[fpc-pascal] Help: New install problems

2012-04-02 Thread Anthony Walter
I have installed fpc from sources before but it's been a while and I've forgotten how to get it done, or perhaps something has changed and need some help. When i am trying to do is install and run the latest version of fpc from my home folder. Here is what I did: # first I got a working version

[fpc-pascal] How to install another version of fpc?

2012-04-28 Thread Anthony Walter
I am running linux and already have fpc installed but i want to install side-by-side a newer verson of fpc ... I downloaded the sources did make all make install PREFIX=/home/username ... and everything's okay. I made a /home/username/.fpc.cfg file, but when i type fpc in the CLI i still get

Re: [fpc-pascal] HMAC_SHA1 and FPC

2013-03-25 Thread Anthony Walter
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:24 PM, silvioprog silviop...@gmail.com wrote: Nice. But there situations that the user does not have the OpenSSL lib. The routines I sent does not depend on external libs. -- Silvio Clécio My public projects - github.com/silvioprog It's possible to build

Re: [fpc-pascal] HMAC_SHA1 and FPC

2013-03-25 Thread Anthony Walter
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:23 AM, silvioprog silviop...@gmail.com wrote: Don't know why so much work if you can use it directly from the FCL. Because... OpenSSL is quite robust, well documented. tested, and proven OpenSSL provides a full compilement of cryptography and hashing functions On

Re: [fpc-pascal] HMAC_SHA1 and FPC

2013-03-25 Thread Anthony Walter
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:20 AM, silvioprog silviop...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if you noticed, but I sent the ALL test cases required by the RFC 2202 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2202), i.e., it's enough to check whether the algorithm it's well implemented or not. I'll await the

[fpc-pascal] Warning: crti.o and crtn.o not found

2013-03-28 Thread Anthony Walter
What is causing warnings for crti.o and crtn.o as described below? I just got the latest fpc and lazarus from svn, and after build everything I wrote a Hello World Gtk2 test project on Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bit) with the following messages ... Options changed, recompiling clean with -B

[fpc-pascal] SDL 2.0 Conversion Status?

2013-04-05 Thread Anthony Walter
It would seem that SDL 2.0 is going to be released in May, and is a complete rewrite which is incompatible with SDL 1.2. It seems to add a lot of functionality and I believe Valve's steam box is going to be based on SDL 2.0. My question is, has anyone done any work on SDL 2.0 with Free Pascal? If

[fpc-pascal] SDL 2.0 Test, Need Advice

2013-04-07 Thread Anthony Walter
SDL 2.0 was locked down Friday in preparation for release in May, and I have been working this weekend on converting the SDL 2 headers to Free Pascal. In addition I have been writing a OpenGL which creates stubs for loading the correct OpenGL library and loading the OpenGL core functions and

Re: [fpc-pascal] SDL 2.0 Test, Need Advice

2013-04-08 Thread Anthony Walter
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.comwrote: Am 08.04.2013 01:37 schrieb Anthony Walter sys...@gmail.com: In addition I have been writing a OpenGL which creates stubs for loading the correct OpenGL library and loading the OpenGL core functions

Re: [fpc-pascal] SDL 2.0 Test, Need Advice

2013-04-08 Thread Anthony Walter
So I did a lot of googling and testing and still haven't made progress fixing these problems. Problem #1 which prevents me from debugging or running projects which link to libSDL2.so in the IDE (lazarus) is quite annoying. I've put together a minimal example. If anyone with access to a 32 bit

Re: [fpc-pascal] SDL 2.0 Test, Need Advice

2013-04-09 Thread Anthony Walter
I fixed this problem. Apparently settings in my .bashrc are not inherited by launcher applications. I have a ~/lib folder where I would put shared object files I built and added that path it in .bashrc LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH I copied the above again in the script which

[fpc-pascal] What's the status of RTL and IsMultiThreaded := True?

2013-04-13 Thread Anthony Walter
I did some Googling earlier tonight regarding using the RTL and threads without creating a TThread class. I found some older results from this mailing list such as... http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-pascal/2010-October/026712.html Basically, what I want to know is HOW DO I... ensure the

Re: [fpc-pascal] What's the status of RTL and IsMultiThreaded := True?

2013-04-13 Thread Anthony Walter
Thanks for the prompt reply Jonas. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] What's the status of RTL and IsMultiThreaded := True?

