Marco van de Voort wrote: >>>On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: >>> >>>>Florian Klaempfl wrote: >>>> >>>>>- write a bcd classes >>>> >>>>BCD? >>> >>>Binary Coded Decimal. We urgently need a bcdfmt unit as in delphi. >> >>[...] >> >>I did not find any usable info about the bcdfmt. > > > Searching for "Delphi precision tbcd" on google yields: > > http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:97hnmm3AhNEJ:www.delphikingdom.com/asp/useranswers.asp%3Fid%3D47518+tbcd+delphi+precision&hl=en > > which yields the type. > > type > TBcd = packed record > Precision: Byte; > SignSpecialPlaces: Byte; > Fraction: packed array [0..31] of Byte; > end; > > >>What is the required interface for the TBCD objects? >>Are they normal BCD (0-9) or Telephony BCD (0-9,a-c,*,#,filler) ? >>(Google on TBCD took me to ASN.1) > > > Normal I guess. > > >>A page for info about bcdfmt was started on wiki >>http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/BcdUnit >> >>Sorry I don't have a Delphi and I run on OS X. > > > Do not look at delphi copyrighted source, but get info from public sources > like helpfiles for download on Borlands FTP etc. > > This should be enough to reconstruct a rough interface, details will then > later be found by testing real delphi code.
The FreeCLX contains also an implementation though it's GPL while FPC libraries are modified LGPL. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
