Re: [Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and WinNT 4

2008-09-02 Thread Reenen Laurie
Oooo... Yes that is sticky... If we know of a workaround (installing this file), then we should just document it well, and then the developers of those applications will know how to support users who inquires about it...? But I agree in principle with the users who said "if it aint broke..."

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and WinNT 4

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Ishenin
Reenen Laurie wrote: > AFAIK the lazarus .exe is built with Inno setup... maybe just have a > separate .inno file to do the win9X installer... > > But the question is if "we" are allowed to distribute the file below. the problem is not with lazarus itself but with applications made with lazarus.

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and WinNT 4

2008-09-02 Thread Reenen Laurie
AFAIK the lazarus .exe is built with Inno setup... maybe just have a separate .inno file to do the win9X installer... But the question is if "we" are allowed to distribute the file below. On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graeme Geldenhuys

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and WinNT 4

2008-09-02 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 9/2/08, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Another option is to add a dependency for the Unicode Layer for win98 >> >> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=73BA7BD7-ED06-4F0D-80A4-2A7EEAEE17E2&displaylang=en >> >>

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and WinNT 4

2008-09-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 08:40:46AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 9/2/08, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Another option is to add a dependency for the Unicode Layer for win98 > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=73BA7BD7-ED06-4F0D-

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and WinNT 4

2008-09-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 9/2/08, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another option is to add a dependency for the Unicode Layer for win98 > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=73BA7BD7-ED06-4F0D-80A4-2A7EEAEE17E2&displaylang=en > >From what I heard, MSLU is not standard

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and WinNT 4

2008-09-01 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How does FPC/Lazarus stand regarding this? I remember Felipe mention >> that it is possible to support Win9x, or maybe I didn't understand him >> correctly? >> > > Laza

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and, WinNT 4

2008-09-01 Thread Benito van der Zander
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > Lazarus already supports unicode in Win9x using a "best effort" > approach since months. It's all explained in the wiki: > > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/LCL_Unicode_Support#Guidelines > > Nick answered with what can be considered a

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and WinNT 4

2008-09-01 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 9/1/08, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > They are a commercial company, and there is no money to be made in win95. > > Supporting win95 means more than just the unicode string, and holds back > > on the feature front. >

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and WinNT 4

2008-09-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 9/1/08, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They are a commercial company, and there is no money to be made in win95. > Supporting win95 means more than just the unicode string, and holds back > on the feature front. We (our company) finally stopped supporting Win95 from the

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and WinNT 4

2008-09-01 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How does FPC/Lazarus stand regarding this? I remember Felipe mention > > that it is possible to support Win9x, or maybe I didn't understand him > > correc

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and WinNT 4

2008-09-01 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does FPC/Lazarus stand regarding this? I remember Felipe mention > that it is possible to support Win9x, or maybe I didn't understand him > correctly? Lazarus already supports unicode in Win9x using a "best effort

[Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and WinNT 4

2008-09-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, How does FPC/Lazarus stand regarding this? I remember Felipe mention that it is possible to support Win9x, or maybe I didn't understand him correctly? Original Message Subject: Re: Can Delphi 2009 be used for Windows 9x at all? Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:11:09 -0700 From: N