Re: [fpc-pascal]gpm library compiled by default ?

2003-10-23 Thread James Mills
nit. So I could compile it with fpc > > -dNOMOUSE ? > > Yes. Under FreeBSD this is default even. Compiling with this option makes no difference. It will still compile and require the gpm library. Any other suggestion ? IHMO, A console app that just uses the KeyBoard should not need the

Re: [fpc-pascal]gpm library compiled by default ?

2003-10-24 Thread James Mills
tad bit confused. You originally said to recompile the RTL, which I don't really want to do anyway, and I don't have the sources to recompile. I'll just stick with the main stream version :) People that use my console programs are just gonna have to have the gpm library installed now are

Re: [fpc-pascal]replacing BEGIN and END?

2004-01-08 Thread James Mills
compile it? Thanks. Definately not! This is what makes C look so damn ugly. cheers James ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal]Info about the compiler

2004-01-10 Thread James Mills
whole process of doing it is very complicated and I was never able to do it. Are there better examples or documentation of how it's done now ? Could someone perhaps explain how to do it ? cheers James ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal]How to daemonize a program?

2004-01-11 Thread James Mills
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:06:35PM -0500, Paul Aviles wrote: > Hello all, > > I know I can start a program with & at the end and will run in the > background. Is there a way to do this without the & symbol in Linux? have a look at the daemon.pp example in the exa

Re: [fpc-pascal]quick question

2004-03-04 Thread James Mills
; begin > assign(ftb,'bot.log'); > reset(ftb); > writeln(ftb,'the botlog was created'); > close(ftb); > end; > end; > > whats wrong with the code. > i get the following error on compile. > botlog.pp(25,4) Error: Identifier not found "ex

[fpc-pascal]Developers needed (interested?)

2004-03-14 Thread James Mills
ed at http://wiki.shortcircuit.net.au/SAF/ The current name is temporary only and may change... If you would like to help out and join the project team, please email either: James Mills (myself) -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Jeremy Whyatt -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for taking an interest :) c

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC Version 1.9.4 released.

2004-06-02 Thread James Mills
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:40:38PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > And PIC (Position Independant Code) generation is working too ? > > No. See the roadmap: scheduled for 1.9.6 Excuse me ignorance. I don't beleive I know what PIC is... What is PIC ? cheers James -- -Shor

[fpc-pascal]ProceList/Quote Program (ncurses)

2004-07-11 Thread James Mills
o use. Q: Is there anything out there that'll make it easier to design the windows/screen ? Q: Has anyone written a similar program that I can learn from ? cheers James -- -ShortCircuit Services -WIKI: http://wiki.shortcircuit.net.au -IRC: http://wiki.shortcircuit.net.au/IRC/ -IRC

Re: [fpc-pascal]ProceList/Quote Program (ncurses)

2004-07-12 Thread James Mills
e ncurses library ? vs. Learning Turbo Vision which I've never used... Is Turbo Vision more complicated than ncurses ? cheers James -- -ShortCircuit Services -WIKI: http://wiki.shortcircuit.net.au -IRC: http://wiki.shortcircuit.net.au/IRC/ -IRC: (/server shortcircuit.net.au) - -"Pro

Re: [fpc-pascal]ProceList/Quote Program (ncurses)

2004-07-12 Thread James Mills
here and there, > but that will pay itself back on a larger project. Specially if you have > no gigantic requirements on terminal independance. I might do this then since this is only a small Terminal app, and I might learn a few things along the way :) cheers James -- -ShortCircuit

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows

2016-07-22 Thread James Richters
What I need to do is be able to read some 5v TTL Inputs in and write some 5v TTL outputs out. The parallel port always worked when my program was a DOS program.. it was so simple, just do Port[$378]:= data to set the bits on the port or data:=port[$378] to read some bits from the port. I'm not

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows

2016-07-22 Thread James Richters
Thank you! I was indeed trying to use the 64bit DLL.. I mistakenly thought you were supposed to use the version of the operating system, not the program. I have absolutely zero experience with windows programs. I am able to run my program now, but still not working exactly as I want it to work.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows

2016-07-22 Thread James Richters
x27;s holding me up on a linux port. -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Mark Morgan Lloyd Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 10:19 AM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Acces

