I thought I remember some simpleipc examples in the documentation a while ago (years ago)..

Can't seem to find them in the current docs.

Were they moved elsewhere or did I miss finding them?

For what I need I will probably not be using any lazarus components, but rather ipc without LCL involved. There are indeed lazarus examples kicking around.

The fpc documentation has:

[Overview][Resource
strings][Constants][Types][Classes][Variables][Index]

Maybe an [Examples] would be a handy link, but some examples are hidden away in specific pages. Could index all the examples I suppose, with fpdoc tool, but not sure if that would be useful to people. Or there could already be an examples feature in the docs that I don't know about.

I thought I remember some simpleipc examples in the documentation a while ago (years ago).. Can't seem to find them in the current docs.

You are probably talking about the ipc examples of the unix unit.

Were they moved elsewhere or did I miss finding them?

As far as I know, there are no example programs in the documentation. There are simple example programs in the sources.

Such a page is indeed not a bad idea. I will add it to my todo list.

Michael.

Can't seem to find them in the current docs.

In the fpGUI repository there are a few examples of SimpleIPC usage. The examples/apps/nanoedit/ uses it. The examples/apps/debugserver/ uses it. I think the examples/apps/ide/ also uses it. All non-LCL by the way. ;-)

Regards,
Graeme

Or there could already be an examples feature in the docs that I don't know about.

fpdoc already supports "Examples" for some years now - I use it very often in fpGUI and tiOPF's class documentation.

A index of all help topics that contain examples would be a useful addition to fpdoc output. On the other hand (just tested), if you use fpGUI's DocView and INF help files (generated by fpdoc and compiled with WIPFC), then you can do a search for "Example" and that will list all help topics with the Example heading.

Regards,
Graeme

Or there could already be an examples feature in the docs that I don't know about.

fpdoc already supports "Examples" for some years now - I use it very often in fpGUI and tiOPF's class documentation.

A index of all help topics that contain examples would be a useful addition to fpdoc output. On the other hand (just tested), if you use fpGUI's DocView and INF help files (generated by fpdoc and compiled with WIPFC), then you can do a search for "Example" and that will list all help topics with the Example heading.

[I think my previous message's attachment was too big - this one is without the DocView screenshot.]

Regards,
Graeme

Also found one in this folder of my lazarus installation (1.6.4): fpc\3.0.2\source\packages\fcl-process\examples\

there are three programs in that directory that relate to IPC

simpleipcserver.lpr
ipcserver.pp
ipcclient.pp

Trying to figure out what I do with them to send a message and communicate between the two antisocial programs

Indeed, it supports examples underneath other content, but I meant an examples index page...

If I wasn't working on SimpleIPC DLL right now I might just send a patch to index examples for fpdoc, but that would be classified according to my own professional psychiatry opinion as A.D.D. or A.D.H.D

More reason for me to check out fpGUI once again

Or I could see my if my own Lufdoc search utility could be modified to search for examples..but the docs are older copy on my server right now, so would only be pointing to fpc docs many years old

Or simply - if we stay away from psychiatry - as a useful contribution to FPC ?

Michael.

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

In the fpGUI repository there are a few examples of SimpleIPC usage. The examples/apps/nanoedit/ uses it.

That is Cool! Might fork this project on github and create NanoPlug with a small plugin system. Had a NotePlug prototype years ago that I never really released, using KOL/MCK but yours would be cross platform.

But once again. A.d.d./a.d.h.d.

When I get time

> In the fpGUI repository there are a few examples of SimpleIPC > usage. The examples/apps/nanoedit/ uses it. That is Cool! Might fork this project on github and create NanoPlug with

hehehe... It seems there is a big demand for a simple and small (executable size and memory size) text editor. In recent days I had two other people also get very excited about NanoEdit. :)

Regards,
Graeme