Re: [fpc-other] Downward spiral

2023-05-28 Thread Travis Siegel via fpc-other
On 5/26/2023 3:31 AM, HSN via fpc-other wrote: Irc is the best chat platform for people who are present and available to chat. It also has notifications so it’s not necessary to watch it constantly. You can do other things on or near your computer while irc is running. It even works on mobi

Re: [fpc-other] pandroid package based apps

2021-08-02 Thread Travis Siegel via fpc-other
The simplest way to build a decent gui when using java is to use the grid layout.  That way, all your items are automatically configured for you.  I too am visually impaired, and I've written multiple java programs, no issue setting up a gui when grid mode is in use, java handles all the hard w

Re: [fpc-other] you may say I'm a dreamer... :)

2018-09-28 Thread Travis Siegel
Dos screen readers have done screen scraping for years, it'd be easy enough to pull the required information from the screen buffer, (which is how most dos screen readers handle things), then you could easily get any information you eeded from the dos application.  Of course, it would't hurt to

Re: [fpc-other] SpVoice.GetVoices To GPL flame discussion ;-)

2017-04-13 Thread Travis Siegel
(comments in line) On 4/12/2017 12:24 PM, Lukasz Sokol wrote: On 12/04/17 15:42, nore...@z505.com wrote: On 2017-04-12 08:26, Lukasz Sokol wrote: On 12/04/17 13:37, nore...@z505.com wrote: On 2017-04-12 07:01, fredvs wrote: e GPL is a restrictive license, so you may not use it like you w

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-13 Thread Travis Siegel
I have to say that I'm a big fan of FreeBSD as well. I have linux machines, windows machines, MacOSX machines, and FreeBSD machines, and out of all of them, I've had the fewest problems with the FreeBSD machines. As Graham points out, linux machines have a habbit of updating everything under

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread Travis Siegel
. On 3/12/2017 9:41 PM, nore...@z505.com wrote: On 2017-03-10 20:35, Travis Siegel wrote: Just for reference, a T1 hasn't costed thousands of dollars for more than 20 years. The last time I had one, it was less than 600 a month, and that was more than 10 years ago. Indeed, I only did r

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-10 Thread Travis Siegel
2 dollarsfor an additional 5GB of storage if you want it regardless of the plan you choose. Heck, I'm seriously considering getting one of these myself, and I don't even have an immediate need for it, just things I'd like to do that I've been putting off for years. This might give me the acce

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-10 Thread Travis Siegel
Just for reference, a T1 hasn't costed thousands of dollars for more than 20 years. The last time I had one, it was less than 600 a month, and that was more than 10 years ago. Of course, these days, with fiber, and highspeed dsl, a T1 line is relatively useless considering the cost and transf

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-10 Thread Travis Siegel
There are dynamic dns services that can solve this problem for you. Some of them are even supported directly by some routers, so you might want to check your router configuration, and see if it has built-in support for any of the dynamic dns services, and use that one, so you don't have to do

Re: [fpc-other] Anyone using Orange PI

2017-03-01 Thread Travis Siegel
I don't know anything about your intended use/design, but network storage is always an option. I quite successfully connect to other computers on my pi to store extra materials if I need additional backups, including copies of the sd card image for booting the pi, and although the access isn't

Re: [fpc-other] Anyone using Orange PI

2017-02-28 Thread Travis Siegel
I didn't know there were precompiled versions of fpc for the raspberry pi. I had to compile my own when I setup my pi2 nearly 2 years ago. It wasn't difficult, but it did take quite a bit of time, even with the 4 cpus going for the compile. :) However, it is relatively easy, if a bit long of

Re: [fpc-other] How was compiled the very first version of FPC?

2017-01-10 Thread Travis Siegel
And ultimately I think that TP was written in Z80 assembler, later converted to 8086. Actually, I don't know about versions pre 4.0), but source code versions of tp 6 have escaped into the wild, and if you can locate one of those, you'll see turbo pascal is written in turbo pascal as well.

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Missing messages

2016-10-31 Thread Travis Siegel
Can't find the right message to reply to, so same thread, here we go. Thanks for the link to the free promo version of delphi. It works nicely, and I now have a fully registered version of delphi on my system, and although it works well enough, I have trouble with too much junk onscreen, but

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Missing messages

2016-10-31 Thread Travis Siegel
They still offer it, but it's a 30-day trial, and it appears that once you get the trial activation number, it's good for any of the products, only I (using a screen reader) couldn't select which product I wanted, so it downloaded and installed their c++ suite of tools instead of the delphi one

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Missing messages

2016-10-30 Thread Travis Siegel
On 10/30/2016 6:36 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hey, we even have an excellent news client written in Object Pascal - just take a look an XanaNews! btw: XanaNews supports all the above benefits and much much more. Github repository https://github.com/graemeg/xananews/ XanaNews releas

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Access GPIO pins on RPi2 without root?

