Re: [Lazarus] Clipboard.HasFormat issue
On Saturday 28 March 2009 12:36:53 pm Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Hi, Is there a reason why ClipBoard.HasFormat() is so slow ? Putting a call to ClipBoard.HasFormat() in an OnUpdate handler of an action coupled to a toolbutton, seriously slows down an application, to the point of being unusable. If I comment out the call, the application responds normally. The strange thing is that if something suitable is on the clipboard, the application responds normally. Michael. I do not know exactly but a possibility may be to wait an acceptable value to appear there . This may be tested as follows : Assume there is no any acceptable value in clipboard . When your application starts to wait , an acceptable value may be appended to clipboard from another application . If it gets this value immediately we may say that it is waiting for a proper value to appear there . If it does not respond immediately and continues to wait , there is another problem . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Valladolid Programming Contest simple test fails at compile?
On Friday 27 March 2009 08:08:20 pm JoshyFun wrote:
Hello Thierry,
TCIs there another way recommended for
TC these contests?
I have none experience on the contest scene, but eof in the stdin
looks nonsense for me when you input data using the keyboard, 'cos
after the first line (readln) the eof is a fact ;)
eof or empty line seems to be more logical to me. You should check
how the program works if you feed stdin from a file:
test.exe file.txt
Additionally :
Between _readln _ and _until eof_ statements , there should be an
if statement
such as
if not eof
then
begin
{ statements between readln and until eof ... }
end ;
because when EOF is seen those stements should not be executed
because there is no valid input at that state .
Thank you very much .
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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Re: [Lazarus] Valladolid Programming Contest simple test fails at compile?
On Thursday 26 March 2009 05:16:32 pm Thierry Coq wrote: TEST PROGRAM program Test1; var i, j : integer; //input data k, l : integer; //interval m: integer; //index maxCycles : integer; //max number of cycles for the interval Cycles: integer; // This function computes the number of cycles for the 3N+1 algorithm. function FindCycles(const value: integer):integer; begin result := 1; if value 1 then begin if (value mod 2) 0 then result := 1+FindCycles(3*value+1) else result := 1+FindCycles(value div 2); end; end; // main program begin repeat // get the input interval readln(i,j); k := i; l := j; if ji then begin k := j; l := i; end; //iterating over each element maxCycles := 0; for m := k to l do begin Cycles := FindCycles( m); if Cycles maxCycles then maxCycles := Cycles; end; //write the results writeln(i,' ',j,' ', maxCycles); until eof; end. END OF TEST PROGRAM ___ At until eof , there should be a file variable name as eof ( FN ) where FN may be var FN : Text ; or var FN : File ... ; Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Valladolid Programming Contest simple test fails at compile?
On Thursday 26 March 2009 06:47:45 pm Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Thursday 26 March 2009 05:16:32 pm Thierry Coq wrote: TEST PROGRAM program Test1; var i, j : integer; //input data k, l : integer; //interval m: integer; //index maxCycles : integer; //max number of cycles for the interval Cycles: integer; // This function computes the number of cycles for the 3N+1 algorithm. function FindCycles(const value: integer):integer; begin result := 1; if value 1 then begin if (value mod 2) 0 then result := 1+FindCycles(3*value+1) else result := 1+FindCycles(value div 2); end; end; // main program begin repeat // get the input interval readln(i,j); k := i; l := j; if ji then begin k := j; l := i; end; //iterating over each element maxCycles := 0; for m := k to l do begin Cycles := FindCycles( m); if Cycles maxCycles then maxCycles := Cycles; end; //write the results writeln(i,' ',j,' ', maxCycles); until eof; end. END OF TEST PROGRAM ___ At until eof , there should be a file variable name as eof ( FN ) where FN may be var FN : Text ; or var FN : File ... ; I am sorry that the error is NOT the above . I compiled the program . It is giving error to name result within function FindCycles as Identifier not found . If a variable as var result : integer ; is defined it is compiled correctly with a warning Function result does not seem to be set . Insertion of statement FindCycles := result ; is removing warning statement . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Large Integer errors
