On 22/10/11 10:01, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
Free is how you release the memory allocated for a object. Free calls
Destroy. Never call Destroy manually. When you implement the
destructor you always implement Destroy, never change Free.
A number of years ago,
On 20/11/10 13:48, Fantomas wrote:
...
Sorry, but what do think is awesome? That you can only write .NET
applications for Windows Phone 7? That's what I call terrible (which is
basically the contrary of "awesome").
Of course, I meant that it's terrible and horrible, for I like WM and
FreePasca
On 09/06/10 15:50, Marcos Douglas wrote:
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
wrote:
Marcos Douglas escreveu:
Exactly.
Therefore I always used 'const' only at 'strings' params. I thought it
had changed, but not. ;-)
It can be useful for record parame
On 27/05/10 23:13, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 27 May 2010, at 23:31, Yann Bat wrote:
The compiler always adds a VMT if an object has a constructor or destructor.
The reason is that the VMT also contains the instance size, which is used by
the constructor helper to allocate the required amount
On 07/05/2010 10:29, spir ☣ wrote:
On Fri, 7 May 2010 06:10:30 +0200
cobines wrote:
2010/5/6 spir ☣ :
(By the way, started playing with TFPList already, and could not find how to
get data back! I mean the symtric of add(). Even tried indexing (who knows,
with the syntactic magic of modern
On 23/04/2010 14:08, spir ☣ wrote:
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:17:21 -0400
Doug Chamberlin wrote:
On 4/23/2010 3:33 AM, spir ☣ wrote:
Say I want to implement a kind of linked list which node data may be anything.
Thus I cannot store data on place (in nodes), indeed; so it should be
referenced.
Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 11 Feb 2010, at 18:17, Rainer Stratmann wrote:
In the past with the turbopascal compiler and other always sizeof byte
was
added.
That is not true. This program prints "2" when compiled under Turbo Pascal:
{$t-}
type
pw = ^word;
var
w: pw;
begin
w:=nil;
inc(w)
So you're allowed add an integer to an untyped pointer?!
Wow!
Usually if you add 1 to a pointer of type t, then sizeof(t) gets added
to the value of the pointer. So if p points at an array of byte, p+1
would point at the next element of the array, 1 byte after p. But if p
points at an array o
On 25/01/2010 18:37, James Gibbens wrote:
Hallo FPC gurus,
I am VERY new to free pascal and I have a couple of problems. Can
somebody please help?
1. If a, b are real numbers and I want to round a/b foo to 3 decimal
places, the answer is displayed in Scientific notation. How do I turn
that off
On 19/01/2010 13:09, Osvaldo Filho wrote:
How do I get information about the hardware in Linux and Windows?
- Identification of the processor: model, manufacturer, serial number
Reading /proc/cpuinfo will give you the model and manufacturer. Don't
know how to get the serial number. Was that no
Rainer Stratmann wrote:
Am Saturday 02 January 2010 16:34:57 schrieb JoshyFun:
a: array[1..] or string = ('aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc');
That would be perfect.
Then you can automatically calculate the amount:
amax = sizeof( a ) div sizeof( a[ 1 ] );
If this syntax was in Pascal, would you use
High(a
On 07/12/2009 19:41, ik wrote:
http://ik.homelinux.org/
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Jonas Maebe <mailto:jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be>> wrote:
On 07 Dec 2009, at 15:19, Frank Peelo wrote:
On 07/12/2009 13:40, ik wrote:
Now it works properly. However it s
On 07/12/2009 13:40, ik wrote:
You are right, my bad.
I wrote it
if (not Key in ['a'..'z']) then
Rather then
if not (Key in ['a'..'z') then
In lazarus under OnKeyPress.
Now it works properly. However it seems like the not is for the "in"
rather then the key if it inside the pertness.
"pert
Anthony Walter wrote:
Okay, I am going to call bullshit on you. This is the second time (in
a few weeks) where you've replied to something I've written with wrong
information.
This first time concerning the topic "const records passed
incorrectly" you said, "It is nowhere written in the Delphi
Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 27 Nov 2009, at 15:49, Juha Manninen wrote:
If I define a private integer:
TDemo = class(TCustomApplication)
private
i: integer;
...
and in a protected method I use it:
for i := 0 to List.Count - 1 do
...
then I get an error:
Error: Illegal counter variabl
On 18/11/2009 08:10, yu ping wrote:
Is there a way to declare a static varible in a function body?
the varible should remain the value assigned from last call.
Typed constant, const /name/ : /type/ = /initial value/;
Takes the initial value when the program starts, but you can assign new
value
Jürgen Hestermann schrieb:
function SerRead(Handle: TSerialHandle; var Buffer; Count: LongInt):
LongInt;
begin
Result := fpRead(Handle, Buffer, Count);
end;
i don't understand the declaration for "buffer" in the function
below, because no type is declared for "buffer".
Untyped para
On 23/10/2009 11:21, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
2009/10/23 Graeme Geldenhuys :
Did you try writing with WriteBuffer(Atext[1], length(AText)?
That works exactly like I intended. Thanks Gerard.
I spoke to soon! :-(
I can view the resulting output.txt file with Midnight Commander
(Linux consol
Gustavo Enrique Jimenez wrote:
2009/10/18 Tom Verhoeff :
A simple example is the situation where one needs to calculate
the replacement resistor value R for parallel resistors having
values R1, R2, ..., Rk. The formula is R = 1/(1/R1 + 1/R2 + ... + 1/Rk).
The formula gives a divide-by-zero if o
On 16/10/2009 10:53, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
Marco van de Voort schrieb:
In our previous episode, J�rgen Hestermann said:
There is not even a proper open one for Delphi. At least there wasn't till a
while back.
