[fpc-pascal] Re: [Lazarus] Should TObject or TComponent have a Comment property?

2013-07-12 Thread vfclists .
On 11 July 2013 23:07, Benito van der Zander ben...@benibela.de wrote: Annotations like in Java would be nice... On 07/11/2013 10:22 PM, vfclists . wrote: Should TObject or TComponent have a Comment property? I think they should. One for the design itself and one for describing the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: [Lazarus] Should TObject or TComponent have a Comment property?

2013-07-12 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 07:07:05 +0100 vfclists . vfcli...@gmail.com wrote: This attitude which exists in the Pascal community needs to end. Not really. R. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: JVM backend and language restrictions

2013-07-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-11 20:20, Florian Klaempfl wrote: Is it so hard to google fpc jvm language limitations ? Yes, especially if your internet has been down for 3/4 of the day [2 days in a row]. G. ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free pascal 1.0.6

2013-07-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-11 22:35, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Why not use 2.6.2? It is free. No update fee, full version, with source. I think maybe he is getting confused with FPC and Lazarus versions. Maybe he is referring to Lazarus 1.0.6 release? Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Should TObject or TComponent have a Comment property?

2013-07-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, vfclists . wrote: Should TObject or TComponent have a Comment property? I think they should. One for the design itself and one for describing the usage at design or runtime. No. It takes memory and needs management. Putting this in a basic class such as TComponent is

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Free pascal 1.0.6

2013-07-12 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, leledumbo said: Older versions are never free of bugs (that's one of the reason why the next version appears), and even worse, it looks like there's no trace of bug reports for version as old as 1.0.6 (10 years). Just try everything yourself, and if something is wrong,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: [Lazarus] Should TObject or TComponent have a Comment property?

2013-07-12 Thread Benito van der Zander
Enough digression - if considered carefully a comment about the purpose of an object belongs in the object definition itself. I use Pasdoc for that On 07/12/2013 08:07 AM, vfclists . wrote: On 11 July 2013 23:07, Benito van der Zander ben...@benibela.de mailto:ben...@benibela.de wrote:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: [Lazarus] Should TObject or TComponent have a Comment property?

2013-07-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-12 07:07, vfclists . wrote: Coding time is the best time for documentation because that is when the intent of the code is clear and fresh in the developers mind, and incurs minimal additional cost. And you just said it yourself. If the developer of the code doesn't even have the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: JVM backend and language restrictions

2013-07-12 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/11/2013 07:06 PM, waldo kitty wrote: i like the what links here links but have never seen a this links where one that shows the other pages the current one links to... you gotta already be on the page to find out what links to it but ya can't go the other way around... Funny that the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: [Lazarus] Should TObject or TComponent have a Comment property?

2013-07-12 Thread vfclists .
On 12 July 2013 09:09, Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: On 2013-07-12 07:07, vfclists . wrote: Coding time is the best time for documentation because that is when the intent of the code is clear and fresh in the developers mind, and incurs minimal additional cost. And

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: [Lazarus] Should TObject or TComponent have a Comment property?

2013-07-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-07-12 10:48, vfclists . wrote: Anyway I am not talking about documentation as such, just a property that an object can be queried about on its role, ie: class documentation :) Regards, G. ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

[fpc-pascal] MAC window creation / Management / OpenGL

2013-07-12 Thread Kirill Kranz
Hi, I need to knew who to create a window under OSX and handle menu. Also it would be nice to init OpenGL. No GLUT, NSGL would be fine. need a complete example! no snippets! I'm complitly new on OSX, so sorry for lameness :)  thx for Help. - Kirill

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Free pascal 1.0.6

2013-07-12 Thread Matúš Kudláč
No I really mean free pascal 1.0.6. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: In our previous episode, leledumbo said: Older versions are never free of bugs (that's one of the reason why the next version appears), and even worse, it looks like there's no

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Free pascal 1.0.6

2013-07-12 Thread Matúš Kudláč
I want to know if there are some stability problems with this version and all of its parts(IDE, compiler, debugger). I mean problems like crashing, freezing, On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Matúš Kudláč matus.kud...@gmail.comwrote: No I really mean free pascal 1.0.6. On Fri, Jul 12,

[fpc-pascal] Re: Free pascal 1.0.6

2013-07-12 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 12-7-2013 5:29, Matúš Kudláč wrote: I want to know if there are some stability problems with this version and all of its parts(IDE, compiler, debugger). I mean problems like crashing, freezing, I think people have been trying to tell you that there may well be stability problems etc.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Free pascal 1.0.6

2013-07-12 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Fri, July 12, 2013 17:29, Matúš Kudláč wrote: I want to know if there are some stability problems with this version and all of its parts(IDE, compiler, debugger). I mean problems like crashing, freezing, Well, you haven't mentioned anything about the platform you plan to use, etc. In

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: JVM backend and language restrictions

2013-07-12 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 11.07.2013 23:44, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: On 2013-07-11 20:20, Florian Klaempfl wrote: Is it so hard to google fpc jvm language limitations ? Yes, especially if your internet has been down for 3/4 of the day [2 days in a row]. So there is an offline wiki?

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Free pascal 1.0.6

2013-07-12 Thread Matúš Kudláč
I plan to use windows xp professional 32bit. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Tomas Hajny xhaj...@hajny.biz wrote: On Fri, July 12, 2013 17:29, Matúš Kudláč wrote: I want to know if there are some stability problems with this version and all of its parts(IDE, compiler, debugger). I mean

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Free pascal 1.0.6

2013-07-12 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Fri, July 12, 2013 18:59, Matúš Kudláč wrote: I plan to use windows xp professional 32bit. I.e. you plan to use the Win32 release and compile for the Win32 target, right? Just to make sure that you didn't have different plans like compiling for the GO32v2 target as an example... Tomas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Free pascal 1.0.6

2013-07-12 Thread Matúš Kudláč
Yes, I plan to use the Win32 release and compile for the Win32 target. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Tomas Hajny xhaj...@hajny.biz wrote: On Fri, July 12, 2013 18:59, Matúš Kudláč wrote: I plan to use windows xp professional 32bit. I.e. you plan to use the Win32 release and compile for

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Free pascal 1.0.6

2013-07-12 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said: I want to know if there are some stability problems with this version and all of its parts(IDE, compiler, debugger). I mean problems like crashing, freezing, Well, you haven't mentioned anything about the platform you plan to use, etc. In

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free pascal 1.0.6

2013-07-12 Thread Sven Barth
On 11.07.2013 22:14, Matúš Kudláč wrote: Hi, I want to use Free Pascal 1.0.6 in windows XP Professional 32bit. I know to ask some questions about that. Are there some stability problems with that version(compiler, IDE, debugger, ...)? If there are can I make some changes to make it

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free pascal 1.0.6

2013-07-12 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Fri, July 12, 2013 20:33, Sven Barth wrote: On 11.07.2013 22:14, Matúš Kudláč wrote: Hi, I want to use Free Pascal 1.0.6 in windows XP Professional 32bit. I know to ask some questions about that. Are there some stability problems with that version(compiler, IDE, debugger, ...)? If