2013-04-13 Thread Anthony Walter
Oh, I just thought of a followup question. If I have to call BeginThread to make the memory manager/rtl thread aware, do I then have to also have to check the OS type (and maybe the CPU architecture) and possibly add more units? Is it safe to call BeginThread on all platforms/architectures using

Re: [fpc-pascal] What's the status of RTL and IsMultiThreaded := True?

2013-04-13 Thread Anthony Walter
Oh and yet another question ... What is the minimum that needs to be done on all platforms/cpus to enabled thread local storage (aka threadvar)? ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Warnings crti.o and crtn.o not found

2013-04-14 Thread Anthony Walter
I had this same problem a week or so ago: http://free-pascal-general.1045716.n5.nabble.com/Warning-quot-crti-o-quot-and-quot-crtn-o-quot-not-found-td5713867.html To fix it I searched for those files and added the directory they were in to the library path. I hadn't had this problem until

[fpc-pascal] Is this a bug?

2013-04-16 Thread Anthony Walter
I just wanted to get some opinions on this as to whether this is a bug. Generics in 2.7.x trunk allows units which use a generic class defined in another unit can access protected members. Example: unit A; type TFooT = class protected Bar: T; end; -- snip to next unit -- unit B;

[fpc-pascal] What's the deal with CloseThread?

2013-04-22 Thread Anthony Walter
I was looking at threading support in the System unit and also in the TThread class. According to the documentation at http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/closethread.html CloseThread must be called on any thread started with BeginThread. It must be called after the thread has ended

Re: [fpc-pascal] What's the deal with CloseThread?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Walter
I get your point about Windows + CloseHandle But I'm still confused with regards to every other platform. You say yes, affirming the documentation ... that CloseThread must be called ... nowhere in any of the platform code I've search is CloseThread used, ever. (even though BeginThread is used)

Re: [fpc-pascal] What's the deal with CloseThread?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Walter
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: True. But that only means that the beginthread interface is relatively little used because everybody uses tthread. But on i386-linux TThread does use BeginThread and never calls CloseThread. So that seems contrary to

Re: [fpc-pascal] What's the deal with CloseThread?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Walter
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: The TThread code was never specified in terms of the procedural api. As said the procedural api largely came after tthread was stable. Probably at some point calls to the threadmanager were substituted with calls to

Re: [fpc-pascal] What's the deal with CloseThread?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Walter
Okay, thanks for the replies. I'll stick with what I have know, which is to use BeginThread, EndThread, CloseThread. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] What's the deal with CloseThread?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Walter
Thanks for so much Sven. I have another question. Is it okay for a thread to close itself before it's finished? Because I believe that is what happens when FreeOnTerminate is set to True. Here is a brief synopsis of what can execute: In rtl/objpas/classes/classes.inc Line 168: FreeThread :=

Re: [fpc-pascal] What's the deal with CloseThread?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Walter
I was read this on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724211(v=vs.85).aspx Closing a thread handle does not terminate the associated thread or remove the thread object. Closing a process handle does not terminate the associated process or remove the process object.

Re: [fpc-pascal] What's the deal with CloseThread?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Walter
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.comwrote: That's ok, because the FHandle is information which is retrieved in the context of the calling thread (e.g. the main thread). And if we don't need any more information about the thread we just close it's handle

[fpc-pascal] Compiler Warning: Constructor should be public

2009-11-10 Thread Anthony Walter
I've searched the list archives related to the subject of the fpc warning Constructor should be public and am unsure as to the resolution of this issue, or would perhaps like to revisit it. In my opinion the warning should be removed, or at least able to be suppress through a switch. I beginning

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiler Warning: Constructor should be public

2009-11-10 Thread Anthony Walter
, FileName, LineNumber); // not visible On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@mastermaths.co.za wrote: Anthony Walter wrote: In my opinion the warning should be removed, or at least able to be suppress through a switch. I beginning to make the transition to cross

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiler Warning: Constructor should be public

2009-11-10 Thread Anthony Walter
...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Anthony Walter sys...@gmail.com To: grae...@opensoft.homeip.net; FPC-Pascal users discussions fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 1:07 AM Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiler Warning: Constructor should be public

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiler Warning: Constructor should be public

