Re: [lazarus] [FPC-Marketing] Wiki created [ screen shots ]

2006-06-19 Thread Vincent Snijders
2006/6/19, bouquinique [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 30 minutes ago i'd send five messages with .jpg attachements and dont see them in mailling list. Did the m.L. reject or delayed .jpg attachements ? In doubt i send the url's where are the screen shot's. http://mmaigrot.free.fr/lazarus/sc1_5/laz_01.jpg

Re: [lazarus] Rx component

2006-06-19 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:34:43 +0700 Diwakoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear all, today I try to install rx component on lazarus 0.9.17 snapshot and I get this error when compile it: C:\lazarus\components\rx\AppUtils.pp(369,26) Error: function header doesn't match the forward declaration

Re: [lazarus] Rx component

2006-06-19 Thread Diwakoe
thanks Mattias, where I can download this fixed component? On 6/19/06, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fixed. Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus/Freepascal Propaganda

2006-06-19 Thread Tom Verhoeff
Propaganda: Marketing: Gospel: How about Advocacy? = active support; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something (Or do you think people will believe it to mean lying by lawyers?) Tom -- E-MAIL: T.Verhoeff @ TUE.NL | Fac. of Math. Computing Science PHONE: +31 40

Re: [lazarus] Rx component

2006-06-19 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:09:45 +0700 Diwakoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks Mattias, where I can download this fixed component? It is in the current lazarus svn, tomorrow in the snapshots and in two months in the next release. Mattias On 6/19/06, Mattias Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus/Freepascal Propaganda

2006-06-19 Thread Lord ZealoN
I agree, i will change to promotei think is better too but, we are changing the main idea of this thread.2006/6/19, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED]:On 6/18/06, Lord ZealoN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the most important is the idea, not the name. The name is totally

[lazarus] Suse 10.1, 64 bit, Latest updates

2006-06-19 Thread Ger Remmers
Hi all I have searched the archives but couldn't find anything related to the following: I installed a new computer (AMD X2 3800+) with SuSE 10.1 and the latest updates. Installed Freepascal (went just fine) and downloaded the latest Lazarus trunk. When trying to compile Lazarus I get the

RE: [lazarus] procedure TObject.Free

2006-06-19 Thread George Birbilis
If so, what side-effects would this cause when applied across the complete class-hierarchy? Blow up the size of you executable. And a virtual method call is slower than a non-virtual call. (as it needs to do a few lookups: class, VMT) To ensure self is not nil, you can insert a check

RE: [lazarus] procedure TObject.Free

2006-06-19 Thread George Birbilis
Title: RE: [lazarus] procedure TObject.Free Sorry for rushing to reply below, indeed "Free" is a non-class, non-virtual method in Delphi7 sources too, just checked it Regarding the stuff I say below though, not sure what "self" contains (at the someClassMethod code body) when you do

Re: [lazarus] procedure TObject.Free

2006-06-19 Thread Bram Kuijvenhoven
George Birbilis wrote: Regarding the stuff I say below though, not sure what self contains (at the someClassMethod code body) when you do someInstance.someClassMethod() instead of someClass.someClassMethod(). Does it always contain the class self or the someInstance? (be it nil or not). I'd

Re: [lazarus] procedure TObject.Free

2006-06-19 Thread Bram Kuijvenhoven
George Birbilis wrote: If so, what side-effects would this cause when applied across the complete class-hierarchy? Blow up the size of you executable. And a virtual method call is slower than a non-virtual call. (as it needs to do a few lookups: class, VMT) To ensure self is not nil, you can

Re: [lazarus] [FPC-Marketing] Wiki created [ screen shots ]

2006-06-19 Thread Lord ZealoN
I think in mine too. But you may be register.I will check it this afternoon. Change fpc-marketing to promoting-fpc and put some texts about the web.2006/6/19, Vincent Snijders [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2006/6/19, bouquinique [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 30 minutes ago i'd send five messages with .jpg attachements

Re: [lazarus] Suse 10.1, 64 bit, Latest updates

2006-06-19 Thread ik
From my short expirence with Suse for amd64 (they must do it for all archs), that the libraries exists on/opt/gtk/ instead of /usr/lib . It's really sad to see that they keep on doing it even on 10.1 ... You can do several things here... 1. LD_PATH should point to that locations (I hope

Re: [lazarus] Suse 10.1, 64 bit, Latest updates

2006-06-19 Thread Vincent Snijders
2006/6/19, ik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From my short expirence with Suse for amd64 (they must do it for all archs), that the libraries exists on/opt/gtk/ instead of /usr/lib . It's really sad to see that they keep on doing it even on 10.1 ... You can do several things here... 1. LD_PATH should point

Re: [lazarus] Suse 10.1, 64 bit, Latest updates

2006-06-19 Thread Ger Remmers
On Monday 19 June 2006 13:34, Vincent Snijders wrote: See FAQ: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Lazarus_Faq#I_have_SuSE_and_I_ get_.2Fusr.2Fbin.2Fld:_cannot_find_-lgtk_Error:_Error_while_linking Hope this helps, Vincent Sadly neither solution helps. It's not that the libs are

