Re: [fpc-pascal] PTCGraph resolution detection

On 3/19/24 18:15, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote: I am trying to compile a program that uses PTCGraph for Windows 64 bit, and it’s not behaving the same as it does on Win32. When I compile it for Win32, it is correctly detecting my monitor resolutionI have a vertical monitor with a

Re: [fpc-pascal] What's in Hello World

On 1/7/24 14:21, Ingemar Ragnemalm via fpc-pascal wrote: Just for comparison, I fired up Think Pascal and made Hello world! Plain Hello world, closes so quickly that you don't have time to see it: 4625 bytes. Including ShowText and while not Button do; 4639 bytes. Yes, less than 5k!

Re: [fpc-pascal] Double finalize

On 12/21/23 07:06, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: On Dec 21, 2023, at 6:11 AM, Hairy Pixels wrote: Maybe I misunderstood but I thought they were supposed to be balanced with init calls. Is it the design of the compiler to allow multiple finalize calls and have the user keep track of

Re: [fpc-pascal] Double finalize

On 12/21/23 01:11, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: On Dec 21, 2023, at 1:53 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: If you look at the generated code, you see that there is an implicit try/finally block and the finally block does a finalize. Maybe I misunderstood but I thought

Re: [fpc-pascal] "Modern Pascal is Still in the Race"

On 10/12/23 17:07, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: Pascal still fits a niche as being a lower level language like C or C++ but with nicer syntax. That is true. For making modern software it's going to be hard to use though since no major OS's support it directly. In what way does this

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pointer question

On 8/11/23 01:23, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: On Aug 10, 2023, at 2:18 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/ref/refse15.html#x42-620003.4 This document doesn't really do a great enumerating all the operators so I'm not sure if

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parse unicode scalar

On 7/4/23 09:12, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: On Jul 4, 2023, at 12:38 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal wrote: For console apps that use the Unicode KVM video unit, I've introduced two functions for determining the display width of a Unicode string in the video unit: function

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parse unicode scalar

On 7/4/23 08:08, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 7/4/23 07:56, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: On Jul 4, 2023, at 11:50 AM, Hairy Pixels wrote: You know you're right, with properly enclosed patterns you can capture everything inside and it works. You won't know if you had unicode in your

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parse unicode scalar

On 7/4/23 07:56, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: On Jul 4, 2023, at 11:50 AM, Hairy Pixels wrote: You know you're right, with properly enclosed patterns you can capture everything inside and it works. You won't know if you had unicode in your string or not though but that depends on

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parse unicode scalar

On 7/4/23 07:45, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 7/4/23 07:40, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: On Jul 4, 2023, at 11:28 AM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal wrote: For what grammar? What characters are allowed in a token? For example, Free Pascal also has a parser/tokenizer, but since Pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parse unicode scalar

On 7/4/23 07:40, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: On Jul 4, 2023, at 11:28 AM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal wrote: For what grammar? What characters are allowed in a token? For example, Free Pascal also has a parser/tokenizer, but since Pascal keywords are ASCII only, it doesn't need

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parse unicode scalar

On 7/4/23 07:17, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: On Jul 4, 2023, at 9:58 AM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal wrote: You need to understand all these terms and know exactly what you need to do. E.g. are you dealing with keyboard input, are you dealing with the low level parts of text

Re: [fpc-pascal] ShortString still relevant today?

On 7/4/23 04:19, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: I've been exploring the string types and I'm curious now, does the classic Pascal "ShortString" even make sense anymore on modern computers? I'm running tests and I can't seem to find a way in which AnsiString overall performs worse than

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parse unicode scalar

On 7/4/23 04:03, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: On Jul 4, 2023, at 1:15 AM, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-pascal wrote: function ReadUTF8(p: PChar; ByteCount: PtrInt): PtrInt; // returns the number of codepoints var CodePointLen: longint; CodePoint: longword; begin Result:=0; while

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parse unicode scalar

On 7/2/23 20:38, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal wrote: On 02/07/2023 19:20, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal wrote: On 7/2/23 16:30, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: I'm interested in parsing unicode scalars (I think they're called) to byte sized values but I'm not sure where to start. First thing

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parse unicode scalar

On 7/2/23 16:30, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: I'm interested in parsing unicode scalars (I think they're called) to byte sized values but I'm not sure where to start. First thing I did was choose the unicode scalar U+1F496 (). There's no such thing as "unicode scalar" in Unicode

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc isn't optimised for tail recursion, is it?

