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JIMB

Hi,

Not sure if this is the appropriate place to send this enquiry, maybe some one will guide me!

I used Borland T Pascal for many years and later on Delphi. Although I have good training in Object oriented design and implementation, I have NOT had many occasions where it was actually needed. Much of my stuff is just number crunching and some graphic output, (7 colour is fine).

I am struggling to make Lazarus do the stuff I want; a great deal of the Lazarus power just confuses a simple process. Basically I need a replacement for Borland Pascal 7. I do, however, like the Lazarus IDE.

Any ideas what I which way I should go, and where will I see any replies to this email, if there are any?

Best wishes,

Jim

Jim Barr

Best is the enemy of good enough

Barrs law of recurcive futility:-

If you're smart enough to use one of these.....

.....you can probably manage without one

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Malcolm Buckingham
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I've not tried it but this looks like it might be what you are looking for

http://math.ubbcluj.ro/~sberinde/wingraph/

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Nikolay Nikolov
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Malcolm Buckingham wrote 5 lines
I've not tried it but this looks like it might be what you are looking for http://math.ubbcluj.ro/~sberinde/wingraph/ <http://math.ubbcluj.ro/%7Esberinde/wingraph/>

Or ptcgraph, which is included in FPC and runs on linux as well as windows.

Nikolay
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Chris Kelling

Jim,

If you want to use the Lazarus IDE to write code as opposed to the FPC IDE, when you open a new project, when asked what type select either "program" or "console program" as opposed to "application".

Chris
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Paul Breneman
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JIMB wrote 50 lines
Hi, Not sure if this is the appropriate place to send this enquiry, maybe some one will guide me! I used Borland T Pascal for many years and later on Delphi. Although I have good training in Object oriented design and implementation, I have NOT had many occasions where it was actually needed. Much of my stuff is just number crunching and some graphic output, (7 colour is fine). I am struggling to make Lazarus do the stuff I want; a great deal of the Lazarus power just confuses a simple process. Basically I need a replacement for Borland Pascal 7. I do, however, like the Lazarus IDE. Any ideas what I which way I should go, and where will I see any replies to this email, if there are any? Best wishes, Jim Jim Barr Best is the enemy of good enough Barrs law of recurcive futility:- If you're smart enough to use one of these..... .....you can probably manage without one

Hi Jim,

Since you wrote: "Basically I need a replacement for Borland Pascal 7" I would like to share a little of what I wrote on a Free Pascal mailing list last week (hope it helps).

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FPC DOS is pretty easy for a console program, but it is 32-bit (whereas DOS is 16-bit) so it isn't as simple as Turbo Pascal. There is a 5 MB zip here that should make it easy to get started with FPC for DOS: http://www.turbocontrol.com/helloworld.htm

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I think my most enjoyable work ever was during the past 3.5 years, using Turbo Pascal on expensive real-time embedded equipment. I was able to have (a single set of) source code that was used for about 15 versions of about 6 different products. One batch file called about 15 batch files (one for each product/version) that compiled the source and compared the resulting executables against what had been shipped. I've done similar things before (but never had so much technical fun): http://brenemanlabs.com/SrcCtrl.htm

Every since C# got popular I enjoy meeting programmers who don't know much about Delphi. Look at the 6th message in this thread if you want to see my normal response:
http://www.control.com/thread/1294638212

The bottom of this page has a little of my APro history: http://turbocontrol.com/APro.htm
Last month Embarcadero mentioned AsyncPro on their "devices and gadgets" XE5 seminar. I'm hoping to upgrade some of my APro examples soon.

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I recently turned up some interesting stuff about Turbo Pascal, so wanted to add it here in case it might be of help.

Here I can purchase source code (for $200) to make my own Turbo Pascal compiler for DOS (I don't plan to purchase):
http://turbo51.com/compiler-design/tpc16-turbo-pascal-compiler-written-in-turbo-pascal

The same guy has put a bit of effort into these pages: http://turbopascal.org/
http://turbopascal.org/turbo-pascal-download - see 3 PDFs at the bottom http://turbopascal.org/sitemap - could look up TP bugs here?

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Best regards,
Paul Breneman
www.TurboControl.com

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