2009-11-10 Thread Anthony Walter
...@mastermaths.co.za wrote: Anthony Walter wrote: In my opinion the warning should be removed, or at least able to be suppress through a switch. I beginning to make the transition to cross The compiler is 100% and I think it should actually raise an Error instead of a Warning. Your code is flawed. Object

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiler Warning: Constructor should be public

2009-11-11 Thread Anthony Walter
Of course you can't hide methods previously exposed in an inherited class. But this applies to every member type (fields, properties, methods), not just constructors. The point of a constructor is not to new up a class (NewInstance does that), but to execute a block of code (with checks) before

[fpc-pascal] const records passed incorrectly

2009-11-15 Thread Anthony Walter
Hi all. I am new to fpc and linux in general, though I do have a long time experience with Delphi. I was writing some code basic system (using the libc library) when I ran across the following problem .. some code: const libc = 'libc.so.6'; type TTimeSpec = record Sec: Cardinal; {

Re: [fpc-pascal] const records passed incorrectly

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Walter
, Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Anthony Walter wrote: Hi all. I am new to fpc and linux in general, though I do have a long time experience with Delphi. I was writing some code basic system (using the libc library) when I ran across the following  problem

Re: [fpc-pascal] const records passed incorrectly

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Walter
I assume you replied so quickly you did not get the chance to read my crafted and tested reply. You may have been typing the same time I was :) Please go back and read my message and note the tests section. Jonas, why is FPC emulating C when it could simply follow the Delphi way and prevent

Re: [fpc-pascal] const records passed incorrectly

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Walter
, there is an incompatibility. Fix it. On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Jonas Maebe jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be wrote: On 16 Nov 2009, at 15:01, Anthony Walter wrote: Jonas, why is FPC emulating C when it could simply follow the Delphi way and prevent these incompatibilities? I think that FPC's behaviour

Re: [fpc-pascal] const records passed incorrectly

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Walter
I probably should, but I've never worked on a community project before. I don't know the ins and outs of hooking up to the developer repository, getting the build environment working, discussing and submitting my changes, testing those changes, and moving them into the official version. If anyone

Re: [fpc-pascal] const records passed incorrectly

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Walter
them? On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Anthony Walter wrote: As I said in my introduction. I am new to Linux and FPC. I've used them both for maybe 8 years, but not seriously. On the Linux side for years I've just used

Re: [fpc-pascal] const records passed incorrectly

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Walter
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: The fpc-devel group and/or irc. On freenode I've been to #fpc a few times over the years. My handle is sysRPL. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] const records passed incorrectly

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Walter
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Eduardo Morras emor...@xroff.net wrote: One question, why do you reimplement libc-fpc wrapping lib? This function is in the BaseUnix unit as fpnanosleep. I am redoing my game engine is which based on a simple concept. Bare bones code. The library is called

Re: [fpc-pascal] const records passed incorrectly

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Walter
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de wrote: I hate it if bugs or illogical things are copied from Delphi. It may be the case that Delphi vanishes one day. Then we still would have all these bugs in FPC/Lazarus cast in stone forever. I think we should not

Re: [fpc-pascal] const records passed incorrectly

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Walter
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Jonas Maebe jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be wrote: For this reason, I think the Delphi operator naming decision is actually better than FPC's. Limiting them to classes is another matter. Jonas Jonas, Delphi doesn't limit operator overloading to classes. You can

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic type declaration example versus manual.

2009-11-21 Thread Anthony Walter
I haven't used generics in FPC, but really have to ask, is they keyword generic really necessary? Shouldn't generics be declared like this: type TListT = class private ... public function Add: T; procedure Remove(Item: T); property Item[Index: Integer]: T read Get write

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic type declaration example versus manual.

2009-11-22 Thread Anthony Walter
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Jonas Maebe jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be wrote: Generics were developed in parallel in FPC and in Delphi, and both came up with a different syntax. The incompatibility was there from the start, it wasn't created afterwards. Jonas, I am not trying to be a jerk

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic type declaration example versus manual.

2009-11-22 Thread Anthony Walter
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: Apparantly it didn't sink in:-) Oh it has sunk in, and I've come to expect it. I was/am only trying to move the discussion beyond that point (which seems like a brick wall). IMO a discussion would serve us better than

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic type declaration example versus manual.

