On 2/16/24 9:57 AM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
So you are saying when constant propagation is on, an expression should have a
different result than with constant propagation off?
The result of math when using constants MUST be the same as the result of
identical math using variables
On 6/21/23 10:54 AM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote:
wkitty42--- via fpc-pascal said on Wed, 21 Jun 2023 08:07:59 -0400
On 6/20/23 10:54 PM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote:
It was a long time ago, but if I remember correctly the
Whitesmith Pascal and Turbo Pascal 2 and 3 had either break or
On 6/20/23 10:54 PM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote:
It was a long time ago, but if I remember correctly the
Whitesmith Pascal and Turbo Pascal 2 and 3 had either break or
continue. If I remember correctly, I first learned about those when
learning C.
i'm confused about your statement... first
On 6/17/23 2:07 PM, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal wrote:
This is interesting, because it's the first time I've ever seen "break" as a
valid command in pascal, and I've been using pascal since the mid/late 80s. All
kinds of dialects too, and I've never seen break as a keyword. C, Python, Perl,
On 3/5/23 12:54 PM, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal wrote:
[...]
This reminded me that I used to do this exact thing under turbo pascal by using
blockread/writes, and treating the text file as a binary one. This allowed me to
make changes without having to rewrite the whole file, something even ini
On 1/19/23 8:48 AM, Liam Proven via fpc-pascal wrote:
So when they see something like, say, Lazarus as FOSS, it can amaze them.
Which is one reason I wrote this:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/16/gcc_13_will_support_modula2/
oh! i know a fellow in Australia who might be interested in th
On 1/19/23 12:46 AM, Abuy via fpc-pascal wrote:
Lazy post. Bad writing. Could be better.
i don't know what you were expecting but it reads fine and good to me...
thank you Liam for sharing it... also thank you for the FreeDOS interview shared
on The Register! :)
On 18.01.2023 11:36, Liam P
On 12/29/22 6:40 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
I also had to learn that there are programmers that have not seen a single
SQL statement in their life :)
i remember working on an inventory program using FoxBase from before m$ acquired
it... i laid out the databases (now called t
On 12/27/22 9:37 PM, Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal wrote:
"I see there's a timer there.. but what starts it? What happens when it times
out? How do I set the amount of time? Why is there even a timer at all? I don't
know any of this."
James, when you raised these questions are you saying that
On 10/6/22 9:40 AM, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Oct 6, 2022, at 7:12 PM, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal
wrote:
I would be pleased to know where I can find the latest iOS parsed headers
and possibly a hello program. Also, the cross compilers for iOS don't seem
to be available at
On 9/10/22 10:57 AM, James Richters wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion
I think the syntax should be:
type myKeyEvent = IPTCKeyEvent;
Var myShiftStatus : boolean;
myShiftStatus := myKeyEvent.Shift;
i told you i probably had the syntax wrong :lol:
but I get IPTCKeyEvent not found. I wonder if
On 9/9/22 5:54 PM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
I have some key sequences with PTCCRT.READKEY where I use a lower case
letter to do one thing and an uppercase to do another, but if the Capslock
is on, they do the wrong things. Is there a way I can check the condition
of the shift key to
On 9/8/22 9:54 AM, Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal wrote:
Please ignore this post. I fixed the issue.
curious minds want to know: what was the fix?
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On 8/2/22 5:12 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
The variant part of a record must always come last.
FWIW: is this documented somewhere easily found?
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On 12/29/21 6:29 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 2021-12-29 11:22, wkitty42--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
i'm sorry... what is WST? googling
https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Web_Service_Toolkit
thank you! :)
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On 12/29/21 4:54 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
Translated to RPC: if you want speed, don't use HTTP or JSON. WST offers a
binary protocol and plain TCP channel, it's bound to be much faster.
i'm sorry... what is WST? googling for "wst binary protocol tcp ip channel"
doesn't tur
On 12/5/21 11:10 AM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
So the only thing I need to consider is times of longer than 49.7 days
without user input... because if it was exactly 50 days, it would look like
0.3 days as the first rollover would be forgotten. To take care of this I can
just check it
ummm... the source code is on the linked page ;)
On 10/16/21 2:58 AM, Darius Blaszyk via fpc-pascal wrote:
Can you put the link up to the source code please?
