Re: [fpc-pascal] GUI confusion

2013-10-01 Thread Ben Smith
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Michael Schnell wrote: > On 09/30/2013 12:25 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > >> All functionality works identical on all platforms, >> > Which, regarding look and feel, does have pros and cons, depending on the > users targeted. > Sometimes company branding in pr

Re: [fpc-pascal] Why is FPImage dog slow in reading jpeg's?

2011-05-30 Thread Ben Smith
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > So I have to suggest: Is there a convincing reason for having Pallete set to > true by default? What do you think about the trivial solution of setting it > off by default? It seems I have opened a hornets nest. :) But from th

Re: [fpc-pascal] Why is FPImage dog slow in reading jpeg's?

2011-05-30 Thread Ben Smith
> > Interesting. What is supposed to be a "large image"? I ask because the > original post mentioned 35 kB and 65 kB (and indirectly also dimensions > around 600x400 if I understand the program output correctly) which I I suppose he was referring to the "color palette", and not the physical image

Re: [fpc-pascal] Why is FPImage dog slow in reading jpeg's?

2011-05-30 Thread Ben Smith
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Michael wrote: > snip > That should work much faster. The reason is probably that the default image Ah, thanks Michael that did the trick. I knew I had to be doing something wrong. --   Ben. ___

[fpc-pascal] Why is FPImage dog slow in reading jpeg's?

2011-05-30 Thread Ben Smith
Hi, I wrote this console utility app in 5 minutes. All it is supposed to do, is iterate over *.jpg images (65 at the moment) in a folder (no recursive searches), and generate a snipped of HTML that I need to paste into my wives website. I first thought my utility app is in some recursive loop or

Re: [fpc-pascal] regex unit and word boundaries

2011-04-06 Thread Ben Smith
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:32 AM, ik wrote: > > What's wrong with /a word/ (without the slash) ? Sorry, I don't understand. > But if the word can exists in a middle of a text, and you do not look for a > pattern, then regex is not what you should use, but "pos" instead. Because > pos is more effic

[fpc-pascal] regex unit and word boundaries

2011-04-05 Thread Ben Smith
Hi, Does the Regex unit included with FCL support word boundaries? eg: the \b tag as used by some other regex libraries. If the Regex unit does support it, what syntax must I use? I know about the ^ (beginning of line) and $ (for end of line), but that is not what I'm looking for, because the wor

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Permuted index (KWIC) of function descriptions

2011-01-28 Thread Ben Smith
2011/1/28 Tomas Hajny > existence of good CHM viewers for Linux, No such viewers exist. :-) > time at least ;-) ) or support of this or that format in our textmode IDE. Is there actually somebody that still uses a text mode IDE for day to day development? I couldn't justify spending any time on