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fpc-pascal · 2009-02

  1. specifying the relative path to a file that is located in the same folder as the application bundle?

    MacOS X, 10.5.6, fpc 2.2.2 How can I find the directory path to the executable of the currently executing program from within the program? Or alternately, how can I…

    Ken G. Brown, Frank Peelo, Jonas Maebe
    19
  2. installation problem of freePascal on freeDos

    I run freeDos 1.0 in the Sun xVM Virtual Box 2.1.3 and I tried to install FreePascal 2.2.2 (GO32v2 extender version). I created c:\tmp copied dos222.zip into it,…

    Unknown author, Jonas Maebe
    1
  3. GNU binutils in Windows installer

    FPC under Windows uses its own internal assembler and linker (and resource compiler, too?). Is it still necessary to have them? If not, why bloat the installer with them?

    leledumbo, Vincent Snijders
    1
  4. Can I encorperate PDF files

    I have an application running nicely in FP. What a great system. I would like to add a help facility that would search a topic in a PDF format manual and display the…

    John Youngquist, David W Noon, John Coppens
    4
  5. Problems linking C library on Linux (*.so & *.a files)

    Hello. I'm trying to link a library written in C (Allegro 4.2) on Linux. The testing program (which is minimal) links without problems but it raises a runtime error:…

    Guillermo Martínez Jiménez, Jeff Wormsley, Jonas Maebe
    12
  6. Re: fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 56, Issue 21

    Hi. I've tried your suggestion about the symbol stripping and had the same result. Thanks anyway. I'll load the library manually.

    Guillermo Martínez Jiménez, Jonas Maebe
    1
  7. Lookup/Calculated fields implemented in TSqlite3Dataset

    I implemented Lookup/Calculated fields in TSqlite3Dataset at fpc trunk. If someone is interested in this feature please test and give me the feedback because i don't use…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    0
  8. Free Pascal category at SourceForge

    Maybe you are interested in a recent feature request I have proposed for the SourceForge site, the creation of a Free Pascal category in their Trove Software map. You…

    Johannes W. Dietrich, Francisco Reyes
    2
  9. CDB in FPC

    Anyone knows if there is a unit/library for CDB in FPC? Found some old links asking the same question several years back, but no answers; wondering if anything has…

    Francisco Reyes
    0
  10. Sockets in FPC

    Hi I need to write a daemon on Linux which will wait on a user defined port (say 30000) and parse the socket input to write into a Mysql database. Can anybody suggest…

    Nataraj S Narayan, Lukas Gradl, Paul Nicholls
    2
  11. Python

    I appologize if this is not the correct mailing list for this kind of question. I want to use Python from my application, i found a couple of ways to do this. either use…

    Xealot, Krishna
    1
  12. Free Pascal manuals in German.

    Mainly for the German-speaking user of Free Pascal: Computer & Literatur Verlag has again translated the latest Free Pascal manuals to German and bound them in a book.…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  13. PasCocoa design

    Where are discussions about it occuring? I'd like to follow your progress. Maybe we could share some thoughts. In AdaStep (aka gnat-cocoa) there is a problem with GC.…

    OCTAGRAM, dmitry boyarintsev, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    13
  14. REQ: official FPC's FCGI framework

    FPC has pretty usable support for web based development. Currently FPC supports it through CGI and Apache module. IMO, there's one more support that should be added…

    Bee, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe
    24
  15. Usage of Generics in FPC

    I've been playing around with Generics for a few hours - simply to see what all the fuss is about. I was given the following Delphi link to help explain generics.…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    3
  16. documentation for file handling, reset, rewrite, errors?

    I cannot seem to find the good docs for the file handling routines assign, rewrite and reset in the pdf's that came with fpc-2.2.2. Where might the best ones be? I have:…

    Ken G. Brown, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  17. Origin of FPC features

    I'm writing a paper about FPC and I need references where each language feature comes from. So far, these are my what I know (some are guessing though): Feature Original…

    leledumbo, Florian Klaempfl, Frank Peelo
    11
  18. GTK 2 problems

    I'm not sure what is the correct ml for this, so I sent it to both ml, sorry for sending it to the wrong ml. There is a "bug" in gtk2.pas (actually gtkfilesystem.inc)…

    ik, Marco van de Voort
    1
  19. Fwd: DOCUMENTATION INTEGRATION IN MAC XCODE 3.X

    Begin forwarded message:

    MICHAEL MCNEESE, Jonas Maebe
    1
  20. troubles adding a second target

    MacOS X 10.5.6, fpc 2.2.2, Xcode 3.1.2 I have a working project started from the fpc supplied template. I've tried to add a second target for testing which is more or…

    Ken G. Brown, Jonas Maebe
    2
  21. Error: Identifier not found "try"

    The simple program below fails when compiling (2.2.2-8 and 2.2.4rc1) : program TEST_TRY; uses SysUtils, strutils; Function IsNumber(ValueToCheck:string):boolean; begin…

    T.Guilleminot, Jonas Maebe
    1
  22. dynamic arrays: copy-on-write or not?

    From the reference guide, december 2008 version: "Dynamic arrays are reference counted: assignment of one dynamic array-type variable to another will let both variables…

    David Emerson, Jonas Maebe
    1
  23. building universal binary

    Mac OS X 10.5.6, fpc 2.2.2, Xcode 3.1.2 Have a Pascal program calling some C code from a static library I build in a separate project so I can use the debugger. I've set…

    Ken G. Brown, Jonas Maebe
    8
  24. what needs changed to compile going from Carbon to Cocoa

    I've started my project from the FPC-C-C++ Carbon Application 2.2.0 template, have it compiling nicely now even tho it does not yet run from Finder. Now i would like to…

    Ken G. Brown, Jonas Maebe
    1
  25. Automation problem

    I'm trying to interact with MS Word. I started with the example from the wiki, but I'm getting errors and problems. Here's my code: procedure TForm1.GridToWordTable;…

    Bart
    0
  26. Re: Error: Assembler as not found, switching to external assembling

    It should be stressed that this problem is not isolated to one user; I have got questions from at least two users of Lightweight IDE. The IDE has nothing to do with it,…

    Ingemar Ragnemalm, Jonas Maebe
    2
  27. absolute beginner

    I am an old goat for what concerns Delphi, but I am an abolute beginner re FPC. One simple question: is there around any (free or commercial) grid component like…

    Unknown author, dmitry boyarintsev, duilio foschi
    23
  28. MSEide+MSEgui 2.0rc1

    MSEide+MSEgui version 2.0rc1 has been released: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=165409 Please test it with FPC 2.2.4rc1. Questions an bug reports…

    Martin Schreiber
    0
  29. Graphic LRS creator

    Hi all! I created a gui tool to build lazarus resouces (lrs). You can add folders and files and load/save your resource configuration. It's based on LazRes tool from…

    Unknown author, leledumbo, vmars
    6
  30. TZipper from FPC 2.2.2

    While I wait for FPC 2.4, which brings a much better TZipper, I am trying to use the existing TZipper to create a zip file with the following structure: file1 file2…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    3