On 16 Oct 2021, at 00:27, Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal
wrote:
[...]
https://www.getlazarus.org/videos/physics/collisions/
Source co
On 8/30/21 8:52 AM, geneb via fpc-pascal wrote:
[*] For those not aware of him, Jeff Duntemann was a huge figure "back in the
day" in Turbo/Borland Pascal circles. His books are phenomenal.
i have and still use several of his books... i think the first one we got was
"Complete Turbo Pascal" -
On 8/11/21 4:22 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2021, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:
echo "Downloading version $FPCVER of FPC"
cd "$FPCDIR"
svn co https://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/tags/$FPCTAG/ $FPCVER
# Get sources
git clone https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/
On 6/19/21 9:40 AM, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:
Strange name of a function, though, is that needed?
idk why the specific name was selected but you need some easy way to add leading
zeros if you want them... some might complain about the conversion from integer
to string, though... i've
On 5/17/21 9:57 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
I know that Firefox will follow suit really soon (if they haven't already).
it has... in version 88.0.0 IIRC...
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On 5/11/21 5:35 PM, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:
Of course, but as I said the basic mail sending is working I just have a hard
time understanding how to add file attachments.
It would not have worked unless the proper uses are added to the pas file and
also the laz_synapse package set as req
On 1/4/21 11:06 AM, Bart via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 3:19 AM James Richters via fpc-pascal
wrote:
I suspect that I happen to see the file is there and try to read it before the
program that created the file is done writing it.
What is the proper way to detect the file is in u
On 12/19/20 10:02 PM, James Richters wrote:
No, this is just a simplified example..
ok...
The procedure will be working with dozens of records, so I need a way to call
the procedure and specify which element of all the records to use... it will
not be called for every element.
in that case, t
On 12/19/20 7:16 PM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
Is there some syntax that would work to select the correct record based on the
variable so I can avoid having all the If statements?
do you need to show only one at a time or are you looping through and printing
all of them each time?
On 4/12/20 10:09 AM, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote:
PPS: Bo, if you reply, please include the above PS when you reply to the list so
that the list manager(s) can see this and maybe they can/will whitelist the
synacor servers... i've had several postings get blocked in recent days because
of thi
On 4/12/20 8:26 AM, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:
I am used to *not* hide files anytime both on Windows (where I always
configure the explorer to show hidden files) and on Linux where I
always use an ls -la alias ll in order not to hide files.
Never understood the reason for hiding stuff...
On 4/12/20 7:55 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
All your OOTB problems can be solved without a single line of code change in the
compiler. Just create a script that people should use to compile instead of
directly using the 'fpc' command, and specify the config file in the script,
and any other
On 4/11/20 10:16 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 11/04/2020 15:58, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote:
Does fpc accept relative path for -Fu in the fpc.cfg config file,
something
like:
-Fu../units/$fpctarget
-Fu../units/$fpctarget/*
-Fu../units/$fpctarget/rtl
doesn't the 2nd one already cover the 3rd on
On 4/10/20 4:44 PM, fredvs via fpc-pascal wrote:
Does fpc accept relative path for -Fu in the fpc.cfg config file, something
like:
-Fu../units/$fpctarget
-Fu../units/$fpctarget/*
-Fu../units/$fpctarget/rtl
doesn't the 2nd one already cover the 3rd one?
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On 3/25/20 5:06 PM, Bart via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 7:48 PM wrote:
[wargames] seems like the winning move is to not play the game. [/wargames] LUL
LUL ??
What does that stand for?
it is the LOL emoticon with a beard... i've gotten to where i use it all the
time instead
On 3/25/20 2:17 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
wkitt...@windstream.net schrieb am Mi., 25. März 2020, 18:47:
hummm... ok, so how to you get a constant to be a byte and storing 7 for the
decimal value?
The compiler normally uses the smallest possible type that can represent the
value.
On 3/24/20 6:58 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
wkitt...@windstream.net schrieb am Di., 24. März 2020, 18:37:
you should figure out why typed constants are not being allowed/used
in your setup...
Typed constants can not be used to initialize constants.
hummm... ok, so how to you get a
On 3/24/20 12:40 PM, fredvs via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hello Alexander.
I did:
const
foldhiddenbit : byte = 7; // line 896
foldhiddenmask : byte = 1 shl foldhiddenbit; // line 897
currentfoldhiddenbit : byte = 6; // line 898
currentfoldhiddenmask : byte = 1 shl currentfoldhiddenbit;
On 3/23/20 8:08 PM, fredvs via fpc-pascal wrote:
const
foldhiddenbit = 7;
foldhiddenmask = 1 shl foldhiddenbit;
currentfoldhiddenbit = 6;
currentfoldhiddenmask = 1 shl currentfoldhiddenbit;
foldlevelmask = byte(not (foldhiddenmask or currentfoldhiddenmask));
>Here the warning
I
On 3/17/20 11:51 PM, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Mar 18, 2020, at 1:31 AM, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
It's 2020 and the mail list is starting to really show its age.