[fpc-pascal] Linux Port help

2016-07-22 Thread James Richters
I'm a newbie trying to port an old turbo pascal program to FreePascal in linux. My reasons for doing this is old Pentium 233 motherboards are getting harder to keep running and I need be running on more modern hardware.. It's a massive program and I just don't have time to re-write the whole thi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Linux Port help

2016-07-22 Thread James Richters
- From: fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Graeme Geldenhuys Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 4:28 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Linux Port help On 2016-07-22 20:59, James Richters wrote: > 4. no

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows

2016-07-22 Thread James Richters
l-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Mark Morgan Lloyd Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 5:39 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows James Richters wrote: I was rather rushed

Re: [fpc-pascal] Linux Port help

2016-07-22 Thread James Richters
enhuys Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 6:18 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Linux Port help On 2016-07-22 21:38, James Richters wrote: > Linux is just all yellow on light blue. The windows one for example > will show comments in grey reserved words in white.. ect.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Linux Port help

2016-07-22 Thread James Richters
l.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Linux Port help On 2016-07-22 23:33, James Richters wrote: > Here are screenshots: > https://github.com/Zaaphod/FPC-Parallel-Port/issues/1 I just checked. My FreeBSD version looks like the Windows screenshot. Also under Linux, load the IDE, then go

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows

2016-07-22 Thread James Richters
I have an update on this. I found a demo program here: http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/inpout32/ I was able to successfully run the demo program and access my parallel port. I could write to it and read back what I just wrote accurately. I wrote '123' decimal to it, then tried to read it b

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows

2016-07-23 Thread James Richters
20 -0400, James Richters wrote: > > I'm trying to avoid custom hardware if possible. I have always used > > parallel ports and never had a problem with them until now. I like the > > idea of a parallel port because they are still built onto motherboards, and > > there a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows

2016-07-23 Thread James Richters
Santhoff Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2016 1:09 AM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows On Sa, 2016-07-23 at 05:55 +0200, Marc Santhoff wrote: > On Fr, 2016-07-22 at 18:20 -0400, James Richters wrote: > > I'm trying t

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows

2016-07-24 Thread James Richters
Bo, I also have a raspberry pi project.. I got a hifi-berry card for it and it is streaming audio to a central audio system, I'm using VLC media player and an app on my cell phone to control it, I have not made use of the GPIO on them yet, but I would really like to learn how this can be accompl

[fpc-pascal] Textmode IDE splitscreen?

2016-07-24 Thread James Richters
Is there a way to get the textmode IDE to do splitscreen the way Turbo Pascal used to if you had both a color and monochrome monitor? It was very handy to trace through the source code on the monochrome monitor and watch it execute on the other one.. It prevented all the screen flashing when it ha

Re: [fpc-pascal] Textmode IDE splitscreen?

2016-07-25 Thread James Richters
the code quite easily. In the hope it could lead to an improvement of the go32v2 IDE, Pierre Muller > -Message d'origine- > De : fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal- > boun...@lists.freepascal.org] De la part de James Richters Envoyé :

Re: [fpc-pascal] Textmode IDE splitscreen?

2016-07-25 Thread James Richters
, James Richters wrote: > The TurboPascal version used to write to B800-B7FF for the monochrome > monitor and A000-AFFF for the color monitor, the IDE was always on > monochrome and the program executing was always on color... that's how > it worked, No, it didn't. The monoc

Re: [fpc-pascal] Textmode IDE splitscreen?

2016-07-25 Thread James Richters
>If you are using Windows, you can compile the IDE in FPC trunk with gdb/mi support, >which works by opening your program in a new console window, so it gets the effect >you want already under Windows. Lazarus also does the same thing, if you don't mind >using a newer IDE. I'm using Windows, Ca

Re: [fpc-pascal] Textmode IDE splitscreen?

2016-07-25 Thread James Richters
users discussions Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Textmode IDE splitscreen? Am 25.07.2016 22:52 schrieb "James Richters" mailto:ja...@productionautomation.net> >: > I've tried Lazarus, for some reason I can't even get my program to compile > with Lazarus, I get page

[fpc-pascal] Microsecond Delay Suggestions?

2016-07-26 Thread James Richters
Any Suggestions for a microsecond delay? I had a scheme in my old dos program where I would run a massive loop at the beginning of my program and time it with DOS 55mS ticks, then do the math and figure out how many times I needed to loop for a given delay.. worked great on DOS with nothing els

Re: [fpc-pascal] Microsecond Delay Suggestions?

