Re: [fpc-devel] Resource handling library

2007-10-17 Thread Giulio Bernardi
One of the reason Lazarus does not use resources like Delphi, is that there is no support for Mac OS X yet (elf is supported by fpcres, as you mentioned). Does your library support that? No because I thought that on os x it was better to store resources as files inside the app bundle since

Re: [fpc-devel] Resource handling library

2007-10-17 Thread Vincent Snijders
Giulio Bernardi schreef: Hi, I was curious about resource support in FPC, and after investigating a bit I wrote a library to handle resources. It provides classes to deal with some common resource types, and readers and writers for various file formats (res, coff, elf). There could be

[fpc-devel] Re: fpc-devel Digest, Vol 40, Issue 16

2007-10-17 Thread L
I wrote: In KOL, Kladov also returns a zero with his Str2Int function if string is bad. You may be thinking.. but what if the string really is a zero and we want to know that it is? Well then we can do this: if (s = '0') or (StrToInt(s) 0) then writeln('S is an integer'); if

[fpc-devel] ARM4 and THUMB instruction sets

2007-10-17 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Hello, I was reading about the difference between arm4 and thumb: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/ARM4,_ARMI__THUMB Because I noted that all examples for Symbian OS use thumb and fpc supports only arm4. Acording to the nokia wiki using thumb would be produce smaller and faster code on the

[fpc-devel] Re: fpc-devel Digest, Vol 40, Issue 16

2007-10-17 Thread L
I wrote: for functions that have raise calls like wraptext/comparetext/strtoint. Spoke to soon.. it's good news for those functions. Looks like wraptext/comparetext are standalone anyway, according to what I see in compactsyutils on my svn. So mainly its the strtoint strtobool functions that

[fpc-devel] Extracting debug-information from fpc-executables

2007-10-17 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Hi all. On recent (development) Fedora-systems the debug-information is extracted form executables in a different manner. That could be a problem when building RPM's on a Fedora system. I got this output, does it ring a bell to anyone? + /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh

[fpc-devel] property syntax extension

2007-10-17 Thread Paul Ishenin
Hello, fpc-developer list. Some time ago I posted here proposal to extend platform keyword. You gave a hostile reception to that proposal. Later Florian in private conversation with me suggested better idea of property attributes. Indeed, attributes are more general solution than platform