Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?
On 05/15/2014 05:26 PM, Reimar Grabowski wrote: OP: I need to develop a game for all possible Operating Systems. EpicTimer uses QueryPerformanceCounter for Windows. I did not check into this, but I suppose this already is what he needs. But it uses fpgettimeofday in Linux. This is what Michael vC states to be not appropriate. Hence using the vDSO to call clock_gettimesing in Linux should make the OP happy with Linux and Windows. Sorry, but no Idea about other OSes. -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?
On 05/15/2014 07:34 PM, Junior wrote: I need precision, I'll be working with many timers in milliseconds. (Windows 32 bits/64bits; Linux 32 bits/64bits; Android; MacOS; among others) No normal (not dedicatedtly realtime) OS provides decent millisecond precision. The OS might stall any program at any time for seconds. But a game is not supposed to be hard realtime but very soft realtime. Hence it should not matter if such glitches once and again. I supposed, an enhanced version of EpicTimer might be useful. Decent arch/OS independent sub-millisecond timer support (e.g. using QueryPerformanceCounter and clock_gettime via vDSO) would be even nicer. -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Off topic. Version numbers
On 16.05.2014 06:09, Flávio Etrusco wrote: So in practice it's the same, no? ;-) It feels a bit annoying to have high numbers in the major version, and I guess that's why no project ever follows that scheme to the letter. offtopic Well, in the browser business they seem to follow that idea to the other extent, where it currently looks more like hey we changed some lines of code, let's release a new major version. /offtopic -- Best Regards, Andreas -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Extended format codes in FormatDateTime
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 01:19:15AM +0200, Werner Pamler wrote: In BugTracker, #0026168, I posted a patch to FormatDateTime which allows to use hour, minute, or second format codes in square brackets. Using new special characters instead of building on existing escape characters is incompatible. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Extended format codes in FormatDateTime
On Fri, 16 May 2014, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 01:19:15AM +0200, Werner Pamler wrote: In BugTracker, #0026168, I posted a patch to FormatDateTime which allows to use hour, minute, or second format codes in square brackets. Using new special characters instead of building on existing escape characters is incompatible. This could be remedied with a FormatDateTimeEx() or else a FormatDateTime(Fmt,date,AllowExtendedFormatting: Boolean = False) Michael. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] EditMasks in DBGrid
Directly to the point: DBGrid does not see TFields EditMask property. Is it an ugly bug or is it so by design?-- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Off topic. Version numbers
On 2014-05-16 08:40, Andreas Schneider wrote: offtopic Well, in the browser business they seem to follow that idea to the other extent, where it currently looks more like hey we changed some lines of code, let's release a new major version. /offtopic And yes, I find that SO annoying! End-users now have no idea how much has changed between releases. Lets just hope nobody else follows the Web Browser versioning scheme. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Off topic. Version numbers
On 16.05.2014 19:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2014-05-16 08:40, Andreas Schneider wrote: offtopic Well, in the browser business they seem to follow that idea to the other extent, where it currently looks more like hey we changed some lines of code, let's release a new major version. /offtopic And yes, I find that SO annoying! End-users now have no idea how much has changed between releases. Lets just hope nobody else follows the Web Browser versioning scheme. At my company we've recently switched to such a version scheme as well, because with the old version scheme (a typical x.y.z scheme) customers always wondered why they should update when only the last digit changed... (Note: we are still using the x.y.z scheme internally to mark fix releases etc., but to the user we only promote the major number) Regards, Sven -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Off topic. Version numbers
On Fri, 16 May 2014 18:20:55 +0100 Graeme Geldenhuys mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: On 2014-05-16 08:40, Andreas Schneider wrote: offtopic Well, in the browser business they seem to follow that idea to the other extent, where it currently looks more like hey we changed some lines of code, let's release a new major version. /offtopic And yes, I find that SO annoying! End-users now have no idea how much has changed between releases. Lets just hope nobody else follows the Web Browser versioning scheme. Even it's only a tiny security bug fix you should use the new browser version. Users must not wait for big new browser features. That's different for Lazarus. IMO that's comparing apples and oranges. Lazarus major releases usually contain several thousand svn revisions and a few incompatibilities. Some users might see no big difference, some users have to spend a lot of time to adapt their projects. Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Off topic. Version numbers
On 2014-05-16 19:14, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Even it's only a tiny security bug fix you should use the new browser version. Users must not wait for big new browser features. I didn't say that. Simply increment the bugfix version and the browsers default auto update functionality will get it. It would also have been nice if they added functionality like an option to only auto-update security fixes and not major versions. Many programs have that option. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Off topic. Version numbers
Here we moved to year.month (like Ubuntu). 2014-05-16 14:58 GMT-03:00 Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com: On 16.05.2014 19:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2014-05-16 08:40, Andreas Schneider wrote: offtopic Well, in the browser business they seem to follow that idea to the other extent, where it currently looks more like hey we changed some lines of code, let's release a new major version. /offtopic And yes, I find that SO annoying! End-users now have no idea how much has changed between releases. Lets just hope nobody else follows the Web Browser versioning scheme. At my company we've recently switched to such a version scheme as well, because with the old version scheme (a typical x.y.z scheme) customers always wondered why they should update when only the last digit changed... (Note: we are still using the x.y.z scheme internally to mark fix releases etc., but to the user we only promote the major number) Regards, Sven -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Extended format codes in FormatDateTime (Michael Van Canneyt)
I just uploaded a new patch to bug tracker. The new version picks up Michael's suggestion of introducing a new FormatDateTimeEx function for the new format codes. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Gdb and openocd via lazarus
Hi folks I remember a while ago Michael ring had someway of modified version of Lazarus to connect to gdb spawned from a openocd session , is this still possible? I am using fpc 2.6.5 and latest Lazarus from the svn ( fpc is from svn fixes2_6 branch) -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] File Access Problems in Linux
Several days ago I posted a request about filing conventions, a request that had no response. I am asking this again, as I am having file access problems. Am attempting to use Lazarus on Linux, specifically Kubuntu 12.04. Having set a separate folder for this, my first Lazarus project, all went well with form design, addition of components, and compilation until I added a Tdbf. I was able to define index and memo items, but any attempt to activate was rejected, the error saying that the predefined project folder could not be opened. This had always worked for me over several years of TP and then Delphi on Windows, so there is obviously something I am missing in the Linux implementation. I have tested this several times to the extent of completely deleting all of the project's files and starting again with a blank form. Regards, Gordon -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
