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  1. Is there an online tool for browsing library documentation and source code for FPC and Lazarus?

    Is there an online tool for browsing library documentation and source code for FPC and Lazarus? I am looking for something along these lines -…

    Frank Church, Jeppe Græsdal Johansen, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  2. How to document fpcunit test cases, so that they appear in the XML

    I would like to add additional information to the test cases. I'm using FPCUnit. Is there a way to document the test cases? For example, to describe the test case, to…

    tcoq, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  3. FPC mysteriously fails to find a specified path.

    I have a project in the directory: /home/bruce/project which has sub-directories: src lib Both are specified in Lazarus' Other Unit Files: src;lib but verbose message…

    Bruce Tulloch
    1
  4. Location of fpvectorial

    Hi List I'm rather confused about the location of fpvectorial, since I can find it in several places. I'm using fpc 2.4.4 and trunk of Lazarus, and fpvectorial exists…

    Torsten Bonde Christiansen, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Marco van de Voort
    9
  5. Generics vs TCollection

    I was reviewing some old code that used TCollection & TCollectionItem descendants. This made me think... With the introduction of Generics, is there really still a need…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Jonas Maebe
    9
  6. The best approaching for templating

    I would like to create some templates. Suppose the following example: <html> <head> <title>%s</title> </head> <body> %s <p> %s <p> %s <p> </body> </html> I can certainly…

    luciano de souza, ABorka, Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior
    3
  7. Database access in console program

    I don't know if it's the right place to ask, maybe it's for the lazarus list. Anyway, I'm trying to make a console-application that writes data to a Firebird database.…

    Koenraad Lelong, Unknown author
    2
  8. 3-tier database applications with FPC

    Just over 3 years ago I asked about FPC support for creating 3-tier database applications. The answer was basically: it's not possible (unless you roll your own Midas /…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, ABorka, Carlo Kok
    14
  9. Alternative for Delphi and FPC's RTL and FCL

    There are again some threads concerning the RTL and FCL, and in particular the adherence to Delphi compatibility. This mail is intended to rally the 'not satisfied'…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Sven Barth
    1
  10. TClientDataset equivalent?

    I'm designing a new program and would like to use Delphi's TClientDataset but would also like to keep FPC compatibility as high as possible. What is the closest…

    Rich Saunders, Unknown author
    1
  11. Numbers longer than double-precision

    Does Free Pascal have any options for operating on numbers longer than double-precision? If quad-precision is available, how can it be had? Can one find-obtain-buy…

    Ko Hashiguchi, Henry Vermaak, Sven Barth
    2
  12. Spatialite (a GIS extension to Sqlite) & SQLite Load_extension

    I'm looking into getting road, vegetation, building etc. data from OpenStreetmap and generating a map for the Rigs of Rods truck/driving/flight/boat simulator.... using…

    Reinier Olislagers, Unknown author
    3
  13. What is the difference between the declarations at the beginning of a class and those declared in the public section?

    What is the difference between field declarations at the beginning of a class and those declared in the public section? They are all visible aren't they, what is the…

    Frank Church, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe
    8
  14. Kubuntu installation

    I installed Kubuntu from a USB Stick (you can dd the iso file to an usb-stick and then boot from it, very userfriendly!) http://www.kubuntu.org There is also a…

    Rainer Stratmann
    0
  15. March 2025? :o

    I have accessed the link "http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-pascal/" to read old entries. And I saw that the last date is 2025, please see: http://imagebin.org/182128

    silvioprog, Alberto Narduzzi, Jonas Maebe
    4
  16. array of const and longword

    I've got a routine that takes an "array of const" argument, then loops through the arguments looking at args[i].vtype and and doing something based on the VType value of…

    Seth Grover
    0
  17. Using areq.getnextpathinfo in a CGI module

    I am trying to understand how to create some code using Custcgi. However, the following peace is not clear for me concerning to "getnextpathinfo". Let's see: program…

    Luciano de Souza, silvioprog
    1
  18. EnumToString

    Hi I remember there is a way to get a string representation of an enumerated type directly without using a lookup string array, but I forgot the syntax. Lazarus uses…

    Juha Manninen, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Florian Klämpfl
    8
  19. Premature end of headers using fcl-web and POST

    So I advanced my CGI using HTTP GET so far, but I'd like to migrate to HTTP POST. But I always get this error message in the apache logs: Premature end of script…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, ABorka, Ludo Brands
    19
  20. How can I implement "thrice" in Free Pascal?

    Haskell lets you define functions like thrice, which accepts an element of type a and returns a list of the element repeated three times, for any data type a. thrice ::…

    Andrew Pennebaker, Florian Klämpfl, Graeme Geldenhuys
    37
  21. A linking error when compiling with FPC 2.4.4

    I have installed FPC 2.4.4 using the following package: http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/snapshots/fpc-2.4.4-1.i386.deb.tar Having unpacked it in a folder, I did: sudo dpkg…

    Luciano de Souza, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    13
  22. Re: using a unit from an old version of fpc

    Directly including it in the uses clause is not possible. Linking it might be possible with certain limitations, but it is fairly difficult and implies some amount of…

    Tomas Hajny, John Lee
    1
  23. XML - How to set and use a Namespace Prefix?

    I'm trying to create an XML Document with multiple Namespaces. With the code below[1] a get as result the following XML: <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /> How…

    Daniel Gaspary
    0
  24. Debugging cgi applications

    Atached is a small unit that makes debugging cgi applications easier. When used in a program it will as part of the initialization launch a new process which opens a…

    Ludo Brands
    0
  25. FPC MemoryDataset

    Hi! Sometime ago I submitted a patch that makes the FPC Memory DataSet compatible with Delphi to make it usable on both IDE's by project PascalSCADA. The class TDataset…

    Fabio Luis Girardi, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  26. text.inc(1955, 20) Error: identifier idents no member "CodePage"

    I got this error when I tried to compile FPC 2.7.1 rev 19546. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- make[7]:…

    Marcos Douglas, Graeme Geldenhuys, Henry Vermaak
    16
  27. How to insert a record and get the primary key with sqldb?

    Yet another chapter of my database problems =) Ok, now I want to insert a record in my table and I would like to obtain the auto-generated PrimaryKey I tryed a number of…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys, Henry Vermaak
    60
  28. Indy 10 HTTP Server component with FPC

    Is anybody here using the Indy 10 components with FPC? More specifically, the HTTP Server component. My project compiles fine, but when I activate the HTTP Server I get…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Burkhard Carstens, Marco van de Voort
    5
  29. How are Assigned, Free, Nil and Destroy related?

    This is one question I have wanted to ask for a long time. How are Assigned, Free, Nil and Destroy related, and when is one or another appropriate? What other procedure…

    Frank Church, Alexander Shishkin, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    17
  30. FPC has multiple HTTP server components

    I was looking through the FCL code and noticed that there seems to be more than one HTTP server component. What is the difference between them, and which one would be…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    2

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