With age comes wisdom.
No need to discuss this further, everyone loves the mail list. I'll try using
the forums inst
On 3/14/20 10:18 AM, fredvs via fpc-pascal wrote:
Yes, that is the main problem.
If you do it the "logical" way, placing at first without initialization,
when ord(kind) is used in code, because the order has changed, lot of code
must be re-written.
i don't see a problem with that... only some t
On 3/11/20 11:35 AM, fredvs via fpc-pascal wrote:
f (kind in tabulatorkindty) then
Yes, I like it!
But, sadly, the compiler no.
"Error: Operator is not overloaded"...
that's weird... i thought that construct was standard for arrays and similar...
hummm...
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On 3/11/20 7:51 AM, fredvs via fpc-pascal wrote:
if (kind = tabulatorkindty(tak_lef)) or (kind = tabulatorkindty(tak_right))
or (kind = tabulatorkindty(tak_centered)) or (kind =
tabulatorkindty(tak_decimal)) then
But I would prefer a shorter way, mainly if the array is big.
admittedly i don't
On 3/6/20 11:06 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
mailto:wkitt...@windstream.net>> schrieb am Fr., 6.
März 2020, 15:51:
On 3/6/20 9:17 AM, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Ok, I got this reply finally so maybe something else went wrong. I'm
tempting
> to try another account
On 3/6/20 9:17 AM, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:
Ok, I got this reply finally so maybe something else went wrong. I'm tempting
to try another account with some free email service because Gmail never shows
my initial post, which is annoying.
i've written before, several years back, about gm
On 11/21/19 1:16 AM, Brian wrote:
My question: Is there a standard method for handling this situation,
i.e. making sure that a drive has not spun down, or is it just a case
of writing a wrapper round the write function and handling the 'No
such file' error with a wait and a retry?
why not just
On 10/27/19 6:23 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
schrieb am So., 27.
Okt. 2019, 19:32:
On 10/27/19 11:56 AM, Alexander Grotewohl wrote:
> const
> IN6ADDR_ANY: array[0..3] of longint = (0, 0, 0, 0);
well, that certainly can't work... the IPv6 format is max 8 four ch
On 10/27/19 11:56 AM, Alexander Grotewohl wrote:
I sent this direct to him on accident but I don't think it worked anyways
(bounced?)
Just some test code so not very pretty. It works, but IN6ADDR_ANY was missing
and I'm not familiar enough with ipv6 to know how it might be defined in other
la
On 9/11/19 1:06 AM, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 9/10/2019 4:26 PM, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote:
On 9/9/19 10:11 AM, James Richters wrote:
Pascal doesn't have things like step...
hunh??? i don't think that's right but i'm just catching up after several 10+
hours days of $job...
i know that i've
On 9/9/19 10:11 AM, James Richters wrote:
Pascal doesn't have things like step...
hunh??? i don't think that's right but i'm just catching up after several 10+
hours days of $job...
i know that i've written code in the past that did use something to step X
numbers per run through the look a
On 8/31/19 11:15 AM, fredvs wrote:
And rev 42375 was the guilty, before that rev, all is working ok.
Do you get a compile error, or do the files no longer read/write properly
?
No, no compile error, it is only he files no longer read/write properly.
sounds like you need a copy of the files
On 8/19/19 4:24 AM, James Richters wrote:
I've been reading about libusb here:
https://www.cs.unm.edu/~hjelmn/libusb_hotplug_api/group__syncio.html
some things I just don't really understand, I'm hoping someone can explain:
The wValue, wIndex and wLength fields values should be given in host-en
On 8/14/19 10:54 AM, Ryan Joseph wrote:
Seriously? why is i := i + 1 better than i += 1 ? just more typing for such a
simple operation. All languages I use have adopted this syntax and for good
reason.
good reason?? because someone is too lazy to type 4 more characters? yes, i'm
counting the r
On 7/19/19 1:58 PM, geneb wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, James Richters wrote:
what OS? some OSes do not have hidden attribute like DOS and winwhatever...
for example, on most *nix, they use dot files which are
Both MS-DOS and Windows have hidden file attribute bits.
right... i was specifical
On 7/19/19 7:45 AM, James Richters wrote:
What does 'Warning: Symbol "faHidden" is not portable' mean exactly? I’m
using it with FindFirst and FindNext, I'm just wondering if there is a
better way of getting directory information that includes hidden and excludes
hidden files in a better way t
On 6/7/19 11:05 AM, Dennis wrote:
DaWorm wrote:
There was a thread yesterday about issues with the servers. This may be
related.