On 6/12/23 04:44, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote: Hi all, Tail recursion is recursion in which absolutely nothing gets executed after the return statement. Some programming languages, including Guile, optimize for tail recursion such that tail recursive algorithms don't use additional stack

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pause Key

On 4/14/23 20:38, Virgo Pärna via fpc-pascal wrote: On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:53:09 -0400, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal wrote: I know of no way to obtain the pause key status under windows.  I can Considering, that only Caps Lock, Scroll Lock and Num Lock keys have status lights on

Re: [fpc-pascal] Getting Shift key with PTCCRT

On 9/10/22 17:57, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote: Thanks for the suggestion I think the syntax should be: type myKeyEvent = IPTCKeyEvent; Var myShiftStatus : boolean; myShiftStatus := myKeyEvent.Shift; but I get IPTCKeyEvent not found. I wonder if it's only designated as internal.. or

Re: [fpc-pascal] BoolToStr

On 8/29/22 11:33, Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal wrote: Le 29/08/2022 à 01:41, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit : If a special function is needed for some COM thing or weird Winapi thing, then that function should be part of the unit that needs it, not modifying the generic function

Re: [fpc-pascal] PTCGraph window location

On 3/12/22 15:54, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote: Is there some way I can set the location of the pctgraph window before it is created so it just pops up where I want it to be?I’m using Windows 10. I’ve been re-locating it with SetWindowPos() which is ok if the window is going to be

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicode chars losing information

On 3/9/21 2:18 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote: On 08/03/2021 7:49 pm, Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal wrote: It's not possible to safely use unicodestring without knowing how 16bit unicode works. The compiler can't solve that. I disagree. Java does just that! The issue is the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicode chars losing information

On 3/7/21 7:21 PM, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote: On Mar 7, 2021, at 10:11 AM, Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal wrote: Yes it is. And there are about 1114000 unicode codepoints, or about 17 times what fits in a 2-byte wide char. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_point

Re: [fpc-pascal] PTCGraph Causing 217

On 1/29/21 3:52 PM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 1/29/21 12:37 PM, James Richters wrote: Any idea what’s causing this crash yet?Is there some way I can at least detect the error and handle it myself instead of crashing? I'll take a look and try to reproduce it today or tomorrow. Sorry

Re: [fpc-pascal] PTCGraph Causing 217

** ** *From:*fpc-pascal *On Behalf Of *James Richters via fpc-pascal *Sent:* Monday, January 11, 2021 9:37 AM *To:* 'FPC-Pascal users discussions' *Cc:* James Richters ; 'Nikolay Nikolov' *Subject:* Re: [fpc-pascal] PTCGraph Causing 217 I’ve made a sample program that demonstrates the problem

Re: [fpc-pascal] PTCGraph Causing 217

On 1/6/21 5:44 PM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote: I’ve been having issues with PTCGraph causing a runtime Error 217 : EAccessViolation: Access violation at seemingly random times in my program.The error is always on a line with either GetImage() or PutImage() but not the same one.The

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

On 12/22/20 2:39 AM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) via fpc-pascal wrote: Hi, On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: As long as one knows why a certain temporal construct is used there is no problem and at least in Germany (or more specifically Bavaria) we were taught that in

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

On 12/21/20 10:42 AM, Markus Greim wrote: FPC has had a Turbo Pascal-like console IDE for many years... "has had" ? AKAIK "has" I still used it yesterday. English is not my native language, but I think "has had" means it still has it. If I had said "had" instead of "has had", it would

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

On 12/19/20 6:35 PM, Liam Proven via fpc-pascal wrote: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision Someone enterprising could make a TurboPascal clone out of FPC. :-) Meh. FPC has had a Turbo Pascal-like console IDE for many years. It uses Free Vision, which is a pascal port of the C++ version of

Re: [fpc-pascal] PTC Graph - Custom window sizes

to be rewritten anyway as a multi-window app. Nikolay James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal On Behalf Of James Richters via fpc-pascal Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 1:49 PM To: 'FPC-Pascal users discussions' Cc: James Richters ; 'Nikolay Nikolov' Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] PTC