2016-07-26 Thread James Richters
[mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Dmitry Boyarintsev Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 11:19 AM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Microsecond Delay Suggestions? On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:16 AM, James Richters mailto:ja...@productionautomation.net

Re: [fpc-pascal] Microsecond Delay Suggestions?

2016-07-26 Thread James Richters
That looks great. I’ll give it a try! Thank you very much for the suggestion and the example From: fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Dmitry Boyarintsev Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 11:45 AM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions

Re: [fpc-pascal] Microsecond Delay Suggestions?

2016-07-26 Thread James Richters
ReadSerial:=InputString; end; From: fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Dmitry Boyarintsev Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 1:05 PM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Microsecond Delay Suggestions? On Tue, Jul

Re: [fpc-pascal] Microsecond Delay Suggestions?

2016-07-26 Thread James Richters
>An alternative would be NtDelayExecution from unit jwanative. Its interval argument is in multiples of 100ns >and is essentially what Windows' Sleep() uses internally. >Note: The first argument "Alertable" determines whether the function can be interrupted by NtAlertThread >(and whatever Windows

Re: [fpc-pascal] Microsecond Delay Suggestions?

2016-07-26 Thread James Richters
Thank You I found the sleep procedure Thank you for explaining that it was looking for a pointer, that was helpful. A little cutting and pasting and now I have 3 more ways to sleep... Sleep_S will probably be sufficient and is the most flexible, because if you have 1,000,000,000 seconds you d

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows

2016-07-27 Thread James Richters
uk/downloads/inpout32/ I am able to control the parallel port directly under Windows 7 Professional on this motherboard https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IW99S4A It has on board parallel port on a header. James ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Microsecond Delay Suggestions?

2016-07-27 Thread James Richters
ks, that does look like it would take care of the issue for me. James ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows

2016-07-27 Thread James Richters
>>FWIW, I ported the library to fpc, together with the test/demo software >>(x_pigpiod_if2). >>The fact that the communication goes via the network opens >>possibilities though. I tested my port on my laptop, connected to the >>pi. So applications running on a remote PC could control the pi's IO

[fpc-pascal] Could Not Set Breakpoint - Why not?

2016-07-27 Thread James Richters
I can't seem to set any breakpoints at all with FreePascal 3.0.0 with the text IDE. Does anyone have any idea why this could be? I have even tried to set a breakpoint in a ridiculously simple program like: Program Test; Begin Writeln; End. I am able to single step through my programs w

[fpc-pascal] windows graph unit questions

2016-08-17 Thread James Richters
I have a few questions about using the graph unit with windows. 1.Is there any way to get rid of the bar at the top that says 'graph window application' I don't need it or want it, I want the user locked into my program full screen until they exit it 2. If there is no way to ge

Re: [fpc-pascal] windows graph unit questions

2016-08-17 Thread James Richters
-pascal] windows graph unit questions Hi, the beauty about free open source is that you can search the sources: > -Message d'origine- > De : fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal- > boun...@lists.freepascal.org] De la part de James Richters Envoyé : &

[fpc-pascal] Finding Unsed Variable, Procedures, & Functions

2016-09-03 Thread James Richters
Is there any way to quickly identify unused variables, procedures & functions within a large project? I'm using FPC 3.0.0 with textmode IDE ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Finding Unsed Variable, Procedures, & Functions

2016-09-03 Thread James Richters
Canneyt Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2016 2:35 PM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Finding Unsed Variable, Procedures, & Functions On Sat, 3 Sep 2016, James Richters wrote: > Is there any way to quickly identify unused variables, procedures & > functions

[fpc-pascal] WinCRT vs CRT

2016-09-08 Thread James Richters
t work.. etc. etc. etc.. you get the idea, it's extremely limited. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening or if there is another way to get keyboard input on the graph window and be able to use the entire keyboard? Any help is greatly appreciated! James ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] pull request: Add missing CTRL keys to wincrt unit

2016-09-13 Thread James Richters
That was me, Sorry about that, I did not realize it was a read only repository, I downloaded a fork of it to my desktop a while ago, so when I had a proposed change to it, I just made a pull request the way I normally do with git projects. I have posted the issue here: http://mantis.freepas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Reed-Solomon algorithm

