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  1. A serious Memleak using delegates/implements (was: Delegate Interface class does not seem to be referenced counted)

    Tony Whyman had posted on August 10 a problem with the compiler using Delegates. He used a workaround to "solve" his problem and the thread died. So, I coded a new…

    Marcos Douglas, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jürgen Hestermann
    47
  2. TMS Aurelius Free today

    From Facebook, I just found this ORM became FREE today. http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/aureliusfree.asp I don't know whether it is better than mormot but might just…

    Dennis, leledumbo, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    2
  3. New Feature: "Management Operators"

    I saw on the bug tracker a patch submission by Maciej Izak about the feature "Management Operators". This feature is related to Automatic Reference Counting? Regards

    African Wild Dog, denisgolovan, Lars
    8
  4. FreeBSD distro with fpc as star.

    Hello. There is a new FreeBSD "pure X" distro with fpc 2.6.4 and fpc 3.0.0 installed. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/polydev-the-pure-x-freebsd-distribution.53085/…

    fredvs, Fred van Stappen, Graeme Geldenhuys
    44
  5. Generics and Scopes

    I have tried to compile some delphi projects using the latest FPC (3.0.0) release, and i got several errors related to Ggenerics feature. Reading the FPC documentation…

    African Wild Dog, Michael Van Canneyt, Sven Barth
    5
  6. picture preview

    if I want load a bitmap picture for extracting a small preview of it, what component or library would be best? My goal is to use pascal only without any external…

    Marc Santhoff, Andrew Haines, leledumbo
    2
  7. googleapiconv raises ERESTAPI error

    i will try to use the googleapiconverter from the gooleapi examples directory. I got some excepions, so i reduced the problem to a generic one. I use the trunc of FPC…

    Andreas Frieß, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  8. Incorrect Process startup

    Intermittantly (but consistantly), my app will run the wrong process using either TAsyncProcess or RunCommand. I understand it will be my bug, just looking for a clue :)…

    Steve Gatenby, Ewald
    2
  9. Blind Users

    Have any blind programmers managed to make use of the Lazarus IDE or the FPC command line to write interactive software that will run on the Windows7, 64-bit platform? I…

    BobJ, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Fred van Stappen
    9
  10. Variants - Auto-convert nulls

    I need the variant type converting automatically null values to the default value of the target type (e.g False for Booleans, 0 for Integers/Floats). I know that i can…

    African Wild Dog
    0
  11. JSON Test Suite

    I just stubled acros this JSON test suite. There graph shows plenty of different JSON parsers and how they compare with this test suite. The Free Pascal JSON parser was…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Benito van der Zander, leledumbo
    16
  12. Hot switching RTL locale

    My web application is currently serving two languages, I use a simple TStringList based translation strings to achieve that. However, things are a little harder for…

    leledumbo
    0
  13. Missing messages

    Today I had detected that some emails does not reach me in this mailing list, in fact the last ones from "leledumbo" about JSON parsing, but Graeme and Michael ones…

    José Mejuto, Bo Berglund, David W Noon
    24
  14. fcl-pdf change

    For those using the fcl-pdf package: There has been a change in the API. Well, there were many additions, but this change may influence existing code. Till now, the…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  15. Implicit conversion problem with TDate type

    I use MWA's IBX for Firebird connection and have problem with date parameters. Tony provided to me a test program a suggested write to the FPC list. The simple test…

    Gabor Boros, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe
    9
  16. Does FPC has anything like TCriticalSection.Acquire with timeout?

    If a CriticalSection can acquire (but with a timeout), it can avoid any gridlock. I googled and Delphi seems to have function which does time out function …

    Dennis, Graeme Geldenhuys
    1
  17. Does fpdoc sets a particular define ?

    While generating documentation for one of my projects I ran into a bug in fpdoc. It crashes on declarations like this one: ------- type TObjectBlob = class(specialize…

    Yann Mérignac, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  18. Can I open XZ compressed text file on the fly?

    I need to analyze log file but its compressed with XZ. Can I open it without decompress it to the file system or can decompress in memory for example into a TStringList?…

    Gabor Boros, Graeme Geldenhuys
    2
  19. inherited interfaces not seen by queryinterface / supports

    I am a bit perplexed / disappointed to see that the Supports / QueryInterface functions for interfaces are not behaving the way I would expect them to behave, when using…

    David Emerson, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marcos Douglas B. Santos
    8
  20. what is the possible cause of EPrivilege Privileged instruction ?

    I have a multi threaded program which executes a list of tasks in real time. It is difficult to debug with a debugger on this program (since debugging will pause the…

    Dennis, Dennis Poon, Snorkl e
    4
  21. fpc 3.0 for ARM (v7l) ?

    I just received a brand new Raspberry 3B. Nice ARM-based quad-core pico-machine (armv7l). I can run on the 3B programs compiled on a Raspberry 2B (armv6l) using the…

    Ched, Paul Breneman
    1
  22. Test file mode question

    I am trying to put together a short program to build a script file. I declare the file as: Uses sysutils; {$H+I-} Var SFile : Text; I then assign a name to the file :…

    Rolf Grunsky, Bart
    1
  23. importtl tool

    I have noticed, that tool for importing type library into pas incorrectly imports interface methods, which should have "var" parameter. For example in my case imported:…

    LacaK, José Mejuto
    12
  24. Generic way to pre-maturely exit TCustomApplication without memory leaks

    Hi. Is there a way to pre-maturely halt TCustomApplication without causing memory leaks? Say, I have a code, where TH is a Class(TCustomApplication): ph :=…

    grouchysmurf, Bart, Graeme Geldenhuys
    16
  25. Class helper method overloading ?

    is there posibility introduce in class helper method with same name like in base class ? For example: TSQLQueryHelper = class helper for TSQLQuery public procedure…

    LacaK, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  26. Smart link in FreeBSD multi-arch ?

    Hello. I will try to explain the problem... In a multi-arch system (64 bit system that can run 32 bit apps too) FreeBSD 64, there is problem if a fpc 32 bit application…

    fredvs, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort
    30
  27. FPC 3.0.0 and gProf

    are there any known problems with gprof? Mantis says no but when enabling gprof support in my Lazarus project I get a segfault in gmon.c when running it. Any compiler…

    Reimar Grabowski, Jonas Maebe
    4
  28. Piping: high level tool? Strong types sent via pipe

    I was thinking: pipes are useful to communicate between processes. How about a high level communication system instead of just sending low level strings over the pipe?…

    Lars, Jonas Maebe
    1
  29. Error: Identifier not found "Heap Error"

    As mentioned in a previous e-mail, I'm having my first contact with Pascal during my Masters research, trying to compile a code provided by a professor. The first…

    Luiz Gonzaga de Oliveira Neto, Bart, Jonas Maebe
    7
  30. How to know the encoding of a string?

    Is there a way to know what encoding was used at a string? My system are receiving some files and I don't know the encoding. I would like to know and then, convert it.…

    Marcos Douglas B. Santos, Bart, Graeme Geldenhuys
    6

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