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  1. Codegear big sell to russian education system

    Link: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080201/20080201005191.html?.v=1 I think it's pretty exciting news to all pascal fans =) And also very good for Lazarus/Free Pascal. People…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Giuliano Colla, Marco van de Voort
    3
  2. nice blog article: "Why I use (object) Pascal"

    Might be of interest to both mailing lists. He plugs FPC and Lazarus, and it's nicely written. CodeGear of course makes an appearance in the comments (which are a fun…

    John Stoneham
    0
  3. The fpGUI Toolkit supports FreeBSD!

    Since revision 490, FreeBSD has been certified as a supported platform of fpGUI! :) I've used FPC 2.2.0 under DesktopBSD v1.6 (which is derived from FreeBSD 6). I've…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Bee, Unknown author
    3
  4. distinct types and type identifier

    Below is from the Kylix 3 help. --------------------------[ copy ]------------------------------ Type identity is almost straightforward. When one type identifier is…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, ik, Peter Vreman
    4
  5. fpmake - append compiler options

    Using fpmake, how does one append a compiler option like -dSOMEDEFINE Or -xxSomeOptionNotIntegratedYet I will put this info in the FPMAKE wiki page if it is possible to…

    L, Michael Van Canneyt, Peter Vreman
    4
  6. Where to find WinProcs or equivalent unit

    Using FreePascal, I'm trying to compile an open source project written originally in Delphi 6. Some units require Winprocs, for accessing functions such as…

    Cleverson, Giuliano Colla, Marco van de Voort
    3
  7. Copying array raising exception

    The following code: var s1, s2: string; v1, v2: array of byte; begin writeln('testing strings'); s1 := 'test'; s2 := copy(s1, 2, 10); writeln('s2: "', s2, '" which…

    Joao Morais
    1
  8. Multiple inheritance is more powerful than Pascal's interfaces ?

    This question was posted to fpc-other, yesterday, but seems wrongful, in subject appropriation sense to that maillist. =========== I wish to introduce some additional…

    Andrey Gusev, Matt Emson
    2
  9. Linux daemon crashing

    Hi all, I'm trying to make a Linux daemon using FPC 2.2 I tried compiling the bundled daemon.pp (fcl-base/tests), it's an object oriented version. Compilation is ok, but…

    Rob van der Linde, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  10. [ann] AggPas 2.4 RM3 update

    I am proud to announce I have just released a new version of AggPas, the Object Pascal port of the wonderful AGG. http://www.aggpas.org A New version of AggPas 2.4…

    Milan Marusinec, Graeme Geldenhuys, Tiziano De Togni
    4
  11. Internal Error 200212277

    I often got the error from FPC "Internal Error 200212277" when I build my applications using Lazarus, whatever the version of fpc (<=2.2 others I don't know) It happens…

    Damien Gerard, Peter Vreman
    2
  12. Populate the Format function

    I need to send an unknown amount of elements to the Format function (actually objects within a tlist decendant). I apparently cannot create a dynamic array of const, is…

    Joao Morais, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  13. child units (was: dot within unit file name)

    Perhaps that's true with regard to name resolution, but Ada's package system has a significant feature which Pascal's module system lacks: child packages. Conceptually,…

    John Stoneham, Marco van de Voort, Tony Pelton
    8
  14. Heterogenous list of objects

    I'd like to manage a list of heterogenous objects. For instance, I have a list of objects to buy in store: cheeses (of class TCheese), soaps (of class TSoap), flowers…

    Unknown author, Damien Gerard, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  15. debugger exited due to signal 5

    When I run the 'go' I keep on receiving this error message: 'exited with status 5.The debugger is still running.' What can I do to solve it? any idea what is causing the…

    Ezequiel Tacsir
    0
  16. FreePascal Coding style

    Is there a standard Coding style for FreePascal (Pascal) available which programmers should use ? It is for my boss :) Damien Gerard Le temps n'a pas d'importance. Seul…

    Damien Gerard, Adrian Veith, Florian Klaempfl
    32
  17. beginner in pascal for Mac

    I was used to wok with freepascal on windows. Now, I have switch to mac ( 10.5) and would like to know what are the things that I need to have it running. If anybody can…

    Ezequiel Tacsir, Damien Gerard, Den Jean
    7
  18. Problem using fpc

    Compiling using the IDE+fpc 2.2.0 works correctly on my laptop(celeron cpu), yet on my new desktop(Intel 2140 Dual Core + one SATA disk and 2 IDE disks) I consistently…

    Plato, Damien Gerard
    2
  19. PathOnly is left empty in fpc 2.2.0

    Switching from 2.0.4 to 2.2.0 I found that (in Linux environment) the field PathOnly of TSearchRec isn't filled anymore. Of course my app which relies on it doesn't work…

    Giuliano Colla
    0
  20. property or public

    I have (it would seem) a stupid question :) We have TStringList vars. User can do what he want with it. Which one is the stupid or the better way to do it ? TMyClass =…

    Damien Gerard, Joao Morais, Matt Emson
    6
  21. -Xg flag and lineinfo/lnfodwrf support

    is someone working on the -Xg lineinfo/lnfodwrf support, so that using a separate .dbg file for the debug, the software is able to show the call-stack with source line?…

    Fabio Dell'Aria, Jonas Maebe, Peter Vreman
    10
  22. find the "List index (1) out of bounds" error

    Anybody got an idea how I can trace the location of a "List index (1) out of bounds" error. I can't seem to find where this error occurs. Is there any extra fpc…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  23. dot within unit file name

    Why cant FPC use unit that has (some) dot(s) within the file name? Can FPC support it in the next release (2.2.2)? Sometimes I need to have some units for example:…

    Bee, Cesar Liws Gmail, Damien Gerard
    79
  24. Accessing ROM BIOS Font in Linux.

    A task I used to do regularly when programming in Turbo Pascal was to read the BIOS Rom Font. I first picked this up to make "Splash" Screens for Text Mode programs…

    Unknown author, Anthony W.Henry, Marco van de Voort
    12
  25. Read UTF8 Files

    Hi ! I would like to read UTF8 files. There is TFileStream, and it seems to make the job. However, I need read _big_ files (with long string) so I would like to read…

    Damien Gerard
    0
  26. Contributed unit list not avaible

    There are no entries in the contributed unit list: http://www.freepascal.org/contrib/db.php3 Marc SCALA IT Inhaber: Marc Geldon Gutenbergstr. 18 67112 Mutterstadt…

    Marc Geldon
    0
  27. ncurses extra package

    Hello everybody. Recently I asked myself if Free Pascal has support for ncurses and I've found it as an extra package. I've take a peek at the ncurses.pp file and I've…

    Guillermo Martínez Jiménez, Anthony W.Henry, Marco van de Voort
    4
  28. Notice: Possible copyright infringements in FPC code base

    The FPC team has been recently made aware that a number of routines in the Classes unit are apparently based on code originally from Borland/CodeGear. After someone…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Chris Kirkpatrick, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    31
  29. Turbo Pascal mode!!

    Some time ago, I posted about this. On the TP mode FreePascal can use a function as a procedure. Florian told me that that was because of the version of the TP emulation.

    Zaka E-Lab
    0
  30. arm-linux, using unit cthreads fails

    the following program is throwing an Access Violation on my system (ARM920T, uClibc): program project1; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} uses cthreads, SysUtils; function…

    Bernd Mueller
    0

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