2009-11-22 Thread Anthony Walter
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote: Well, in Var  A : Integer; The 'Var' is strictly speaking also redundant, as the : is used only in variable declarations. But the 'var' makes it easier to read, and Pascal is a verbose language.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic type declaration example versus manual.

2009-11-22 Thread Anthony Walter
As a follow up, here are a few generic type declaration examples lifted directly out of the CodeGear pdf Jonas was thoughtful enough to link: *Please Note* These examples do not include generic constraints which I believe are needed to work effectively with generics. Generic constraints can be

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic type declaration example versus manual.

2009-11-22 Thread Anthony Walter
I improperly replied. Let me try that again. As a follow up, here are a few generic type declaration examples lifted directly out of the CodeGear pdf Jonas was thoughtful enough to link: *Please Note* These examples do not include generic constraints which I believe are needed to work

Re: [fpc-pascal] readonly variables

2009-11-28 Thread Anthony Walter
procedure InitMyVariable(Value: T); function MyVariable: T; implementation var PrivateMyVariable: T; PrivateMyVariableSet: Boolean; procedure InitMyVariable(Value: T); begin if not PrivateMyVariableSet then PrivateMyVariable := Value; PrivateMyVariableSet := True; end; function

Re: [fpc-pascal] readonly variables

2009-11-28 Thread Anthony Walter
PrivateMyVariableSet is not intialised, so will have an undefined (random) value when InitMyVariable is first called. Mattias' code given earlier avoids this problem. Bzzzt. Wrong. Global variables (even in the implementation section) are always initialized to 0.

Re: [fpc-pascal] readonly variables

2009-11-28 Thread Anthony Walter
This is not guaranteed in any way. It happens to be so most of the time, but your code should never assume this is so, except for global Ansistring variables. If all globals weren't initialized to 0 a lot of code from lots of people would potentially be in trouble. I've been using

Re: [fpc-pascal] readonly variables

2009-11-28 Thread Anthony Walter
That should be removed, actually. I'll take that as an admission that you were wrong. It's in the specification, lot's of code uses the feature, and it works the way I described. Changing the specification to match your argument is stupid. ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] readonly variables

2009-11-28 Thread Anthony Walter
Okay, I am going to call bullshit on you. This is the second time (in a few weeks) where you've replied to something I've written with wrong information. This first time concerning the topic const records passed incorrectly you said, It is nowhere written in the Delphi specs that const

Re: [fpc-pascal] readonly variables

2009-11-29 Thread Anthony Walter
Jonas, Thank you. I certainly will make an attempt to tone down a few of my remarks which I admit were inflammatory. I assure everyone here though, my purpose in conversing on these lists is to help improve FPC, so far by discussing easy to resolve and reproduce technical points. I personally

Re: [fpc-pascal] readonly variables

2009-11-29 Thread Anthony Walter
FPC currently initialises the global data to 0 on platforms that do not do this by themselves. When it turns global variables into register variables, it will also initialise such registers with 0. Ah, okay. So it is working as expected. Thanks for the reply.

Re: [fpc-pascal] readonly variables

2009-11-29 Thread Anthony Walter
So it seems that passing them by value actually corresponds to what the Delphi docs say. Jonas, I agree, the documentation definitely does address the issue, which was where that conversation was derailed. Regarding actual implementation, I previously posted the full source to a test program

Re: [fpc-pascal] Validate heap/stack addresses

2009-12-01 Thread Anthony Walter
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Bruce Bauman bruce.bau...@andesaservices.com wrote: I’m trying to port/debug some ugly Pascal code. Is there a way I can tell if an arbitrary address is within the heap or stack? Without hooking/replacing the memory manager, I don't believe you can handle

Re: [fpc-pascal] Validate heap/stack addresses

2009-12-01 Thread Anthony Walter
Oh and for querying stack pointers, there should be an OS function somewhere to give you the base stack pointer address and available stack size, though I don't know the names of functions off the top of my head. ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Dynamic Array Length

2009-12-31 Thread Anthony Walter
With Delphi/FPC you have a few choices: Fixed length arrays, dynamic length arrays, and variant type arrays Fixed length arrays cannot be resized and their lower and upper bounds are immutable. The lower and upper bounds can start at any ordinal position. The upper bound can ever be less than

