Re: [fpc-pascal] JSON Test Suite

2016-11-07 Thread Benito van der Zander
Hi, huh, why does the build suddenly fail? Well, FPC 3.0.0 does not have the joStrict option. It is only there in 3.1.1. Perhaps there should be two fpc parser entries. Best, Benito On 06.11.2016 17:34, Benito van der Zander wrote: Hi, it is better to use TJSONParser than GetJSON. GetJSON

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.2 Release Date

2016-11-07 Thread African Wild Dog
2016-08-19 4:22 GMT-03:00 Jonas Maebe : > African Wild Dog wrote: > > > There are some critical bugs in fpc 3.0 which are already fixed. So, why > > the 3.0.2 version was not released yet? Do you have any estimate about > > when it will be released? > > My guess is that RC1 will be released betwee

Re: [fpc-pascal] Blind Users

2016-11-07 Thread BobJ
Graeme, You included this on your message...> -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ Is there any other location from which fpgui can be acquired? sourceforge has never been friendly to screen-reading software and, although I have mad

[fpc-pascal] Variants - Auto-convert nulls

2016-11-07 Thread African Wild Dog
Hello, I need the variant type converting automatically null values to the default value of the target type (e.g False for Booleans, 0 for Integers/Floats). I know that i can achieve this by setting the variable NullStrictConvert (unit Variants) to False. However, this is a global setting and the

[fpc-pascal] Generics and Scopes

2016-11-07 Thread African Wild Dog
Hello, I have tried to compile some delphi projects using the latest FPC (3.0.0) release, and i got several errors related to Ggenerics feature. Reading the FPC documentation (section 8.8 - A Word About Scope) i have found that FPC requires that all external types and procedures used in the the Ge

Re: [fpc-pascal] Blind Users

2016-11-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-11-07 14:36, BobJ wrote: > Is there any other location from which fpgui can be acquired? Yes, fpGUI also has a mirror repository on GitHub. fpGUI is primarily released in source code form. The only exception is the DocView tool and INF help files, which I also release as compiled versions

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generics and Scopes

2016-11-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, African Wild Dog wrote: Hello, I have tried to compile some delphi projects using the latest FPC (3.0.0) release, and i got several errors related to Ggenerics feature. Reading the FPC documentation (section 8.8 - A Word About Scope) i have found that FPC requires that all

Re: [fpc-pascal] Blind Users

2016-11-07 Thread wkitty42
On 11/07/2016 09:51 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: If you have Git installed (highly recommended), you can get fpGUI source code from GitHub using the following command: git close https://github.com/graemeg/fpGUI.git typo! git clone https://github.com/graemeg/fpGUI.git -- NOTE: No off-lis

Re: [fpc-pascal] Blind Users

2016-11-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-11-07 15:40, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: > > typo! You are 100% correct. Thanks for spotting that. Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pasc

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generics and Scopes

2016-11-07 Thread Sven Barth
Am 07.11.2016 15:58 schrieb "African Wild Dog" : > It is intended to change such compiler behavior in the future? It is incompatible with Delphi and moreover it force us to break the encapsulation of the Generic types. I can't answer this without you providing an example that fails. Regards, Sven

Re: [fpc-pascal] Incorrect Process startup

2016-11-07 Thread Ewald
On 06/11/16 23:50, Steve Gatenby wrote: > run wmctrl (or other) from the TProcess / RunCommand code > the TProcess instance returns the PID for the new process > read the relevant file under /proc/PID/status - it will intermittently > show the new process is actually a copy of the caller app. > (me

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreeBSD distro with fpc as star.

2016-11-07 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05.11.2016 13:40, fredvs wrote: Lazarus needs those big widgetsets. But if you install Qt or Gnome on ... And, of course, fpGUI and MSEgui applications can run on a Gnome or Qt system. I understand that you suggest you can't build the Lazarus IDE with defining fpGUI or CustomDrwan instead

[fpc-pascal] New Feature: "Management Operators"

2016-11-07 Thread African Wild Dog
Hello, I saw on the bug tracker a patch submission by Maciej Izak about the feature "Management Operators". This feature is related to Automatic Reference Counting? Regards ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepa

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreeBSD distro with fpc as star.

2016-11-07 Thread fredvs
> I understand that you suggest you can't build the Lazarus IDE with defining fpGUI or CustomDrwan instead of Qt or Gnome (or Windows or Cocos). Maybe I did not understand well. AFAIK, for Unix os, Lazarus and LCL-widget-set need a "big native" widget-set, like GTK, KDE or Qt. IMO (maybe I am

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreeBSD distro with fpc as star.

2016-11-07 Thread Lars
On Mon, November 7, 2016 2:48 am, Michael Schnell wrote: > I understand that you suggest you can't build the Lazarus IDE with > defining fpGUI or CustomDrwan instead of Qt or Gnome (or Windows or > Cocos). > > Does lazarus even know about fpGUI I thought fpgui was never a part of lazarus.. d

Re: [fpc-pascal] Incorrect Process startup

2016-11-07 Thread Steve Gatenby
Thanks Ewald - will follow this up - much appreciated On 08/11/16 07:40, Ewald wrote: On 06/11/16 23:50, Steve Gatenby wrote: run wmctrl (or other) from the TProcess / RunCommand code the TProcess instance returns the PID for the new process read the relevant file under /proc/PID/status - it wi