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fpc-pascal · 2000-09

  1. Nul sub-routine

    I would like to know if we can define a sub-routine to be nul, so that when compiling this routine hold no is what a macro do, but macros aren't implemented yet in FPC.…

    IoDream, Florian Klaempfl, Mattias Gaertner
    4
  2. How to shrink the executable size?

    unfortunately the link to the mailing list archive seems to be broken, so I'm not able to look whether my question has been answered before. The size of (DOS-GO32V2)…

    Sebastian Schuberth, Florian Klaempfl, Frank McCormick
    16
  3. TRY EXCEPT Bug

    i found out that the try except stuff doesn´t work if the unit crt is compiled in the program where try.. except is used. Is it a bug ??? greetings DirkVerwiebe

    Dirk Verwiebe, Jonas Maebe, Pierre Muller
    9
  4. cluster size info for win9x/go32

    Anyone know where one can get diskcluster size info? Can't seem to find it in win32 library... Need the info for win9x and dos? And also how to access this info via an…

    Lee, John, Jonas Maebe, Kuba Ober
    8
  5. TRY EXCEPT Question

    today i used the try except keywords but my program stops with an sigsev Signal. try mem[$ffffff]:=0; except writeln('Error'); end; compiled with Delphi2 switch and…

    Dirk Verwiebe
    0
  6. Reading the screen

    Does anyone know how to read characters from a text-mode win32/go32 program? I need to gotoxy and read some information, but I can't figure out how. TIA... Jim

    Unknown author, Florian Klaempfl, Gabor DEAK JAHN
    10
  7. Turbo Vision

    Excuse me if the question is a common one or is in the FAQ, but I can't access the mailling list archive to check that. Is there a version of Turbo Vision for FPC ? Or…

    Cabuzel Thierry, Georgi Georgiev, Jonas Maebe
    4
  8. Bug inifile only on WIN32

    Hello This code bugs with fpc for WIN32 (but works well for GO32V2). This code adds lines with the '=' char... Jean-Pierre…

    PLANAS Jean-Pierre, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  9. Win32 memory reading

    This is somewhat off-topic (except for the fact I would like to find a way to do this from FPC) but is there any way to read the memory in which a VXD occupies (such as…

    Jeff Patterson
    0
  10. Sockets Unit - Multiple Clients (Long)

    Can someone help me out with the sockets unit. I've successfully created a multi-client server using the NetDemo sample, but I'd like some further details on how the…

    Unknown author
    0
  11. Debuging in Freepascal

    i have got some problems to find an error in my program. The error occurs after serveral hours of normal working . How can i find the place in my program where the…

    Dirk Verwiebe, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    16
  12. Re: drvinfo

    Yup, I did miss something. Try this one... Jim (See attached file: DriveInfo.Pas)

    Unknown author
    0
  13. error.pas from ;)

    {$I compdefs.inc} unit Error; interface implementation var ExitAddress : pointer; type PtrRec = record // Pointer record type Ofs: Longint; end; procedure…

    Alex Dexter
    0
  14. Strings vs. Ansistrings

    For go32 and Win32 targets... are strings read/written differently when compiling with {$H-} and {$H+}? I have a file viewer that uses an array of ^string. When compiled…

    Unknown author, Carlo Kok, Jonas Maebe
    8
  15. Re: (no subject)

    Yes but when par is passed as const parameter compilation ends with Illegal expression error... Is it bug or my fault?

    Petr Titera
    0
  16. Can't viewing archieves online??? - repost?

    (I posted this message a week ago ... but at the time I wasn't subscribed to the list so didn't get any responce, so sorry if people answered already) I just downloaded…

    Smith Ray
    0
  17. Re: (no subject)

    -----Original Message----- From: Florian Klaempfl To: Date: 21. zari 2000 13:27 Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal](no subject) It works ... I apologize. I had another bug in my…

    Petr Titera, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  18. Re: (no subject)

    That's something different from what you wrote first. As long as count <= length(par), it will work too indeed. Jonas

    Jonas Maebe
    0
  19. Re: (no subject)

    something Have I do it this way in non constant case? I use BlockWrite(File, Par[1], count) regulary and it works... Petr Titera

    Petr Titera
    0
  20. Fulll boolean evaluation support

    As of tomorrow, the snapshot compiler will support full boolean evaluation like TP if you use the {$b+} directive. Version 1.0x will never contain this feature (and as…

    Jonas Maebe
    0
  21. Re: (no subject)

    You're right, I should test more before I reply :( I believe it was that way in TP though (but I can't verify it in the help, since that even doesn't mention const…

    Jonas Maebe
    0
  22. Re: (no subject)

    The problem is that const parameters are passed by reference (ie. the address of the value is pushed instead of the value itself). Function results do not have an…

    Jonas Maebe, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  23. Re: fpc-pascal -- confirmation of subscription -- request 966700

    confirm 966700

    MOSONI Tamas
    0
  24. Re: (no subject)

    Bu function results have addresses. If I allocate for example string in function, it have some address (at least on some stack).

    Petr Titera
    0
  25. (no subject)

    Why cannot be output of function passed as const parameter of another function? Are there some fundamental difficulties with it? Petr Titera Windows 95: n. 32 bit…

    Petr Titera
    0
  26. Side note...

