Re: [lazarus] Lazarus vs Patents

2006-04-30 Thread Micha Nelissen
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:59:50 -0400 (EDT) Michael A. Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can answer that. It isn't taught in school at all. If you go to any school and I mean any school that teaches CompSci in any way they will tell you that, Pascal is a dead and useless language. Nobody uses

Re: [lazarus] FPC/Lazarus Foundation would need people

2006-04-30 Thread Florian Klaempfl
L505 wrote: In all of this talk about the need for a foundation it has been said how we could have these people doing this job instead of the developers. We could have others doing other jobs, etc. etc. etc. Well as the statements point out this needs people. It needs people that are

[lazarus] FPC/Lazarus foundation: The developer's answer.

2006-04-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Hello, For the people on the fpc-pascal mailing list that are not subscribed on the Lazarus mailing list, the following mail is a response to the request of some Lazarus users to start some kind of FPC/Lazarus foundation, to advance the use of FPC/Lazarus, and to aid in development. I am sending

[lazarus] Re: IDE Help

2006-04-30 Thread roozbeh gholizadeh
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:59:42 +0330, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IDE now supports Help for FPC keywords, messages and IDE windows and dialogs. Now the documentation must be collected/written. I added a wiki page describing the various online Help types of the IDE and how

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus vs Patents

2006-04-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
So guess what. If they don't even know what Delphi is they are not going to move to use FPC/Lazarus. It is a very tough sell here in the US. You just - unwillingly, I assume - provided a good reason to relocate the new Borland 'DevCo' to a place outside the US, considering their flagship has

Re: [lazarus] Re: IDE Help

2006-04-30 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:29:43 +0330 roozbeh gholizadeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:59:42 +0330, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IDE now supports Help for FPC keywords, messages and IDE windows and dialogs. Now the documentation must be collected/written.

Re: [lazarus] FPC/Lazarus Foundation would need people

2006-04-30 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 4/30/06, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of doing software development as daily job for years I don't know if this is unpolite to ask, but. Just out of curiosity, I'm not trying to prove anything. Do you guys (main developers from Free Pascal / Lazarus that are software

Re: [lazarus] FPC/Lazarus Foundation would need people

2006-04-30 Thread anteusz
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 4/30/06, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of doing software development as daily job for years I don't know if this is unpolite to ask, but. Just out of curiosity, I'm not trying to prove anything. Do you guys (main developers from Free

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus vs Patents

2006-04-30 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 4/30/06, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Pascal/Delphi whatever is always stronger in Europe. On Brasil Delphi is very popular. I would say it is almost as popular as Java. It could be much more popular, but Borland's bad decisions / marketing and etc is hurting it.

Re: [lazarus] FPC/Lazarus Foundation would need people

2006-04-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 4/30/06, Florian Klaempfl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of doing software development as daily job for years I don't know if this is unpolite to ask, but. Just out of curiosity, I'm not trying to prove anything. Do you guys (main

[lazarus] TTreeNodes.Item

2006-04-30 Thread Colin Western
Delphi has TTreeNodes.Item[], but the LCL has TTreeNodes.Items[]. The attached patch changes this. Colin diff -uNr lazarus/ideintf/listviewpropedit.pp /dos/fpc/lazarus.w/ideintf/listviewpropedit.pp --- lazarus/ideintf/listviewpropedit.pp 2006-01-29 12:01:27.0 + +++

Re: [lazarus] FPC/Lazarus Foundation would need people

2006-04-30 Thread Marco van de Voort
I don't know if this is unpolite to ask, but. Just out of curiosity, I'm not trying to prove anything. Do you guys (main developers from Free Pascal / Lazarus that are software developers as daily job) use Free Pascal on your jobs? Not now, but have done so in the past. Mostly side-projects

Re: [lazarus] More Unicode questions

2006-04-30 Thread Borut Maricic
On 2006-04-29 at 05:43, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Here you just need to submit a patch and all your problems are solved =) And they will also be solved for others that need this on the future. Yes, I agree and understand. My problem is (apart of all the usual

RE: [lazarus] Lazarus vs Patents

2006-04-30 Thread Fatih Demirdag
Here on Turkey, Visual Basic and Delphi were both most used languages by relatively elder organizations. New ones now chooses between Java and .NET (yet Delphi .NET not even considered, just MS Visual Studio) On the other hand in universities pascal considered as old, incapable anddead

Re: [lazarus] Property EchoMode of a TEdit dialog

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander Todorov
On 4/28/06, Arí Ricardo Ody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I select emPassword in the combo of values of the property EchoMode of a TEdit and, when I run the project, the characters I type are showed normally in in the TEdit box. May I do something wrong? Greetings from São Paulo - Brazil Ricardo