Re: [fpc-pascal] PTC Graph - Custom window sizes

On 11/19/20 7:37 PM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 11/19/20 3:44 PM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote: I've been using PTCGraph from PTCPas and so far I can only use windows sizes that there happens to be a display driver for,  even if they are in a window.. so I can make a 640x480

Re: [fpc-pascal] PTC Graph - Custom window sizes

On 11/19/20 3:44 PM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote: I've been using PTCGraph from PTCPas and so far I can only use windows sizes that there happens to be a display driver for, even if they are in a window.. so I can make a 640x480 or 1024x768 window, but if I have a screen in a

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC fixes3.2 gives error on "NWord div 2 * 2"

On 2/17/19 11:29 PM, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-pascal wrote: FPC gives an error on the NWord Maybe the compiler tries to be politically correct.  Sorry, couldn't resist. That's why it's called FPC - the Free Politically Correct compiler ;-) Nikolay

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.4 DOS GO32V2

On 12/05/2017 12:01 AM, Lubomír Čabla wrote: Thanks to all for help. I checked and there were also other longint to dword changes in the go32 unit. I've documented them all at: http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4#go32 Best regards, Nikolay

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.4 DOS GO32V2

On 12/03/2017 11:44 PM, Tomas Hajny wrote: On Sun, December 3, 2017 22:10, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 12/02/2017 10:50 PM, Lubomír Čabla wrote: Hi, FPC 3.0.2 function get_segment_base_address(d : word) : longint; function set_segment_base_address(d : word;s : longint) : boolean; FPC

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.4 DOS GO32V2

On 12/02/2017 10:50 PM, Lubomír Čabla wrote: Hi, in new version 3.0.4 you have changed the declaration of some procedures and functions in the go32 unit. It does not matter, but I see a little mismatch for linear base address: FPC 3.0.2 function get_segment_base_address(d : word) :

Re: [fpc-pascal] Implementing AggPas with PtcGraph

On 06/22/2017 02:42 AM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 06/22/2017 01:21 AM, James Richters wrote: putimage can be accelerated, although it would still have to do a memory copy. Like this? https://github.com/Zaaphod/ptcpas/compare/Zaaphod_Custom?expand=1#diff-fb31461e009ff29fda5c35c5115978b4

Re: [fpc-pascal] Implementing AggPas with PtcGraph

On 06/22/2017 01:21 AM, James Richters wrote: putimage can be accelerated, although it would still have to do a memory copy. Like this? https://github.com/Zaaphod/ptcpas/compare/Zaaphod_Custom?expand=1#diff-fb31461e009ff29fda5c35c5115978b4 This is amazingly faster. I ran a test of just

Re: [fpc-pascal] Implementing AggPas with PtcGraph

On 06/21/2017 10:27 PM, James Richters wrote: I was trying to find putimage to see how it worked... and I came across some notes about it in graph.inc as follows: { For significant speed improvements , is is recommended } { that these routines be hooked (otherwise the default, } { slower

Re: [fpc-pascal] Implementing AggPas with PtcGraph

On 06/21/2017 08:05 PM, James Richters wrote: Is there a more direct way of getting aggpas to send its output to ptcgraph? Currently I'm doing as in the demo programs and defining an array then using putimage() to transfer the array to ptcgraph... this is fairly slow, especially for

Re: [fpc-pascal] ptccrt missing keys

On 06/13/2017 02:56 AM, James Richters wrote: please be patient, it'll get there, maybe in a few week's time I will be happy to be patient  Thank you for all your hard work on this! Ok, I've implemented implemented this. ptccrt now has a KeyMode variable, which can be set to these values:

Re: [fpc-pascal] ptccrt missing keys

On 06/13/2017 01:33 AM, James Richters wrote: Follow the instructions in docs/INSTALL.txt to compile the package. Then add units\i386-win32 from the snapshot directory to the unit search path of your compiler. Can I have instructions on how to compile ptcpas for x86_64-win64? I tried

Re: [fpc-pascal] Implementing AggPas with PtcGraph

On 06/03/2017 01:52 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-06-03 01:56, Stefan V. Pantazi wrote: http://pascal.net.ru/PutImage+(en) [...] "BitMap is an untyped parameter that contains the height and width of the region, and the bit image that will be put onto the screen." [...] Could you

