> Alle 20:30, marted́ 13 aprile 2004, Marco van de Voort ha scritto: > > I ported the Delphi library "Decal" (used to be called SDL, by > > Soletta) to FPC 1.9.[2? 3!]+.
> Thank you for the porting, it was one of the most needed libraries in > fpc IMHO (I consider the cntnrs unit in Delphi a simple joke in > comparison :-) . I'm planning to use Decal in a free accounting project > that I started developing with fpc on linux. Hope I'll be able to > provide some useful feedbacks That'd be welcome, since it is still essentially untested. >> I'm currently correcting a quick >> conversion of the manual to LaTeX, which I hope to put in CVS end of >> the week. > 's the original manual from Soletta? Something about 80 > pages I guess, a huge work indeed... PDF - > Word - rtftex -> _lots of joeing_ -> .tex -> .pdf :-) I put the result on http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/decal.pdf It should be essentially the same as the original save some formatting, however now we can really edit and CVS revision the manual. > hope that it would contribute > to form a community of DeCAL users to renew the interest in this great > library (I've seen that the Source Forge page was surprisingly inactive > in the last years in terms of cvs commits, but I'm quite sure fpc will > make the difference now). Thank you again, Dean You could check the bugs in SF.NET, and compare them to the FPC version of decal. Marco van de Voort ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