The web site is still blank.
it'll continue to be ""blank"" until they get everything moved to a new server,
too...
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On 5/19/19 8:29 AM, Kevin Lyda wrote:
At least on Unix systems I'd assume the answer was to write a signal
handler: https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/baseunix/fpsigaction.html
IME, that should always be done... especially in the *nix world... you never
know where termination may come f
On 4/30/19 9:36 AM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
Am 30.04.2019 um 02:45 schrieb wkitt...@windstream.net:
On 4/29/19 1:27 PM, Gabor Boros wrote:
Is this not a bug? Lost of formatting is not disturb me but text between >
and < is the data/text content of a node.
are you saying that you are trying to u
On 4/29/19 1:27 PM, Gabor Boros wrote:
Is this not a bug? Lost of formatting is not disturb me but text between > and <
is the data/text content of a node.
are you saying that you are trying to use fixed-width fields that are
space-padded in XML files???
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On 4/14/19 9:08 AM, Anthony Walter wrote:
Someone said:
"You can do a {$i mysettings.inc}"
I give that a +1
FWIW: all of the delphi code that i've worked with trying to port to FPC has had
this... at least one had an include file that IFDEF'd its way through like 4 or
5 other pascal compil
On 4/14/19 7:28 AM, Rainer Stratmann wrote:
On Samstag, 13. April 2019 22:30:55 CEST Alexey Tor. wrote:
E.g. i have a loop which test each s[i] char for several cases: 'a',
'b', 'c'.
for i:= 1 to length(s) do
if (s[i]='a') or (s[i]='b') or (s[i]='c') then ...
Can FPC optimize it so it only re
On 2/25/19 9:20 AM, Dennis wrote:
I noticed there are quite many changes in the sourceforge.net project especially
in terms of SSL fixes.
I want to use the trunk but worry that it is not stable yet.
Anyone uses the 2018-08-22 trunk version stably for a while?
I tried asking it on the synapse e
On 2/18/19 1:09 PM, Bo Berglund wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:33:52 -0500,
wkitt...@windstream.net wrote:
FWIW: gmail works fine but you don't get your posts coming back to you... they
specifically filter them out and there's no way around that that i've found...
it is especially desirable to g
On 2/17/19 10:30 AM, Ryan Joseph wrote:
On Feb 17, 2019, at 10:24 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
From what I can tell, the smtp servers you use do not handle greylisting
correctly (http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/ ).
Thanks Jonas, I’m going to try changing my smtp server to gmail then, sta
On 1/15/19 2:02 PM, Martok wrote:
Am 14.01.2019 um 18:05 schrieb Bo Berglund:
By changing the subject of an existing (very old thread) and post new
content you have screwed up the message handling of threads so this
conversation now gets stuffed into the "Resource compilation" thread
dating back
On 1/5/19 3:18 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
Am Fr., 4. Jan. 2019, 21:11 hat geschrieben:
On 1/4/19 1:47 PM, Ryan Joseph wrote:
> Who designed the generics btw?
unless i'm highly mistaken, you've been talking to them... they're quoted
above, even ;)
I didn't design the
On 1/4/19 1:47 PM, Ryan Joseph wrote:
On Jan 3, 2019, at 11:11 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
wrote:
Fair enough. In that case support for constants in generics will have to wait
as well. 🤷
Who designed the generics btw?
unless i'm highly mistaken, you've been talking to them... they'r
On 12/29/18 9:16 AM, Benito van der Zander wrote:
Fpc 3.1 did not show any warning in this case (although now that I
investigate it, fpc 3.1 also did not seem to inline it despite not showing
the warning)
i think, but am not totally sure, that the addition of the warning is a recently
added fe
On 10/31/18 6:43 PM, Ched wrote:
As some data which travel the world encoded in clear in the url of the get are
sometime private (connecting password for example), I'd like to use the post
method which crypts the data when using https.
ummm... if you are using https, GETs are ""crypted"" as ar
On 08/29/2018 11:49 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote:
Otherwise you'll have to Flush() them manually, which is a pain.
really? i wrote a wrapper for write and writeln that simply calls them and then
does a flush()... nothing painful other than using mywrite() and mywriteln() or
similar ;)
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On 08/29/2018 11:01 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Is there an equivalent for Pascal, or should I be using something like
fpSync(stdout) at opportune times?
flush();
i use it all the time on my programs that write to the logs... i hate having a
crash and be missing some log output because it w
On 07/17/2018 11:56 AM, Giuliano Colla wrote:
A problem would be to determine the appropriate amount of politeness
accepted. >
Maybe a compiler option, such as -P0 (almost rude) to -P3 (extremely polite)?