2016-09-15 Thread James Richters
I was able to use a C library by creating the following unit, the hardest part was getting variable types to match. Perhaps this example of linking a C library to Free Pascal will help. James Unit InpOut32; Interface Function IsInpOutDriverOpen:Boolean;{$Ifndef Win32} cdecl

Re: [fpc-pascal] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-21 Thread James Richters
>IOW I don't like editors that store in formats that are nearly useless in other editors. I total agree with this statement, proportional editors are only good if you are the only one who will ever look at the code, if anyone else EVER looks at it, it's just a giant mess, you can't put snippets o

Re: [fpc-pascal] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-21 Thread James Richters
I use notepad++ Vertical editing ALL THE TIME, you cannot do vertical editing effectively with a proportional font. For those who aren't familiar with it, you can hold down ALT and highlight many lines vertically making a very tall cursor, you can then start typing and what you type will be on

Re: [fpc-pascal] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

2016-11-22 Thread James Richters
The problem with your example "text_with_tabs_Input-Sans_proportional_font_and_ET.png" is that the underscores and the word Range and the brackets are all out of alignment, even though everything is re-aligned again with the := I prefer the array elements to also be aligned as well. In my

Re: [fpc-pascal] Readln a password

2016-11-27 Thread James Richters
Here is how I read passwords... it generates a random character and displays that so someone looking over your shoulder things those characters are the password It uses readkey which does not display on the screen, one character at a time Function Readpw:String; Var Pwstring : String; pwchar

Re: [fpc-pascal] Readln a password

2016-11-27 Thread James Richters
I would like to mention that if you store your password in a constant like this: const password='mypassword' then if someone edits your exe file with any text editor, your password will be in there as text and easy to find. I have used this method to get around this... I store a huge string

Re: [fpc-pascal] Readln a password

2016-11-27 Thread James Richters
Shouldn't an extremely basic function like readkey be cross-platform? -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Michael Van Canneyt Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 12:07 PM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions

[fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk

2017-02-21 Thread James Richters
h to truly save the file all the way to disk and close it. Thanks for any advice on this James ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk

2017-02-22 Thread James Richters
my procedure without running it since it’s a single thread console application. James From: fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Santiago A. Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 3:48 AM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk

2017-02-22 Thread James Richters
, 2017 11:07 AM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk El 22/02/2017 a las 13:17, James Richters escribió: The error I get is when trying to open the file to read it. It’s something like read past end of file, because the c

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk

2017-02-22 Thread James Richters
ascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Jonas Maebe Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 3:47 PM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk On 22/02/17 13:17, James Richters wrote:

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk

2017-02-24 Thread James Richters
well, and exclude it from virus checkers. When I read the file I can verify the MD5sum and if that test fails, I'll just automatically try the backup, If that also fails the MD5sum I'll notify the user. Thanks again for all the help James -Original Message- From: fpc-p

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk

2017-03-21 Thread James Richters
ne. So I would like to find a real solution that would force my files all the way to disk on my own without depending on the system being configured a certain way. I really need these tiny files to survive power failures. Thanks for any advice on how to do this James -Original Mess

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk

2017-03-21 Thread James Richters
g actually written to the disk and my 'power failure' is not affecting the data at all, but on the SSD, it's still just a correct length file of 00s Does anyone know of a way to force critical data to be written to a SSD so it's not lost during a power failure? James -

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk

2017-03-22 Thread James Richters
will end up saving them. I guess if I did that I could run my entire program from a ram drive and save some SSD activity and only copy the important files back to the SSD and only when they actually change. James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fp

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk

2017-03-22 Thread James Richters
use DeleteFile() to delete the previous backup and Rename() to rename the files or is there a better way? Will I need to do something for commit the rename to disk? Thanks for the help with this James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk

2017-03-22 Thread James Richters
've tried using single quotes and double quotes around the file names. Thanks James Uses Serial,Windows,jwanative,sysutils; Procedure Copy_Backup_Rename(CBR_Filename:String); var fileSource, fileDest: string; resultsofit : Boolean; Begin fileSource := chr(39)+Prog_Drive+Prog_P

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk

2017-03-23 Thread James Richters
with a space in the file name and it worked fine without “ It appears The function must put “ around it for you. James From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Sandro Cumerlato Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 1:30 AM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions

