Re: [Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

2014-05-28 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Michael Schnell wrote: > > I use EpikTimer in my (soon to be released) work on the ActiveNoGUI Widget > Type. > > Here I found, that it is a rather appropriate use for EpikTimer to handle > it in a "static" way, not creating an instance of TEpikTimer with every us

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-19 Thread Tom Lisjac
> Tom and I would welcome patches for EpikTimer. > > Maybe EpikTimer should move to the Git repo of Lazarus-CCR so others > could easily clone and share their feature branches (say via Github). > > Fully agree... great idea! -Tom > > -- > ___ > Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-19 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys < mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote: > On 2014-05-19 11:03, Michael Schnell wrote: > > Obviously I can't _use_ EpricTimer there, as it uses (IMHO > > inappropriately) (graphics-) stuff that is not implemented in a non-GUI > > project. > > You

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-18 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys < mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote: > On 2014-05-18 00:49, Tom Lisjac wrote: > > I'm adding some clarification and context to your ongoing comments about > > EpikTimer in this and other threads. > > Tom, as I

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-17 Thread Tom Lisjac
Dear Mr. Michael Van Canneyt, I'm adding some clarification and context to your ongoing comments about EpikTimer in this and other threads. << Snip EpikTimer code>> >Why you would not use fpnanosleep on CPUX86_64 as well is a mystery to me... There's no mystery here. I wrote EpikTimer in 2003 w

Re: [Lazarus] int64 assignment fails

2014-05-11 Thread Tom Lisjac
That was it... many thanks to you and Flavio! -Tom On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:41 PM, leledumbo wrote: > > http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.4.0#Treating_direct-mapped_properties_as_regular_fields > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.co

[Lazarus] int64 assignment fails

2014-05-10 Thread Tom Lisjac
fpc-2.6.4-1.x86_64. says "Argument can't be assigned to" when trying to compile the following: type TickType = Int64; TimebaseData = record TicksFrequency: TickType; end; TEpikTimer= class(TComponent) private FHWTicks:TimeBaseData; Public property HWTimebase: Time

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-09 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > Rigel Rig schrieb: >> Until then, do not be surprised why there are not many new programmers > > Luckily enough we heard the same for FPC and experience showed that 1.0 > didn't change anything regarding contributors. So this argument is >

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-09 Thread Tom Lisjac
>>> >> >> I wholeheartedly agree with the above -- a purely theoretical >> backwards incompatibility >> issue already prevented me from contributing to at least one Lazarus >> subsystem. >> > > I wonder how such wishes can be reconciled with wishes

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-07 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 7 March 2010 20:55, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> >> Which is exactly why I think that the person who started this thread has >> tunnel-vision problems. The glass is half-full for me. > > > I now understand what you meant with that stat

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-06 Thread Tom Lisjac
> It's a matter of the glass being > half-empty or half-full. Graeme currently sees a half-empty glass. I think the point of these threads is not how one views a partially filled glass... but that it remains in a partial state year after year with no clear goal to ever make it full. A Lazarus 1.0

Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

2010-03-05 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Paul Ishenin wrote: > My current goal is to stabilize what we have and to release 1.0. For a project goal, it would be hard to top that one for conciseness and clarity of purpose... well said, Paul! Thanks, -Tom -- __

[Lazarus] ZVDateTimeControls Package available on Lazarus-ccr

2010-02-27 Thread Tom Lisjac
Zoran Vučenović has created a full featured, cross-platform time/date picker component along with a data aware version. It's available on the Lazarus-ccr under a new "Time and Date" folder or via this direct download link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus-ccr/files/Time%20and%20Date/ZVDateT

Re: [Lazarus] Release 1.0, part 2

2009-12-01 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Vincent Snijders wrote: > Help me, please. > > What is the purpose of a creating a 1.0 release: > A. Marketing, getting more people of the threshold to use Lazarus > or > B. Forcing Lazarus developers to keep stable interfaces B makes A possible. There is no poin

Re: [Lazarus] Release 1.0, part 2

2009-11-29 Thread Tom Lisjac
Hi Florian, On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > Tom Lisjac schrieb: >> To compare, Linux is now running corporate >> datacenters around the world... and Lazarus is still in beta with very >> few public applications deployed. > > The same might b

Re: [Lazarus] Release 1.0, part 2

2009-11-29 Thread Tom Lisjac
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:14:52PM -0700, Tom Lisjac wrote: >> The problem I see is credibility... or "if we write a lot of code with >> Lazarus/FPC, will it be maintainable with the project in perpetual >>

[Lazarus] Release 1.0, part 2

2009-11-28 Thread Tom Lisjac
>> So what exactly is the Lazarus team afraid of in getting to v1.0? > > Since we think it's not ready for 1.0. > > Period. The above comment seems to have stopped the previous Version 1.0 thread so I'm starting a new one with the hopes of hearing some additional comments and suggestions for achie

[Lazarus] FileMenuHandler and bzip2lib packages available on the Lazarus-ccr

2009-11-07 Thread Tom Lisjac
Juha Manninen has converted a streaming library wrapper for bzip2 and a FileMenuHandler component for use with Lazarus. Documentation pages have been added to the Lazarus wiki and the packages are now available for download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus-ccr/files/FileMenuHandler/FileMen