On Saturday 14 February 2009 12:56:50 pm Dave Coventry wrote: Yes, great, thanks. Would there be any error or would Lazarus just continue as if nothing had happened? 2009/2/14 Howard Page-Clark h...@talktalk.net: On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:30:55 +0200 Dave Coventry dgcoven...@gmail.com wrote: function mycalc( num1,num2: real):integer; begin Result:=trunc(num1*num2); end; How can I protect from the product of the two numbers being too big? If it's too big I want to discard it anyway. function mycalc( num1,num2: real):integer; begin Result:=trunc(num1*num2); if result maxint then result := 0; end; Would this do what you want? Howard Page-Clark h...@talktalk.net ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus My application is to use first REAL arithmetic : Var V : Extended ; or Var V : Real ; or Var V : Double ; ... V := num1 ; V := V * num2 ; If ( V Your_Maximum_Allowed_Value ) Then Result := trunc ( num1 * num2 ) Else Message ... about overflow ... If you compare run1 * run2 directly maxint , multiplication may give overflow when result of multiplication is theoretically large than maxint . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Linux
Dear Leslie , I am also studying many Linux , FreeBSD , Solaris , OpenSolaris distributions to find an easily usable one with the condition that my program when becomes ready can be run on it as attached to a network . I bought more than 10 hard disks with a smallest ( GigaByte / price ) ratio value ( some 250 GB , some 320 GB ... ) . I am installing an OS on a disk in a PC , then I am attaching other one to the same PC and installing a new one . I am not using partitions and not different distributions in disks connected at the same time because they are changing structure of first hard disk . My work PC is around 2.5 GHz Intel Pentium with an Intel main board . For Delphi programming I am using XP Professional . Up to now I could not be able to obtain a fully working copy of my program compiled by Free Pascal in GUI mode due to Delphi and Free Pascal differences. After obtaining that I will start to compile it for Linux , FreeBSD , Solaris . For Internet access I am using an XP Home and another PC with Mandriva Free 2008.0 . My main aim is also to be able to find a best combination to advice to the users because in a data base environment users need many PCs and at least one server . There are pages in Internet comparing Linux and BSD distributions . If you search benchmarking of linux distributions comparison of linux distributions benchmarking of BSD distributions comparison of BSD distributions in Google , you will find a lot of pages about this subject . In your case , you did not mention exact listing of your hardware components and services running in your PC . For Lazarus , selected widget set ( GTK , GTK2 ) may affect response times . There are many messages about that issue . If you search Lazarus mailing list, you may find messages about that issue also . My experience is that there are not Lazarus performance differences due to used OS . If you have another PC running XP , you may disconnect its hard disk and attach your other OS hard disk to the same machine and compare the performance of the SAME Lazarus configuration ( Version , SVN , Widget Set , etc. ) . At present I can not suggest another solution to your problem because I could not be able reach to a useful conclusion on my studies yet . With my best wishes for your success . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] How to mimic MWSnap's Window Information feature on X11
Dear Graeme Geldenhuys , http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ Mega Indexes contain many free sources for hint handling . A sample of files from a search on page using hint is given below ( In other pages about Mega Indexes there are other files ) : Delphi 5.0x freeware Mega Library - All files : http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/PDJ_DBCheck.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/PDJ_DBComEdit.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/texdbgrd.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d20free/flatstyl.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d20free/cc95v293.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/PDJ_Check.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/PDJ_ComEdit.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/sbpro.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d40free/TListBoxRK.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d50free/mschkb5.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/PDJ_PCheck.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/PDJ_Scrollers.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d40free/PieList.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d10free/yearplan.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d50free/ztn-urls.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/PDJ_Button.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d10free/grip21.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/assistant.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/ucsaf.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/PBPreviw.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d20free/cooltray.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d30free/xstatbar.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d20free/pjhotlbl.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d40free/exhint.zip http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/d20free/jdurllbl.zip http://www.rt-science.de/downloads/RtColorPicker.exe Perhaps some of them may be useful for you , Thank you very much for all your efforts to make Lazarus and Free Pascal better than the present status . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] A sort program in rpsrt102.zip (1).