Re: [lazarus] Suse 10.1, 64 bit, Latest updates

2006-06-19 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Ger Remmers wrote: Hi all I have searched the archives but couldn't find anything related to the following: I installed a new computer (AMD X2 3800+) with SuSE 10.1 and the latest updates. Installed Freepascal (went just fine) and downloaded the latest Lazarus trunk. When trying to

Re: [lazarus] procedure TObject.Free

2006-06-19 Thread Florian Klaempfl
George Birbilis wrote: Sorry for rushing to reply below, indeed Free is a non-class, non-virtual method in Delphi7 sources too, just checked it Regarding the stuff I say below though, not sure what self contains (at the someClassMethod code body) when you do someInstance.someClassMethod()

Re: [lazarus] Suse 10.1, 64 bit, Latest updates

2006-06-19 Thread Martin Waldenburg
Ger Remmers wrote: On Monday 19 June 2006 13:34, Vincent Snijders wrote: See FAQ: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Lazarus_Faq#I_have_SuSE_and_I_ get_.2Fusr.2Fbin.2Fld:_cannot_find_-lgtk_Error:_Error_while_linking Hope this helps, Vincent Sadly neither solution helps. It's not

Re: [lazarus] Suse 10.1, 64 bit, Latest updates

2006-06-19 Thread Burkhard Carstens
Am Montag, 19. Juni 2006 14:32 schrieb Ger Remmers: On Monday 19 June 2006 14:11, Florian Klaempfl wrote: Ger Remmers wrote: Hi all I have searched the archives but couldn't find anything related to the following: I installed a new computer (AMD X2 3800+) with SuSE 10.1 and

Re: [lazarus] pascal is obsolete?

2006-06-19 Thread Tony Pelton
at the risk of continuing this thread into something that is OT, or becomes some sort of language debate ... On 6/19/06, Thierry Coq (Personnel) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, about inner classes and Java : it's a destructive construct in Java for design, coming from the strange notion a

Re: [lazarus] Suse 10.1, 64 bit, Latest updates

2006-06-19 Thread Ger Remmers
On Monday 19 June 2006 14:58, Burkhard Carstens wrote: AFAIK under Suse, there are 32-bit libs in /opt/gnome/lib and 64-bit libs in /opt/gnome/lib64. As you use the x86_64 compiler, you should also use the 64-bit libs From what I can tell I am using the 64bit libs This is what the compiler

Re: [lazarus] pascal is obsolete?

2006-06-19 Thread Thierry Coq (Personnel)
Hello Tony, Tony Pelton a écrit : i've been using Java forever. as far as i can recall, inner classes and anonymous classes have been in the language since its inception. they were not added. I remember inner classes were added to Java 1.1. They are not originally part of Java 1.0. Same

Re: [lazarus] pascal is obsolete?

2006-06-19 Thread Daniel Dugan
Who starts these useless threads anyway?My $.02.Daniel"Thierry Coq (Personnel)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Tony,Tony Pelton a écrit : i've been using Java forever. as far as i can recall, inner classes and anonymous classes have been in the language since its inception. they were not

[lazarus] Pascal IS obsolete. Let's drop it.

2006-06-19 Thread Giuliano Colla
Before ranting at me, please listen. I'm not joking. The very name Pascal is the problem. I'm no casual user. I'm programming since the mid 60's. The first language I learned was Fortran, but as soon as I met a structured language, like Algol, I adopted it immediately. I became a fan of

Re: [lazarus] Pascal IS obsolete. Let's drop it.

2006-06-19 Thread Micha Nelissen
Giuliano Colla wrote: suggested to switch to C++. In the discussion which followed, I realized that he believed Delphi to be an interpreted language, sort of Visual Basic, and that he had no idea that it was object Pascal. Just one case, but significant. This undermines your own reasoning:

Re: [lazarus] FPC/Lazarus propaganda scheme

2006-06-19 Thread lazarus . mramirez
KDE RSS. They would be talking about the use of QT and the pascal language at the same time. The KDE programmers are mostly c++ guys but all use QT. Of course there must be a similar RSS for Gnome programmers. John After all, Kylix was QT based. I don't have time or skills to work with

Re: [lazarus] Pascal IS obsolete. Let's drop it.

2006-06-19 Thread Alain Michaud
Hi, that reminds me that in (some) faculty, they keep changing the name of the course, hoping that it will atract more students: Instead of teaching calculus they teach mathematics for the communication engineers Instead of teaching electromagnetism, they teach optical fiber transmission

[lazarus] LazReport, printers.

2006-06-19 Thread Jesus Reyes
Printer support in Lazarus has been improved, now printing should use the currently selected settings even the advanced ones. Reported paper sizes width and height are now in points (dots or pixels) at selected resolution. Report problems (please use mantis:

Re: [lazarus] Pascal IS obsolete. Let's drop it.

2006-06-19 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 6/19/06, Gustavo Enrique Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, the old discussion about obsoleteness of Pascal is pointless. Yes it is. It sadly reminds me of all those threads on borland newsgroups about Delphi being dead. A quick search on google groups will shows threads like that

Re: [lazarus] FPC/Lazarus propaganda scheme

2006-06-19 Thread johnf
On Monday 19 June 2006 11:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KDE RSS. They would be talking about the use of QT and the pascal language at the same time. The KDE programmers are mostly c++ guys but all use QT. Of course there must be a similar RSS for Gnome programmers. John After all,