Re: [fpc-pascal] Implementing AggPas with PtcGraph

On 05/31/2017 02:51 PM, James Richters wrote: I was doing some tests with Putpixel and that seems to be a word in the format of RGBA with 4 bits each.I would think putimage would use the same format, but I haven't tested that yet. I'm still a bit confused by putimage, since it only has

Re: [fpc-pascal] ptccrt missing keys

On 05/26/2017 10:49 PM, James Richters wrote: It's great that it's finally working for you. And yes, ptccrt supports most alt and ctrl key combinations, but if you find some key combination missing, please report it - it is easy to add. I could really use F11 and F12 including shift, alt,

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/24/2017 06:14 PM, James Richters wrote: I was finally able to get this working, and now my keyboard issues are solved, so thank for the help and fix Nikolay! I can't believe the performance increase using ptcgraph instead of graph, I am now even able to run my program on a tiny

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

talls in a directory without spaces, so it's not well tested at all. Make -v reports: GNU Make 3.82 Built for i686-pc-mingw32 James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Nikolay Nikolov Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 2:

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

where I am at. I think If I could correctly apply win32kbd.inc it may work James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Nikolay Nikolov Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 1:03 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/23/2017 06:09 PM, James Richters wrote: I think I figured out my problem, but I'm not sure how to fix it. I was looking at the code here: https://sourceforge.net/p/ptcpas/code/714/ And I see that the change made was to win32kbd.inc, but I don't think I'm using the updated version of

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

I realized I should have posted this in fpc-other. So, please reply in [fpc-other] and not here. On 05/23/2017 03:03 AM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 05/23/2017 01:20 AM, nore...@z505.com wrote: On 2017-05-18 19:54, Ryan Joseph wrote: On May 18, 2017, at 10:40 PM, Jon Foster <jon

Re: [fpc-pascal] [FPC-Pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/22/2017 02:21 AM, James Richters wrote: I have the window title working, Thank you for that. However I still have the same issue with non-responsive keyboard when I return to the graph window after an ALT-TAB. I am running on windows 10 64bit - program compiled for win32. I cannot

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/20/2017 12:07 AM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 05/19/2017 11:24 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: On 19.05.2017 19:22, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: Hi, On Fri, 19 May 2017, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: I think Jeppe wanted to add vector support. Though the question here

Re: [fpc-pascal] [FPC-Pascal] FPC Graphics options?

(...); -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Nikolay Nikolov Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2017 5:47 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options? On 05/16/2017 02:45 PM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/16/2017 02:45 PM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: Tonight I'll also add the option for changing the title bar text, when in windowed mode. Implemented in r715. Note that you still cannot change the window title, after the window has been created, but at least now you can set

Re: [fpc-pascal] ptcgraph issues

On 05/17/2017 11:19 PM, James Richters wrote: If I get the full screen by setting fullscreengraph := True; then it does seem to report stop scaling and now everything fits correctly on the screen, however… this has it’s own issues. For some reason when I use this to obtain full screen,

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/21/2017 06:34 AM, Ryan Joseph wrote: I just compiled with ppcx64 3.1.1 (from 3.0.2) and went from 8fps to 22fps without optimizations and 28fpc with (I got some divide by zero errors but that’s just translations). What is that about? What changed? Just curious, why isn’t -Cfsse3

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/19/2017 06:13 PM, Jon Foster wrote: On 05/19/2017 04:11 AM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 05/19/2017 03:54 AM, Ryan Joseph wrote: On May 18, 2017, at 10:40 PM, Jon Foster <jon-li...@jfpossibilities.com> wrote: 62.44 1.33 1.33 fpc_frac_real 26.76 1.90 0.57

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/19/2017 11:24 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: On 19.05.2017 19:22, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: Hi, On Fri, 19 May 2017, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: I think Jeppe wanted to add vector support. Though the question here is whether one wants to optimize/detect this at

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/19/2017 02:11 PM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 05/19/2017 03:54 AM, Ryan Joseph wrote: On May 18, 2017, at 10:40 PM, Jon Foster <jon-li...@jfpossibilities.com> wrote: 62.44 1.33 1.33 fpc_frac_real 26.76 1.90 0.57 MATH_$$_FLOOR$EXTENDED$$LONGINT 10.33

