On 2016-10-31 10:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > have been pulled > in that are either no longer available or aren't going to work with > FPC/Lazarus.
In the case of XanaNews, the two primary components is use are Indy and VirtualTreeview. Both are supported by FPC. I don't see the point of using VirtualTreeview though, so if I do go ahead with the port, I'll probably remove that dependency. There are other minor components in use, but they are custom written and included with XanaNews source code - easy to port of simply replaced with standard components. The other obstacle is multiple Win32 API calls and RichEdit.dll usage. I can't remember exactly for what usage the Win32 API call was used, but it shouldn't be hard to de-tangle - maybe just time consuming. The RichEdit.dll usage is easy to remove too. There as already been some discussion regarding what is needed to port XanaNews. You are welcome to read about them on my news server, where I host the official XanaNews support newsgroup too. server: geldenhuys.co.uk port: 119 newsgroup: xananews.talk > > Frankly, I've always found the standard Mozilla family of clients adequate. I would normally agree, and indeed it is the longest standing clients I have been using for many years. Thunderbird does come with its bugs though, and I unfortunately often stumble over the same ones for the last 8 years. eg: unable to save an attachment (randomly occurs), or moving a message from one account to another account, I loose any attachments. Saying that, XanaNews has some excellent newsgroup features, very fast, and light on memory. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
