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Marco van de Voort

I ported the Delphi library "Decal" (used to be called SDL, by Soletta) to FPC 1.9.[2? 3!]+.

I'm currently correcting a quick conversion of the manual to LaTeX, which I hope to put in CVS end of the week.

Interested people can check out projects/contrib/decal in CVS, or request an archive.

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Dean Zobec
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Alle 20:30, martedì 13 aprile 2004, Marco van de Voort ha scritto:

I ported the Delphi library "Decal" (used to be called SDL, by Soletta) to FPC 1.9.[2? 3!]+.

Thank you for the porting, it was one of the most needed libraries in fpc IMHO (I consider the cntnrs unit in Delphi a simple joke in comparison :-) . I'm planning to use Decal in a free accounting project that I started developing with fpc on linux. Hope I'll be able to provide some useful feedbacks.

I'm currently correcting a quick conversion of the manual to LaTeX, which I hope to put in CVS end of the week.

It's the original manual from Soletta? Something about 80 pages I guess, a huge work indeed...
Let's hope that it would contribute to form a community of DeCAL users to renew the interest in this great library (I've seen that the Source Forge page was surprisingly inactive in the last years in terms of cvs commits, but I'm quite sure fpc will make the difference now).
Thank you again,
Dean

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Marco van de Voort
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Alle 20:30, marted� 13 aprile 2004, Marco van de Voort ha scritto: > I ported the Delphi library "Decal" (used to be called SDL, by > Soletta) to FPC 1.9.[2? 3!]+. Thank you for the porting, it was one of the most needed libraries in fpc IMHO (I consider the cntnrs unit in Delphi a simple joke in comparison :-) . I'm planning to use Decal in a free accounting project that I started developing with fpc on linux. Hope I'll be able to provide some useful feedbacks

That'd be welcome, since it is still essentially untested.

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> I'm currently correcting a quick > conversion of the manual to LaTeX, which I hope to put in CVS end of > the week. 's the original manual from Soletta? Something about 80 pages I guess, a huge work indeed...

PDF - > Word - rtftex -> _lots of joeing_ -> .tex -> .pdf :-)

I put the result on http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/decal.pdf

It should be essentially the same as the original save some formatting, however now we can really edit and CVS revision the manual.

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hope that it would contribute to form a community of DeCAL users to renew the interest in this great library (I've seen that the Source Forge page was surprisingly inactive in the last years in terms of cvs commits, but I'm quite sure fpc will make the difference now). Thank you again, Dean

You could check the bugs in SF.NET, and compare them to the FPC version of decal.
Marco van de Voort ( or )

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