Re: [lazarus] pascal is obsolete?
In a message dated 6/15/2006 7:22:20 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, William Cairns wrote:>>
Why have their never been any successful Pascal dirivitive
languages?>Because pascal is perfect. Why change a perfect language
?>Michael.
And one could argue that there are "dirivitive" languages from PASCAL.Not
sur
C being one of them!
Repace BEGIN END blocks by hard to find { },
change things like well constructed FOR/WHILE/REPEAT loops to something
like
if(i=+j/6-5) dosomething
(* Not sure that is valid C, but it's close I'm not a C programmer be
have to read
a lot of C code, and it constantly confuses me. *)
and remove all "strong" type casting and PASCAL becomes
C!!
'Nuff said. PASCAL
RULES!!
Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise !
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Florian Klaempfl wrote:>>>Lv wrote:>> >So if you guys want to change the name, where does it leave users like>>>me presenting papers at conferences and citing Lazarus in technical>>>papers as my software of choice?>>> >>>Nice to hear that not all users believe into the imo stupid idea to change the>>name. I don't think either that the "board of directors" of lazarus (Michael H.,>> Matthias, Marc, Vincents, Micha et al.) consider a name change :)>> >>>Just for the record, I also think a name change is uncalled for. A name >change would have serious consequences - and we could start promoting >everything from zero since the new name will be even less known then >Lazarus. The word Lazarus is neither offensive or more ambiguous than >other well known projects and companies.>>One more comment: Cheetah is the simbol of FPC, not lazarus. A cheetah >on a column is Lazarus. Now you don't see anyone calling FPC cheetah, >nor calling Linux Pinguin. I agree with Andreas (and thank the "board of directors" and their fine insight in dismissing this idea as being a total waste of time and effort) The drawbacks from a name change are phenomenal!!! 1) Loss of current user base who don't keep up on the mailing list and all of sudden can't find their product under the name they know (and hopefully love) 2) Loss of new user base. I have actively promoted Lazarus, whenever asked, as a great tool/environment with my contacts. Don't know how many have looked at it yet, but I'm going to be very embarrassed if they do finally take my advice and check it out, and it's called something different than what I was advertising. 3) I suspect would require a lot of effort in renaming all sorts of directories/web sites/links, blah blah blah on a global basis 4) Same as #3 above on each existing users's personal computer(s) All this for some "cosmetics"? Much better that we quit talking about this and get back to making a really great product that will really "sell" itself based on it's stability and functionality, not on whether it is called S__T or Lazarus. Just my two cents. Let's get back to work making Lazarus GREAT! Dave
Re: [lazarus] patch to tComboBox
In a message dated 3/29/2006 5:21:03 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> > I don't know Delphi behavior at all, but based on my experience with> > MSAccess, it is not possible to have a ShowModal + Form2.anything.> > "Modal" mode creates a window that must, somehow, be closed (either> > canceled or completed) before the application proceeds to some other> > step. If Dephi allows other than this, then I think it is wrong, and> > Lazarus doesn't need to concern itself with it. When an application>> I think at least recursive ShowModal should work correctly. It's not> strange for a form that needs input from a user to itself need more> input for some specific "field".That definitely works in Delphi, and this is how it should be...Michael. I agree, a recursive "ShowModal" is understandable and should be allowable, but I think once the application has gone into "Modal" mode, it should stay there until all questions have been answered. A second form not in "modal" mode just doesn't make a lot of sense to me
Re: [lazarus] patch to tComboBox
In a message dated 3/28/2006 3:54:48 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Without the set_modal they don't behave like in Delphi as well.>>A Form.ShowModal should create a window, that the user must close, before>switching the focus to an old window.>I heard, a Form1.ShowModal + Form2.Show should create two forms, between>which the user can switch on Delphi. This is currently no supported by the>LCL and not by the gtk interface. I don't know Delphi behavior at all, but based on my experience with MSAccess, it is not possible to have a ShowModal + Form2.anything. "Modal" mode creates a window that must, somehow, be closed (either canceled or completed) before the application proceeds to some other step. If Dephi allows other than this, then I think it is wrong, and Lazarus doesn't need to concern itself with it. When an application goes into "modal" mode, that means it doesn't want to continue until it has gotten a specific response from the user. The "modal" form needs to provide/handle any/all options the user is able to provide at that point
[lazarus] Re: Patch for msgview.pp (enhancement)
In a message dated 12/27/2005 9:25:21 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: May i suggest a treeview, that is,each type in its own branch which would be much easier tosearch in categories which can be expanded and collapsed.Like:-Build |- |- |--Messages |- |- |--Hints |- |- |--Warnings |- |- |--Notes |- |- |--Errors |- |- |--Fatal |- |- |-and we can have options on what msg types we want to capture.just my 2 cents.Funky Beast IMO, bad idea. This would re-arrange the messages into a non-sequential order. This might be a nice option for "analyzing" a compile run, but I certainly wouldn't want it as a default. For the purposes of developing/debugging I want to see the messages that are issued in the order that they occur
Re: [lazarus] Bug similar al Bug 0000722 pero con el Tedit
In a message dated 10/22/2005 8:04:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Fue probado en el Lazarus 0.9.8 y en Lazarus 0.9.10 Beta con los>mismos resultados en el evento OnExit de Tedit.>Se ejecuta inapropiadamente. S.O. usado es Windows.?Si se coloca el procedure ShowMessage en los eventos OnExit y en>OnEnter la aplicacion termina generando una excepcion. Say what??? This is an international list with the accepted language being English. If you want an answer please post your question/problem so it can be understood by the community in English Thanks Dave