Re: [fpc-pascal] Dynamic Array Length

2009-12-31 Thread Anthony Walter
No, the compiler will not fill in the array length based on your element list. It does compute the length while compiling and *you* need to match it in your declaration. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Dynamic Array Length

2009-12-31 Thread Anthony Walter
Sure, I agree. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-01 Thread Anthony Walter
I read the user changes document which seemed to consist of a list of subtle changes. My question is does 2.4.0 put forward any major changes and if so in what document are those changes described. I am interested in reading about changes such as official generic support, changes to support COM

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Anthony Walter
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Paul Ishenin webpi...@mail.ru wrote: Jonas Maebe wrote: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/6 Note that even Delphi doesn't have them yet (it might also turn up in Delphi in the future). Looks as something related to:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Closures (or anonymous functions)

2010-01-03 Thread Anthony Walter
I'll just repeat what I said in the FPC 2.4.0 release thread. * See the good news note at the bottom of this message Something I've really found useful in C#/.NET is lambda functions and capturing locals (closures). This feature solves asynchronous design for me in so many ways. If you can

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC class syntax was extended to support delphi code

2010-01-13 Thread Anthony Walter
Yup! Of course, there are pros and cons to all this. Our once simple, straightforward language is not littered with convenience features that are not necessary at all. For example, what is the big advantage of class methods over simple functions and procedures? Class methods can be

Re: [fpc-pascal] GetProcAddress

2010-01-14 Thread Anthony Walter
I am not too sure why GetProcAddress is returning nil, but a few points: 1) you do not need to typecast string literals as PChar FGetAsText := GetProcAddress (FHandle, 'clipboard_getastext'); 2) You really should not return strings as PChar, passing them is fine, but return, nope result :=

Re: [fpc-pascal] fplisten

2010-01-17 Thread Anthony Walter
Don't call accept() on the incoming connection, call close() instead. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] ActiveFormHandle from TApplication

2010-01-21 Thread Anthony Walter
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Justin Smyth delph...@smythconsulting.netwrote: Any one know how to get the Active Handle from the current Form from TApplication ? Delphi has something for this but i cant see it. I'm in the progress of getting JVCL working under FPC / lazarus ( FPC 2.5.1

Re: [fpc-pascal] Cancelling Scientific notation

2010-01-25 Thread Anthony Walter
1) Format('%.3f', [A / B]); 2) It depends on you GUI framework/library, but in Delphi and Lazarus it would be Color := 0; ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Assigning class method to procedure of object via class name in delphi mode

2010-01-25 Thread Anthony Walter
No, the assignment shouldn't be allowed. The assignment to procedure of object should only be allowed from instances. SizeOf(TNotifyProc) = SizeOf(Pointer) * 2 See also: the TMethod record ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to use a window message queue in a call?

2010-01-27 Thread Anthony Walter
As Michael Van Canneyt says, you cannot use a method as a window message handler. This assumed implicit Self variable will most likely break the return pointer on the stack. Here is my code for a user defined window class. Note, window messages are processed through TObject.Dispatch threadvar

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to use a window message queue in a call?

2010-01-27 Thread Anthony Walter
    SetWindowLong(Wnd, GWL_USERDATA, Integer(BaseWindow)); Not 64-bits safe. An integer is not a long.  Ptruint probably. Ah well, there is a new API to fix this in 64 bit Windows. Use SetWindowLongPtr/GetWindowLongPtr instead. ___ fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] OOP and XML usage

2010-01-27 Thread Anthony Walter
I've written some XML classes which expose themselves as interfaces. Usage goes something like this: procedure SaveSettings(const Settings: string); var Document: IDocument; Filer: IFiler; begin Document := CreateDocument; Filer := Document.ForceRoot('test') as IFiler;

[fpc-pascal] C# implementation of TObject Dispatch/DefaultHandler

2010-02-02 Thread Anthony Walter
I though I'd share this and as for any feedback. Today I was experimenting with a borrowing a Delphi concept and implementing it in C#. I wanted to be able to do this in C#: procedure WMMouseMove(var Message: TWMMouseMove); message WM_MOUSEMOVE; And I believe I came up with a similar yet

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to init Array values in a record?