2015-10-11 Thread Travis Siegel
This is good to know. I've not tried using fpc to read io pins on the pi yet, but it's certainly nice to have the option. I will keep this post for when the inevidable occurs, and I decide to use fpc for a project on my pi. Honestly, I didn't even realize it would be possible to read the io

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Access GPIO pins on RPi2 without root?

2015-10-11 Thread Travis Siegel
You can add any user to any group you like, by using the groupadd program in the terminal. For example, usermod -a -G audio pi would add the pi user to the audio group, allowing them to use audio functions without having to be root or use sudo for the access. Of course, the usermod command ne

Re: [fpc-other] FPC website

2015-02-01 Thread Travis Siegel
For what it's worth, when I perform a ping or traceroute from here (central Virginia), I get a response from mailer.lazarus.freepascal.org at ip address 80.123.225.56, which I believe was already mentioned as the proper ip address. So, perhaps you could try mailer.lazarus.freepascal.org for the f

Re: [fpc-other] Embarcadero plans to base C++ and Delphi compilers on LLVM

2012-07-16 Thread Travis Siegel
On Jul 11, 2012, at 6:19 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote: I don't think it will ever be the sole FPC backend, for several reasons: a) I doubt LLVM will ever support all platforms we support (go32v2, OS/2, ...), and older platforms it does currently support (e.g. Mac OS X/ppc) will probably become uns

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] I found FPC v0.2 source code :-)

2012-01-31 Thread Travis Siegel
Depending on what kind of 5-volt supply you want, parallax has a few in their store, (the maker of the basic stamp and propeller boards) and one of those might do the trick for you, though since they are designed for powering small circuit boards, you may need to splice a different connecto

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] I found FPC v0.2 source code :-)

2012-01-31 Thread Travis Siegel
Actually, for fixing things, you could check the ifixit.com site, they have all sorts of manuals on repairing things. Though, I've never seen anything like firewire to anything else adapters. Although, I do like building things, so I plan to make some adapters of my own, though usb to firewi

Re: [fpc-other] Delphi on x64

2011-04-06 Thread Travis Siegel
On Apr 5, 2011, at 3:45 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I suppose it would enable one to manipulate large video files, and to have a huge in-memory databases. What else? Is there a significant speed gain for running native 64-bit? There is a significant speed increase for running 64-bit vs th

Re: [fpc-other] Fork

2010-10-21 Thread Travis Siegel
I'm probably not the best person to comment here, since I've already been blasted in the past for telling things like they are, but me personally, if I wanted to do something major with fpc, I'd not bother trying to get it integrated to the main branch, I'd spawn my own project, call it som

Re: [fpc-other] OT: How to make Lazarus/FPC more popular

2010-05-11 Thread Travis Siegel
On May 11, 2010, at 6:05 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote: You should just unsubscribe from the list, then you won't have to delete any more emails. Excellent advice, only I was under the impression this was the fpc list, not the 3-rd party ide add-ons list. Andif I did that, then I'd not get emails a

Re: [fpc-other] OT: How to make Lazarus/FPC more popular

2010-05-10 Thread Travis Siegel
On May 9, 2010, at 3:49 PM, ik wrote: Hello all, I've had some interesting conversation with few people on how to help Lazarus (and FPC) to be more popular in the industry and on FOSS projects. One thing you can do to make it more popular is to make it install properly w/o having to fi

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Apple forbids fpc applications on iPhone

2010-04-09 Thread Travis Siegel
On Apr 9, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote: Really? I was under the impression that you need to jail break the phone to be able to install any app (or get a dev licence, of course). I don't think you need to jail break anything to put apps on the phone that don't come from the store, w

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Apple forbids fpc applications on iPhone

2010-04-09 Thread Travis Siegel
On Apr 9, 2010, at 8:12 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote: Anyone is of course free to keep using FPC for the iPhone (I'm not going to remove any iPhone support from the compiler in the foreseeable future) and to submit FPC-compiled apps to the AppStore. Just don't be surprised if they get rejected