fpc-pascal · 2008-10
- Advantages page in website5
What happened to the advantages page in the Free Pascal website? It used to be: http://www.freepascal.org/advantage.html I would like to reference it from an article,…
- cross os symbolic link handling4
is there any function or set of functions for handling symbolic links inside the file system at an os independant level in fpcs libraries? Unix-like systems have soft…
- Question: range checking for string indexing4
Can someone confirm what range checking FreePascal does (if enabled) when indexing a string. I imagine shortstrings and ansistrings are handled differently, but cannot…
- ldap server written in pascal0
Is there some one out there ever write an LDAP server using Pascal (Delphi/FPC/GPC/whatever)? Now I required to write my own LDAP server (as user management system and…
- New object created in custom pool8
My application will create thousands of small objects of the same class, this objects are not created or destroyed in a row, so memory fragmentation could becomes a…
- fpimage glow effect5
How can I create a glow effect around text with fpimage? Mattias
- A cross platform keydown and up0
Is there a way to listen all keys of the keyboard, a la LCL's KeyDown and Up events, on a cross platform way and without the help of a framework (eg LCL)? Afaics…
- helpsystem, some numbers22
This morning I did a bit research after the help files, I hope it sheds some light on the WHY for the recent CHM efforts: html html help package size on…
- Post of release builder or tester0
About this Because of a lack of release builders and testers, 2.2.2 is only available for a limited number of platforms and not in all package formats. If you want to…
- Typed constant2
code snippet from my app: type TLaikoJuosta=record Valanda, Minute: SmallInt; end; const MAX_LAIKO_JUOSTA: TLaikoJuosta=(Valanda: 99; Minute: 59); I want create another…
- Problem with list?0
I usually see messages every day or close to it. Have gone a few days without seeing any... And I think this is the second time it is happening. I am just trying to…
- Delphi / FPC and UTF8 BOM19
Hi, i have some units shared between 2 Project First in Delphi 2007 and the second in Lazarus for Wince for unicode support on WinCE i converted my my files to UTF8, but…
- fpc without short boolean evaluation1
it is possible, to switch off the short boolean evaluation? Normally follow code is possible: ... i:=0; if (i>=0) or (10/i > 1) then {do something}; ... For my academic…
- Record Method and Operators6
Im wondering if FPC Team have plans to support Record Methods/Operators in future versions of FPC I read the actual "Future plans" and the most closed item is "RTL:: More
- fpc assember does not generate short jumps.1
I have an assembler procedure of about a 1500 lines of code. The problem is the jumps are generated with absolute addresses only, even if I explicitly specify "short"…
- using static linking of dylib in mac 10.53
I'm not able to do a static link of a dylib (with the latest lazarus + fpc build). I'm using the following code: function MyDyLibFunction: int; cdecl; external…
- FPC_HAS_FEATURE_SUPPORT1
Can someone explain the new FPC source layout? I find out so far: In rtl/inc/systemh.inc there is {$ifndef FPC_HAS_FEATURE_SUPPORT} ... {$define FPC_HAS_FEATURE_CLASSES}…
- Spreadsheet library/unit?52
Searched, but could not find, a library/unit for creating spreadsheets. XLS, open doc.. or anything that would allow to create spreadsheet tabs to later on open with…
- 2.2.2 INSTALL PROBLEM7
I JUST GOT 2.2.2 TO REPLACE MY 2.2.0 VERSION. When I compile a file that worked fine before it aborts immediately WITH A MESSAGE: "UNABLE TO OPEN: …
- PostMessage() from a thread (in a thread save manner)4
Some developers prefer to pass in a GUI component to a thread instance, so the thread knows what widget to update. Other users prefer to post a "gui update" message to…
- threading on posix platform3
Are there any specific things that need to be concerned regarding threading on posix platform (linux, mac, etc)? Especially their differences with windows platform. I'm…
- fpSelect() with very small timeout?3