Dear JoshyFun , (A) An algorithm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm ) and its implementation are different concepts , at least in the sense that , for an algorithm there may be many distinct implementations of it . (B) RPSORT program itself is written in 16-bit 8086 assembler but its bit size is not related to the file size it sorts . (C) Personally , I am not writing assembler programs , and I do not know 32-bit assembly programming . Therefore , I am not able to convert it to a 32-bit assembly program . I think a programmer fluent in assembly language programming can do it . I am not able to evaluate its difficultyness but it is my opinion that many statements may be converted by replace operations . After this it may be used as embedded into a Pascal procedure or may be used as a spawned process to sort a file . (D) To make a proper reply to your question I prepared a simple program compiled with FPC to demonstrate its sorting speed as follows : Program Numbers ; Var T : Text ; Var M : LongInt ; Var i : LongInt ; Var p : Int64 ; Var q : Int64 ; Begin M := 0 ; Writeln ( 'Give number of values to generate :' ) ; Readln ( M ) ; If ( M 0 ) Then Begin Assign ( T , 'RNumbers.TXT' ) ; ReWrite ( T ) ; p := 9223372036854775807 ; For i := 1 to M Do Begin q := Random ( p ) ; Writeln ( T , q : 20 ) ; End ; Close ( T ) ; End Else Begin Writeln ( 'Given value : ' , M , ' is NOT greater than zero .' ) ; End ; End . Times are obtained in a PC with Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 GHz 2 GB Memeory and Windows XP Home Edition . (E) For each value of M as number of records , the following command has been applied : rpsort rnumbers.txt snumbers.txt The RPSORT.COM is reporting the time used for sorting which I checked by an actual clock and I have found them to be correct . The results are as follows : Number of records File size Time required for sorting as given for Mas MegaBytesas Hour : Minute : Second . --- --- 10 000 0.214 00 : 00 : 00.11 ( + Six program working ) 100 000 2.2 00 : 00 : 01.43 ( + Six program working ) 1 000 00022.0 00 : 00 : 17.19 ( + Six program working ) 5 000 000 110.0 00 : 01 : 36.61 ( + Six program working ) 10 000 000 220.0 00 : 03 : 21.41 ( + Six program working ) only + Command Prompt working : 5 000 000 110.0 00 : 01 : 11.24 10 000 000 220.0 00 : 02 : 28.41 25 000 000 550.0 00 : 06 : 29.47 100 000 000 2200.0 Locked : I think file size should be less than 2147.0 MegaBytes , because of 32-bit MaxInt size ( 2 147 ... ... ) . It is locked after 2053 MegaBytes of its temporary file left behind after its locking . 90 000 000 1980.0 01 : 32 : 45.98 When M = 10 000 000 : snumbers.txt which is already sorted is sorted as rpsort snumbers.txt tnumbers.txt in time 00 : 01 : 50.84 . snumbers.txt which is already sorted in ascending order is sorted in descending order as rpsort /R snumbers.txt tnumbers.txt in time 00 : 01 : 50.35 . (F) It is possible to generate multiple column files and test it for multiple sort keys . Details may be found in its documentation . Thank you very much , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] A sort program in rpsrt102.zip .
Dear Sirs , There is a program named as rpsort.com with its related sources in rpsrt102.zip which may be found in the following address : http://www.simtel.net/product.php?url_fb_product_page=51643 or by an internet search with name rpsrt102.zip . The following is a part from its readme : -- This is being mailed to all those who either registered or inquired about RPSORT, written by my brother, Robert Pirko. Robert Pirko, the author of RPSORT, passed away on February 15, 1992. He had not been ill , but just suddenly collapsed and died. You never know ... RPSORT is now free for all to use, no payment is asked. Also the assembly language source code is free. The file RPSRT101.ZIP has been uploaded to a local (New York City) BBS: NYACC 718 539-3064 (free access) This file contains version 1.01 of RPSORT and its documentation plus the commented source code written in 8086 assembler for the Borland Turbo Assembler 2.5. It is also available by mail for a payment of $5.00 to: Alex Pirko 3881 Sedgwick Ave Apt.6D Bronx, NY 10463 -- rpsort.com is working perfectly under Windows XP ( with 8.3 format file names ( because its file name variable ( I think , due to IpNameExt DB 13 Dup (?) in its assembler source ) ) ) . It is UNBELIEVABLY fast . My suggestion is that it can be incorporated into a unit ( for example , as a procedure with a parameter ( containing giving definition of sort like its command-line parameter string ) ). My opinion is that it may be useful to study it . Thank you very much , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Broken links in page Page_Of_Code_Sites .
Dear Sirs , Broken links in page : http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Page_Of_Code_Sites -- The following links are not available through the above page : http://www.bsdg.org/resources/Delphi_Free_Components.html http://www.mers.com/index.html http://www.delphicity.net/ http://www.undu.com/ http://www.delphispirit.com/ http://www.innotts.co.uk/zephyr/linkslink.html http://www.bsdg.org/resources/turbopower.html http://www.pazcal.com/modules/news/ http://gdsoft.com/swag/swag.html http://www.delphi3d.net/ http://pgd.netstarweb.com/ http://www.progdigy.com/modules.php?name=UIB http://synapse.ararat.cz/index.htm http://www.arrakis.es/~sigecom/SitesIngles.htm http://www-rab.larc.nasa.gov/nmp/nmpLinks.htm http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html/ http://www.ee.uwa.edu.au/~morris/Year2/PLDS210/ds_ToC.html -- The following links may need to be redefined : http://cc.borland.com/products.aspx?ProdID=1 http://clootie.narod.ru/ http://zeoslib.sourceforge.net/ http://www.win.tue.nl/~ccremers/pascalmpi/index.html http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,10280,00.html -- The following link is displaying the page but it is redirected to an unrelated page immediately : http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tk_boyd/Tut.htm -- Thank you very much , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Usability of Free Software .
Dear Sirs , During reading of pages of www.marcocantu.com site , by starting from it and following links I have reached to the following page which I found it very useful ( at least for myself ) : from http://delphi.fosdal.com/2008/08/why-free-software-has-poor-usability.html to http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability ( Why Free Software has poor usability , and how to improve it ) If you have available time a look at it may be useful for software developers . I want to give Common Lisp design and implementation as a counter example to its Article 12 because Common Lisp development team decided to communicate ONLY over ARPANET by MAILS ( around 1984 ) except two one-day face-to-face meetings . From these mails information about Common Lisp has been disseminated to all of the audience and documentation of the Common Lisp has been generated . Thank you very much , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Lazarus Directory Structure .
Dear Sirs , I want to suggest a directory structure for Lazarus which will be constructed during installation of Lazarus . Justification : ( All of the directory examples are given with respect to Windows and its directory symbols . ) At present , Lazarus is installed in the C:\lazarus\ and its FPC in , as an example , C:\lazarus\fpc\2.2.2\ . This structure is NOT allowing presence of different Lazarus versions ( such as 0.9.24 - 2.2.0 , 0.9.25 - 2.2.0 , 0.9.25 - ... daily snapshots , 0.9.25 - 2.2.2rc1 , 0.9.25 - 2.2.2rc2 , etc. . ) to reside in the system simultaneously . Installing one is removing the another . Renaming is possible but difficult ( requires renaming from desktop icon ( with its internals ) to operating system All programs list entries to PATH . (A) Suggested directory structure : C:\Lazarus\ with its sub-directories based on ( Version of Lazarus - Version of FPC ) such as listed above : C:\Lazarus\0.9.24-2.2.0\ C:\Lazarus\0.9.24-2.2.2rc1\ C:\Lazarus\0.9.24-2.2.2rc2\ C:\Lazarus\0.9.25-2.3.1\ etc. . When Lazarus IDE Environment options panel is displayed for any version group it will be seen as follows , as an example : Lazarus directory ( default for all projects ) C:\lazarus\0.9.24-2.2.0\ Compiler path ( e.g. ppc386.exe ) C:\lazarus\0.9.24-2.2.0\fpc\2.2.0\ ... And , in All Programs list , and under the Desktop icons the names may be seen as follows , as an example : Lazarus 0.9.24 ( 2.2.0 ) Lazarus 0.9.25 ( 2.2.2rc2 ) Lazarus 0.9.25 ( 2.3.1 ) etc. (B) It is seen that , all of the Lazarus variants is using own ...