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/19/2017 03:54 AM, Ryan Joseph wrote: On May 18, 2017, at 10:40 PM, Jon Foster wrote: 62.44 1.33 1.33 fpc_frac_real 26.76 1.90 0.57 MATH_$$_FLOOR$EXTENDED$$LONGINT 10.33 2.12 0.22

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

On 05/15/2017 02:41 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-15 11:59, James Richters wrote: When I try to install 64 bit windows version, I don't have this anymore The Free Pascal project, for some weird reason, only ships a 64-bit Windows cross-compiler. So you need both the 32-bit and

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/16/2017 02:45 PM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: Tonight I'll also add the option for changing the title bar text, when in windowed mode. Unfortunately, I didn't have the time to do it tonight (I'm kinda bad at time estimates ;-) ), but I'll probably implement it during the weekend

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

; *Cc:* Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> *Subject:* Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options? Am 16.05.2017 02:46 schrieb "Nikolay Nikolov" <nick...@gmail.com <mailto:nick...@gmail.com>>: >> I also no longer have the 'graphwindow' handle variable so I had t

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/16/2017 09:00 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: Am 16.05.2017 02:46 schrieb "Nikolay Nikolov" <nick...@gmail.com <mailto:nick...@gmail.com>>: >> I also no longer have the 'graphwindow' handle variable so I had to comment out anything that was using i

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/16/2017 01:37 AM, James Richters wrote: I have managed to get ptcgraph and ptccrt to work with my program and I can report that there is an AMAZING increase in graphics performance! It is pretty much a drop in replacement and I did not change any compiler settings. I did have to

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/15/2017 11:25 PM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 05/15/2017 01:51 PM, James Richters wrote: Thanks for the help and advice with this. I've been trying to figure out how a lot of this works. Here's where I'm at You could try the units ptcgraph or sdlgraph as alternatives (both are part

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/15/2017 01:51 PM, James Richters wrote: Thanks for the help and advice with this. I've been trying to figure out how a lot of this works. Here's where I'm at You could try the units ptcgraph or sdlgraph as alternatives (both are part of FPC). These seemed like the easiest things

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/12/2017 10:13 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Your unit obvious saves some time if it is already API compatible with the TP Graph unit. Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. It's a drop-in replacement for the graph unit. It runs TP7 BGI (or FPC programs for go32v2 for that matter) graphic

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/12/2017 10:30 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: Speed: In recent graphics work I've done, I've noticed that FPC is fantastic at created cross-platform applications. But the generated binaries are NOT fast at all - no matter how

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

On 05/11/2017 10:25 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: On 11.05.2017 20:43, James Richters wrote: I have a few console graphics applications that I originally wrote in Turbo Pascal that I have been able to convert over to Free Pascal and now have windows versions of these programs. I

Re: [fpc-pascal] SPARC / Linux

On 03/13/2017 10:10 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 13/03/17 06:30, Pierre Free Pascal wrote: Hi Mark, if you mean build a native installer for 32-btsparc-linux, I can tell you want you need to do: I'm used to building it for my own use. I'll take a look at your instructions for versions

Re: [fpc-pascal] Textmode IDE splitscreen?

On 07/25/2016 12:57 AM, James Richters wrote: Is there a way to get the textmode IDE to do splitscreen the way Turbo Pascal used to if you had both a color and monochrome monitor? It was very handy to trace through the source code on the monochrome monitor and watch it execute on the other

Re: [fpc-pascal] History of the Cardinal data type?

On 03/29/2016 06:13 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: Just curious. What is the history behind the Cardinal data type. As per the FPC documentation, it is always mapped to the LongWord type. I presume it is the same in Delphi. Cardinal is the

Re: [fpc-pascal] bitmask vs sets. Is there a performance difference?

On 01/21/2016 01:11 AM, Sven Barth wrote: Am 20.01.2016 19:26 schrieb "Graeme Geldenhuys" >: > > Is there a performance difference between using bitmask values and sets? For sets with <= 32 elements it should behave the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Interface syntax: Is possible don't use specialize in mode objfpc?

