Re: [fpc-devel] Generics

2007-08-16 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:31:25 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[...] > > Why is the local variable block needed? > > It is not. I asked the same question. It was added for symmetry > reasons: if a local type block is allowed, then a var block should > also be allowed. >

Re: [fpc-devel] Generics

2007-08-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:59:47 -0500 (CDT) > Jesus Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > --- Jesus Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > > > > --- Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On T

Re: [fpc-devel] fpmake listsources

2007-08-16 Thread Darius Blaszijk
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Peter Vreman wrote: At 19:35 16-8-2007, you wrote: While looking at the listsources command I found something peculiar (i think). The method TPackage.GetSourceFiles lists all sources stored in TSources. This seems to be strange for two

Re: [fpc-devel] Generics

2007-08-16 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:59:47 -0500 (CDT) Jesus Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Jesus Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > --- Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > What is

Re: [fpc-devel] fpmake listsources

2007-08-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Peter Vreman wrote: > At 19:35 16-8-2007, you wrote: > >While looking at the listsources command I found something peculiar (i > >think). > > > >The method TPackage.GetSourceFiles lists all sources stored in TSources. This > >seems to be strange for two reasons > > > >1) all

Re: [fpc-devel] Generics

2007-08-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Jesus Reyes wrote: > > --- Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > > > > > What is the state and future plans of generics? > > > I only found the wiki page > > > > > > http://wiki.lazarus.fre

Re: [fpc-devel] fpmake listsources

2007-08-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Darius Blaszijk wrote: > While looking at the listsources command I found something peculiar (i think). > > The method TPackage.GetSourceFiles lists all sources stored in TSources. This > seems to be strange for two reasons > > 1) all sources are stored in TTarget > 2) the

Re: [fpc-devel] Generics

2007-08-16 Thread Jesus Reyes
--- Jesus Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > --- Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > > > > > What is the state and future plans of generics? > > > I only found the wiki page > > > > > > http://wiki.lazaru

Re: [fpc-devel] Generics

2007-08-16 Thread Jesus Reyes
--- Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > > > What is the state and future plans of generics? > > I only found the wiki page > > > > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Generics > > > > which does not even mention the curre

Re: [fpc-devel] fpmake listsources

2007-08-16 Thread Peter Vreman
At 19:35 16-8-2007, you wrote: While looking at the listsources command I found something peculiar (i think). The method TPackage.GetSourceFiles lists all sources stored in TSources. This seems to be strange for two reasons 1) all sources are stored in TTarget 2) the sources variable in TPack

Re: [fpc-devel] Generics

2007-08-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > What is the state and future plans of generics? > I only found the wiki page > > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Generics > > which does not even mention the current syntax. The current syntax is descibed in the docs, reference manual. Ther

[fpc-devel] Generics

2007-08-16 Thread Mattias Gaertner
What is the state and future plans of generics? I only found the wiki page http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Generics which does not even mention the current syntax. Mattias ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.free

[fpc-devel] fpmake listsources

2007-08-16 Thread Darius Blaszijk
While looking at the listsources command I found something peculiar (i think). The method TPackage.GetSourceFiles lists all sources stored in TSources. This seems to be strange for two reasons 1) all sources are stored in TTarget 2) the sources variable in TPackage is never filled automatical

Re: [fpc-devel] fpdoc HTML with search feature

2007-08-16 Thread Micha Nelissen
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: It can't be fixed by Lazarus developers because the Windows component lives in the Common Controls DLL? This is just an example by the way, they same could be said for Qt or Carbon. Ah yes. This is indeed a limitation one has to work with. Micha __

Re: [fpc-devel] fpdoc HTML with search feature

2007-08-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 16/08/07, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * What if you find a bug in a Windows component, and that same > > component under GTK or Qt doesn't have that issue. More workarounds in > > the Windows layer, because you can't actually fix the bug at hand. > > Workarounds? Why can't "th

Re: [fpc-devel] fpdoc HTML with search feature

2007-08-16 Thread Micha Nelissen
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: * What if you find a bug in a Windows component, and that same component under GTK or Qt doesn't have that issue. More workarounds in the Windows layer, because you can't actually fix the bug at hand. Workarounds? Why can't "the bug" be fixed? * Then lets talk abou

Re: [fpc-devel] fpdoc HTML with search feature

2007-08-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 16/08/07, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It surprises me you didn't consider fixing the LCL, while you are now > writing a complete widgetset yourself. The LCL seems complex, but with > some answered questions you may have, it's not exactly rocket science > either. I have fixed a

[fpc-devel] error in comment?

2007-08-16 Thread Vincent Snijders
While browsing the rtl sources, I stumbled on the following in rtl\win32\system.pp const CtrlZMarksEOF: boolean = true; (* #26 not considered as end of file *) The comment seems inconsistent with the the value 'true'. See also http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/system/ctrlzmarkseof.h

Re: [fpc-devel] fpdoc HTML with search feature

2007-08-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 16/08/07, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you develop for a single platform you shouldn't have any issue. Our > > products need to run under Windows and Linux, and this is where the > > problems started. > > I am a bit disappointed to hear this. And so were we experiencing it

Re: [fpc-devel] fpdoc HTML with search feature

2007-08-16 Thread Micha Nelissen
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Now in some case we could create workarounds and sometimes wrap code with IFDEF's (which defeats the point of Lazarus LCL). This all worked fine until one of those issues where fixed, which means our code breaks again! We got tired of going back and forwards. It surpris

Re: [fpc-devel] fpdoc HTML with search feature

2007-08-16 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: [...this is maybe not the best list to discuss this...] On 16/08/07, Michael Schnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Lazarus LCL did not work for us. That's too bad ! What was the problem ? (I'm asking, as I might want to use Lazarus for an embedded project which co

Re: [fpc-devel] fpdoc HTML with search feature

2007-08-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
[...this is maybe not the best list to discuss this...] On 16/08/07, Michael Schnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Lazarus LCL did not work for us. > That's too bad ! > > What was the problem ? (I'm asking, as I might want to use Lazarus modification of same> for an embedded project which co

[fpc-devel] Re: FindFirst under Linux doesn't set faHidden

2007-08-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
faSymLink also seem to never be set. Same issue as faHidden. Graeme. On 16/08/07, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > As per the documentation: > http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/sysutils/findfirst.html > - > faHidden > The file is hidden

Re: [fpc-devel] fpdoc HTML with search feature

2007-08-16 Thread Michael Schnell
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: The Lazarus LCL did not work for us. That's too bad ! What was the problem ? (I'm asking, as I might want to use Lazarus modification of same> for an embedded project which could need a remote GUI access sometimes, but not permanently) Being able to customize every

[fpc-devel] FindFirst under Linux doesn't set faHidden

2007-08-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, As per the documentation: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/sysutils/findfirst.html - faHidden The file is hidden. (On unix, this means that the filename starts with a dot) --- I've tried this today using FPC 2.1.5 and faHidden doesn't s

Re: [fpc-devel] fpdoc HTML with search feature

2007-08-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 16/08/07, Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (especially for HTMLHelp output) and so on, but within the last years I > simply had no time for further development, but this will change in the > future. That's always good to here... > > Are you the Sebastian that originally wrote f