Hi,

MSEide+MSEgui version 4.6 has been released:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mseide-msegui/files/mseide-msegui/4.6/

There are also new versions of MSEgit, MSErun, MSEspice and MSEkicadBOM: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mseuniverse

the cross environment for Raspberry Pi:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mseide-msegui/files/fpcrossarm/

and FPC for Raspberry Pi:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mseide-msegui/files/fpcarm/

Martin

Hi Martin, do you have any plans to cross compile to android?

Andreas wrote

Hi Martin, do you have any plans to cross compile to android?

Maybe if there is enough interrest or a sponsor. What do you need?

Martin

I went back to Delphi because our company is converting all programs that the maintenance uses to work on cell phones. Rad Studio 10.2 was bought and even our desktop programs are being converted form FPS/Delphi7 to Delphi 10. If FPC for Android worked off the shelf I probably could convince the company to go back to FPC since all our current projects work with it. I Never used MGE but have been keeping an eye on it and know what you do is very stable.

Can you elaborate a bit what you actually need? Do you need a Firemonkey equivalent? Something other?

Martin

On the Android side I actually only need a graphical app with access to the Bluetooth and possibly be a TCP client.

Andreas Berger wrote

On the Android side I actually only need a graphical app with access to the Bluetooth and possibly be a TCP client.

And why Free Pascal to develop the android application? What would be the advantages instead to use the tools of the platform?

The architecture of MSEgui would allow to make widgets for Android in RAD style development, either ownerdrawn or wrapper for native widgets with 'ifi'-data- and event-connections to the business logic in the application.

Martin

In a lot of cases, at least for non-trivial applications, you might need to share a larger code base with desktop applications running on  Windows, Linux or macOS...

Ralf

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Em 25 de nov de 2017 2:43 PM, "Martin Schreiber"
escreveu:

And why Free Pascal to develop the android application?

For the same reasons that we use Object Pascal instead of C# , Java, whatever.

Best,
Marcos Douglas

Today much of the maintenance at the client is done using netbooks. We wish to use cell phone exclusively. We have a large program base with many programs all written in FPC and/or Delphi. The company is migrating all FPC to Rad Studio 10.2 so that the same code base can be used when we migrate some of these programs to android. I would rather migrate our last delphi programs to FPC.

Today much of the maintenance at the client is done using netbooks. We wish to use cell phone exclusively. We have a large program base with many programs all written in FPC and/or Delphi. The company is migrating all FPC to Rad Studio 10.2 so that the same code base can be used when we migrate some of these programs to android. I would rather migrate our last delphi programs to FPC.

What Delphi technologies do you use on Android? Firemonkey? What is missing in Free Pascal? Can you be more specific?
I doubt that the codebase of a desktop application can be used unchanged on a cellphone.

Martin

Martin Schreiber wrote

The architecture of MSEgui would allow to make widgets for Android in RAD style development, either ownerdrawn or wrapper for native widgets with 'ifi'-data- and event-connections to the business logic in the application.

This of course triggers my interest.
Is there an ifi user-site program (e.g. in Java) to run with the Android GUI and connect to a native code application ?

-Michael

Martin Schreiber wrote

What is missing in Free Pascal?

Good question. After all, Delphi used the FPC compiler to develop for iOS before they had their own compiler ready. I believe XE2 shipped with a FPC compiler. So FPC functionality (the compiler at least) must have enough to make it usable.

Regards,
Graeme

Martin Schreiber wrote

What is missing in Free Pascal?

A userfriendly setup/install for every compile/cross compile scenario out of the box.

Without the need for compiling fpc.

Without the need for an internet connection.

We have the compiler, now it just missing the widgets...

Best regards,
Marcos Douglas

Have you already seen fpcup -> http://wiki.freepascal.org/fpcup ?

Best,
Marcos Douglas

yes

Is it possible to tell fpcgui a folder with an already checked out svn trunk? I cannot afford to download 1.1 gb again.

Michael Schnell wrote

Is there an ifi user-site program (e.g. in Java) to run with the Android GUI and connect to a native code application ?

Follow up: is there a user site program (e.g. in Java script) that runs in a browser ?

-Michael

I guess its better to go for fpcupdeluxe these days?

Is it possible to tell fpcgui a folder with an already checked out svn trunk? I cannot afford to download 1.1 gb again.

use git-svn with existing trunk folder
https://github.com/newpascal/fpcupdeluxe/issues/57

Will fpcupdeluxe work on console, or is a GUI required?

See fpcup usage here:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Small_Virtual_Machines#Debian_console_virtual_machine

Regards,
Paul
www.ControlPascal.com

Hi Paul,

Will fpcupdeluxe work on console, or is a GUI required?

fpcupdelux fails without DISPLAY.

See fpcup usage here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Small_Virtual_Machines#Debian_console_virtual_machine

This page is interesting, will try levinux with vagrant mutate

1) My current issue is that both (fpcup and fpcupdeluxe) seem unable to use my existing fpc trunk checked out with `git svn clone https://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk`. As my connection is quite slow it interrupted multiple times and I had to `git svn fetch` to continue. I can't download it again this way and do not trust such automated tools to be clever enough to deal with it. It would be great if it would check for a .git directory and use git-svn automatically.

use git-svn with existing trunk folder https://github.com/newpascal/fpcupdeluxe/issues/57

2. However I'd like to use their power to create the cross-tools needed to release our project. At the end the cross installer will run on OSX i386 in a travis environment and automatically deploy binaries. Therefor not the whole history is needed. Which configuration options should I use in this case?

Kardan

~/src/fpc/.git/config
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
[svn-remote "svn"]
url = https://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk
fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn