Re: [fpc-pascal] dynamic array contents and system.move

2010-04-26 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 26 Apr 2010, at 03:27, David Emerson wrote: It would be nice if move would give a compiler warning or note if it receives a pointer-pointer. I guess that would require move doing type- checking... but at compile-time, is there anything wrong with move doing such a type- check and

Re: [fpc-pascal] State of FPC docs.rant

2010-04-26 Thread Florian Klaempfl
I would suggest you checkout the latest copy of the documentation SubVersion repository: http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcdocs/trunk No git mirror ;)? I think the docs are one of the fpc related repositories where using a dvcs might be useful. The entry barrier to make changes is a lot

Re: [fpc-pascal] State of FPC docs.rant

2010-04-26 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said: I would suggest you checkout the latest copy of the documentation SubVersion repository: http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcdocs/trunk No git mirror ;)? I think the docs are one of the fpc related repositories where using a dvcs might

[fpc-pascal] Re: [MacPascal] iPhone AppStore accepting apps from other languages

2010-04-26 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb: Really? Command line and OpenGL applications are no problem and even now possible with fpc afaik. Only full gui access might require investigation how and if fully possible. ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] State of FPC docs.rant

2010-04-26 Thread Florian Klaempfl
But does this mean you have decided to pursue GIT if there is a DVCS to be used at all? No. Git was just an example. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] request for help: connecting to WIN1251 (ANSI) codepaged DB (FB1.0.3) in Lazarus

2010-04-26 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 20:19 +0700, 62mkv wrote: when trying to connect to FB 1.0.3 server, to database that was created using WIN1251 (Windows Ansi Cyrillic) CHARSET, via SqlDB TIBConnection component, all Lazarus visual components display ASCII (32-127) characters OK, but all

Re: [fpc-pascal] State of FPC docs.rant

2010-04-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Joseph Montanez het geskryf: The language itself is even worst, this is the biggest pitfall of Pascal in general. I can't tell you how hard it is to find anything on google, and I do mean anything. Free Pascal is based on Delphi's Object Pascal language. There are lots of documentation for

Re: [fpc-pascal] State of FPC docs.rant

2010-04-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
John het geskryf: On the one hand, Graeme is probably right, in that putting it in the docs is the *best* thing to do. Definately! On the other hand, Joseph has a point - I have worked out most bits of FPC over the course of a few years, but Granted that the bulk of FPC's

Re: [fpc-pascal] Changes in 2.4.0

2010-04-26 Thread lists . fpc-pascal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Jonas, Friday, Apr 23, Jonas Maebe wrote to FPC-Pascal users discussions about Re:...: JM I'm still stuck. Who can tell me what's wrong? JM Without a self-contained compilable example that demonstrates the problem: JM probably nobody. You

Re: [fpc-pascal] State of FPC docs.rant

2010-04-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Florian Klaempfl het geskryf: No git mirror ;)? I think the docs are one of the fpc related repositories where using a dvcs might be useful. Apparently I am banned for life mentioning the product that may not be named in FPC or Lazarus mailing lists. :-) As for moving to such a DVCS... why

Re: [fpc-pascal] Is there anyone will answer my questions

2010-04-26 Thread Bart
I (Bart) , Jurgen and me have answered your questions in your previous thread. (See http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-pascal/2010-April/024643.html) Bart ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] request for help: connecting to WIN1251 (ANSI) codepaged DB (FB1.0.3) in Lazarus

2010-04-26 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Actually you should use CP1251ToUTF8 for the conversion from the unit LConvEncoding and not AnsiToUTF8 if you want your code to work properly in any computer. AnsiToUTF8 will only correctly if CP1251 is your system encoding. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho

Re: [fpc-pascal] request for help: connecting to WIN1251 (ANSI) codepaged DB (FB1.0.3) in Lazarus

2010-04-26 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
2010/4/1 62mkv 62...@mail.ru:  I've made requests on several FreePascal\Lazarus forums, all states  that I need either to migrate to migrate to more recent version of  FB (most popular advice, which I cannot follow) or patch SqlDB  components so that they should make on-the-fly AnsiToUTF8 and

Re: [fpc-pascal] State of FPC docs.rant

2010-04-26 Thread David Emerson
On Mon 26 Apr 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Florian Klaempfl het geskryf: No git mirror ;)? I think the docs are one of the fpc related repositories where using a dvcs might be useful. Apparently I am banned for life mentioning the product that may not be named in FPC or Lazarus

Re: [fpc-pascal] State of FPC docs.rant

2010-04-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 27 April 2010 00:51, David Emerson wrote: I'm far more comfortable using git than svn Me too, and it didn't take long either. Graeme, I have to ask... on the one hand, you noted that having fragmented documentations over various locations is unhelpful; and on the other hand, I've

Re: [fpc-pascal] State of FPC docs.rant

2010-04-26 Thread John
On 26/04/2010 11:52 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: ... John het geskryf: On the other hand, Joseph has a point - I have worked out most bits of FPC over the course of a few years, but Granted that the bulk of FPC's documentation is simply Class or API documentation. A more new developer

Re: [fpc-pascal] State of FPC docs.rant

2010-04-26 Thread Joseph Montanez
I just spent 2 hours on FPDoc's trying to get how to use it. Automatic documentation was dead easy but the whole XML integration part was a nightmare, so I gave up reading the docs on how to use the doc. Instead I figure Hey there must be examples of this right? ... *digs through source* ... 5