\fpc\... directory which means they are duplicates of others . My other primary suggestion is to separate these directories . If a different FPC release is required , install it under the C:\fpc\ directory with its own version number . When there are different programs which they are not in FPC releases , these programs may be located in a directory such as C:\lazarus\0.9.24-2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\ ... ( when they are dependent on Lazarus version ) or C:\lazarus\bin\i386-win32\ ... ( when they are independent from Lazarus version ) . In that way , instead of holding , as an example , ( 3 different Lazarus versions ) multiplied by ( 4 different FPC versions ) directories which will be twelve directories . there will be needed only ( 3 different Lazarus versions ) added by ( 4 different FPC versions ) directories which will be seven directories . In computing applications ( more replications ) is ( MUCH more difficulties ) . (C) Personally I tried to separate Lazarus and FPC directories but I could not be successful because it seems that Lazarus in some points are constructing fpc related directory names from parts . In this case , specification of a different path from its default is not matching to its constructed names . Instead of such a name construction , a single variable holding the fpc directory may be used throughout in all of the sources . Also changing FPC related directory names in project related ( project1.lpi ) XML file is not effective . It seems that Lazarus is NOT reflecting the directory names in *.LPI file into its internal names . (D) Such a directory structure may be very useful because in a program development environment , during use of a stable version , it will be possible to experiment with the new version(s) without disturbing or destroying program development process and without requirement of a new computer for experimental works with new version(s) . Thank you very much , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Changeability of Lazarus Project1 , Unit1 and Form1 names (4) .
Dear Mattias , Personally I do not like to suggest unnecessary changes to sources , actually I always avoid such changes , because every change is a potential error insertion point . Naturally unnecessary changes are waste of efforts . At the beginning , if project1 , unit1 , etc. names can be set during their initial opening , it may be a nice improvement . Changeability through the Project Options panel may be useful because it remedies necessity of a ( save all project parts , during this save rename parts , re-load the same project ) for renaming within middle of work. In the middle of the work we may assume that a change of name would be appropriate : Project Options panel may supply this . It is not necessary for me to modify the present project save dialogs because they are designed very well and they give last change point if it may be considered necessary or suitable . Removing of this facility is not necessary if the above changes also made . Thank you very much , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Lazarus Printer Components are giving Compilation Error .
Dear Sirs , The following actions is giving the following message within the Lazarus Messages window : C:\lazarus\components\printers\win32\winutilprn.pas(353) Error: Can't create archive file: lib\i386-win32\win32\libimpwinutilprn.a C:\lazarus\components\printers\win32\winutilprn.pas(353) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping From Lazarus IDE , from Project menu , New Project is selected . Onto Form1 of the project1 , (A) the PrinterSetupDialog component added ( no any other Components ) . From Lazarus IDE , Run menu , Quick Compile is selected . (B) the PrinterSetupDialog component is removed from the Form1 and the PrintDialog component added ( no any other Components ) . From Lazarus IDE , Run menu , Quick Compile is selected . (C) the PrintDialog component is removed from the Form1 and the PageSetupDialog component added ( no any other Components ) . From Lazarus IDE , Run menu , Quick Compile is selected . - From Lazarus IDE , Help menu , About Lazarus dialog : Version : 0.9.25 beta Date: 2008-07-16 FPC Version : 2.2.2 SVN Revision : 15790 i386-win-win32/win64 -- Thank you very much , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Changeability of Lazarus Project1 , Unit1 and Form1 names (1) .
