Hi,
I have been looking at the FPC documentation (August 2007) in pdf
format. Wow, there is a lot - awesome work Michael!
I know we are supposed to save the environment and trees (I'm a big
fan of environmentally friendly procedures), but has anybody actually
had those books printed and bound? C
Hi,
I know that to find the documentation for Free Pascal, I have to go to...
http://www.freepascal.org/docs.var
...not the most intuitive URL.
Most users would try the following without browsing the website (most
other website work like this).
http://www.freepascal.org/docs/
htt
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
Hi,
I know that to find the documentation for Free Pascal, I have to go to...
http://www.freepascal.org/docs.var
...not the most intuitive URL.
Most users would try the following without browsing the website (most
other website work like this).
http://w
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know that to find the documentation for Free Pascal, I have to go to...
>
>http://www.freepascal.org/docs.var
>
> ...not the most intuitive URL.
> Most users would try the following without browsing the website (most
> othe
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Vincent Snijders
wrote:
>
> I wonder how many entries in apache error log can be found for these links
> prior to your posting. IOW, I wonder how many people equals "Most users".
I'm pretty sure there must be a few... ;-)
Other website examples (just to name a f
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Vincent Snijders
> wrote:
> >
> > I wonder how many entries in apache error log can be found for these links
> > prior to your posting. IOW, I wonder how many people equals "Most users".
>
> I'm pretty sure there
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
wrote:
>
> docs.freepascal.org now points straight to the documentation page.
>
Thanks! As Marco mentioned, it's not working yet, but that's probably
a DNS update time issue.
Regards,
- Graeme -
_
In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > > I wonder how many entries in apache error log can be found for these links
> > > prior to your posting. IOW, I wonder how many people equals "Most users".
> >
> > I'm pretty sure there must be a few... ;-)
> >
> > Other website examples (ju
In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
> >> /usr/local/share/locale/, but the directory structure is there.
> >
> > I should have mentioned that it is FreeBSD. /usr/local is probably the same,
> > writable by ports. ?I have .mo files in /usr/share/locale//LC_MESSAGES
> > but also other LC_ fi
In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
> >> I noticed that I had more direectories in /usr/lib/locale (echh with
> >> it's compiles LC_xxx files) than I have /usr/share/118n/locales
> >> directory.
> >
> > I've some in /usr/share/local and /usr/local/share/locale
>
> the ones in /usr/share/l
2009/3/20 Marco van de Voort :
> In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
>> >> I noticed that I had more direectories in /usr/lib/locale (echh with
>> >> it's compiles LC_xxx files) than I have /usr/share/118n/locales
>> >> directory.
>> >
>> > I've some in /usr/share/local and /usr/local/shar
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > > > I wonder how many entries in apache error log can be found for these
> > > > links
> > > > prior to your posting. IOW, I wonder how many people equals "Most
> > > > users".
> > >
> > >
In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > P.s. Speaking about docs: I saw the current documentation is still badly
> > linked.
> > (the next/prev links) I also retried myself using the most recent tex4ht
> > updates (januari 2009), and failed again, the links are still borked, though
In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > I don't agree that the fact that HTML docs is secondary makes it
> > automatically a non-issue :-) A "lesser" issue of course, but OTOH we have
> > been messing with it for over ten years (I started with Latex2html 96) now,
> > and it is still
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > > I don't agree that the fact that HTML docs is secondary makes it
> > > automatically a non-issue :-) A "lesser" issue of course, but OTOH we have
> > > been messing with it for over ten year
In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > > > I'm thinking of trying to create an html fixer app. I know, that
> > > > wouldn't be
> > > > the first too, but at least it would be better than this.
> > >
> > > Feel free to do so... I will not stop anyone from doing so.
> > >
> > > Al
In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
> > Personally I don't see the use of going this way. Why not simply use iconv?
>
> but that's just for char set conversion, how would we get the locale
> data (like time/date format, etc)? i guess we have no choice but to
> parse the definition files,
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > > > > I'm thinking of trying to create an html fixer app. I know, that
> > > > > wouldn't be
> > > > > the first too, but at least it would be better than this.
> > > >
> > > > Feel free to
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
>
> > > P.s. Speaking about docs: I saw the current documentation is still badly
> > > linked.
> > > (the next/prev links) I also retried myself using the most recent tex4ht
> > > updates (janua
2009/3/20 Marco van de Voort :
>
> Does the single unix spec define the exact format for these files? Since
> otherwise they might vary between the 3/4 supported unices (solaris, OS
> X/FreeBSD and
> Linux) (OS X and FreeBSD sometimes share details)
you are right, according to sus website the for
2009/3/20 Marco van de Voort :
> In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
>> > Personally I don't see the use of going this way. Why not simply use iconv?
>>
>> but that's just for char set conversion, how would we get the locale
>> data (like time/date format, etc)? i guess we have no choice
In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
> > Because the textmode versions might not be installed on all systems, the
> > compiled versions might be OS specific, and if they ever change for linux
> > distributions you have another problem at your hand.