[fpc-pascal] outtextXY not moving pointer

2017-05-01 Thread James Richters
I am using a combination of outtext and outtextxy for an application using the graph unit on Windows. I am noticing that outtextxy is not moving the pointer to the end of text as it is supposed to. Outtext does move the pointer, outtextxy is not moving the pointer. The documentation here: h

[fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-11 Thread James Richters
I have a few console graphics applications that I originally wrote in Turbo Pascal that I have been able to convert over to Free Pascal and now have windows versions of these programs. I notice that unless I run my program on a 3.5GHz machine or faster, the graphics are fairly slow.By slow, I

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-15 Thread James Richters
Thanks for the help and advice with this. I've been trying to figure out how a lot of this works. Here's where I'm at >You could try the units ptcgraph or sdlgraph as alternatives (both are part of >FPC). These seemed like the easiest things to start with. ptcgraph: I'm having 2 issues t

[fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-15 Thread James Richters
text based IDE to compile my program. When I try to install 64 bit windows version, I don't have this anymore, is It possible to use the text based IDE to compile 64 bit programs or do I need to learn how to do it from the command line? Any advice is appreciated

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-15 Thread James Richters
ubject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options? On 2017-05-15 11:51, James Richters wrote: ication to be a 64bit > application. I have installed > 'fpc-3.0.2.i386-win32.cross.x86_64-win64.exe' but I don't see any > fp.exe to run so I'm a bit lost with it. Yes, I don&

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-15 Thread James Richters
ssage- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Graeme Geldenhuys Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 10:52 AM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options? On 2017-05-15 15:45, James Richters wrote: > I did appreciate how much

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-15 Thread James Richters
:41 AM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows On 2017-05-15 11:59, James Richters wrote: > When I try to install 64 bit windows > version, I don't have this anymore The Free Pascal project, for some weird reason, only ships a 64-bit Windows cr

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-15 Thread James Richters
hat. -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Graeme Geldenhuys Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 12:18 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows On 2017-05-15 16:57, James Richters wrote: >

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-15 Thread James Richters
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I was trying to go to Windows instead of source, so I was lost James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Graeme Geldenhuys Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 1:57 PM To: fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-15 Thread James Richters
aggpas to my directories so it is finding them and using them. I can trace into the program and I see it is going into aggpas units, but I do not get any graphical window, I don't get any errors either, it just runs and exits. James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-p

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-15 Thread James Richters
options? On 05/15/2017 11:25 PM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > > > On 05/15/2017 01:51 PM, James Richters wrote: >> Thanks for the help and advice with this. I've been trying to figure >> out how a lot of this works. Here's where I'm at >> >>&

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-15 Thread James Richters
I have managed to get ptcgraph and ptccrt to work with my program and I can report that there is an AMAZING increase in graphics performance! It is pretty much a drop in replacement and I did not change any compiler settings. I did have to make a few minor changes to get it to work, not enoug

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-15 Thread James Richters
Geldenhuys Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 6:05 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options? On 2017-05-15 20:50, James Richters wrote: > see it is going into aggpas units, but I do not get any graphical > window, I don't get any errors either, it just run

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-15 Thread James Richters
figure out what my 217 error was, it just happened to be the only time I right justified something, but it was actually in a unit where I neglected to change graph to ptcgraph, and that caused the error. Thanks again for the help, this is a great quick fix and huge performance gain. James

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-16 Thread James Richters
could put status information up there, but if not possible then a one time custom title bar name would be great. James From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Sven Barth via fpc-pascal Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 2:00 AM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions Cc: Sv

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-16 Thread James Richters
hTitle); ShowWindow(graphwindow,SW_show); SetActiveWindow(graphwindow); SetForegroundWindow(graphwindow); It would be handy if GraphWindow was set to the ptcgraph window handle to make it compatible with the graph unit Thanks for the help with this, I really appreciate it

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-16 Thread James Richters
Join the bad time estimate club! The help is very much appreciated and whatever time you can allow for it great. James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Nikolay Nikolov Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 5:42 PM To: fpc

[fpc-pascal] ptcgraph issues

2017-05-17 Thread James Richters
g to click on to get it back, and using ShowWindow() to get it back takes a very long time. Then when I eventually get the window back, it no longer responds to the keyboard. James ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http:/

