Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Tommi Prami groups.tpr...@gmail.com wrote: Seems that there is not much support/users of WinCE-Lazarus so I was just pondering what are the options on here... Why do you think that? LCL-WinCE was always one of the top downloads of Lazarus with 10.000+ downloads

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Paul van Helden
And besides that the operating system is no longer utilized in smartphones, so I lost my personal interrest on it and moved to Android development instead (LCL-CustomDrawn-Android). I have to invest in platforms which are actively used in my field... But I still fix major bugs that appear

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 Release

2012-08-31 Thread Michael Schnell
On 08/30/2012 08:30 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: This can be done inside the interface or, when the interface is retyped, it does not affect user code because of automatic conversion. If the type String is moved to 16 Bit Characters and at the same time the LCL Interface is (necessarily)

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Tommi Prami
On 31.8.2012 10:31, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Tommi Prami groups.tpr...@gmail.com wrote: Seems that there is not much support/users of WinCE-Lazarus so I was just pondering what are the options on here... Why do you think that? LCL-WinCE was always one

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Michael Schnell
On 08/31/2012 09:53 AM, Paul van Helden wrote: Windows Mobile remains the only operating system on industrial devices, I suppose you mean operating systems that allow for running Lazarus programs. But even there I think that (e.g. ARM CPU based) Linux systems (with and without

[Lazarus] lcl.chm+lhelp: index contains GetPart, Searching fails

2012-08-31 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, If I open lcl.chm (Laz 1.0 version) in trunk lhelp, I can type getpart in the index tab and find GetPart. However, searching in the Search tab for getpart or GetPart doesn't return any results. Is this expected? Some other things: on Windows (lhelp x86) I selected the line at the

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Tommi Prami
And hey... I don't mean that I won't appreciate the work done!!! All the fixes and work has been very valuable... Just that if WinCE would be very robust on Lazarus (Like really at productionuse level) it would need quite an push, and what I looked at it, it is really out of my league, no

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Tommi Prami
On 31.8.2012 11:06, Michael Schnell wrote: On 08/31/2012 09:53 AM, Paul van Helden wrote: Windows Mobile remains the only operating system on industrial devices, I suppose you mean operating systems that allow for running Lazarus programs. But even there I think that (e.g. ARM CPU

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Michael Schnell
On 08/31/2012 10:16 AM, Tommi Prami wrote: I am also very interested this kind of Linux devices... Would love to know more, what I was able to find (At least Rugged) where very old... IMHO, right now, the most interesting board is the €70 BeagleBone:

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Michael Schnell
Example of a rugged Beagle bone enclosure: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:15583 -Michael -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Paul van Helden
Windows Mobile remains the only operating system on industrial devices, I suppose you mean operating systems that allow for running Lazarus programs. But even there I think that (e.g. ARM CPU based) Linux systems (with and without Android candy) not only are existing since a long

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Tommi Prami groups.tpr...@gmail.com wrote: OK, but still... as seems that Microsoft is not supporting that line of Windows Mobile for very long... And possibility to support WinRT with other thatn Microsoft compilers seems not to be possible anyways...

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 31/08/12 06:58, Tommi Prami wrote: Seems that there is not much support/users of WinCE-Lazarus so I was just pondering what are the options on here... WinCE is unfortunately a dying breed, but there are still millions of devices out there running WinCE (hand-held scanners, PDA's like my

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 31/08/12 10:16, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: Why not? I thought that WinRT is just the same as normal Win32/64 apps, but the availables APIs are different. Or am I wrong? Apparently there is something different, but I don't know the details. Microsoft is not allowing other compilers

Re: [Lazarus] lcl.chm+lhelp: index contains GetPart, Searching fails

2012-08-31 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com hat am 31. August 2012 um 10:10 geschrieben: Hi list, If I open lcl.chm (Laz 1.0 version) in trunk lhelp, I can type getpart in the index tab and find GetPart. However, searching in the Search tab for getpart or GetPart doesn't return any

Re: [Lazarus] lcl.chm+lhelp: index contains GetPart, Searching fails

2012-08-31 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 31-8-2012 12:05, Mattias Gaertner wrote: Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com hat am 31. August 2012 um 10:10 geschrieben: Hi list, If I open lcl.chm (Laz 1.0 version) in trunk lhelp, I can type getpart in the index tab and find GetPart. However, searching in the Search tab for

Re: [Lazarus] KOL-CE - can't compile empty project

2012-08-31 Thread Krzysztof
Thanks! Now it run, but can't create events from object inspector (for example OnClick on TKolButton). I get error Unable to create new method. Please fix the error shown in the message window which is normally below the source editor, but I don't see any message --

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Michael Schnell
On 08/31/2012 10:44 AM, Paul van Helden wrote: I should have been more specific: industrial hand-held devices (PDAs) used in surveying, data collection, mobile scanners. See this article for examples: http://ruggedpcreview.com/2_handhelds.html See:

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Michael Schnell
On 08/31/2012 01:24 PM, Tommi Prami wrote: User device, handheald more than less, PDA or smart phone or tablet, or like that... . Just tale a Galaxy S3 or Galaxy Tab or similar and in stall your software. There is no point in using any dedicated hardware for such, this only will increase

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile) [OT]

2012-08-31 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 31/08/2012 10:42, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: [...] Microsoft is the next Apple, with their walled garden design. Graeme. Except MS was first in this area IIRC. L. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Alternatives to WinCE (Windows Mobile)

2012-08-31 Thread Paul van Helden
. Just tale a Galaxy S3 or Galaxy Tab or similar and in stall your software. There is no point in using any dedicated hardware for such, this only will increase cost. What if you need a GPS receiver with 5m accuracy (~1m postprocessed)? The Galaxy barely manages 15m in good conditions.