> >
> > And IMHO it is not crucial enough
2009/3/20 Marco van de Voort :
> In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
>> > Because the textmode versions might not be installed on all systems, the
>> > compiled versions might be OS specific, and if they ever change for linux
>> > distributions you have another problem at your hand.
>> >
>
In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
> > multiplatform and then maintained over time (hence: multiversion).
>
> i think you misunderstand me
Seems I have.
> i've looked at this thing ages ago and
> come to the same conclusion. i'm just trying to convince the people
> that scream "depend
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 09:34:54AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>
> I know that to find the documentation for Free Pascal, I have to go to...
>
>http://www.freepascal.org/docs.var
>
> ...not the most intuitive URL.
> Most users would try the following without browsing the website
> Note that a bulky "read externally" alternative won't be enabled by default
> in FPC anyway, so it doesn't even alleviate the "need to include clocale"
> issue. The point is if in this case it is worth the trouble if most people
> then
> happily link to X or Lazarus.
Personally I would like
Hi,
I've found a bug in sqldb/firebird.
Its reported here, with sample project to reproduce:
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13340
Regards,
Funky Beast
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Bart wrote:
>
> Personally I would like to see the formatsettings being localised by
> default (by SysUtils), since on Windows it is (Delphi compatibility)
> and I'd expect it ot be the same on all platforms.
> For this reason a "bulky read external" alternative mi
In our previous episode, Bart said:
> > Note that a bulky "read externally" alternative won't be enabled by default
> > in FPC anyway, so it doesn't even alleviate the "need to include clocale"
> > issue. The point is if in this case it is worth the trouble if most people
> > then
> > happily
2009/3/20 Funky Beast :
>
> I've found a bug in sqldb/firebird.
> Its reported here, with sample project to reproduce:
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13340
What version of Firebird? How many bytes does a single record require?
Maybe you reached the table limit in Firebird RDBMS? If I r
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> > Personally I would like to see the formatsettings being localised by
> > default (by SysUtils), since on Windows it is (Delphi compatibility)
> > and I'd expect it ot be the same on all platforms.
> > For this reason a "bulky read external" alter
2009/3/20 Bart :
>> Note that a bulky "read externally" alternative won't be enabled by default
>> in FPC anyway, so it doesn't even alleviate the "need to include clocale"
>> issue. The point is if in this case it is worth the trouble if most people
>> then
>> happily link to X or Lazarus.
>
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>
> Well, if you are so strung up on orthogonality, maybe we should move the
> windows detection to clocale also :_)
Well it's simple for me really. I moved away from Lazarus LCL simply
because of inconsistencies between platforms. Hence
2009/3/20 Marco van de Voort :
>
> Are they guaranteed default installed on most OSes ? It's pretty hard to
> parse something that is not there. Also start inventorizing all possible
> solutions on all possible distro's and OSes.
no, none of my embedded systems have the definition files. also, th
2009/3/20 Graeme Geldenhuys :
>
> Part of using fpGUI Toolkit is to greatly minimise library
> dependencies (compared to other GUI toolkits like GTK, QT, LCL etc.).
> This allows fpGUI based apps to run on a lot more "bare boned" systems
> and platforms (new and old).
but fpgui depends on x, right
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> 2009/3/20 Funky Beast :
>> I've found a bug in sqldb/firebird.
>> Its reported here, with sample project to reproduce:
>> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13340
>
>
> What version of Firebird? How many bytes does a single record require?
> Maybe you reached the t
Paul Nicholls writes:
Hi Francisco, regular arrays can start at whatever index you want:
Var
MyArray1 : Array[1..3] Of Integer;
Thanks for the info and examples.
Dynamic Arrays :
MyDynamicArray : Array Of Integer;
..
These always start with a zero index.
This is very usefull too
Graeme Geldenhuys writes:
Anybody know of a printing company in South Africa that will be
willing to do a once off print?
Searching google for
book printing small quantities
Returned a decent list. I think it would only be a matter of seeing which
one is closer to you or can deliver to your
With 2 Linux PC's this works, but I wanted to connect a Linux and a Windows
computer.
Would that be possible with UDP packets?
fpsendto blocks the program now in windows.
function socksend( d : pointer ; l : word ) : longint;
begin
result := fpsendto( inet_socket , d , l , 0 , @inetaddrsend ,
Hi, I'm trying to read a file stream created using TMemoryStream's
WriteComponent method with a Delphi 7 program. To read the component I use
TMemoryStream's ReadComponent method.
When I read use ReadCompoent, a EReadError is raised. Does anyone tried this?.
The same program works perfectly in
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm trying to read a file stream created using TMemoryStream's
> WriteComponent method with a Delphi 7 program. To read the component I use
> TMemoryStream's ReadComponent method.
>
> When I read use ReadCompoent, a EReadError is raised. D
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