That may be because it is no longer possible to write a BNF grammar for
these c
On 07/10/2009 16:39, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
IIRC, there is a difference. With the second declaration the compiler
can add a run-time check that the correct memebrs are accessed based
on the value of X.
Unfortunately, I cannot find the compiler switch.
FPC has no support for this.
And I d
On 06/10/2009 15:00, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:13 AM, 章宏九 wrote:
Type
MyRec = Record
X : Longint;
Case byte of
2 : (Y : Longint;
case byte of
3 : (Z : Longint);
);
end;
I think
On 07/09/2009 11:00, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 07 Sep 2009, at 11:44, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Jonas Maebe wrote:
...
Spaces and quotes are vetoed as a general rule :)
That's fine as a general rule, but at least on Mac OS X specifically
it's no problem. I think more
Prince Riley wrote:
Hello Frank,
If my past post was unclear as to whether I think the constant 'nil'
is an address, then let me be clear. I quoted the Borland Object
Pascal's statement nil 'does not reference anything' I was not equating
it to a zero address value. While a pointer with a '
JoshyFun wrote:
Hello Frank,
Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 2:49:26 PM, you wrote:
FP> But I'm more puzzled by what it would /mean/. In spite of your bracketed
FP> comment here, you seem to be thinking that nil is an address: i.e.
FP> adding/subtracting/multiplying a literal would mean something. I'm
Prince Riley wrote:
Frank,
I think the crux of the matter here is how to make the distinction
between a pointer with 'no value' and one that is initialized or set to
the 'lowest possible value in the range'. The quote I mentioned comes
directly from Borland's Object Pascal Langage Manual
Prince Riley wrote:
Hello,
I had a chance to go to a reference and check on what the reserved word
'nil' , a special constant, seems to mean. According to the Object
Pascal manual (Borland) ...
"The reserved word nil is a special constant that can be assigned to any
pointer. When nil is ass
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
wrote:
...
It is on my todo list, item no. 132.458 :-)
...
Do you *only* have 132 todo items - lucky you ! :-)
In /his/ locale, he writes '.'
In /your/ locale, i'd guess his '.' would be a ','
In /my/ loca
Fantomas wrote:
Hello, Rainer!
Sunday, March 15, 2009, 10:22:04 PM, you wrote:
I tried system.hprevinst, but this shows always 0.
If there are more copys of the program then hinstance is always the same
value.
hPrevInst does not work under Win32. It is only for Win16, AFAIK. Use a named
m
Florian Klaempfl wrote:
leledumbo schrieb:
I'm writing a paper about FPC and I need references where each language
feature comes from. So far, these are my what I know (some are guessing
though):
Feature Original DialectAdditional Information
Separate compilationUCSD Pascal
Ken G. Brown wrote:
Basically from point of sale system running on Macintosh, I needed
to pick up a file with a known name located in the same folder as
the application bundle, and process it for printing in a custom
format. This way it does not need the file path hard coded in case
it is differe
Frank Peelo wrote:
...
There's also "Compiler Construction" by Prof. Wirth, Addison-Wesley,
1996, ISBN 0-201-40353-6. It describes a subset of Oberon, rather than
Pascal, but it does have the advantage that he seems to have released it
(or rather, a revised 3rd edition) as a
Gerard N/A wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:50 AM, leledumbo wrote:
I just finished taking compiler techniques class this semester and I'd like
to write my own based on the one used in the class. The class uses Java with
JLex and JavaCUP, but I don't really like Java and I want to rewrite
leledumbo wrote:
Well, it's just an example. I'm saying that because the need of file system
support is quite frustrating that I need to write my own write routines.
yes, but for example you /don't/ need to write your own write routines.
(You *can't* write writeln in Pascal!) You can implement
leledumbo wrote:
Micha Nelissen wrote:
example?
Let Write(Ln) work without file system support? Perhaps just by supplying a
routine to write one character, and let other write routines use it.
I think it already has what you want there.
Doesn't call a function for each char, though.
Tom Verhoeff wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:58:10PM +0100, Vinzent Höfler wrote:
Tom Verhoeff wrote:
I am surprised that for ShortString, the range is not
also 1 <= i <= Length(s).
IIRC Turbo Pascal only allowed you to access s[0] when range checking
was off, and similarly for s[i] with
Arjan van Dijk wrote:
You can stop using crt, then you don't need to change your write
instuctions.
And how about my calls to READKEY and KEYPRESSED?
Would unit WINCRT bring a solution?
Or should I reconsider the use of these two statements anyhow?
One possibility is to assign the output fil
Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Frank Peelo said:
An additional issue with delimiters in this case is the fact, that "C" in
"CSV" may not always be a comma (or that spreadsheet applications may
expect different characters depending on locale - e.g. semi
Tomas Hajny wrote:
On Mon, October 6, 2008 05:33, Antal wrote:
It is a plain text file, each row is separated with CRLF (#13#10), each
cell separated with tab (#9)
errm, surely that should be a comma, not a tab!
The Tab as separator is just a good way to avoid using the double quote :P
Antal wrote:
You might use the CSV, which can be easily open with Office and to
generate by your application.
I am using this way to handle data to/from excel
It is a plain text file, each row is separated with CRLF (#13#10), each
cell separated with tab (#9)
errm, surely that should be a com
Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Frank Peelo said:
My questions are:
How do I change the IDE colours? Is there some configuration I need to
change to enable the dialogue?
Hi Marco, hope you're keeping well!
Afaik the trouble is that the colorselection widget wa
Hi
If this is the wrong list for asking about the IDE, I would be glad if
you could point me at the right list.
I use FreePascal for occasional programming. However, lately I find the
colours in the IDE difficult to read - especially integer constants
which appear dark blue-grey on a dark bl
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