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-18 Thread James Richters
re on how to do this? When I try to do the "Make Clean" I get Makefile:29: *** You need the GNU utils package to use this Makefile. Stop. I think I am missing something somehow. James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-18 Thread James Richters
That would be very much appreciated, I don't know why I have such difficulty with this. James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Graeme Geldenhuys Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 6:02 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepasca

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-18 Thread James Richters
bit machine I might as well have a 64bit program as well and thought it might offer a performance advantage. James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Nikolay Nikolov Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 7:39 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.free

Re: [fpc-pascal] ptcgraph issues

2017-05-18 Thread James Richters
it because as I mentioned before, most of the computer I run this on don't have a mouse attached. If I could disable alt-tab from this window somehow, then at least I wouldn't accidentally break keyboard response to the ptcgraph window, but I don't know how I could do that eithe

Re: [fpc-pascal] ptcgraph issues

2017-05-21 Thread James Richters
PM, James Richters wrote: If I get the full screen by setting fullscreengraph := True; then it does seem to report stop scaling and now everything fits correctly on the screen, however. this has it's own issues. For some reason when I use this to obtain full screen, it does not task s

Re: [fpc-pascal] [FPC-Pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-21 Thread James Richters
Setting it before initgraph will serve my purposes just fine. How is this accomplished? -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Nikolay Nikolov Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2017 5:47 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [

Re: [fpc-pascal] [FPC-Pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-21 Thread James Richters
I have the window title working, Thank you for that. However I still have the same issue with non-responsive keyboard when I return to the graph window after an ALT-TAB. I am running on windows 10 64bit - program compiled for win32. James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] [FPC-Pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-22 Thread James Richters
that I am really running r175. Thank you for the help with this, it is very much appreciated James ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-22 Thread James Richters
using ctrl or alt is used. I did also notice that just hitting alt or ctrl and releasing it in the graph window clears the condition and characters are back to normal again. James ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://l

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-23 Thread James Richters
clue the proper way to integrate this into my fpc compiler. Could someone please tell me the correct way I should be doing this so that the compiler will find the correct versions of all the files necessary? James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-23 Thread James Richters
sfully. I did a search for win32kbd and I find win32kbdd.inc but not win32kbd.inc That is where I am at. I think If I could correctly apply win32kbd.inc it may work James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Nikolay N

Re: [fpc-pascal] [FPC-Pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-23 Thread James Richters
them. -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of James Richters Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 1:29 PM To: 'FPC-Pascal users discussions' Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options? I have done the "download snaps

Re: [fpc-pascal] [FPC-Pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-23 Thread James Richters
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Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-23 Thread James Richters
age "rtl" not found I have fpcdir=j:\Programming\fpc 3.0.2 set in my environment variables Make -v reports: GNU Make 3.82 Built for i686-pc-mingw32 James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Nikolay Nikolov Sen

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-23 Thread James Richters
s\i386-win32 h:\FPC\3.0.2\units\$fpctarget h:\FPC\3.0.2\units\$fpctarget\* h:\FPC\3.0.2\units\$fpctarget\rtl All other directories tabs are blank Thanks for the help James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Ewald Sent: Tuesday

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-24 Thread James Richters
to someone. James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of James Richters Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 5:40 PM To: 'FPC-Pascal users discussions' Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options? >Just like you now use

Re: [fpc-pascal] ptccrt missing keys

2017-05-26 Thread James Richters
tended: #149 ALT / - Extended: #164 CTRL * - Extended: #150 ALT * - Extended: #55 CTRL - - Extended: #142 ALT - - Extended: #74 CTRL + - Extended: #78 ALT + - Extended: #78 *CTRL + and ALT + are the sa

Re: [fpc-pascal] ptccrt missing keys

2017-05-28 Thread James Richters
Having some kind of Keyboard Mode selection Variable that defaults to TP compatibility would be a great option. James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Nikolay Nikolov Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2017 9:52 AM To: fpc-pascal

[fpc-pascal] Implementing AggPas with PtcGraph

2017-05-30 Thread James Richters
-attached Graeme's sample slightly modified to open the ptcgraph window, and attempt to use putimage on line 103 but when I run it I get 217- access violation Any advice on how to get the image into the window is greatly appreciated. James Agg2DConsole.dpr Description: Binary data ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Implementing AggPas with PtcGraph

2017-05-30 Thread James Richters
isn't anything canned that can do what I want? Maybe I need to put the pixels on the screen myself using a nested loop and getpixel / putpixel and do whatever logic on my own. James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of G

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