On 07/16/2015 11:29 PM, Sven Barth wrote: On 16.07.2015 21:04, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: sadly - no, only in Delphi mode. btw. this thing keep me away from objfpc. Then let me tell you that generic methods will arrive in mode ObjFPC (and thus

Re: [fpc-pascal] PtrInt - possible candidate to be marked as deprecated

On 18.3.2015 г. 16:53, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Based on what the documentation says introduction of ptrint type was a mistake, shouldn't the PtrInt type be marked as deprecated in FPC 3.0.0 and removed in a later release like 3.0.2 or 3.2.0?

Re: [fpc-pascal] Found a compiler internal error, but no easy way to create simple example to reproduce

On 03/01/2015 10:03 AM, leledumbo wrote: I'm currently facing this situation, however the error comes from a 3rd party lazarus package which I've only managed to simplify to 1 unit (and its dependencies, of course, which is a lot). Since I can't create a simple example that can demonstrate the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Effective memory allocation

On 11/02/2014 03:54 PM, Xiangrong Fang wrote: Hi All, ... Also, I usually use pointer to pass block of memory to functions. How do I implement a function with the following signature: procedure MyProc(var Buf; Len: Integer): I mean, how to handle var Buf inside the procedure body? You

Re: [fpc-pascal] ALSA 1.2.X wrappers required

On 06/06/2014 02:48 PM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 6.6.2014 г. 12:22, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 06/06/2014 09:45 AM, leledumbo wrote: Hello, I want to program for ALSA, so I need the Pascal wrapper. Most recent one I found is fpALSA, which corresponds to 1.0.25 (last release) version if ALSA

Re: [fpc-pascal] ALSA 1.2.X wrappers required

On 06/06/2014 09:45 AM, leledumbo wrote: Hello, I want to program for ALSA, so I need the Pascal wrapper. Most recent one I found is fpALSA, which corresponds to 1.0.25 (last release) version if ALSA. However, current ALSA is of version 1.2.X and the interface is somewhat different with 1.0.X.

Re: [fpc-pascal] ALSA 1.2.X wrappers required

On 6.6.2014 г. 12:22, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 06/06/2014 09:45 AM, leledumbo wrote: Hello, I want to program for ALSA, so I need the Pascal wrapper. Most recent one I found is fpALSA, which corresponds to 1.0.25 (last release) version if ALSA. However, current ALSA is of version 1.2.X

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pure FPC ?

On 01/26/2014 11:00 PM, fredvs wrote: Hello. Does it exist a option to compile fpc without Delphi compatibility ? If no, what do you think about that ? I know, it will be lot of work (like create a Delhi_Compatiblizer class...) PS : I absolutely do not want to hurt somebody, it is only a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Optimisation : X+X or 2*X or X*2 ?

On 01/19/2014 10:45 PM, Sven Barth wrote: On 19.01.2014 20:47, Ched wrote: Dear Freepascalers, The multiplication in floating arthmetic units is usualy know as being slower than the addition. So, have I interest to code X+X, 2*X or X*2 when using reals (mainly double and extended) ?And with

Re: [fpc-pascal] Could use some help with DOS cross compile

On 10/28/2013 01:19 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 20/10/2013 13:27, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 10/20/2013 01:56 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Trying to create dos cross compiler using FPC trunk x86 r25833, Windows Why are you using OPT=-gw2 -gl I'm not sure these work at all. Debugging

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Could use some help with DOS cross compile

On 10/21/2013 12:15 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 20/10/2013 20:14, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 10/20/2013 08:12 PM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 10/20/2013 06:31 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Ok, now I see you've put it in the fpc.cfg, but it could be that your compiler doesn't find

Re: [fpc-pascal] Could use some help with DOS cross compile

On 10/20/2013 01:56 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: 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 11:06 743,424 msdos-nasm.exe 25/05/2010 08:3633,792

Re: [fpc-pascal] Could use some help with DOS cross compile

On 10/20/2013 06:31 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: However this: fpc -Pi8086 -TMSDOS d:\cop\t\test.pas gives Free Pascal Compiler version 2.7.1 [2013/10/20] for i8086 Copyright (c) 1993-2013 by Florian Klaempfl and others Target OS: MS-DOS 16-bit real mode Compiling d:\cop\t\test.pas PPU Loading

