny wrote: On 14 Jan 12, at 5:13, waldo kitty wrote: On 1/13/2012 12:24, Tomas Hajny wrote: On Fri, January 13, 2012 16:48, waldo kitty wrote: . . i use 4OS2 and both return the same path... >which as 209 rwx 1 bin 212992 Feb 23 2004 10:43:38 h:\fp\2.6.

Re: [fpc-pascal] installing FPC 2.6.0 on OS/2

2012-01-14 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Sat, January 14, 2012 18:38, waldo kitty wrote: > On 1/14/2012 08:06, Tomas Hajny wrote: >> On 14 Jan 12, at 5:13, waldo kitty wrote: >>> On 1/13/2012 12:24, Tomas Hajny wrote: On Fri, January 13, 2012 16:48, waldo kitty wrote: . . >> Yes, that certainly makes sense. My point was mainly -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Advanced Records - Why not available by default?

2012-01-14 Thread Lars
Daniel Gaspary wrote: > Any special reason to Advanced Records be available only in Delphi Mode ? Personally, I'm getting sick of all the new features added to delphi that don't add anything meaningful, and just add complexity to the compiler. why didn't borland just make people use old borland o

Re: [fpc-pascal] Advanced Records - Why not available by default?

2012-01-14 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Lars wrote: > > Daniel Gaspary wrote: > > Any special reason to Advanced Records be available only in Delphi Mode ? > > > Personally, I'm getting sick of all the new features added to delphi that > don't add anything meaningful, and just add complexity to the compi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Advanced Records - Why not available by default?

2012-01-14 Thread Daniel Gaspary
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 21:59, Lars wrote: > Personally, I'm getting sick of all the new features added to delphi that > don't add anything meaningful, and just add complexity to the compiler. I agrre with you. I like some features of advanced records. But a lot of things seems a big redundancy.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Advanced Records - Why not available by default?

2012-01-14 Thread J.-c. Chu
For one thing, class variables, class methods, and class properties are subject to visibility controls and inheritance. So you can, for example, have a private class variable initialized with class constructor (which avoids code in the INITIALIZATION section) and accessed via a read-only class pro