Below is some code I use in fpGUI-X11's main event loop. When I played around with multithreading, I wrote a simple application, created 4 threads that each update there…
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- simpleipc5
I've been having a play with simpleipc.pp for trying to do cross-platform single instance detection. Ordinarily it behaves perfectly, but I just noticed on Linux that it…
- Bug in rtl/baseunix on OSX - Abort with illegal instruction2
fpmkfifo aborts with an illegal instruction on OSX. macppc:~ user$ fpc testfifo.pas Free Pascal Compiler version 2.2.3 [2008/06/14] for powerpc Copyright (c) 1993-2008…
- MSEide+MSEgui rev. 2.0beta10
A first beta of MSEide+MSEgui version 2.0 has been released: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=165409 Questions and bug reports please to NNTP:…
- Lazarus 0.9.26 released1
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.26 release. This release is based on fpc 2.2.2. This release can be downloaded from the sourceforge download page:…
- Cross compiling on Windows6
When moving from the 205 compiler to the 222 compiler I have got a strange problem with the cross compiler for Windows ----------- (Free Pascal Compiler version 2.2.2…
- OT: Buy a Mac to develop for MacOS? Which one?7
Hi! Having a customer request to port an app to MacOS I have to think about some test platform. As I was never interested in MacOS this is virgin territory to me. So…
- Which Mac?0
Your least expensive option would probably b a mac mini if like someone else said, you already have a monitor, usb keyboard and mouse, external hard drives etc. If…
- Tiff Reader/Writer1
Is there already a Tiff reader/writer for fpImage? Mattias
- Extended property can't have default value?8
Why is the following not allowed in a class declaration? property Increment: extended read FIncrement write SetIncrement default 1.0; yet this is... property Increment:…
- Need help with - howto find struct field1
Hi, I try to convert string to structure field. As example: function getRepF(argo,argn: string): boolean; begin ... dataA.'argn':=argo; ... end; argn is a string with…
- stdout refuses to be redirected7
Hi! The following small piece of code, with filename 'test.pas': PROGRAM Test; USES CRT,DOS; VAR DirInfo: SEARCHREC; BEGIN FINDFIRST('*.pas',ARCHIVE,DirInfo);…
- Smartlinking while cross compiling3
I'm cross compiling from i386-linux to i386-darwin/powerpc-darwin/i386-win32. I can't seem to create smartlinkable libraries for anything other than i386-linux and so…
- Chinese/Japanese codepages to UTF82
The unit LConvEncoding has some functions to convert between codepages and UTF8, like CP1252ToUTF8 and UTF8ToCP1252, but codepages for Chinese or Japanese isn't…
- linklib c using mingw, cygwin, both, or ...1
I'm trying to follow the tutorial, How to use C code in FreePascal projects, ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/docs-pdf/CinFreePascal.pdf In order to get gcc running on…
- Default compiler options for shootout using fpc 2.2.06
What should be the default compiler options for the shootout benchmarks? The used compiler is fpc 2.2.0. The benchmarks are run on a Intel Q6600 quad-core, either with…
- Re: command-line+Carbon template2
Marco -- If by "the two tests" you mean testing the FPC version vs. testing the CodeWarrior version, then: yes, I'm pretty sure, since I'm running them both on the same…
- Re: command-line+Carbon template2
Hi, Danie -- I'm not sure if you saw my most recent post, where I described what I was actually doing, in response to Jonas's concern that the LISP code might be trying…
- Re: command-line+Carbon template0
On Ma, 2008-09-29 at 11:32 +0200, : A bit late, but let's give it a try. : : : Here I would only like to suggest trying to use the same file handle with a new file…
- OT Interview with Almindor (Ales Katona)0
I've made an interview with Almindor (Ales Katona), and you can read it at the following address: http://idkn.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/interview-with-ales-katona/ Ido…
- How to auto create the $fpctarget directory4
How can I auto create the $fpctarget directory? Just specifying ../lib/$fpctarget/ and then compiling the project doesn't create the needed directory, and I get the…