2010-02-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Like so: (iBitmap:0; idCommand: 0; fsState:0; fsStyle:0; bReserved: (0,0); dwData: nil; iString: nil) ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] MSEide+MSEgui SourceForge - BerliOS

2010-02-05 Thread Anthony Walter
I don't understand. Would you care to explain what restrictions SourceForge places on its users? I am curious. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] some new features to delphi prisem

2010-02-22 Thread Anthony Walter
The syntax that Prism uses is a lot cleaner in many respects - especially removing the procedure/function conundrum and using instead method. However, in other ways it is horrible and so I can also see why it is not something worth discussing further. Matt, I am no Prism fan (I prefer native

[fpc-pascal] Bridging FPC and Delphi

2010-04-27 Thread Anthony Walter
I was on freenode irc #fpc earlier and asked some questions but not enough people were online to get an answer. My question was/is: Will there ever again come a point where FPC attempts to bring in more compatibility with Delphi? Specifically, in regards to operator overloading and generic

Re: [fpc-pascal] Bridging FPC and Delphi

2010-04-27 Thread Anthony Walter
When I google search for FPC generics tohe top result links here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Generics Two cases: 1) type generic TListT = class // ... as is now, the word generic is redundant 2) type TListT = class // ... better and in line with Delphi It seems both were on the suggested

Re: [fpc-pascal] Bridging FPC and Delphi

2010-04-27 Thread Anthony Walter
Technical limitations aside, at this point what would be needed from the community to get the generic syntax changed? Supposing I had the soruce code changes to accommodate the change to remove the generic keyword, what would be needed from the community to approve moving that change into the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Bridging FPC and Delphi

2010-04-27 Thread Anthony Walter
Graeme: To be honest, this is a slightly unfair case, saying Free Pascal must become Delphi compatible, when Free Pascal had generics support *before* Delphi did. Maybe Delphi should become more Free Pascal compatible. I've preemptively disabled this argument so many times in the past. It's

Re: [fpc-pascal] Bridging FPC and Delphi

2010-04-27 Thread Anthony Walter
Technical limitations aside, at this point what would be needed from the community to get the generic syntax changed?: : Patches. I believe there would first need to be some sort ofg consensus within the community about the changing the syntax. ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic enumerators

2010-05-10 Thread Anthony Walter
Is the keyword generic really needed here: type generic TEnumeratorTValue, TIterator = class - should be - type TEnumeratorTValue, TIterator = class It looks completely unnecessary and I've never seen a situation in pascal where anything but an identifier follows the keyword type. Whomever

Re: [fpc-pascal] Ideas for namespace implementation

2010-07-26 Thread Anthony Walter
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.comwrote: In short - Delphi in-compatibility is not a problem here, just like Generics or Compiler Modes or . FPC doesn't do everything like Delphi, sometimes it does things _better_ than Delphi. FPC Namespaces would

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to set a type as a variable?

2010-08-23 Thread Anthony Walter
Like so: procedure Test; var SomeType: TClass; SomeObject: TObject; begin SomeType := TStringList; SomeObject := SomeType.Create; (SomeObject as TStrings).Add('Hello World'); ShowMessage((SomeObject as TStrings)[0]); SomeObject.Free; end; On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Frank

Re: [fpc-pascal] The new Delphi 2010 RTTI

2010-12-22 Thread Anthony Walter
Paul, Thanks for working on adding methods and visibility to record types. Could you also look into fixing generics? That is, to allow for generic constraints and remove the redundant generic and specialize keywords. For example: {code} type TListT = class { ... interface code ... } end;

[fpc-pascal] New multicast event implementation

2011-02-01 Thread Anthony Walter
Hello all. I implemented a new type of multicast events in Delphi based on generics. I thought someone could maybe consider and convert this implementation to Free Pascal. Here is a link to an article describing the implementation, its benefits and usage, and well as the full source code. Let me

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: New multicast event implementation

2011-02-02 Thread Anthony Walter
Yeah, I just added the code highlighter, which build the highlights using javascript. I set to display: none while the page loads which isn't effecting the print version. The workaround is that you can print the code blocks by clicking the print icon in each code section. I'll fix it later.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: New multicast event implementation

2011-02-02 Thread Anthony Walter
Just an update ... I fixed the print feature at the bottom. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: New multicast event implementation