Or up to -P7 for an increased granularity?
go the other way... a P9 is a weapon... to carr
On 07/03/2018 01:44 PM, leledumbo via fpc-pascal wrote:
i think i'm still waiting for the string "length byte" becoming a "length
word" or possibly a "length long" so the speed of pascal strings can be
reacquired -=B-) >
Ansi and any other dynamic strings already have length longint that allows
On 07/03/2018 12:41 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
And no "new language" can absolve the programmer from properly doing their
work. Everything else is just a quick hack, not a properly designed
program...
Welcome Back, Ralf! we've missed you O:) O:) O:)
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On 07/03/2018 12:01 PM, Tomas Hajny wrote:
On Tue, July 3, 2018 17:15, Ryan Joseph wrote:
Why is that so crazy slow? Does it need to iterate the entire length of the
string to know it’s length? >
Yes, that's indeed the difference between Pascal strings
(Short/Ansi/Wide/UnicodeString) and C-like
On 07/03/2018 03:26 AM, C Western wrote:
On 02/07/18 23:13, Wolf wrote:
Who is shooting whom in the foot?
Wolf
If you compile with range checks on, you get a runtime error.
why are so many folks NOT developing with all the checks (range, heap, stack,
etc) turned ON and then turning them
On 07/02/2018 07:07 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
From that error message it doesn't seem to like the "--macro" part inside the
xml comment. It seems fpdoc wants to process that "--" as the end of the
comment.
this was where i was headed... if the multi-line comments work properly, perhaps
it i
On 07/02/2018 04:11 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
What is illegal about this fpdoc XML project file? fpdoc from FPC 3.1.1 keeps
giving an exception error reading the XML document. The issue it has is with
the XML Comment I have on lines 2-5 (ignore the line wrapping caused by my
email client). If
On 07/01/2018 03:13 PM, Jim Lee wrote:
That is exactly the documentation I'm talking about. I've seen all of them. I
got to them via the wiki, so I suppose I should have said "The wiki, and
documentation linked to from there".
oh!! ok, well... i think the docs.var one i pointed out above is
On 07/01/2018 02:38 PM, Jim Lee wrote:
The most common scenario for me is this: "I wonder if fpc (or Lazarus)
already has ". Go to the wiki and browse haphazardly,
looking for [...]
that may be part of your problem... you're looking in a wiki instead of a more
proper place... all the FPC docs
On 06/13/2018 04:17 AM, Michael Schnell wrote:
On 12.06.2018 23:12, Klaus Hartnegg wrote:
No, it does not depend on the hardware, but on the setting of $N. Turbo Pascal
with $N+ rounds like FreePascal. But the default is $N-. In this mode Turbo
Pascal always rounds up.
What exactly does $N
On 06/02/2018 02:01 AM, Ryan Joseph wrote:
So it looks like my idea wasn’t that crazy after all. ;)
just because more than one person comes up with the same or similar idea does
not mean that it is not crazy or worse ;) ;) ;)
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On 05/01/2018 07:09 AM, Ryan Joseph wrote:
In PHP I always just load the file into string and loop over it line by line
using regex to cut out the parts I need. I like it because it’s so easy to
write and gets the job done. What ever I would make it Pascal would be 10x
larger probably.
FWIW: yo
On 04/17/2018 11:06 PM, James Richters wrote:
I have a whole section of diagnostic writeln's in a program, and it's tedious
to comment them all out/in as needed. I'm curious if doing something like
what's wrong with traditional IFDEF?? use something like this...
{$IFDEF DEBUG}
writeln ('bl
On 04/05/2018 02:11 PM, Luca Olivetti wrote:
El 03/04/18 a les 13:14, Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
I was going to report a bug but I see it's already fixed
https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30208
however it's still there in 3.0.4, released a year and a half later than the
fix.
Will the fix be
On 04/03/2018 07:00 AM, Torsten Bonde Christiansen wrote:
Hi All.
