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fpc-pascal · 2003-12

  1. Sleep() routine?

    Hi all, are there any cross-platform (or at least linux/win32) sleep() routines available in free-pascal? Best regards Preben

    Preben Mikael Bohn, Edvaldo Silva de Almeida Júnior, Jonas Maebe
    6
  2. id3 tagging in mp3 / vorbis

    Wondering if anyone had done any work with manipulating id3 tag information contained in mp3 / vorbis files from within fpc and could point me to some documentation?

    baron kractor, Marco van de Voort, Unknown author
    2
  3. 1.9.1 linux-powerpc snapshot upload

    The first linux-powerpc snapshot has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/v11/linux-powerpc Any feedback is welcome.

    Florian Klaempfl
    0
  4. how to add a package to fpc release

    I've recently begun writing a simple computational geometry unit in object pascal. Its not object oriented just a large list of geometric primitives etc, so far things…

    Arash Partow, Unknown author
    1
  5. problem linking with c

    i tried to link a c function but had some problems: a simple example: in file cwrite.c #include <stdio.h> void writestringinc(void); void writestringinc(void) {…

    Dean Zobec, Michalis Kamburelis, Peter Vreman
    3
  6. opening files from a text list

    As per my last question to the list, I'm sure there's a way to do this, but I'm not sure how. Last time I got a quick answer after I'd spent ages trying to work it out…

    DONALD PEDDER, Alan Mead, Anton Tichawa
    15
  7. How to load a png image

    Hello I want to know, how to load a png image with freepascal ? There is a png libpng package shipped with FreePascal, but I cannot find any examples or docs. Or are…

    Karim, Michalis Kamburelis
    2
  8. inherited keyword

    Can someone explain the semantic difference between *1 and *2 please? procedure A(p: Type1); begin inherited; // *1 inherited A(p); // *2 end; ? Mattias

    Mattias Gaertner, Florian Klaempfl, Thomas Schatzl
    3
  9. Newbie question: fpc + gtk + clist

    Hello all: 1st. Sorry about my english :-) I'm trying to develop an GUI application with fpc and gtk. And I begin exploring and extending the examples. I'm working with…

    Eduardo Lopez
    1
  10. (no subject)

    unsubscribe payball *********************************************************************** Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener…

    Payan Ballesteros, Ivan, Payan Ballesteros, Ivan
    0
  11. When is the release date for 2.0 ?

    Hello When will be fpc 2.0 (linux version) for download. Greetings Karim ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @…

    Karim Forsthofer, Florian Klaempfl, Marco van de Voort
    2
  12. bug in 1.0.10? sizeof(cmyclass) returns instance size

    Hello, List! Using ppc386 version 1.0.10, sizeof(cmyclass) returns the size of the instance, e. g. 260 when there is one 'string' member, whereas ppc386 version 1.0.6…

    Anton Tichawa, Peter Vreman
    1
  13. Wiki

    After several discussions, we decided to install a wiki dedicated to FPC. Depending on the usage, we'll decide if it will get a part of FPC's web site. The link is…

    Florian Klaempfl
    0
  14. mbox to html problem momentarily solved...

    after scratching my head about how to reword my googling to get at least one response I discovered hypermail which will do part of what I need, at least for now. Thanks…

    Will Blaylock
    1
  15. possibly weird request unix mbox windows and html oh my!

    Ok, so I have a client who has thrown me a curve ball that I really dont have time for, alas loosing this client would put me in bad shape... I need to write or locate a…

    Will Blaylock
    0
  16. Re: Re[2]: profiller

    Pass -Fl/that/directory to fpc. The linker got as parameter -lgcc, which means "link with library gcc". Libraries are commonly prefixed with "lib", and static libraries…

    Marco van de Voort
    0
  17. Re: profiller

    You need libgcc.a and libc.a from mingw. Windows itself does not provide any profiling support.

    Peter Vreman
    0
  18. longint -> Pchar

    Is there a (hopefully easy) way to convert a longint variable to either Pchar / string / ansistring without changing the contents of the variable? For example, longint…

    Darren Reynolds, baron kractor, Marco van de Voort
    3
  19. ansistring and fillchar

    How can I use fillchar to give an ansistring a value of, say 'xxxxxxxxx'? In other words, I want to create a string that contains only a single character, that is…

    Mark Emerson, Michael Van Canneyt, Thomas Schatzl
    2
  20. AW: ansistring and fillchar

    Hello Mark There is an example in the reference guide for function FillChar. Not exactly for ansistring. Try the following: var s : ansistring; begin setlength(s,100);…

    ZINTEL Gerhard
    0
  21. Re: longint -> Pchar / string / ansistring

    Maybe i misunderstood you on IRC, you need the value of the variable or the contents of the variable? If you want to have the numerical value as string, simply use the…

    Balogh, Karoly (Charlie/iNQ, Balogh, Karoly (Charlie/iNQ
    1
  22. Random generator

    Hi, I'm looking for a good random generator. Randomize and Random does not seem safe enougth. Can someone help? Thanks. Jordi. (Please, use the list if you can answer,…

    jordi, Alan Mead, Florian Klaempfl
    13
  23. Note on change in unix/dos.pp and beos/dos.pp

    There have been some subtle differences between the behaviour on unix/beos on one hand and dos/windows on the other. Therefore the behaviour on unix/beos has been…

    Olle Raab
    0
  24. char 0 in ansistrings

    Is it *absolutely safe* to include chr(0) in an ansistring and have it get treated like any other character? Or is there some instance where it will cause different…

    Mark Emerson, Jonas Maebe
    3
  25. Re: FPC on MacOS-X?

    The code generator (PowerPC) is complete, afaik, althought it is not possible to build a cross compiler due to other work in progress on the compiler. The RTL is based…

    Olle Raab
    0
  26. [OT] Contributed units

    I haven't been a very active FPC user lately :( now I'm trying to catch up again with the latest additions. While searching the contributed units on freepascal.org I…

    Ivan Montes, Giovani Premuda, Michael Van Canneyt
    4