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fpc-pascal · 2006-11

  1. How can i detect what cause the problem

    I have a Symbol mobile device with an integrated barcode scanner. The scanner's API in C and I cannot use every API calls. An example: The problem appears in the…

    Gabor Boros, Daniel Franzini, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    4
  2. Eye Candy Contest

    I'd like to show to some people that FreePascal can do good graphical and efficient things :o) So I organise an eye candy contest, with some simple rules, and I'll give…

    Marc PERTRON, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    15
  3. Nov. 30th Build of 2.1.1 for Sparc

    Just a quick email to let everyone know that the Nov. 30 build of FPC 2.1.1 for Sparc Linux is now available for direct download at:…

    Wolfe, Robert, Marco van de Voort, Micha Nelissen
    2
  4. next FPC version

    Any idea on what the next FPC version is going to be based on? By that I mean, is the next version of FPC going to be based on the FPC 2.0.x (or 2.0.5) code or on the…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Daniël Mantione, Wolfe
    3
  5. [HTTPS]: Looking for a ssl http client

    Dear I'm searching examples that help me to implement on a linux system an HTTP client that supporting SSL HTTPS in order to post, get and downloading files with or…

    TOUZEAU DAVID, Eugene Mayevski, Lukas Gebauer
    8
  6. fpdoc and three packages

    I have 3 packages using fpdoc documentation in the tiOPF project. Core, Options and GUI. I generate the html help as shown below. I have 2 problems... 1) The index.html…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Joao Morais, Matt Emson
    10
  7. freepascal.org

    The translated site is very nice and all, but is there a way to always get the english version of the site when I open www.freepascal.org in my browser, independnetly of…

    Alexey Pavluchenko, Daniël Mantione, Jonas Maebe
    7
  8. Miminum Mac OS X version

    I have seen reports that Lazarus doesn't run on Mac OS X 10.2.8. http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=3141 Is this version of Mac…

    Vincent Snijders, Jonas Maebe
    2
  9. Changing email in Free Pascal Community account

    Since I changed my e-mail address, I'm trying to change my email address in my account, I press the edit button in My Account page, change the email address and then OK…

    Tiziano_mk, Daniël Mantione
    2
  10. embedded database

    I'm searching for an embeddable database for small devices to use with fpc. It should be - fast - small in code size (loading takes long) - usable for different languages

    Marc Santhoff, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    5
  11. Web site now translatable

    Over the weekend we have started to use a new website build tool. The main improvement is support for a multi-lingual website. The website will still be static HTML;…

    Daniël Mantione, Marco Ciampa, Michael Van Canneyt
    15
  12. [SYSTEM] Linux <defunct> processes when execute external program by a thread

    Dear my application run has a daemon When the daemon load, it create a Timer function as a class(TThread). This Timer thread has a loop and create an another Thread…

    TOUZEAU DAVID, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  13. Freepascal and Lazarus at the Dutch HCC dagen

    Just to let you know that Freepascal and Lazarus are present at the Dutch HCC dagen the coming 3 days at the PascalGG stand. Marco, Joost and I will be there. CU, Marc…

    Marc Weustink
    0
  14. patch for bug 7491

    Please find a patch for bug 7491 attached to the bugreport. Best regards Burkhard

    Burkhard Carstens
    0
  15. CDROM handling again

    Hello, I 'd like to do it under win32. Michael mentioned way under linux if someone knows sometihing similar for win32 let me know. Thanx in advance Pianoman-----…

    Pianoman, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Marc Weustink
    2
  16. Stretchdraw implemented.

    I've committed a patch (by Luk Vandelaer) that adds a StretchDraw() routine to TFPCanvas. It draws an image on a canvas, rescaled to a given size. The interpolation…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  17. CDROM handling question

    Hello, I 'd like to ask how can I detect whether a CDROM drive is ejected. I have program which reads some data from CD after reading this data I eject the cd using some…

    Pianoman, Henry Vermaak, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  18. Compile error with published field

    I have a TPersistent decendant class that causes the following compiling error: "Only class which are compiled in $M+ mode can be published" This is the inheritance:…

    Joao Morais, Michael Van Canneyt
    6
  19. fpGUI, fpGFX and fpIMG projects have moved

    The fpGUI, fpGFX and fpIMG projects has moved to SourceForge. They have also been merged under one directory structure. The 3 projects will now be known as the fpGUI…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  20. "Web Service Toolkit" now has a newsgroup

    The "Web Service Toolkit" now has a newsgroup hosted at news://news.dxmachine.com/public.wst Best regards, Inoussa.

    Inoussa OUEDRAOGO
    0
  21. size of "long" on different platforms

    the c long int type is always mapped to longint in h2pas but I guess this is not correct in linux (have no 64 bit to verify) If I am correct: linux64: c long int ->…

    Den Jean, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    12
  22. Re: Unit "Sockets"

    Which OS? Anyway, socket is mainly about TCP/IP, and there are demoes in the description of the unit in the manual. Why do you want to use IPX in this day and age?

    Marco van de Voort, Daniël Mantione, Rainer Stratmann
    3
  23. libc for arm

    I had some spare time so I tried to make an app for arm-linux with mseIDE. I had a problem and tracking this down I found that libc (../packages/base/libc) is not…

    Koenraad Lelong, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    3
  24. SetPropValue doesn't convert string to enum

    I am converting an application framework to FPC/Lazarus and I have observed that SetPropValue doesn't convert, e.g., 'False' string to the False enum value if my…

    Joao Morais
    0
  25. Set format

    I have a quick question: are there (m)any people here who store/load sets to/from files? The reason is that we are considering to change the internal format of sets in…

    Jonas Maebe, Daniël Mantione, Den Jean
    15
  26. Executing python code from a pascal program

    I am trying to write a program that is embedding the python interpreter in order to execute python code. I don't need to transfer values between pascal and python. More…

    Adrian Maier, Leonardo M. Ram�, Tiziano_mk
    6
  27. Error during linkage editing?

