Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Gour
Jonas Maebe writes: > As the saying goes: reality is that which, when you stop believing in > it, doesn't go away... (un)Fortunately. ;) Sincerely, Gour -- As a blazing fire turns firewood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to material

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-08 Thread Gour
not alone. ;) Sincerely, Gour -- A self-realized man has no purpose to fulfill in the discharge of his prescribed duties, nor has he any reason not to perform such work. Nor has he any need to depend on any other living being. ___ fpc-pascal maillis

Re: [fpc-pascal] Object Pascal Handbook

2015-08-07 Thread Gour
Gabor Boros writes: > The official documentation is not a good start point? Well, it’s pretty comperhensive, but “Reference Guide” is reference, while, atm, I’m looking for something like manual/tutorial. Of course, I’m sure that official docs will be indispensable later. ;) Sincerely, G

Re: [fpc-pascal] Object Pascal Handbook

2015-08-07 Thread Gour
through the content and it seems pretty good as a starting point - as > the title says. ;-) Thanks a lot! I bet we already stumbled on it, but, somehow, forgot it later. :-( Sincerely, Gour -- A person is considered still further advanced when he regards honest well-wishers, affectionate benef

[fpc-pascal] Object Pascal Handbook

2015-08-07 Thread Gour
Embarcadero Technologies.” I wonder, being FPC noob, how suitable it can be for learning FPC? Sincerely, Gour p.s. My interest it purely FPC and do not intend using Delphi/AppMethod. -- An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-05 Thread Gour
y use b). ;) Sincerely, Gour -- The intricacies of action are very hard to understand. Therefore one should know properly what action is, what forbidden action is, and what inaction is. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org htt

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-04 Thread Gour
confidence considering the community behind… Sincerely, Gour -- It is far better to discharge one's prescribed duties, even though faultily, than another's duties perfectly. Destruction in the course of performing one's own duty is better than engaging in another's duties,

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-04 Thread Gour
list: Will visit the place, for sure… Thank you for your input. At the end, after deciding to use FPC, there is no more lack of viable options which was the case before when evaluating other languages. :-) Sincerely, Gour -- Perform your prescribed duty, for doing so is better than not work

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-04 Thread Gour
Mark Morgan Lloyd writes: > That's going to be a problem. On x86 and x86-64 Jessie, my experience > so far is that GTK2 doesn't work and that Qt is the only viable > option. That’s another ’pro’ argument to use fpGUI or MSEgui… Sincerely, Gour -- The working senses a

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-04 Thread Gour
wards it at the moment having some very welcome features and less bloat. > I have not used Lazarus for a while, but I think you can use it as an > IDE, while using fpGUI as a component set. Perhaps someone can confirm? Well, ability of fpGUI to use one’s preferre

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-04 Thread Gour
Graeme Geldenhuys writes: > I can confirm that SQLite3 is supported via the SqlDB database > components. That wiki page is simply a bit out of date. Thank you. Sincerely, Gour -- ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.or

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-04 Thread Gour
Paul Breneman writes: > And fpGUI is very easy to try: > http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm Ohh, this is a good one. Thanks. Sincerely, Gour -- He is a perfect yogī who, by comparison to his own self, sees the true equality of all beings, in both their happiness and their di

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-04 Thread Gour
Mark Morgan Lloyd writes: > The first option would be a pure Pascal one, driving either a > graphical or a text-based (curses etc.) UI. Here you mean fpGUI & MSEgui? > I tend to use the FPC+Lazarus combination on (Debian) Linux targeting > x86 (including -64), SPARC, PPC and sometimes ARM, MIPS

Re: [fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-04 Thread Gour
s useful. eg: > The Free Pascal Compiler development team is minute compared to say the > Qt project. Yet I [and many others] find FPC immensely useful, and more > importantly what allows us [as developers] to make a living. Thank you very much for your input. Sincerely, Gour -- You have a r

[fpc-pascal] which GUI (noob)

2015-08-04 Thread Gour
bably do not need full power of GTK2(3) or Qt toolkit, but need some database support - app would use sqlite3 as storage backend. Another concern is that, afaics, both b) and c) are mostly one-man project, while a) has much larger community behind. Any advice is helpful? Sincerely, Gour --