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  1. ANN: fpGUI now features a Visual Form Designer

    The fpGUI component library is coming on very nicely. Most used components have been implement. A few things like a Color Dialog or Calendar component is still missing,…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, josepascual
    2
  2. Underscore prefix for external C functions

    I am trying to find out whether or not to use an underscore prefix when declaring external C functions in FPC using 'external name xxx'. It looks like on Windows the…

    Adriaan van Os, Jonas Maebe
    3
  3. fpc verbosity

    Is the following correct? C:\FPC\rtl>fpc -v0 myproject.pp Free Pascal Compiler version 2.3.1 [2007/08/22] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2007 by Florian Klaempfl Shouldn't…

    Darius Blaszijk, Jonas Maebe, Vincent Snijders
    5
  4. How to compile IDE for Windows platform

    I have the sources of FPC/Laz up and running on linux, and now I want to compile them on windows. Do I need to download the sources again, or is there a platform…

    Al Boldi, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  5. simple sound implementation

    I've read in the docs for the crt-unit that the procedure "sound()" does not work on windows. Since I'm searching for a portable way of playing simple tones (frequency &…

    Marc Santhoff, Daniël Mantione, Jonas Maebe
    13
  6. Installation/Compilation of FPC for Darwin 8.0 (x86)

    Maybe a stupid problem: I have a running installation of Darwin 8.0 (x86) in a virtual machine (vmware). Can anyone give me some hints how to install the current…

    Werner Bochtler, Jonas Maebe
    6
  7. hmm, freevision

    Are there guides/documentation available for freevision? I actually may have the original manuals/media etc for turbo pascal 7- but if so, they're in a box in my…

    David Mears, Graeme Geldenhuys, Johann Glaser
    5
  8. Unit output directory

    Under Lazarus I can specify the unit output directory as follows: ../../lib/$(TargetCPU)-$(TargetOS) I'm trying to do the same thing from the command line (without…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe, Michael Van Canneyt
    8
  9. FP IDE - can't find System unit

    What do I need to setup in the FP IDE to be able to compile a simple little app? FPC is setup in my PATH and I can compile the same project from the command line without…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    5
  10. fpGTK ???

    Found it in my current fpc installation sources: C:\Programmi\FPC\fpcbuild_2.0.4_exp\fpcsrc\packages\extra\fpgtk but no documentation at all, except the sources... What…

    Tiziano_mk, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  11. Re: ARM7TDMI

    Op Mon, 27 Aug 2007, schreef Rainer Stratmann: The compiler always needs a runtime library. But you can customize RTL and it has been prepared for this by means of the…

    Daniël Mantione, Marc Santhoff, Rainer Stratmann
    3
  12. special numbers detected by val()

    is there any special handling of NaN's or +/-INF's built into the VAL-procedure? If so, where is it? ;) You ask why? Okay: I want to read in text files containing matrix…

    Marc Santhoff, Joao Morais, Jonas Maebe
    3
  13. Problem with interfaces

    I have the following code: {$mode objfpc} interface ... function DefaultObj: TObject; implementation var _Holder: IHolder; function DefaultObj: TObject; begin if not…

    Joao Morais, Darius Blaszijk, Micha Nelissen
    5
  14. fpc and boehm

    Hi List This is my first post to the list and I'm new to fpc too. I'm interested in using fpc to create .so/.dll for the Neko virtual machine (http://www.nekovm.org),…

    blackdog, Daniël Mantione, Jonas Maebe
    8
  15. Win64 Cross Compiling

    Hi all! I would like to add Win64 cross compiling capabilities to the FP.EXE editor. I was wondering if anyone has done this already and if so, how? Robert Wolfe…

    Robert Wolfe, Daniël Mantione
    1
  16. SMTP server using FPC

    Second posting to the mailing list this morning. I am wanting to write an SMTP server using FPC. However, I am having a tough time trying to find libraries/units that…

    Robert Wolfe, ik, Marco van de Voort
    2
  17. notify and notigyall

    Is there an equivalent for Java's sleep and notify/notifyAll in FPC's rtl ? Ido http://ik.homelinux.org/

    ik, Jonas Maebe, Luca Olivetti
    15
  18. GetMem should use out parameter ?

    Does GetMem care about the memory contents of the pointer variable ? If not the parameter should be out instead of var to prevent the following hint message: GetMem(…

    Skybuck Flying, Michael Van Canneyt, mm
    3
  19. Re: HelloWorld: gdb.exe crashes

    Ok that statement jumped the gun ;) I ran the generated executables (without the debugger) and at least the generated executables are working ! ;) I shall give lazarus…

    Skybuck Flying, memsom
    5
  20. Incorrect hint message ? ( Hint: Local variable "b" does not seem to be initialized" )

    The following hint message is displayed, which I doubt is correct which makes it interesting: "project1.lpr(21,5) Hint: Local variable "b" does not seem to be…

    Skybuck Flying, Vinzent Hoefler
    2
  21. h2pas and function types

    It seems h2pas silently skips function types. For example h2pas simply skips the following typedef without any trace in the translation: typedef int…

    Mattias Gaertner, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  22. Object Pascal books

    Hi All Could you recommend good introduction and reference books for Object Pascal? I mean books about the language not the frameworks. Thanks. p.

    Paschal Mushubi, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  23. About the bug report #9408...

    I don't want to start a big discuss on the subject (it would presumably lead nowhere) but I would like to answer to both J.M. and P.V. who added notes to the report. To…

    mm, Jonas Maebe, Peter Vreman
    5
  24. Delphi 2007 looks like Java and Ruby

    I'm reading the following article on codegear: http://dn.codegear.com/article/34324 And for me it looks like Delphi 2007 is trying to be a pure OO language, where it…

    ik, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  25. Help needed with (JEDI-)SDL on Mac OS X with FPC 2.0.4 powerpc

    I try to compile a little demo program for SDL, but it still fails. I use fpc 2.0.4 on powerpc Mac OS X with sdl 1.2.7 installed through fink (also tried it with SDL…

    Tom Verhoeff, Jonas Maebe, Milan Marusinec
    3
  26. MSEide+MSEgui version 1.4beta1

    MSEide+MSEgui version 1.4beta1 has been released: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=165409 New in 1.4: - Compiles with FPC 2.0.4, 2.1.5 and…

    Martin Schreiber
    0
  27. Target path of a SymLink file

    Is there a function in SysUtils or some other place in RTL that I can use to extract the target path of a symlink file? I'm using FindFirst/FindNext. The sr.Attrib and…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt, Vincent Snijders
    5
  28. extracting file attributes

    Is there a x-platform file attributes function in the RTL? I'm creating a file grid component in fpGUI and need to extract some information about each file. Info like:…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    1
  29. Unknown usage of function FixPath

    In fpmkunit.pp I found the function FixPath for which I don't understand the exact purpose of. What happens is that if I issue an install command the BaseInstallDir…

    Darius Blaszijk, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    27
  30. fpdoc cleanup after a refactor

    What is the best method to clean up documentation files after a class or unit refactor was done. My xml files are all outdated now - referencing methods or sometimes…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt, Vincent Snijders
    6

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