    I'm trying my first compilation under mandriva 2006 and receive a message I can solve, may someone you help me? See snapshot below: prog_apoio]$ fpc…

    Nightrider, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  28. XML unit selection

    while planning an XML-centric program I found some related units in the fcl sources and many more inside the lazarus source tree. Which set of them would be the best…

    Marc Santhoff, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  29. Initializing record variables

    I have to translate a lot of assignements like this: particle_t = record name: array [0..Pred(16)] of char; longi: integer; pressure: float; temperature: double; lati:…

    Marc Santhoff, Marco van de Voort, Unknown author
    4
  30. global_dos_alloc

    target go32v2 compiler fpc1.0.6 This sequence succeeds begin ... exec( 'aTSR.EXE', ''); // execute an external programm aTSR; // aTSR.EXE will hook an interrupt,…

    Peter Beisel, Tomas Hajny
    1
  31. fpcUnit todo list

    As requested. Here goes... Let me know what you think of Item 1? If you wanted to start with any of these, Item 1 would be good. :-) =========================== Item 1…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    17
  32. 0.9.20 released

    The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.20 release. This release is based on fpc 2.0.4. This release can be downloaded from the sourceforge download page:…

    Mattias Gaertner, Adrian Veith, Vincent Snijders
    2
  33. Fpc compiler error win32 "Entrypoint _mainCRTStartup not defined"

    Was trying the last trunk and got this error on the i386-win32. Its not a big deal, we still got a working fpc/lazarus for win32 & wince, just wundering if this is a…

    Marius, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Florian Klaempfl
    13
  34. C API call problem under WinCE

    If I start the test application on the WinCE device the result is: "project1.exe is not a valid Windows CE application." If I comment out the SCAN_FindFirst call, the…

    Gabor Boros
    0
  35. Is it necessary to protect passed passwords in memory?

    I was thinking of writing a daemon in freepascal. When the program is started it will ask for a password. Then keep the pass in a string variable, using it every 10…

    Johannes Nohl, Marc PERTRON, Michael Van Canneyt
    6
  36. Progress Bar in different widget sets

    GTK's progress bar has a feature where the progress bar moves left and right repeatedly, instead of the normal from Min to Max. What do you call that feature and what do…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Alexander Todorov, Burkhard Carstens
    36
  37. How to fix - Hint: Type size mismatch

    I am trying to clean up the fpGFX code and trying to get rid of all compiler warnings. I get the following compiler hint on every line in the RectToXRect function. Using…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  38. Re: PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR

    Thank you very much, that has helped a lot. The project files readme has a good description of how XCode's build system works, which also has helped. Erling's template…

    Ken G. Brown, Jonas Maebe
    1
  39. Problem with multiple inheritance

    I was trying to split the o-o wrappers around Qt procedural wrappers in 2 parts. One that depends on Lazarus and another that can be used with only Free Pascal. So I…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Marc Weustink, Matt Emson
    4
  40. Generics

    As I can see, there already is some support for generics in FreePascal, but only for classes. Will records, their operators and free functions be supported too ? Could…

    Albin Pučnik, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  41. PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR

    With fpc, in trying to compile an example brought in from CW, and using XCode 2.4.1 on a Dual 2.0 G5 10.4.8, I have started with a Carbon template. In the target rules…

    Ken G. Brown, Jonas Maebe
    1
  42. DateToStr locale

    hello all i've noticed that DateToStr gives correct results on win32 (regarding locale), but on linux and osx it always gives the date as dd-mm-yyyy. i read somewhere in…

    Henry Vermaak, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    5
  43. Program needs probably the variants unit

    I wrote accidentally the following line of pascal code: writeln(output, a + b); where a was a double, and b was a string. The program compiled, linked successfully. Why?…

    Jan Jelowicki
    0
  44. Linux Install: Is it me or the documentation? ;-)

    First let me say how pleased I am to discover FreePascal. 'Twas my favourite programming language way back around 1988-89, being the last time I put my serious…

    Lev Lafayette, Alain Vitry, Bisma Jayadi
    9
  45. ROPS and latest FPC compiler (svn)

    I'm running into strang ROPS behaviour when using the latest compiler in svn. Is there a compiler switch required for it to work ok? Using revision 3823 I have no…

    Alexandre Leclerc, Florian Klaempfl, Jesus Reyes
    15
  46. -Xe and -Xi question

    when using -Xe option DBG is working, but when using -Xi it is not. Is it normal? (Using an old 3823 revision.) I tried r4479 (v2.0.4) and v2.0.4 FPC version but -Xe is…

    Alexandre Leclerc, Peter Vreman
    3
  47. how FPC expects string/interface/variant results?

    I have a question (for ROPS) in FPC that is way over my head. - Can you find out how FPC expects string/interface/variant results ? Is there documentation where I could…

    Alexandre Leclerc, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    7
  48. FPC hackers contest [was: Eye Candy Contest]

    On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:19:57 +0100 Lots of people are very fond of C because you can write 'unreadable' code and do some fancy/hackerish things like printing program's…

    Alexander Todorov
    0