I haven't gotten any mails on the Lazarus mailing list since 31/03-2018 - and
the two mails I sent today doesn't seem to have gone through.
this one seems to have made the trip just fine...
Kind regards,
Torsten.
__
On 02/22/2018 09:49 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 12:48:21 +0100 (CET)
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
First of all, normally it won't work either way, because you must use
"unit foo;" and "unit bar;" in the files. >>
No, I can use
On 02/21/2018 05:16 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
I simply rely on my IDE (Lazarus, Visual Studio) to complete long identifier
names for me so that I don't have to. *shrugs*
exactly my thoughts, too...
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On 01/14/2018 01:15 PM, Bart wrote:
On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 6:00 PM, wrote:
really... i think most folks have a general YesNo routine that returns some
value which they then use to determine which way the code flows...
I used to have a general Prompt(Question: String; Allowed: TCharSet;
Def
On 01/13/2018 07:28 PM, Darius Blaszyk wrote:
not specific to CLI apps but are you, perhaps, thinking of CheckOptions and
HasOption?
No I do not look for commandline handling. Rather a CLI interaction library.
Which allows to interact with the application during runtime. Similar to how
sphin
On 01/13/2018 04:53 PM, Darius Blaszyk wrote:
Is there a library available that can handle this kind of input from the
command line? Though not difficult to write something from scratch (I already
started on it), I feel like this has to be available already. Anyone has a
tip for me?
not specifi
On 12/10/2017 03:45 PM, denisgolovan wrote:
True heap size : 7276691456
Should be : 7276691456
IIUC, if these two do not match, you might have a memory leak... keep up also
with your memory blocks allocated and freed...
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On 12/03/2017 01:48 PM, pasc...@piments.com wrote:
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On 10/29/2017 07:07 AM, Juha Manninen wrote:
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 2:53 AM, Cleverson Casarin Uliana
wrote:
Why some units like the mentioned MMSystem are
delivered with Lazarus but not with FPC?
MMSystem is not delivered with Lazarus. I don't know what you are writing about.
does the de
for what ever reason, your code arrived here looking to be in UTF8 or ISO-8859-1
format... lazarus loaded is as ASCII but the box characters in the code were
obviously not the ASCII ones you are speaking of (eg: ALT-201)... i tried to
convert it to UTF8 in lazarus but the look was still the s
On 09/24/2017 01:55 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Then define
function Find_Color(anArray :PVGA256Array; r ,g ,b : Word) : Byte;
Var
Dist,closest:Double;
i,bestchoice:Byte;
begin
Closest:=20;
For i:= 0 to 255 do
Begin
Dist := ((R-AnArray^[i].R))*((R-AnArray
On 09/08/2017 04:34 AM, Bo Berglund wrote:
Next I unchecked the checkbox before doing the long transfer, and
lo-and-behold(!) now there are no losses anymore!
So the action of writing text to the listbox in the LogHex function
was actually causing the application to lose incoming serial data!
On 08/27/2017 12:18 PM, James Richters wrote:
I have a windows console application I wrote with Freepascal.I can send
it a command line parameter for a file to use have it working so if I just
double click on the file I wish to open with my program, it launches and
opens it. I am wondering
On 08/16/2017 04:27 PM, Ched wrote:
Dear FPCers,
Would it be not too hard to make fp.ini and fp.cfg containing sections dedicated
to one OS (bot read by others, but kept untouched) ? I'm working on my source
codes both under Linux and under Windows ; when switching from one to the other,
the
On 08/14/2017 09:19 AM, Fred van Stappen wrote:
A concrete example.
A Linux/FreeBSD fpc release was compiled using the pascal headers for
libX11.so.6 and using symlink libX11.so >> libX11.so.6.0.8.
This release was installed on a system (with libX11-dev too to make it
work).
ok, that's fine
On 07/13/2017 06:30 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to achieve ?
@graeme: maybe you could mock up what you are wanting/expecting from this
particular situation? that way we (TINW) could compare the two and see the
difference??
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On 06/21/2017 12:31 PM, James Richters wrote:
There is one thing I am wondering about, I'm not sure if it's something that
could be (or maybe already is) addressed with pctcrt. That is the typmatic
keyboard rate. I wish it to be much faster than it is. I seem to remember
that on DOS systems t
On 06/15/2017 08:20 AM, James Richters wrote:
Strangely:
LY:=Round(30.1-(BYA+SYA));
Also compiles fine with both Win32 and Win64
have you tried 30.0 as well? it looks like something needs a real number for
this on the 64bit side...
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