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  1. private type and type compatibility

    I have the following class: type generic TVector<T> = class private type TDataType = array of T; private FData: TDataType; ... ... public ... ... function Slice(APos:…

    Xiangrong Fang, Frederic Da Vitoria, Jonas Maebe
    38
  2. Re: Re: SqlDB fails under Windows to create a newFirebirddatabase

    Yes, I'm accessing my emails remotely for the last 3 weeks via a crappy web interface. I also keep forgetting to set the messages to "plain text" (it keeps defaulting to…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  3. Github mirror repositories will be down for a few days

    I'm relocating the server that manages the [unofficial] Github mirror repositories for FPC and Lazarus to the UK (from South Africa). The whole process should be done by…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  4. Re: Re: SqlDB fails under Windows to create a newFirebird database

    Thanks Michael, you are correct. When using double quotes Windows was happy. Even if the path had spaces in, using double quotes still worked. Graeme

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Sven Barth, waldo kitty
    2
  5. Efficient String concatenation

    This is a very impressive little blog about efficient string concatenation in Delphi. But it also applies to Free Pascal.…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Antonio Fortuny, John Lee
    6
  6. Argument evaluation order in Free Pascal and Delphi

    Dmitry Pribysh, Jonas Maebe, leledumbo
    10
  7. same routine with different parameters?

    question: in simple language, how can i have a routine with differing parameters like some routines in FPC and Lazarus do? i've never attempted this before and it is…

    waldo kitty, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Sven Barth
    11
  8. SqlDB fails under Windows to create a new Firebird database

    I created a very simple little application that takes 2 parameters, then creates a empty FDB (firebird) database, then runs 4 script files to populate the database with…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt, waldo kitty
    4
  9. Linux Socket Programming

    Hi all! I am wanting to get into learning and doing some Linux socket programming in FPC. However, the tutorials I have found all do not seem to work with the latest…

    Robert Wolfe, Marco van de Voort, Paul Breneman
    2
  10. No access to Embedded FPC HTTP server on Vista or Win7

    I'm running a fcl-web based embedded FPC HTTP web server inside a GUI application (HTTP port 9000). I then try and access that web server via…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  11. How to detect if my program is running with root/elevated privileges?

    In my program I have some functions that must only be enabled if the program is invoked as root (linux) / administrator (windows). Is there some cross platform way to…

    Bart, Marco van de Voort, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    5
  12. Could use some help with DOS cross compile

    Trying to create dos cross compiler using FPC trunk x86 r25833, Windows NASM binaries etc from Marco's post [2] dir c:\Development\cross\bin\i8086-msdos .. 02/01/2013 …

    Reinier Olislagers, Marco van de Voort, Nikolay Nikolov
    13
  13. Re: Re: No access to Embedded FPC HTTP server on VistaorWin7

    Unfortunately it made no difference. I disabled UAC completely, rebooted the Win7 system. The ran the webserver app. Same problem. :( I'm going to take a look at…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  14. Re: Re: No access to Embedded FPC HTTP server on Vista orWin7

    - Graeme - That's what I thought too... but maybe I was wrong. My bad! For some reason I was concentrating on debugging the CGI client applications, thinking the problem…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  15. WHY compiler should be public?

    First of all, I did some research and found this: http://free-pascal-general.1045716.n5.nabble.com/Compiler-Warning-Constructor-should-be-public-td2825747.html But that…

    Xiangrong Fang, Michael Van Canneyt, Sven Barth
    7
  16. CopyFileEx(W) missing in Windows unit?

    The subject already says it: Why are the API functions CopyFileExA and CopyFileExW missing from the windows unit?

    Jürgen Hestermann, Dmitry Boyarintsev, Marco van de Voort
    3
  17. Using arm-embedded-fpc

    Searching the mail from this list it seems there are a number of people that use fpc to compile for arm-embedded. I would like to do also, but I never managed to get a…

    Koenraad Lelong, Carsten Bager, Florian Klämpfl
    16
  18. Sparse files and and copy-on-write filesystems

    Does FPC have any support these days for creating and accessing sparse files, in particular on Linux? I'm considering a file containing a 2Gb fixed-size filesystem, with…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd
    0
  19. DataSet.Locate: different behaviour between FPC 2.6.2 and 2.7.1 (rev. 2013/09/01)

    This morning, I compiled a code using FPC (Windows, rev. 2013/09/01), after that, my tests using dataset.locate has stopped. The Locate method locates record, even when…

    silvioprog, LacaK
    2
  20. How to stop a HttpApp via request? (Regression)

    I updated the fcl-net and fcl-web of my Free Pascal copy, but when I try to terminate my app via request, it return same error reported in this topic. My code is: 1.…

    silvioprog, Jonas Maebe, LacaK
    7
  21. Make failing in interesting ways: time to upgrade from

    Still trying to get my fpcup dos crosscompiler module to match my recent success manually creating the crosscompiler (thanks Marco & Nikolay). Hitting all kinds of…

    Reinier Olislagers, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    6
  22. synapse + ssl on linux ,how to use libc

    I need to use synapse + ssl on linux and it requires libc but I cannot locate this unit. Can anyone help? Also, has anyone used it before? Is it stable? I have been…

    Dennis Poon, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  23. Free Pascal/Delphi developers or service companies needed in South Africa

    Master Maths [head office] is based in Somerset West, South Africa. They are looking for talented Free Pascal or Delphi developers in the greater Cape Town area.…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Nataraj S Narayan
    1
  24. FPCUnit tests without Lazarus

    FPCUnit is a very good feature to test Pascal applications. At "uses" clause, it's needed to declare "fpcunit" e "testregistry". It's also necessary to use the Console…

    luciano de souza, Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  25. docs on freepascal.org vs lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net

    So... The top google result for "free pascal TComponent" is: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/classes/tcomponent.html This is 8 months old. The updated page…

    Michal Wallace, Michael Van Canneyt, Sven Barth
    3
  26. Bug: both record and class helpers no longer work

    Message repeated here because I sent to original message to the wrong list group. I've tested going back to September revision 25577 both class and record helpers are…

    Anthony Walter, Michal Wallace
    1
  27. SqlDB+Firebird - incomplete sql error messages

    When I run sql insert statements (that I know will cause an error) using the FlameRobin tool, I get a detailed error message mentioning which table and field caused the…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, LacaK, Michael Van Canneyt
    8
  28. Looking for Free Pascal programmers in South Africa

    Master Maths [head office] is based in Somerset West, South Africa. They are looking for talented Free Pascal developers in the area. Unfortunately no remote work.…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  29. Sets as array index?

    I have a declaration like this: type TagType = (tag1,tag2,tag3,tag4,tag5); TagSetType = set of TagType; I now want to store numbers for each of the 2^n possible…

    Jürgen Hestermann, leledumbo, Sven Barth
    5
  30. Troubles using embedded HTTP Server to serve SWF files

    I'm using the FPC HTTP Server component as an embedded web server in our application. All content is generated dynamically via a CGI application. I hit a [rather big]…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, leledumbo
    2

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