Dear Sirs , Thank you very much dear Mattias for reminder of templates . I am sorry that I overlooked or forgotten the Object Inspector Favorites panel Caption and Name fields : Form1 name may be changed there . I remembered this point after sending my message but it was late . When we inspect web pages or other resources about Pascal sources we see that a lot of example projects are using these default names . If you forgive me I will suggest that the same procedure may be called from project options panel to give or set the name . This may be not difficult or a label may be inserted there as a reminder . The same may be performed for Unit1.pas name . After generation of project , if it is wanted to rename these names it is necessary to rename names in all of the project files *.lpi , *.lpr , *.lfm , *.lrs , *.pas . Forgetting one of them requires some new corrections . A few minutes in this era is really very valuable . Main unit is the Unit1.pas of the project1 . It may be named with other words . Mine was only a tagging about the concept . Personally I wish that Lazarus will grow much more beautifully over time based on its present very beautiful state . I think also new starters of Pascal learners , especially students . For us many things may be very easy but for the students things are not so easy . Thank you very much , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Link to http://standards.freedesktop.org .
Dear Sirs , Link to http://standards.freedesktop.org is available . Within this page , there are sub-directories such as basedir-spec/ which contains related files . Thank you very much , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Links to some software related web pages .
Dear Sirs , The following links may be useful to software developers : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications The above link may be considered http version of ftp-like page of : http://standards.freedesktop.org/ The site http://www.freedesktop.org/ link is directing to http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki but there is no explicit links to sub-pages . It is necessary to search page links on that page recursively one-by-one which some of them does not give a useful sub-link . The following links may be useful about compatibility : http://www.linuxfoundation.org/ http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Developers http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/LSB for Linux Standard Base (LSB) : I think the ideas in these pages are very important for Upward Compatibility , especially . http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Application_Compatibility Thank you very much , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Using extensions for text file names .
Dear Sirs , In \fpc\ and \lazarus\ directories , some text file names do not have an extension such as *.TXT . This situation is causing difficulty in MS Windows because when I ( or best , all of Windows users ) click on any one of these file names Windows Explorer ALWAYS asking to select a program to open the file . Would you please , consistently append an extension to text file names such as *.TXT or any other extension suitable for you to text file names to remedy this difficulty . Renaming here is not solving the problem because every new build is coming without text file name extensions . Thank you very much , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Installing Lazarus first time in FreeBSD 7 Stable ( 2008-06 ) .
Dear Sirs , Installing Lazarus port as root in FreeBSD 7 Stable ( 2008-06 ) is giving the following errors : (1) pkg_add -vr lazarus is working but not like pkg_add -vr fpc because after fpc install , when it is used as # fpc it is starting to work . Contrary to this , # lazarus is NOT working ( saying lazarus : Command not found. ) . Then : # cd /usr/ports/editors/lazarus # make During make , it is checking presence of lazarus-0.9.24-0.tar.gz and NOT finding it and downloading it , ... it is checking presence of fpc-2.2.0-source.tar.gz and NOT finding it and downloading it , ... After completion of make : # ./lazarus It is giving the following message : Free Pascal sources not found . Some code functions will not work . It is recommended that you install it and set path Environment - Environment Options - Files # cd work # cd docs # cd html In this directory ( /usr/ports/editors//lazarus/work/docs/html/ ) application of update_html.sh is giving a number of errors : cd : ../../lcl/interfaces/gtk/ : No such file or directory . cd : ../../lcl/ : No such file or directory . In script , correcting ../../lc/ as ./lcl/ is not solving the problem , because other non-existent directories are listed after that with the other error including the message that fpdoc : .. not found . . (2) make install giving the following error : Error expanding embedded variable . (3) Is it possible to give information in your web site lazarus wiki : GETTING LAZARUS page , a complete installation information on FreeBSD , since information on Linux is NOT applicable to FreeBSD because their lazarus and fpc directory structures seem to be very different ? A complete install script would be very useful . (4) In my opinion , lazarus.tbz on ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/; needs to be restructured to resolve the above errors , and remove necessity of make steps . Thank you very much , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