2011-02-02 Thread Anthony Walter
By the way, does Free Pascal generic support generic constraints yet? Also, this format seems more natural to me: TCollectionT: TCollectionItem = class property Count: Integer; property Items[Index: Integer]: T; end; TStatusPanels = class(TCollectionTStatusPanel); rather than ... generic

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: New multicast event implementation

2011-02-03 Thread Anthony Walter
Have you used ListT, DictionaryK,V, or IEnumerableT in C# much? How about EventHandlerT? They are pretty useful. Even in Delphi, TListT, TObjectListT, and TCompareT are more than handy IMO. No longer do I have to write TMyObject(FList[I]) all over the place. When using if

[fpc-pascal] Javascript in Desktop Applications

2011-02-07 Thread Anthony Walter
Over at stackoverflow someone askedhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/4913178/javascript-in-delphi-applications, Is it possible to utilize javascript in the making of windows desktop applications. I wrote up a pascal based solution to add javascript access to your desktop programs. If you have any

Re: [fpc-pascal] Looking for a suitable graphics library/component

2011-03-22 Thread Anthony Walter
For drawing lines, shapes, fills, on Linux I'd recommend using cairo. On Windows I'd say you should use GDI or GDI+. You can find pascal files importing the functions for those libraries using google. Some of them may come with FPC. For widgets, if you are using Lazarus, it comes with a widget

Re: [fpc-pascal] Looking for a suitable graphics library/component

2011-03-22 Thread Anthony Walter
Oh, you want a retained mode graphics system. That should be pretty easy to write yourself. Just write a class like TDrawable with a Paint(), HitTest(Point), and Intersects(Rect) methods and derive from that to have your different drawn types. Keep a list of those items in your drawing surface.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generics feature status

2011-04-29 Thread Anthony Walter
Is this true? I'd really like to see generics that with a mode where it is possible to say with the following syntax (compatible with Delphi): type IDelegateT = interface procedure Add(const Handler: T); procedure Remove(const Handler: T); end; And then specialize using the following

[fpc-pascal] Undefined symbols. Help!

2013-05-26 Thread Anthony Walter
Can someone point me in the right direction towards solving this problem? I built a static libraries on Linux based on some open source c and h files. I can compile things fine with gcc/mingw-265 and use ar to turn the object files into a static lib (libtess.a). The problem is when I try to

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Undefined symbols. Help!

2013-05-26 Thread Anthony Walter
Okay, had tried ... {$linklib msvcrt} // libmsvcrt.a copied from Linux /usr/i686-mingw-w64/lib {$linklib tess} // my static lib Then I installed dependency walker (per your advice) and inspected msvcrt.dll. That dll seems to have the missing functions but with the names a bit different in places

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Undefined symbols. Help!

2013-05-26 Thread Anthony Walter
I got it. I found all the required static libraries by going searching through nm *.a on Linux and looking for which library had the missing functions, then I linked to that lib which gave me a whole new set of missing functions and I repeated the process until nothing was missing. Also,

[fpc-pascal] Placing binary data (resources) in object files?

2013-06-03 Thread Anthony Walter
I am trying to come up with an embedded binary resource system and was considering placing data in object files when I found this question on stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4158900/embedding-resources-in-exe-using-gcc I see that it's possible to directly turn any file into an

Re: [fpc-pascal] Placing binary data (resources) in object files?

2013-06-03 Thread Anthony Walter
Wow, thanks for all the interesting replies. In the mean time here is what I came up with: ld -r -b binary -o binary.o helloworld.txt #include stdint.h extern char _binary_helloworld_txt_start[]; extern char _binary_helloworld_txt_end[]; void* helloworld(uintptr_t* i) { uintptr_t a =

Re: [fpc-pascal] Placing binary data (resources) in object files?

2013-06-03 Thread Anthony Walter
I think I'll use Rainer's example: {$ir file.dat mydata} I just hope the final exe won't get bloated if resource are included in this manner and never used and also that it does slow down compilation every time unless I add to new resources or change code in the unit containing the resource.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Placing binary data (resources) in object files?

2013-06-03 Thread Anthony Walter
Okay I found some interesting results after a bit of testing... When using bin2obj you get a byte of array typed constant which you can include in your sources. The compiler will always include the resource whether it is referenced from code or not. Stripping the app (strip -s -g appname) does

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