    I added a few example programs to my DX corner since the last time.... Switcher DirectDraw: Shows how to handle switches between fullscreen and windowed mode. Requires…

    Thomas Schatzl
    0
  27. error messages

    I have looked through the documentation and have not found anything that shows how to get descriptive error messages to be displayed if a program terminates with an…

    Sidney Cave, Adam Naumowicz, Johann Glaser
    10
  28. Re: RuntimeError 213 and fp.exe crash beforecompiling

    Which OS?

    Florian Klaempfl
    0
  29. Can't viewing archieves online???

    I just downloaded FPC for win32 and DOS and out of interest I went looking for the mailing list archives to see how everyone is going or to see if there are some simple…

    Smith Ray, Daniel Mantione
    1
  30. 'try-except'-problem

    Hi! I'm new to Free Pascal an Object Pascal. So I tried the following program: ----------------------- program testtry; {$mode objfpc} {$I-} //I'm not really sure…

    Dominik Schulz, Sebastian Günther, Tobias Hermann
    12
  31. Build from CVS

    I recently downloaded fpc from the CVS (yes 30 Mo !) and now I don't succeed in compiling all the stuff: I don't really know what to do !! Can you make a notice on how…

    Jo, IoDream, Marco van de Voort
    6
  32. Sybil

    Hi I can't seem to find sybil on the net. I thought it was released under open source? What happened to it? joe

    Unknown author, Johann Glaser, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  33. Short notice

    I added a small D3D sample app on my homepage.... just to show the headers working fine. Get at http://members.yline.com/~tom_at_work/index.html - go to DirectX header…

    Thomas Schatzl
    0
  34. Problems on NT

    On my NT box when application compiled with PPC is running some applications won't start (e.g. mozilla) they shows in taskbar, but nothing appears on screen. Application…

    Petr Titera
    0
  35. Updates

    Just wanted to say that the following stuff has been updated in the meantime DirectX header translation --------------------------- now rel0rev11; contains fixes for…

    Thomas Schatzl
    0
  36. FPC/Linux - how to link with c/c++ programs ?

    Hello. I'm new to this list, so sorry if I'm asking about obvious things..... Recently I've installed FPC 1.0 for Linux. It works fine - I have ported several of my old…

    Piotr Skrzypczynski, Michael Van Canneyt, Unknown author
    3
  37. Texture Generator/Unit released..

    hiya.. a new tool/unit has been released.. it allows easy generation of textures, backgrounds and psychedelic pictures.. =) the included unit delivers an "api" to load…

    toxic avenger/ainc.
    0
  38. Free Pascal Community site launched!

    The Free Pascal developers are pleased to announce the launch of the Free Pascal Community site. You can find online discussion forums there; the site will be expanded…

    Daniël Mantione
    0
  39. For German speaking/reading FPC users

    The new Toolbox magazine of C&L contains an article about GTK programming using FPC written by Michael Van Canneyt and me. The article as well as the whole magazine is…

    Florian Klaempfl, Marco van de Voort, murphy
    3
  40. DirectX header update...

    the DX header translations were updated to rel0rev10. Now they work with FPC 1.0 again... [the previous needed FPC 1.1] Thanks go to XRay! for reporting and sending the…

    Thomas Schatzl
    0
  41. Locking Objects for Interrupts in DOS

    I want to call a function of an object from an interrupt. How can I lock the code and data of that object? Do I have to parse the data and VMT of the object by hand to…

    Florian 'Proff' Schulze, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  42. Handling of environment variable TZ under Dos

    has someone written a procedure/function which could parse the msdos environment variable TZ (all possible options including the daylight saving time etc.) and gives the…

    Marcus Roeckrath
    0
  43. FreeBSD 1.0.x snapshot uploaded

    The FreeBSD port of FPC is starting to work, and slowly getting acceptable for testing/using by intermediate FPC users, specially if they have experience with the Linux…

    Marco van de Voort
    0
  44. question - linking under Linux

    I have a problem. If I tried to compile some program under Linux, I got this message: (dots represent some not important text :-))) Free Pascal ..... Compiling ......…

    Martin Hankovec, Unknown author
    2
  45. Problem with daemon.pp

    Hello ! I'm new on this list and perhaps have missed info what I'm looking for... forgive me . I upgraded to latest fpc (1.0). I think I had previously something…

    Nylund Sakari, Ken J. Wright
    2
  46. [FPC; VP; Delphi] Software News

    there have been a bunch of updates of my source code on my site. This is an announcement for: CPU package -------------- The CPU package is a free powerful cpu detection…

    Thomas Schatzl
    3
  47. MPL

    Can Free Pascal be MPL?? This will help the adption by companies of free pascal. I would like to port my software over but i need to write something like a reflection…

    Unknown author, Marco van de Voort
    2
  48. Re: Virtual Pascal Public Beta available]

    MPL would be good

    Unknown author, Marco van de Voort, Michael Knapp
    4
  49. Running without FPU

    I want to run a program compiled with FPK in an old 486SX PC without FPU. Anyone knows what can I do? It seems that I can't find a directive to emulate somehow the…

    Aitor Santamaría, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  50. Windows Programing

    I understand that Free Pascal is win32 capable. Is it hard to code graphical app's for windows? Anyone got any sources of information on how to code this way?

    The Lunatic, Thomas Schatzl
    1