Re: [fpc-pascal] Could use some help with DOS cross compile

On 10/20/2013 08:12 PM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 10/20/2013 06:31 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: However this: fpc -Pi8086 -TMSDOS d:\cop\t\test.pas gives Free Pascal Compiler version 2.7.1 [2013/10/20] for i8086 Copyright (c) 1993-2013 by Florian Klaempfl and others Target OS: MS-DOS 16-bit

Re: [fpc-pascal] DOS compiler wiki page: please review

On 10/05/2013 03:07 PM, greim wrote: Hi, writing a 8086 version of fpc is not so strange as some may think! There are still some 80186 processors around running in embedded systems! These architecture is certified for some applications in industrial and avionik controll. So my wish

Re: [fpc-pascal] DOS compiler wiki page: please review

On 09/27/2013 09:53 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: I decided to start a page for the DOS compiler - as more details become available we can hopefully collect them there. As usual: additions/corrections welcome, especially by Nikolay ;) - I've added some statements with question marks that I'm

Re: [fpc-pascal] MS DOS 8086 compiler?

On 04/30/2013 01:42 AM, Rolf Grunsky wrote: I still have my Z-80A system with two Tandon half-height 8 single sided drives. I haven't attempted to power it up in 25 years. I also have my original CP/M 80 disc and my original TurboPascal version 1.0 for Z-80 on an eight inch disc with the

Re: [fpc-pascal] MS DOS 8086 compiler?

On 04/29/2013 12:49 PM, Michael Schnell wrote: On 04/27/2013 02:11 PM, Bart wrote: On 4/27/13, Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: Noticed that an 8086 branch was merged to fpc trunk. Is it time to get out some 5.25 diskettes[1]? [1] Shame I dumped all the accompanying

Re: [fpc-pascal] MS DOS 8086 compiler?

On 04/28/2013 12:00 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Bart wrote: On 4/27/13, Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote: Noticed that an 8086 branch was merged to fpc trunk. Is it time to get out some 5.25 diskettes[1]? [1] Shame I dumped all the accompanying hardware long ago ;)

Re: [fpc-pascal] LLVM (again)

On 04/19/2013 03:02 PM, Reimar Grabowski wrote: Hi, I have read the discussions about FPC using LLVM and the reasons against it (which I fully understand and support). But a friend of mine called my attention to this: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki From what I have seen this is

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pseudographics in FPC-IDE

On 06/15/2011 04:15 PM, Anton Shepelev wrote: Nikolay Nikolov: Basically, all it does is, it checks if the LANG variable contains ґUTF-8' as a substring (not sure if it is the right way to do it, but it works for Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mandriva and latest Debian) and if it does

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pseudographics in FPC-IDE

On 06/14/2011 09:33 PM, Anton Shepelev wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys: You are welcome to add it to the wiki. I still do not fully understand the problem, so please, review what I have come up with: On Linux/Unix the FP-IDE calculates the addresses of the drawing charactes

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pseudographics in FPC-IDE

On 06/13/2011 08:39 PM, Anton Shepelev wrote: Hello all, I have installed FPC on a Linux machine to find that in the virtual terminal (true text-mode, not GUI-based emulator) FP-IDE does not dispaly pseudographics correctly. It turned out that changes to the SFM (Screen Font Map) doesn't

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pseudographics in FPC-IDE

On 06/13/2011 09:17 PM, Anton Shepelev wrote: Nikolay Nikolov: Modern FPC versions should support UTF-8 output for the IDE. I made a patch for this, that was included in fpc 2.4.2 IIRC. Which FPC version are you using and on which linux distro/version? What is the value of the LANG

Re: [fpc-pascal] Missini graph unit

On 05/30/2011 12:25 PM, Elio Fabri wrote: I tried ptcgraph by a mere change of names, and it works, more or less. However, the graph unit still appears in the doc, whereas I cant't find no doc for pctgraph. Some help? It's a new unit (first included with fpc 2.4.4) and therefore not yet

Re: [fpc-pascal] Missini graph unit

On 05/28/2011 11:46 AM, Elio Fabri wrote: Hi, I downloaded fpc-2.4.4.x86_64-linux.tar and installed OK. But the compiler cannot find the Graph unit. Apparently the graph.ppu file is missing. Where can I find it, or a valid substitute? Try the ptcgraph unit.

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